Archive for October 12th, 2009

A honeymoon vacation is a great way to celebrate the love of a new marriage or the renewal of vows. Various spots throughout the world play host to many honeymoon vacations. Regardless of your interests, cruising to a top destination spot, flying across the seas, or choosing a destination to spend memorable time together driving is sure to be the start of something great.

Many travel agencies offer excellent honeymoon vacation packages with various benefits. For example, Tahiti which is located in the south pacific is dubbed the most beautiful and romantic place on earth. With spectacular sunsets, crystal clear water and peaceful tropical gardens you can’t go wrong. Many will offer exciting packages to visit Tahiti, Bora Bora and Moorea all in a range from 7 to 12 days. These trips will over excursions, meals, housing for the duration, and shopping. What new bride doesn’t love to shop?

Sandals resorts offer locations in beautiful Jamaica, the exquisite Bahamas, St. Lucia and Antigua. Sandals offer exclusive resorts and spas, in addition to a golf resort. Visit exotic beaches, many various restaurants, and bars. Swim in beautiful pools that feature a gorgeous look of the beach as well as swim-up pool bars.

Visit Cancun for beautiful beaches and resorts. Some resorts offer separate villas and in room Jacuzzis. These resorts offer so many different features it is impossible to list, however, some include the following – 24 hour room service, many bars and restaurants, mini bars within the rooms that are stocked daily, various pools including one that has a natural salt-water pool, fitness centers, water sports, and live music and shows.

Hawaii plays host to many honeymoon vacation resorts. Hawaii is a beautiful and romantic state with six islands to choose from. Various resorts offer the view of the beautiful and exotic beaches with luxury at your fingertips.

Consider Fiji for your honeymoon vacation. Fiji is host to many private and small resorts, these make for the perfect, and relaxing escape. Some offer rooms without television, telephone or faxes that enable you to really get away from the hustle and bustle that modern life can bring.

No matter where you choose to take your honeymoon vacation choose a spot that both of you will enjoy and will create a memorable experiences for a lifetime. Consider your budget and choose a package that fits well into it. Leave your cares and worries (along with your cells phones and beepers) behind and enjoy the togetherness and celebration of the love you share.

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Every aircraft is a compromise. It is either built to fly fast or slow to land in tight distances and carry more weight. It is a jet or propeller driven craft. It costs a lot with high tech materials or it is simplistic and has less performance. Aircraft are built for many reasons, each one maybe more or less important for its intended purpose. Some aircraft are made to slightly change in flight to serve a niche or a couple of niches better than comparable type aircraft. As we learn more about our options of materials in aerospace we learn of was to incorporate multiple uses and still maintain safety at low airspeeds and efficiency at high speeds.

I propose an inflatable wing camber modification system for modern day fighter aircraft to save on fuel and increase range. By increasing the lift on take off where much fuel is used we can increase the range of fighter aircraft in the battlespace while simultaneously increasing the payloads of smart munitions to kill, annihilate and destroy the enemy to serve our political will. Smile in preemption, it is about winning. The system would be recessed into two-inch deep areas on the wings. Consider the landing speeds of an F-104, consider the ability to decrease the weight of the landing gear and size of tires to increase payloads. Consider the ware and tear and maintenance costs, which would be saved? Consider the slow speed changes in flight characteristic and decreased safety risks in shorter take off and landing rolls. The performance changes would also vastly assist in close air support or carrier landing handling.

For UAVs the performance would allow additional time loitering in the battlespace with increased range and slow flight speeds would allow for better imagery to identify targets before eliminating them from this time period. Think on these concepts.

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When I woke up yesterday, my right hand felt like it was on fire. Some wretched
thing had bitten me in the night and I woke up at 4:00 Sunday morning with the
torturous experience of the itching and burning that wouldn’t go away. I was half
asleep and by the time I was fully awake I had taken the top layer of skin off the
area. There were a number of little bumps indicating where the bites were and then
came the hives, indicating an allergic reaction. Common opinion was that it was a
fire ant. Thankfully the hives were confined to the area of damage. I think it’s very
rude to bite another thing when it is sleeping. Can’t these pests find something else
to do??? There are all kinds of yummy road kills they could be munching on, but
nooooooooooooo, they prefer Gringa meat.

Midmorning yesterday we went to the pharmacist where I ruefully showed him my
hand. He explained that it was a toxic bite (gee, do ya think???) and sold me some
antihistamines, which worked almost immediately to relieve the reaction. The
problem is, it says on the box to only take one pill every 12 hours. In three hours
my hand was itching and burning again but I could no longer do anything to relieve
it for the pain. I put some antibiotic gel on the wound and oh my God, did it BURN!
We called a nurse friend and she said if the cream made the pain worse, don’t use it.
But then I was told the second danger is infection. But I can’t use the antibiotic
cream! I am still trying to sort all this out, maybe I’ll find a shaman somewhere who
can smear something green and slimy on it. As long as I don’t know what’s in it, I
don’t care.

Speaking of things medical, I have also learned that Spanish acronyms are very
different from English ones!

If you are listening to the news here and you can pick up a few words of it, they
make a lot of mention of the EU. I was thinking for the longest time, “Why do the
Mexicans care what the European Union is doing? Are they thinking of converting
pesos to Euros?” The EU is mentioned every day here in lengthy terms. Then I saw an
image of George Bush talking to President Fox of Mexico. The background didn’t
look at all European although they kept on about the EU. Well. Turns out the EU here
is “Estados Unidos.” the United States. D’uh.

In the movie we watched on DVD yesterday, someone called out for CPR but in the
subtitles it showed up as RCP. Oh great, I thought. RCP????? After pondering that for
almost 24 hours I finally asked what it stands for and found out it is Resucitacion
Cardio Pulminar. I will never remember that. I can only hope that if I yell out CPR
there is a dyslexic Mexican somewhere in the vicinity.

I can carry on a conversation with scientists, doctors, veterinarians and other
professionals because the medical/technical terms are fairly close in both
languages. But even after 11 months I can’t say, “Please pass the pepper.” I don’t
have to say it because I normally don’t put pepper on my food anyway. I can deal
with most things that are critical with a professional but I don’t know how to say
knife, fork, or spoon. I recently learned how to ask for oil for my truck. Car terms
are usually easily translated as well if I tell the mechanic what the term is in English,
but “oil” in English is “aceite” in Spanish. Not even close.

Of course I know most of the swear words in Spanish but I rarely use them unless I
am joking. In traffic though I’ve been known to hurl a word or two. Fortunately I
don’t understand what they are saying back.

One thing that Mexican men think is really funny to do is just blather a bunch of
unrelated English words for sport and watch the gringo get confused. They love to
play Let’s Confuse the Gringo. Well, one day I’d kind of had it with that game and as
I drove past a pack of soccer-playing fun loving guys who loved to make me stop
and wonder what they were saying, I played it back. I stopped, smiled, and said to
them, “Hola! Insistiendos mistacos!” Then I drove away, watching them standing
dumbstruck in the rear view mirror. I laughed all the way home. Having related that
to my Mexican friends, they now think it’s the funniest thing in the world to yell
INSISTIENDOS MISTACOS! for no reason at all. And nobody gets the joke that doesn’t
know the story, so they confuse their own, which is even better!

These people have a crazy sense of humor. I consider some of it to be very mean,
but that’s maybe my Euro Centric thinking. Is mean the same thing around the
world? Maybe so, maybe not. But these people love to have a good laugh at anyone’s
expense, including their own. So maybe it’s not so bad.

Sometimes I feel like a cultural anthropologist, making my way through a society so
different from mine, and that of Europe. That’s how I can cope with the loneliness
sometimes is to pretend I am on a mission and learning the ways of the people like
in all those films I saw in my college anthropology classes.

Addendum: I wrote this last year; I’ve been in Mexico for almost two years now, and
I can now say “fork.” It’s “tenador.” I use it as often as I can, even if I don’t need a
fork. I like to show off my prowess in my new language.

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Last Minute Travel

There’s no shortage of websites offering last minute travel deals. The idea behind these deals is that if a hotel is going to have a room empty or a flight is going to have an empty seat, it’s better for them to offer it to you at the last minute for a steep discount than it is to just let that spare capacity go to waste.

The big contradiction of last minute travel, however, is that while the places with a lot of spare capacity get cheaper, the places with very little get much more expensive. Booking Christmas flights at the last minute, for example, will never get you a good deal, simply because so many people want those flights. Instead, you will probably end up paying much more than you would have if you had booked early.

As last minute travel deals are for the least in-demand places, you can end up with places that no-one wanted for a reason. Some of the hotels on offer can’t attract any customers because they’re truly dire. The flights on offer are often in the middle of the night, at times when it’s very difficult to even get to the airport without a car because the public transport links are closed. There are all sorts of gotchas waiting with cheap last minute travel.

But it is cheap, and, as ever, that makes up for all sorts of sins. If you’re willing to be flexible about when you fly and where you go, you can still get some very good deals – you’ll probably end up with the all-round budget experience, but what do you expect? To avoid the very worst holidays, though, you should at least take the time to look up a review of the hotel you’re going to stay in before you commit to booking it, no matter how good the deal seems, to make sure that you’re not getting yourself into anything truly terrible.

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