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Blog postFriday the 13th is your lucky day! Happy to announce that the OnlineBookClub is promoting my book “An Uphill Climb – Survivor’s Guilt and the Inca Trail” as the Book of the Day on Friday November 13th. To celebrate, you can get your FREE Kindle edition of the book between now and midnight Saturday the 14th at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08DDGZQKJ .
In this year of COVID, many families are facing the challenges of Survivor’s Guilt, and I hope that in some small way this book can help. E -
Blog postAs we get down to the last 15 days before the Election, more and more attention is being focused on the polls. It is a data-palooza for the analysts, with new algorithms being fed through tens of thousands of simulations every day, spewing out new results.
For most Americans though, especially in light of the 2016 election, one question stands out more than the predictions of who will win – can we trust the polls?
If I may quote the Reverend Lovejoy from the Simpsons, “Long an -
Blog postIt all began with the election of 1952, when a UNIVAC computer correctly predicted the outcome of the presidential election.
Now if you look at the election results from that year, it seems like it would have been a no-brainer to predict. After all, Dwight Eisenhower beat Adlai Stevenson by over 6 million votes, and wiped the electoral map with him by winning 442-89.
However, according to all of the pre-election polls, expectations ranged from a Stevenson landslide to a narrow -
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Blog postI’ve been encouraged lately about the publication of my latest book, “An Uphill Climb – Survivor’s Guilt and the Inca Trail”. Although sales continue at a trickle, they do continue – and are starting to pick up a bit. More importantly, the reviews posted on Amazon have been excellent, with 12 out of 13 rating it “5 star” and one “4 star”. Even better, only one reviewer was not a complete stranger, and that one was someone I have not seen in over 40 years.
Important to me, some of thos -
Blog postLast week we had a chance to get in one more Smoky Mountains hike before the Labor Day Weekend crowds appeared. So Thursday we loaded up our packs and set out for Elkmont Campgrounds to hike the 5.5 mile “Cucumber Gap Loop Trail”.
First, a word about those packs. On our last hike Rita took her tried and trusted backpack she used for the Inca Trail, an Osprey Mila 34. The “34” stands for the volume the pack will hold, in this case 34 liters. Most Americans think of liters as a liquid m -
Blog postThere must be something about the last week of August that causes us to lace up the hiking boots. In 2019 on this week, we were hiking in the Galápagos. 2018 found us exploring Greenways and parks of Knoxville, and in 2017 we were finishing up explorations around Cusco in Perú and about to tackle the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. August of 2016 really started it all, when the mad decision to hike the Inca Trail got us to start seriously hiking, rather than just taking daily walks.
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Blog postAugust 28th, a big day for us. It was on this day three years ago, after over a year of mental and physical preparation, that Rita and I were standing at Kilometer 82 just outside of Piskacucho in Perú, ready to take the first steps on a 26-mile 4-day/3-night hike to Machu Picchu.
It is just over a month since the book about the hike and the struggle to prepare for it, “An Uphill Climb“, has been available on Amazon and Kindle. I’m happy to say that it is slowly (ever so slowly -
Blog postOver eleven and a half years ago, on January 10th, 2009, an emotionally broken fat man sat down to try and write out some of his grief. He had lost his wife and companion of over 25 years to cancer just five weeks earlier, and was having trouble dealing with his pain, his job, and the mundanity of life in general.
He began to write about what he had lost, and what it had been like to go through those last few weeks. He wrote about how difficult it was to go through his current day-to- -
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Blog postAs we get ready to go into our fourth month of self-quarantine, at least there are some silver linings. We’ve expanded our morning walks to almost five miles, and we have developed a very efficient pantry and garage-shelf food storage system.
With all of the time at home, Rita has started sorting and digitizing boxes and boxes of old photos. I was able to finish and publish my book on touring the Galápagos Islands , and I should be ready to publish a more serious book on battli -
Blog post“They say, timing is everything. But then they say, there is never a perfect time for anything.”
― Anthony Liccione
Well, it seems like half of the country is locked down in self-quarantine while the other half is out rioting and protesting. Nobody is flying to other countries unless they absolutely have to, and many people can’t even return to their own nations even if they wanted to. At times like this, what is a sensible thing for a writer to do?
Why, publish a tr -
Books By Jim Santos
An Uphill Climb: Survivor's Guilt and the Inca Trail
Jul 20, 2020
by
Jim Santos
$7.99
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The Galápagos Islands:On Your Own and On a Budget
May 29, 2020
by
Jim Santos
$5.99
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