Come to the Philippines, Where DEET Is a Treat

Paradise is humid, jungly, and very bitey. I’m not trying to be that cool—even at it’s hottest it’s really no worse here than an August day in St. Louis, or D.C. or NY even, I’m just trying to be dry. Bugless in Phoenix I loved living in Arizona for one simple reason: the air is … Read more

The Drone Pitch: Payson, the Marine Editor and a Birds Eye View

In 2010 at the ripe old age of 60 I hung up my regular gig as a golf packager at a golf resort in Scottsdale, Arizona (official title: PVP – Personal Vacation Planner) and semi-retired, relocated from “the Valley of the Sun” and moved up to Payson, Arizona — White Mountains, tall pines, high country … Read more