NAVIGATION

Author: Jesse Bishop

Locos Dos -SURVIVING Costa Rica: Rainy Season and Football

Surviving Costa Rica – Rainy Season and Football: It’s no secret there are two seasons here in Guanacaste: the dry one and the wet one. Your faithful scribe currently

Surviving Costa Rica – Boys Go to Mexico City

Surviving Costa Rica – Boys Go to Mexico City: My friend Michael (crusty old surfer) Mazzoni and I had been planning a trip to visit the Mexican pyramids for quite a whi

Locos Dos – Presidents and the Pink Beards

Locos Dos – A Trip to Germany, Gays vs. Trains

My wife, Susan — sometimes but very rarely referred to as Mrs. Jesse Bishop Gay III — and I recently visited Germany. It was a whirlwind 16-day tour of Munich, Baden-Baden

Locos Dos: Surviving CR – DRUGS!

My band at the time, Sackweed, pulled into Austin, Texas, on Jan. 10, 1974, to a beautiful spring-like day that boded well for the future. The previous night, we had left behi

Surviving Costa Rica – Presidents I Have Known

My first recollection of a U.S. president is from around 1955. On a black and white TV screen we watched then-President Dwight Eisenhower — until recently, the only “non-p

Surviving CR – A Blast from the Past

Greetings, folks of the future! Time travel has always been a favorite sci-fi subject of mine, so I’ve decided to take advantage of the fact that my Howler submission deadli

Surviving Costa Rica – Eating

“Extremely trendy” translates to cuisine not normally available back in Ohio or Saskatchewan. (more…)

Spotlight – A Conversation with Stephanie Waltrip

I sang a solo in Notre-Dame Cathedral, where the acoustics were incredible. (more…)

Surviving Costa Rica – Dogs (and Cats) I Have Known

[vc_row full_width=”full_width”][vc_column][vc_column_text]My first memory of a dog is Schnapsy, a dachshund whose ears apparently were used as a teething device f

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