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MAKE MAD, PASSIONATE LOVE TO LIFE!
Chuck Linart 4.0 is LIVE This site hit the scene way back in 2006. That’s right: 2026 represents the 20th anniversary of chucklinart.com! I’m back for the fourth iteration. The other three have been obliterated by bit-rot and carelessness. You can still find some of the stuff on the Wayback Machine. Unfortunately, a lot of the old multimedia files — music, pictures, and self-hosted videos — are gone with the wind. Somebody probably downloaded copies, I suppose. Lucky them. Turned up to 11 This iteration will be different. In previous versions of this blog/site, I played small ball, ever cognizant…
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I’m Not a “Fan” of Anybody or Anything
Let me tell you about a very interesting conversation with a stranger… Where to begin? As I’ve said before, I hate traveling, but I love going places. For this reason, I tend to spend a bit of time wherever I go, make friends, get to know the place, the local cuisine and music, the cool local spots that your average tourist wouldn’t know… and so on. For this reason, I’ve made a bit of a home here in El Salvador in a wonderful place run by an amazing dueña , have met all kinds of interesting, beautiful people who have…
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RIP, Bobby. Thanks for the Trips
Been so far away, I only learned the other day that Bob Weir has passed So here is my open letter to Bob Weir, for what it’s worth (not much)… Wow, what an intense realization that as I “listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul” in my bed by the waterside, one of my favorite musicians has passed into the Great Beyond. Bobby, I know you know all from your perch in the purely spiritual realm, but I just wanted to say: Thank you! Quite literally, some of the very best days of my life were…
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Perú Wrap-up, El Salvador Redux
Pretty intense jump from chilly mountains to warm beach… This is half-baked, but it’s fresh. Something compels me to get this down before it fades into memory. Perú is a fantastic place, and I intend to return there as a dedicated tourist. My current situation is hybrid; I have a day job which I take seriously, but this job allows me a certain amount of bandwidth to explore the world (and escape miserable NYC winters) so I might as well take advantage of it. Perú, a country bigger than Alaska and California combined and even more geologically diverse, impressed me…
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More Perú Travel Travails
It all works out, and it was a Sunday I’ll never forget. (Note: To fully appreciate this post, listen to me spin the yarn about my first few highly stressful hours here in Perú. This was done in audio format on my podcast.) Today should have been a Sunday fun day. The original plan involved sleeping in (which for me means getting out of bed at 8:00 a.m.), going for a hike, taking a nap after the hike, then watching my Broncos defeat the ignominious Patriots. It didn’t work out that way, but it worked out OK. Yesterday I realized…
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Cuzco is cool… literally
The high life… literally Almost exactly 24 hours have passed since the wheels touched down, and I felt light and dizzy the minute I stepped out of the little old-fashioned airport. Having spent my formative years in Colorado, I’m no stranger to high altitude, but this place is twice as high as Denver, the Mile High City, and a thousand feet higher than Leadville, the Two Mile High Town. I have climbed eight or nine 14,000-foot peaks in my life. In that case, you’re just kind of up and down in a gradual way. Since you probably live in Denver…
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Lima, Peru Is Full of Surprises (Good Ones!)
For one thing, how do they keep the sidewalks so perfect? The book 1491 by Charles Mann explores what pre-Colombian America, north and south, was really like. It uses first-hand accounts written by the earliest explorers. It will make you question what you were taught about indigenous cultures. What I remember about the Andean chapter is that the early explorers, most notably Pizzaro, wrote not of dirty savages but of — among other things — fantastic roads, perfect roads through incredibly rough terrain, the high and steep Andes. The food blew Pizzaro’s mind too; remember, they didn’t even have potatoes,…
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