In 1998, Theodore P. Druch and Maria Ruiz pulled up stakes, sold everything, and at age 58, set off, with their two Miniature Schnauzers and a Siamese cat, on a ten-year Odyssey around the world. Living in cities such as Bangkok, Nairobi, and Buenos Aires, they also spent years traveling to far-flung places at the ends of the earth like Komodo, Borneo, Darjeeling, and the remote Vietnamese village of Sapa, deep in the mountains along the border with China. Volume one is the story of their travels in Mexico and Central America in an old motor home, traveling Mesoamerica from top to bottom....

Since 1996, the Puerto Vallarta Writers Group has provided a home for authors published, self-published, and aspiring. This year, the PVWG has created an anthology of its writers' best short stories. Included in this eclectic collection, you will find winners and losers, murderers and victims, talking dogs and terrified children, fairy tales and love stories, whimsy, comedy, and outright horror. In other words, the whole panoply of what it means to be human. (Even the dog) The stories are about evenly divided between authors who have been published before, and those who are seeing their work...