News from Jupiter
To Friends of Aspiran
January 2, 2016
It snowed on Christmas morning in Covelo and again on New Year’s Day. Snow in Covelo is a pretty rare event. I’ll take it as a good omen, which is my usual way of greeting any new phenomenon. It’s worked for me so far. Since I last wrote about Aspiran a few more people have come in with late contributions, so that’ll be some extra […]
ASPIRABILUM MEUM (et tuum)
December 9, 2015
Who says bikers can’t speak Latin (badly). Everything around Aspiran used to be Roman, so it seemed appropriate. The deposit is down. In three months or so the house should be ours. My report is long overdue, I know, but there were nine days of travel, and then there was jet lag. Doesn’t always hit me, but this time it did. I flew to Paris […]
Poison from the Podium
November 20, 2015
We are all conditioned to jump to to the tune of the news. As you perhaps know I am buying a house in France and am about to go there to sign the first papers. My flight to Paris is booked for next Monday, and of course when I first heard what had happened there I wondered how it would affect me. But my decision […]
Onward and upward
November 8, 2015
The excitement mounts. Twenty more people have chipped in with another 1560 Euros. What makes this project so extraordinary – so different from most crowd-funding – is that I know personally almost half the 43 people on that Paypal list of contributors. It reminds me of just how many people I have built some kind of relationship with during the years that I have been […]
Dramatic Leap Towards Aspiran
November 3, 2015
MERCI TOUT LE MONDE – or, as we say in my country, THANK YOU Everything’s taking shape. We’re not there yet, but during these last few days we’ve taken a dramatic step forward. It’s been a harrowing two weeks for me. At times, when I’d heard nothing for days on end, I thought we’ll never get there. At other times I had serious doubts that […]
Skipping towards Aspiran
October 25, 2015
The road to Aspiran got shorter last night, thanks to a hefty wad of euros from a mate in the Antipodes. So now the total stands at 3,503 Euros But for those who don’t know what’s going on, please click here
Aspiration Celebration
I know, I know, I said I’d keep a daily score, but I suddenly ran into huge IT problems and it’s taken all week to clear it up. Anyway, here’s the great news. The week started with a flurry of donors and well-wishers, enough to convince me that you like what I am trying to achieve. So here’s the tally to date. Since last weekend […]
More Aspirations
October 17, 2015
This is a rather special week for me. For many years now people have been telling me how Jupiter’s Travels has changed their lives, and of course I am very proud of that. On my website I am offering you a chance to change MY life and at the same time help returning Jupiter’s Travellers to tell us the truth about what the world is […]
Aspirations
October 10, 2015
I forgot to mention last time that I was going to France for a month to look for a house, although I did talk about it on Facebook. Well, I’ve been and I’m back. The search did not start well. I’d booked and paid for two weeks in a rural place in the area where I thought I wanted the house to be, on the […]
Housekeeping and other stuff
August 9, 2015
It’s Sunday and for the moment the smoke has cleared from the valley, thanks to those 3,500 amazing fire-fighters struggling with the Rocky Fire just fifty or so miles away. But this morning it’s more about smoke and mirrors. I’m in the grip of a dilemma. I have an email list I use to send snippets of information, but it’s too long to send as […]