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Venezuela is definitely a land of contrasts... A land blessed in every way...

"Médanos de Coro" in the state of Falcón... Our own mini "Sahara"...

"The Catatumbo Lightning in Venezuela has captured me from the first moment I set foot in Ologa, the fishing village in the heart of Lake Maracaibo. What locals call the "Relampago de Catatumbo" is also known as the everlasting storm, raging on in up to 300 nights every year with intensities reaching multiple flashes every second at a time.
Just 15 kilometers NW of the camp lies the one point on earth with the most lightning strikes, here up to 250/km2 are registered every year.

The Catatumbo Lighting is not just a Guinness World Record holder but also has been immortalized in the flag of Zulia, where people proudly call it the "Maracaibo Lighthouse" after saving Maracaibo on multiple occasions from nighttime ambushes of foreign naval fleets. But Catatumbo is much more than just lightning, it's an overall crazy place filled with amazing people, incredible wildlife, beautiful flora and unbelievable light scenes on an almost daily base. All these things coming together have made me fall in love with this place and after visiting 3 times I feel a deep connection to the Maracaibo Lake - It has become my second home. A ferocious and unforgiving home but the best home I could possibly imagine. This film shows the highlights of those three trips, all in a very cinematic fashion. Some of the lightning videos are indeed the real time, but many others are slightly shortened in order to look the most impressive, but everything you see in here did actually happen and wasn't altered using any After Effects etc."

This is Venezuela... Zulia... Maracaibo... My country... My home... My love...
It's impossible not to fall in love with this blessed land... How can I pretend not to be as proud as I am, of being a daughter of the most breathtaking and incredible place on earth, so full of natural miracles and wonders it's even hard to count them all... Enjoy!...

"This is the most amazing view I've ever had"...
"It's so beautiful that it's kind of difficult to explain with words"...
"It's a bit tricky to get here, it's a bit dangerous, but when you get here it's the most beautiful place on earth."
"It's safe to say that Mount Roraima in Venezuela is the most beautiful place I have ever been. In this episode, you can join me on a week long trek in this amazing landscapes."

Roraima... OURS, baby...
I am soooo going there... (I need to change my match details to: "Activity or Travel Partner")... Jajajajajajajajjajajajaj...
That's Venezuela... The most beautiful, blessed and magical land... I love you, Venezuela!...

"One of the Caribbean’s best-kept secrets. Off the coast of Venezuela the small group of islands offers one of the clearest waters you’ve ever seen."

This is my country... My home... My love... I love you, Venezuela!... With every single bit of my heart...

"La Tortuga Island (in Spanish: Isla La Tortuga; "La Tortuga" means "the turtle") is an uninhabited island of Venezuela, the largest in the Federal Dependencies of Venezuela. It is part of a group of islands that include the Tortuguillos and Cayo Herradura. Isla La Tortuga has an area of 156 km2 (60 sq mi)."

Venezuela... My country... My home... My love...

I was born in New York and wondered what it would be like to visit Old York. I'm thinking, if there's a New York, they're must be an Old York... kinda like a parallel universe where Mister Spock has a goatee in one universe and clean shaven in the other!

That also has my curiosity about Old Jersey and if it looks the same as New Jersey.
New Haven... Yup, what's the connection with Old Haven.

Does New South Wales resemble Old South Wales?
Should I travel down unda... I'll have to check things out.

I'm sure there are similarities in New Mexico and Old Mexico as they probably make good tacos there.

Last on my list (for now) would be New Caledonia and how it compares to Old Caledonia.

I used to live in the Northeast section of Miami and the same street exists in the Northwest section. Similarly, they have the same house numbers over there and sometimes, I'd get mail intended for the person with the same street and house number but NE instead of NW. I'm sure they got my mail by mistake.

My brother asked if I could visit him in Dayton, Ohio. Oddly he has a neighboring city of Miami. I suppose there are people eccentric enough to buy houses in different states with the same named cities and the same street and house number.

I could use Google Maps and research dual houses with the same city name, street and house number. I'd need a pile of money to convince the residents of both houses to move out and let me move in. Then I could start a YouTube channel and upload videos about my move back to Miami... Florida and Ohio.

After I get the hang of it, I'll explore the same having houses in both New and Old.

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When we were globe trotting in Russia, after the same in China, I and she who must be obeyed, via the trans Siberian train, just after the country dissolved, under the weight of the Gipper's Star Wars competition, stayed with a lovely couple, in an arrangement some decades before Air B 'n B. The economy was in tatters, even worse than under the planned economy, the remnants of which were being gobbled up by slimy proto oligarchs. The purveyor of sleeper coach train tickets, a firm called Monkey Business, in still free Hong Kong, were also middle humans for folks in Moscow and Leningrad, who wanted to earn a bit by doubling up with friends, while their humble apartments were rented out.
Now, these retirees were university professors, so were relatively well off. Their residence, and appliances, were eye openers, certainly by comparison with Soviet arms and space technology. And of things here in the West. Elevator to sixth floor only ran now and again, with sparks from the floor choice button panel. Sticks were there on string to press the buttons. Same with appliances and heating. I could go on, but nuff said.
So, in my purchase on line of a new travel portable radio, somehow on eBay, I got sent to listings of vintage Soviet era short wave portables. The top of the line was the "Ocean 214-Meridian" . Reading up on it and looking at the pics, it seemed like the same sort of junk.
The Chinese now make many such units, and well reviewed ones, with performance and features, even MPV recording, cost less than 20 USD delivered. Two weeks later, from Shen Zhen, that would be. But products with similar features, with German and Japanese brand names, are made in China as well these days, with value, but marginal quality control. Get a good one, and it's well worth the price. What to do?
I tell this story, in part to be my usually narcissistic show offy self. But also to show my personal experience with so called communism. China is so in name only, and in one party statist lack of personal freedoms that we all take for granted. Russia, not so much.
The Ukrainians make a knock off BWM look alike bike, with side car, but it's also soon a piece of rusty junk, for those who have them here in Maine.
Cautionary tales, for all here. Especially for the deluded TD-HD Syndrome alt lefties of God's world. And then there are Honk Kong, and soon Taiwan.

I had the dream again last night; the same dream I have had for countless nights; the dream that haunts my waking hours. I am on a packed rush hour bus travelling through a busy city centre and I am naked from the waist down, save for a pair of muddy walking boots. All the seats are occupied and I am forced to stand in the aisle, right next to an attractive young woman whose thumbs are moving like lightening on the keys of her smart phone. Is she snap chatting about me? She gives away no sign of even noticing my presence, but what must she be thinking?

I didn’t really have that dream, but I know I will, one night.

.....Cheap guys like me are used to travelling to Portugal several times a year, for under USD 500, RT. And on some great carriers, just by booking early. Getting bombarded with email adverts from booking agents, touting great deals. RT to the Azores from Logan, for USD 1,300. Do we ever have a deal for you. Supply and demand.