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This Is A Privately Circulated Blog, scribbled exclusively for Friends & Familiars, that peers into and pontificates about Expat life in the hinterlands of South America. If your eyesight is less than optimal (like mine), then just click the type size up a notch on your browser..
Here you will find a series of curmudgeonly commentaries that I've posted from atop my rickety old soapbox for the past few years. And yes, there are indeed political rantings, so place your seats in the upright position and fasten your seat belts .... it may be a bumpy ride.
Introducing the curator of this Blog:
Patrick Robinson is a searcher, researcher and scribe of that which lies behind the hallucination that we call Truth, logging a lot of time on the far side of kooky.
Patrick was born, raised, and educated in the Midwest. In 1978 he moved to Maui, Hawaii. Living in one of the healthiest places on the planet, he spent the next thirty years as the managing partner and director of one of Hawaii's premier businesses and had just retired .... more or less.
He wasn't looking for any new adventures, he'd already had more than his fair share of those. If life is a journey, Patrick is well traveled.
As one blog reviewer recently wrote of our author's many and assorted adventures:
"He has had a very interesting life, to say the least! Here is a sketch of some of Patrick's experiences of his early life:
"When he decided to make Maui his year-round home in the late 1970s, he had already been (among a few other things) a Marine Corps officer, a monastic monk, Presidential Security Detail of the former President Harry S. Truman, director of an Esalin Institute-type 'growth center', a Gourmet Magazine award-winning ski lodge entrepreneur, managing director of a famed major Maui, Hawaii art gallery, a credentialed fine art appraiser, and in the midst of all that, for some eight years a husband.
"Upon his retirement at the age of 80, he was looking for was a place as healthy as Maui in Hawaii but far less expensive. And after visiting 13 different countries (China, Hong Kong, Tahiti to Mexico, Central America and South America to London and Spain, etc.) he finally found his perfect Shangri La home in the Andes Mountains of Southern Ecuador. (End Quote)
Oh, and you might enjoy his latest published book at:
As I wish one and all a Happy New Year (now that the Mayan prophesy hacks have been proven wrong), it's time to check out the balance of good and bad for 2012. Here is one way of looking at the year about to end:
For me it's been the Blue side all the way, firmly entrenched in the positive and fending off the negative. Oh, and since I'm safely away from all of the political crap that's been happening up yonder in Norte Americano land, this has nothing to do with Red State, Blue State ideology.
Wishing all of you a VERY Happy New Year and an abundance of Good Things for you and yours.
Patrick