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Hi, friends! The Idiots are on the move again... hope some might enjoy these episodes! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Idiots at the End of the World Episode 1 In the early 1950s, the Cunard Line saw the writing on the wall. ...

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Idiots On Shore Ep 5 (last) Sunsets Roatan 2018 For the Idiots, going to Roatan is so familiar that theyforget to take the usual tourist pictures. But they do often head down to the beach for sunset. West Bay Beach faces… west. Sunsets are usually good and often great! The pictures of Good Friday s...

Thanks, David... love your pics! I didn't see any turtles this year... they are so amazing!

Idiots On Shore Ep 4 More Underwater Roatan 2018 Snorkeling can be remarkably peaceful. It is like a moving meditation. Relax. Take deep, steady breaths. Float with the gentle current. Alternate your awareness between the greater surroundings and specific details. Watch the play of light transform ...

Wow, Ed... what a wonder it must be watching them grow up!

Thanks for getting that, Lucy!

David... I'd love to see Curacao and visit some of the other islands in the Caribbean... but you are right, Roatan is like going home for us... or maybe more like that annual trip to a cabin "up north"... and Chris, there is certainly a dramatic economic divide... and there are really several differ...

Idiots On Shore Ep 3 On the Reef Roatan 2018 The Idiots have rhapsodized on the joys of snorkeling the coral reef off Roatan so often… so no lengthy descriptions this time - just a few shots from their first snorkel of the trip. They saw a nice variety of sea life for a Tuesday snorkel. The Idiots ...

Idiots On Shore Roatan 2018 Ep 2 Holy Saturday Holy Saturday was a study in contrasts with the tourist mob scene on West Bay Beach on Good Friday. Saturday was all about a lazy day on the beach with family and friends. Roatan is a long, narrow island – about 32 miles long and 2 miles wide, with a s...

Idiots On Shore Roatan 2018 Ep. 1 Good Friday (The Idiots are visiting for a couple weeks on their favorite Caribbean island – Roatan, Honduras. Having spent a total of about a half year on the island, spread out over a decade and seven trips, these episodes aren’t really so much about tourism as t...

Idiots in the Dark – Again! Last August the Idiots drove about 1500 miles to see the total eclipse of the sun. The January 31, 2018 lunar eclipse was a heck of a lot easier. The weather was great at their home in Green Valley, Arizona. Idiot He got up about four AM and took a sequence of pictures. ...

Idiots Walk in Beauty Ep 13 Natural Bridges & Monument Valley It’s long past time to finish up the Idiot journey in September-October, 2017… so this is the wrap. --------------------------------------------- An evening walk down a country road near Escalante, Utah… a cloudy sunset and a clouds scud...

Idiots Walk in Beauty Ep 12 Goblin Valley State Park (Another “Lost Episode” from October, 2017…) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Names are important! No one knows what the prehistoric Native Americans called the remote valley in Utah with its concentr...

thanks, Lucy. I know that our friends on Hallsons are used to much better flower and plant pictures, but many of my readers are not gardeners so I wanted to capture a sense of what we gardeners see in the Fall. There's a lot of beauty and hope in seed pods!

Ah, Lucy my friend... I think you know I loved my job. But I left my job at 56 and found there were other lives to live as well. Don't even use the term "retirement" as you are not retiring... just starting a new phase of your life. And since tomorrow is not promised to any of us - it is never to so...

Idiots Walk in Beauty Episode 11 The Million Dollar Road Another “lost episode” from October, 2017. Photos are just too nice not to share… -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have the mules come in yet? Some parts of the map of th...

Hi, David

I had to look it up. These are the fall colors of the Desert Trumpet plant - trumpet? really? - Eriogonum inflatum. Quite odd... and difficult to find a way to photograph them as I was scrambling through mud at pretty high altitude and found them in sheltered washes...

I know we call ourselves the Idiots... but it takes a special kind of crazy to leave southern Arizona and return to Minnesota for Christmas. One daughter lives here and one returned from China, so Minnesota it is. But Saturday morning we are looking at something like minus 20 Fahrenheit and a minus ...

Idiots Walk in Beauty Ep 10 The Beauty of Promise… (Another tardy episode from October, 2017) Usually when we think of seeking beauty, it’s beauty we can see, hear, touch, smell, taste - the beauty of “now”. As we age… if we are lucky… we get better at finding beauty in memories – the beauty of “wh...