Travelling Mac-less
Thursday, August 7, 2014 at 4:40PM 
This year our family got together and rented a three bedroom villa on the beach at Playa del Coco, Costa Rica. All but one of my daughters made the trip. There were seven of us in all: Me, my wife, two daughters, one boyfriend, one son-in-law and my 2-year-old granddaughter.
The place was beautiful. Built on the side of a 300 foot cliff overlooking the Pacific, the villa was fully equipped to accommodate our extended family luxuriously. With two huge picture windows facing the ocean, two “infinite” swimming pools that created the illusion of swimming in the Pacific, two roomy balconies with comfortable outdoor furniture for watching sunsets and most importantly, two big central air conditioners. It was Central America in July after all. The place even had decent cable TV and Internet service (even though all but 4 channels were in Spanish and the Internet connection was just 2 Mb/sec.) that kept running 95% of the time we were there.
When we got there I did what I always do when traveling. I set up my MacBook Pro on the provided desk and plugged in the portable hard drive containing my 300+ movie collection. This is quite handy when traveling abroad. A person can only watch so much BBC and CNN International. I also need to keep in touch with the business world back home from time to time. The world doesn’t stop just because I’m on vacation. I don’t spend much time on business, but I do try to monitor for catastrophes. I find it amazing how a well-placed email can often avert a crisis.
Anyway, everything goes perfectly the first day, but
