Laplandica

…is something that may linger in the minds of people as they feel the affects of the rat-race syndrome in their daily lives. Often connected with universities, sabbaticals are a tradition of higher educational teachers, lecturers or professors who, after a traditional period of seven years, thereby the word coming from “Sabbath”, are rewarded with [...]

…in work and things that must be finished before the end of June, I had an enormous pile of firewood that had to be stacked to dry. My wife came upon the idea of hiring three middle school students during the annual solidarity day, when students work helping people and get a small pay that [...]

… a Happy Jeep! Because of a soon-to-be new adventure, I needed a right-hand steered vehicle. It could have been anything, but it became a Jeep.
Now, after over 40 years of driving, internationally, from over the road 18-wheelers to a horse and wagon, in deserts and arctic snowstorms, in small villages to large metropolitan cities, [...]