jessi,
that pimp-ass resort is NICE!
I was in the Rivera Maya years back,
in Akumal and it was fantastic.
cobble
and Arkady,
It’s always a great trimp to the Yucatan,
agree that Playa del Carmen is a lot of fun.
To do the Whale Shark tour though, I think
it’s recommended to stay near to Merida and
take a day trip to Holbox Island where the
While Sharks gather to get thier party on and
mate.
I guess, the last thing they want is some
human siding up to them when they just want to
meet some other sharks, but it doesn’t harm them.
…so it seems about evenly split,
Machu Picchu is a world heritage site and once in a lifetime trek.
The whale shark experience is also once in a lifetime and
it would be awesome to swim next to a 95,000 lb sea creature.
ha ha CGar,
I see you were up late too.
But I can’t believe nobody found that excerpt from
Gravity’s Rainbow as funny as I did. :o(
MM had the bad cold version- still hacking away downstairs. She did have a lot of fun with the rum cure though, BSM.
Just wanted to point out what with all the praise of China and Japan, and how they can get so much done so quickly, that China is a communist country.
Re Japan: (wiki) Japan has a unitary rather than federal system of government, in which local jurisdictions largely depend on national government financially. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (formerly Ministry of Home Affairs), although much less powerful than its prewar counterpart (the Home Ministry), intervenes significantly in local government, as do other ministries. This is done chiefly financially because many local government jobs need funding initiated by national ministries. This is dubbed as “thirty-percent autonomy” (三割自治 san wari jichi?).
The result of this power is a high level of organizational and policy standardization among the different local jurisdictions allowing them to preserve the uniqueness[citation needed] of their prefecture, city, or town. Some of the more collectivist jurisdictions, such as Tokyo and Kyoto, have experimented with policies in such areas as social welfare that later were adopted by the national government.
Rob’s fan club just piped up in the Census thread. I don’t know how he does it, he just makes friends wherever he goes! : P
jessi,
that pimp-ass resort is NICE!
I was in the Rivera Maya years back,
in Akumal and it was fantastic.
cobble
and Arkady,
It’s always a great trimp to the Yucatan,
agree that Playa del Carmen is a lot of fun.
To do the Whale Shark tour though, I think
it’s recommended to stay near to Merida and
take a day trip to Holbox Island where the
While Sharks gather to get thier party on and
mate.
I guess, the last thing they want is some
human siding up to them when they just want to
meet some other sharks, but it doesn’t harm them.
i guess everyone is at lunch?
**crickets chirping**
“Machu Picchu is a world heritage site and once in a lifetime trek.”
That’s why I’d like to go. And before I get too old to hike it! But perhaps they have “old lady” tours, my aunt went a couple years ago.
Yuck, sorry to hear MM has the scourge, too.
…so it seems about evenly split,
Machu Picchu is a world heritage site and once in a lifetime trek.
The whale shark experience is also once in a lifetime and
it would be awesome to swim next to a 95,000 lb sea creature.
ha ha CGar,
I see you were up late too.
But I can’t believe nobody found that excerpt from
Gravity’s Rainbow as funny as I did. :o(
attention lunch club
jackal just informed me that he is underwater and cannot make it.
MM had the bad cold version- still hacking away downstairs. She did have a lot of fun with the rum cure though, BSM.
Just wanted to point out what with all the praise of China and Japan, and how they can get so much done so quickly, that China is a communist country.
Re Japan: (wiki) Japan has a unitary rather than federal system of government, in which local jurisdictions largely depend on national government financially. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (formerly Ministry of Home Affairs), although much less powerful than its prewar counterpart (the Home Ministry), intervenes significantly in local government, as do other ministries. This is done chiefly financially because many local government jobs need funding initiated by national ministries. This is dubbed as “thirty-percent autonomy” (三割自治 san wari jichi?).
The result of this power is a high level of organizational and policy standardization among the different local jurisdictions allowing them to preserve the uniqueness[citation needed] of their prefecture, city, or town. Some of the more collectivist jurisdictions, such as Tokyo and Kyoto, have experimented with policies in such areas as social welfare that later were adopted by the national government.
just sayin.
“not gross gross, but gross like as in uncomfortable”
Don’t worry, Rob, you can always just “visit” on the interwebs. : P