<continued from StockHouse Road Trip: El Salvador Shipwreck Part 1>I began heading up the line of the breakers looking for that hole, butthe storm kept gaining in strength to the point where I had very littlecontrol of the boat.The storm seemed to worsen to the point where the lightning and thunderfelt, looked, and sounded, like it was right on top of us. While Inever actually saw the light ...

(note: this week's blog has no financial or investment content and mainly describes a boating incident that occurred entering El Salvador. Next week I will return to the usual format and will have a detailed report on El Salvador from a financial perspective)In June, 2005, having safely sailed past the dreaded Gulf of Tehuanepec in southern Mexico, we sailed on past Guatemala and into the waters ...

It was December 2005 and I had just arrived in Manila from Taipei for my first visit to the Philippines.The Philippines is a very unique country. It was Spain's main colony in Asia and although it has been more than a hundred years since that country's involvement in this region, the Spanish have left their mark.This archipelago made up of 7,107 islands under control of the Philippine government ...

I arrived in the Hungarian capital of Budapest via a flight from Athens in September 2005 and spent nearly a week in and around Budapest before egressing via train bound for the quaint city of Bratislava, Slovakia.Budapest has an intriguing history, replete with a plethora of wars, occupations, alliances, changing borders and populations. It is not all well remembered, but they were allied with N ...

I arrived in Bangkok at 11am local time on September 20th by car. Other than moderately lighter traffic and one truck of Army men (picture below), most of whom were just sitting and eating in the truck while one waved people through without stopping them, there was nothing readily different in the city.The light traffic was almost certainly due to the fact that the interim government (military) o ...