From Ship to Shore

As we step on the plane to fly back to San Francisco, our mind is full of thoughts and impressions of Colombia. First and foremost is it is nothing like we expected. It is a world apart from a backward place previously known for being the world’s largest cocaine producer and a home to wealthy drug barons and cartel leaders. Next, it is far…

We are in a different country; in a different world. We are attending the wedding of our grand niece who is marrying a man who was born in Colombia,…

We have a Garden of Eden in this valley of ours where we can grow almost anything. However, a lot of citrus like oranges, lemons and grapefruit end up on…

We don't run the city, and it may not be our place to tell the city how it should be run; however, when a majority of the Merced City Council wants more shops which dispense marijuana, we can't let it just slide by without making a comment in our editorial column. There are other businesses which need the support and backing of the City…

She knocked at the door, and when we opened it, the little girl had a small cooler chest. In the cooler chest were cups of fresh squeezed orange juice that…

You can’t be a reader of this newspaper without having read the historic stories which have been written by Jim Cunningham and Flip Hassett. There is no…

There was a time, 25 years ago, when we first arrived in Conception Bay, when we could drop an unbaited hook in the water and catch fish. Not today! The area of Mulege, in Baja California, Mexico was once known as the best fishing place south of the border. This was before it was overfished, and the shrimp boats from mainland…

All we knew was we had an ancestor who was the mayor of a town in Ireland way back when. With that piece of information we went to Ireland in 1982 to…

We are not always “Proud to be an American”; however, on this occasion, down south of the border in Mexico, we are. A semi-truck and trailer was going…

When you say football — or fútbol — in Mexico,  they are talking about soccer, not American Football. The Super Bowl, as we know it, does not compare and I was lucky to find a little beach bar called Jungle Jim's which was showing the game on T.V.  in Spanish. I stopped by early in the week and bought four squares in a Super Bowl pool…