Why I want to meet Phoenix222
You want to meet Noam Chomsky? I’m a fan of the man. I think you might be a tad young as compared to me. Although, I’m pretty immature if that makes up for anything.
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meeting 1 person,doing 10 things,
going 2 places
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My year in review
Oh, Man! If we take 1 June as the start date: First of all, you can read everything about me on my blog: http://www.mike247worldwide.blogspot.com
I keep trying to post it to my 43Things page, but it never comes out.
So, anyway, 1 June.
First day of retirement.
Went to Costa Rica with my son later that month.
I don’t think I did much of note during July.
August, went to Puerto Rico for two weeks on a contract-hire job.
Later in August returned to the Middle East-Jordan, Beirut, Oman, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, then on to Bulgaria (spent a week there lounging in Sofia and Sozopol on the Black Sea), then on to Istanbul, Cyprus, Thessaloniki, Greece, then Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt. Along the way THAT trip saw the Pyramids for the first time .
In November went to visit Mick in the US Virgin Islands for a week.
The first two weeks of December went to Peru. Hiked the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. Incredible! LAter spent a few days in the rain forest of the Amazon River basin.
February, back to the Middle East. Same countries as before, from Jordan (went to Petra) through Saudi Arabia, then to Cairo and Alexandria again (went scuba diving off Alex.).
April 8th went to Sri Lanka for one month volunteering at Millennium Elephant Foundation.
Last week of May attended an international education conference in Montreal. Co-presented at a workshop there.
In 11 days I’m off to Central America. In August going kayaking in British Columbia, CA among the Orcas.
Other than that it’s just day to day…
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Globetrotter extraordinaire, avid travel blogger, ancient scuba diver, World Heritage sites addict, and the coolest old geezer I know.
My favorite memory of Hani
I met him in spring 2005. We were working in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. We had the opportunity to go scuba diving in the Red Sea. I hadn’t been diving since 1978, but since I still had my cert card, the dive shop rented the equipment to me. I had to watch Hani rig his gear, since I had about forgotten how to do everything.
As we were about to enter the water I told him, in the interests of full disclosure, this would be my first dive in 27 years. I thought he was going to choke on his regulator.
But, we had a great one hour dive. Went to 18 meters. Saw thousands of fish and corals. AND we used EXACTLY the same amount of air.
Last year we followed up with a couple frigid dives on the Greek, Roman and Pharaonic ruins off Alexandria, Egypt.
