Getting Lost In America The Highs & Lows of Travel in America - Part 4 You're the top, you're turkey dinner, You're the Kentucky Derby winner. I'm a toy balloon that’s fated soon to pop, But if, baby, I'm the bottom, You're the Top!* Getting Lost In America: The Highs & Lows of Travel in America is a four-part series to help you discover America this summer. Click any of the links for more information about that location or attraction! So let’s get to the bott

MrBill! ¿Where the Heck are You? What Happened to Monday?   part 1 Being this is the inaugural edition of the “Where the Heck are You?” column on Essentials:Travel Channel, perhaps it would be best to start at the beginning …   Awakened by the crash of the breaking dawn, I struggled to free myself from the sheet glued to me with perspiration … “oh yeah,” I remembered, peeling away first the clinging linens, then the mosquito netting, and finally staring out the window at the tropi

¿Where the Heck are You? What happened to Monday? – part 2 This is the second part of the tale “¿What happened to Monday?”  You can find the beginning of the tale by clicking here . …The captain guided the boat between the coral heads towards the beach until the bow gently ran aground. We were at Waya Lai Lai! Many of the villagers were waiting for the boat’s arrival on the beach. As we waded ashore with our backpacks, an ad hoc band was playing guitars and singing us towards shore.

Off The Wall & Outta The Bag: #2 The Mysteries of Nacho Cheese [DISCLAIMER] "Off The Wall & Outta The Bag" is an irregular, irreverent, irresponsible waste of time, energy, and space (not to mention unregulated and non-sanctioned) that just may, or may not, answer all your questions about life, love, the universe, and of course - the RG Lifestyle! Every once in a blue moon ...ummm, well, maybe more often than that ... we'll drag a member kicking and screaming ... uhhh, scra

Killing Snakes: Usama Bin Laden is Dead ... while much of the world is reveling in the news of Bin Laden's death, try to remember that this event is not the "end", but rather a new beginning. There are still wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to be won, and increasing unrest across most of the Middle East and North Africa. And, Bin Laden's Al Quaida was already splintered into many separate groups long before Special Forces breached his Abbottabad fortress this past week. It remains

 Sunrise   Coffee The rising-sun-like glow in this image enhances the uranium oxide glaze of the Fiesta Ware and adds to the feeling of morning, a time many enjoy their coffee. Sunrise Coffee: Created from some Fiesta Beans images from my Coffee and Books photo series.

Can I Borrow a Cup of Sugar? Some Tips and Comments about using stock photos, royalty-free pics, and other images in your blog posts. One of the wonderful things about bloggin on the internet is the relative ease of combining the written word with a variety of image types to create possibly more interesting and/or intriguing presentations for other people to enjoy. Through sites such as Blogger, WordPress, and even our own beloved RedGage people can publish their own full-colour micro-magazine o

!Bonus Egg! and Other Mysteries of Fixin' Brekkie A bonus for me this morning and a bonus recipe for you! This morning, and the story, begins of course with fixin' brekkie ... On the menu - Sausage & Cheese Grits with Coddled Egg. When the time came to add the egg I got my bonus! !!! A Double-Yolker !!!       I don't know if there are any special customs that go with double yolk eggs, but our family always accepted them as a favorable or lucky omen to start your day. Anyone kn

My trusty boots! ... these boots were made for walking!!! Bought in Rimini Italia for 200,000 lira, they are now eleven years old and have been around the world. They have been laced up in 34 countries ... and unlaced at dozens of airport security checkpoints. They have been on trains, planes, and automobiles ... and subways, trams, boats, and even an elephant. They have been on top of the active Sicilian volcano Mountt Ætna, and crossed the extinct cone of Te Rua Manga on Rarotonga. They have