Top Ten Mexican Beach Resorts

The Discovery Travel Channel has an article today on the Top Ten Mexican Beach Resorts.

I went through the ten and my pick would be La Jolla de Mismaloya. Sounds very beautiful. The resort is seven miles from downtown Puerto Vallarta.



The reviews from people who stayed there from Expedia are very good. The Lekliff Restaurant, called by some, "The most beautiful restaurant in the world is ten minutes south of the resort."

Expedia is offering rooms at the La Jolla de Mismaloya starting at $158 a night depending on the date. Alaska Airlines has some package deals as well as www.americawestvacations.com

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You Need To Start A Band

You Really Need To Start a Band

Okay you don't really need to...but it might be fun. You can work your way down the page from the beautiful guitars, to the percussion instruments (including a cowbell), the keyboards and finally the Kazoo.

Or you could just start with the Kazoo.

I have waaaayyyy too much time on my hands. I spent a few hours cutting and pasting those pictures of guitars and other musical instruments. On the plus side, at least I'm staying out of fights and bars and that kind of trouble/fun ;-)

Well until I get that band going anyway...

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The percussion and keyboard instruments are available at -

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"Between Heaven and Earth" by Tim Cox

This picture called "Between Heaven and Earth" by Tim Cox reminds me of the Big Sky country of Montana.





And this one called "The Fall of the Cowboy" by Frederic Remington as well...





I like the colors in "Where Wild West Went" by Stephen Morath...





I bet Woody would like Montana...





Montana is...



Montana is also a good place for rainbows, either the fishy type shown in this picture called "Rainbow Trout" by Eileen Klatt -




Or the kind this cowboy is looking at in "Fringe Benefit" by Duane Bryers -





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Montanan's take a lot of pride in John Steinbeck's love of Montana.

Steinbeck's Travel's With Charley has some of his travels in Montana. Some of which are described in words and beautiful pictures in About Montana | The University of Montana.



If you aren't familiar with the book, this review by Edward Bosnar (Zagreb, Croatia), one of Amazon's Top 1000 Reviewer's, provides a look at Travels With Charley -

"Still very fresh

It's amazing how relevant Steinbeck's observations of America are forty years after he wrote this book. In fact, much of what he says seems to apply even more now than when he first wrote it, such as when he observes: "the mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if in no other way, we can see the wild and wreckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index." In a similar vein, he wonders, when considering the expansion of large cities, "why progress looks so much like destruction." Steinbeck's sarcasm also comes to the surface when he notes some of the many odd habits and leisure activities of Americans, such as antique-hunting in omnipresent antique shops, which he felt were "bulging with authentic and attested trash from an earlier time." He was also quite impressed with the country's intrepid hunters, to whom he feared his poodle Charley would look like a buck deer. After spending an evening in Maine with some migrant farms workers from Quebec, he expressed (rather vainly, in retrospect) his hope that the country would not some day be overwhelmed "by people not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat." Far from being simply critical though, what comes out of this book is Steinbeck's great love for the country. His view that the "American identity is an exact and provable thing" still rings true today. "Travels with Charley" is not just classic travel literature, it is also a very readable and informative set of observations on America in the mid-20th century and beyond."

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Maybe this spring or summer would be a good time to take your family, friends or just your self out on a road trip for your very own Travel's With Charley. Maybe swing by Montana. It's a pretty place, a big place and an interesting place, as described in the State of Montana Vacation, Adventure, Recreation and Travel Planning Guide

Happy trails to you...

Creative Zen Micro MP3 Players

The new Creative Zen is a cool looking MP3 player. Nice color selection, plus it holds a lot of songs.

The Creative Zen comes in 10 color selections, has 5 Gbytes of storage for 2500 songs, FM radio and recorder; all in a small package.




Here's the main specs for the Creative Zen Micro -

Size WxHxD: 2" x 3.3" x 0.7"
Weight: 3.8 oz with removable battery
Capacity: 5GB
166 hours of music at 64 kbps
83 hours at 128 kbps
Battery Life: Up to 12 hours of continuous playtime with removable lithium ion rechargeable battery
Additional Features - FM radio, FM recorder, Address Book, Calender and To-do List

The Zen Micro is for serious tech/music types, for those of you who aren't in the mode to spend 250 smackerollians on an MP-3 player, Creative has some other cool, less expensive choices.

We've had a couple of Creative Nomad MuVo MP3 players around the house for awhile. The Nomad MuVo is a cool little player. Super easy transfer using a memory stick, that is part of the Nomad, with it's own USB connector (no cables required).

Just plug the Nomad into your USB port and transfer. It comes in 128, 256 and 512 Mbyte sizes. The NOMAD MuVo TX 128MB goes for $59.99 at Creative. Not a bad deal for a player to hold 30 or 40 songs in a super small and easy to use package. If you wanted to you could use the memory as a memory stick for other data too, like any other USB flash or keychain-type memory.

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FileZilla - Fast FTP Client

FileZilla is a fast FTP client written by Tim Kosse. It is available free (donations accepted) from sourceforge.net. I use Filezilla and have found it intuitive and completely functional for uploading and downloading data to and from, various websites.

Here's a description of Filezilla from SnapFiles.com -

"FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more. A nice program for beginners and advanced user alike."

For People Who Spend Time On The Road

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Get a FREE Creative MuVo MP3 player from audible.com

Such a deal.

Something to consider anyway. I think if I was spending much time on the road I would look into some kind of audio books, and if I was in a car or a truck I'd like to have SIRIUS Satellite Radio. I tried Sirius out last summer on a trip and thought it was great. Lot's of variety in music and talk (NPR, Sports, Politics..you name it) and you can get good reception out in the wide open spaces.

monkey's shamrock jello mold

monkey's shamrock jello mold is just one of a series of pictures of monkey making a lime green jello shamrock for St Patrick's day.

It looks really good with the whipped cream.

I've wondered how he stays so clean and white given how busy he is.

He must be washable.

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The Body Factor - This Week's Meditation From interluderetreat.com

Today's Meditation of the Week is called "The Body Factor'. Not only does our body language communicate a great deal to others, it also effects the way we feel.

The article contains some good common-sense ideas about using posture and breathing to foster internal peace, conducive to focused awareness.

Breathe deeply and give yourself a nice hug for doing such a good job being you. No one else is quite like you my friend.

Have a cup of whatever you like to drink and think about how miraculous you and the people around you are.

Namaste

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Namaste - How to pronounce, what it means.

Good night, wishing you a peace-filled night's rest, and a good morning.

Jack

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