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...much time you want to spend fishing, swimming and horseback riding. Or just hang out at the Rio Azul valley base camp, with two riverside hot tubs, sauna and masseuse. Admire the view from Base Camp Sunset Bar after whitewater rafting and fly fishing. Bio Bio calls it "the perfect way to get away from the chills of winter and enjoy the warm Chilean sun." $2,600 per person. tel: (1-800) 246 7238; www.bbxrafting.com...
...defense wasn’t perfect, yielding Lafayette, among other breakdowns, a 22-play, 78-yard drive at the end of the first half. But in the end it was Harvard who had something to show for it, as Thomas blocked Rick Ziska’s 35-yard field goal and sent the Leopards into the locker room empty-handed...
...more traditional travel book, Josh Neufeld's "A Few Perfect Hours" (self-published; 128 pages; $13) collects the author's memoirs of his time spent in Southeast Asia and central Europe. Owing to each chapter's original appearance in various publications, the book reads like a series of episodes rather than cohesive journey, but Neufeld picks his moments well. In each he discovers something about the world or himself that, if it doesn't actually broaden him, at least gives him pause. For example, the opening, titular chapter features Neufeld and his girlfriend, Sari, arriving in Bangkok after a miserable...
...Josh encounters the local fauna in "A Few Perfect Hours...
...artwork, attractively printed in blue ink on an off-white ground, has polish and clarity. Unfortunately, the experiences of "A Few Perfect Hours" do far less for us as readers than they evidently did for the author. The book's episodic nature defeats the raison d'etre of a travel book - to learn something new about the world. Neufeld never stays in one place long enough to give us a depth of understanding about the environs or people in the places he visits. "A Few Perfect Hours," ultimately reads more like autobiography set in exotic locals. But without the neurotic...