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Mi blog se ve mucho mejor en una computadora, y no necesariamente en una pantallita de teléfono móvil.

Here’s how to Contact me and some Disclosures

 If you have a question or suggestion about my travel experiences, you could write it as a post, or a comment, right on the same page where you read the article.  My mailing address and email appears below these lines.  If you wish to contact me now, you can do it here.  Thanks for reading my blog.  I hope you enjoy reading my travel adventures and photographs, as much as I did living them.   You have a good day!

Si tienes alguna pregunta o sugerencia sobre mis experiencias de viaje, la puedes escribir como un post, o comentario, en la misma página donde leíste el artículo.  Mi dirección postal y de email aparecen más abajo. Si deseas contactarme ahora, házlo aquí.  Gracias por visitar mi blog.  Espero que hayas disfrutado leer mis aventuras y fotos de viajero, tanto como lo disfruté yo vivirlas.   ¡Que tengas un buen día!

Ricardo Trelles, mba                                                                                                                     PO Box 224-66, Tampa, FL 33630  USA                                                                                   professor  trelles  at  gmail  dot  com                                                                                              (no spaces, of course, it looks weird, but it helps control spam)

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IMPORTANT LEGAL DISCLOSURE 

The audio files, audio excerpts, music files, and music videos from YouTube, a registered trademark and a Google-owned corporation, or from any other corporation or individual, that appear in this website either as links or third-party connections, have been used with the implicit permission by YouTube and Google Inc., and those other corporations and individuals, and are materials registered to their respective owners.  For further information, read and refer to the new Google Privacy policy, read and understand the proper use of quoting or copying of encyclopedic articles and material from the Wikipedia Commons, or contact Google Inc., or those other corporations, individuals, or providers directly.

Whenever feasible, I make the proper attribution of credit to the owner of the images, videos, or files I have incorporated in my web, that is not my work of writing or photography, or that is not to my credit.  Whenever I am not able to make such attribution of credit, it should be clearly understood that such image, video, or file is being used with the implicit permission of its owner, and not for my personal enrichment or commercial gain, but only with a not-for-profit, demonstrative, instructional purpose, and with an educational interest in mind, not a commercial one.

With the exception of videos from YouTube, and very selectively, a small amount of images from Wikipedia Commons, all content in this website is written by and copyrighted to Ricardo Trelles.  Although it is in the public domain, this content has an owner.  Before you copy or copy and sell, YOU SHOULD ASK.  This content may only be reproduced with permission by the author, and for said content reproduction all current copyright laws in the State of Florida, the 11th Southeastern District of the US, and the United States of America apply.  All text, writing excerpts, and written media, photographs, images, and image compositions herein are authored and owned by Ricardo Trelles, also knows as Professor Trelles (English), or Profesor Trelles (Spanish), and may not be reproduced, stored, copied, divulged, disseminated, or transferred physically, digitally, electronically, or in any other manner or method without prior written consent and written authorization by the author.  Should you mention or cite any portion of text or written material from this website, you must use the proper citation methods and always identify the author, Ricardo Trelles, and the source, http://www.RicardoTrelles.com.

If you wish to obtain a copy of a specific picture or image, they are all for sale, just contact the author by email at, r trelles at g mail dot com.   Prices for a large print, to poster size prints vary, but are quite reasonable.  The intention is not to become rich, but to recoup some of my expenses from these travel and educational research trips.  Thank you!

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DECLARACION LEGAL IMPORTANTE

Los archivos de audio, fragmentos de audio, archivos de música, y videos musicales de YouTube, una marca registrada y una corporación propiedad de Google Inc., o de cualquier otra corporación o individuo, que aparecen en este sitio web como links o enlaces, o como conexión a una tercera parte, han sido usados con permiso implícito de YouTube, y Google Inc., y de esas otras corporaciones o individuos, y son materiales registrados a sus respectivos dueños.  Para más información sobre esos materiales, lea y refiérase a la nueva política de Privacidad de Google, lea e infórmese sobre el uso apropiado de citas y copias de materiales y artículos enciclopédicos de Wikipedia Commons, o contacte directamente a Google Inc., Wikipedia.org, o a esas corporaciones, individuos, o proveedores.

Siempre y cuando sea factible, hago justa mención de crédito a el/los dueño(s) de las imágenes, videos, o archivos que he incorporado en mi sitio web, que no sean mi trabajo de redacción, o mis fotografías, o que no sean de mi crédito.  En esas ocasiones en que no puedo hacer tal mención o atribución de crédito, entiéndase claramente que tales imágenes, videos, o archivos están siendo usados con permiso implícito de su dueño, y no para enriquecimiento personal o uso comercial, sino solamente con un propósito instructivo, de demostración, sin fines de lucro, y con un interés educacional en mente, no uno comercial.

Con la excepción de tales videos, todo el contenido de este sitio web ha sido escrito por y su derecho de autor registrado a Ricardo Trelles.  Aunque  está en un dominio público, este contenido también tiene un dueño.  De modo que antes de copiar, o copiar y vender, DEBE PREGUNTAR.  Este contenido puede ser reproducido solamente con permiso del autor, en cuyo caso aplican todas las leyes vigentes del estado de la Florida, del Distrito 11 del Sureste de los EE.UU., y de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica.  Todos los textos, fragmentos y citas de textos, y todos los escritos cualesquiera que sean los medios de divulgación en que se hayan escrito, fotografías, imágenes, y composiciones de imágenes, son de la autoría y propiedad de Ricardo Trelles, también conocido como Profesor Trelles (español), o Professor Trelles (inglés), y no pueden ser reproducidas, guardadas, copiadas, difundidas o diseminadas o transferidas físicamente, digitalmente, o electrónicamente, ni por ningún otro medio ni método sin el previo consentimiento escrito y la correspondiente autorización escrita del autor.  Si usted debe hacer alusión o citar cualquier cantidad de texto o material escrito de este sitio web, usted tiene que hacerlo usando los métodos de cita apropiados, identificando siempre al autor, Ricardo Trelles, y a la fuente, http://www.RicardoTrelles.com.

Si deseas obtener una copia de alguna foto o imagen específica, todas están en venta.  Sólo debes contactar al autor por vía de email a, r trelles arroba g mail punto com.  Así podrás ordenar lo mismo una foto grande que una foto tamaño poster.  Los precios varían, pero en general son todos asequibles.  La intención no es hacerse rico, sino recuperar de algún modo, algunos de los gastos en estos costosos viajes de investigación académica y de turismo.  ¡Muchas Gracias!

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*  By the way, Methuselah actually lived to be 969 years old.  Or so says the Bible.  I just thought that using the onomatopoeic combination of 7 – 970 would sound better in my home page.  Thanks for the poetic license.  Do you like poetry and writing?  You ought to read my poems and stories.  Go to the Categories section (column on the right), and click on any of those categories.  If you like technology, look for Automobiles.  If you like mattresses, furniture, comfort, luxury, lifestyles of the rich and famous (without the gossip part), look for Living the Good Life.  I’m a savvy technology teacher, and an avid user myself.  But if you’re in the mood for love and lust, click on Amor y Lujuria Love & Lust.  Careful, spicy words ahead…    Enjoy the ride!

*  Por cierto, Matusalén en realidad vivió 969 años.  Al menos, eso dice la Biblia.  Sólo creí que la onomatopeia del 7 y el 970, como recurso estilístico en mi página de inicio sonaba mejor.  Gracias por la licencia poética.  ¿Te gusta la poesía y escribir?  Entonces tienes que leer mis poemas e historias.  Ve a la sección de Categories (columna derecha), y haz clic sobre una de esas categorías.  Si te gusta la tecnología, busca Automóviles.  Si te gusta el mundo del buen vivir, buenos colchones, muebles finos, la comodidad, el lujo, y los estilos de vida de los ricos y famosos (sin la parte de los chismes de las estrellas), entonces busca Vivir la Buena Vida.  Yo soy un maetro, conocedor de la tecnología, y también un ávido usuario de ésta.   Pero si te sientes como en un tono más de amor y lujuria, bueno, pues haz clic sobre Amor y Lujuria Love & Lust.  Cuidado, ¿eh?, que algunas palabritas pican…  ¡Que disfrutes el paseo!

Correction: in the background image, with the Disc of Phaistos, I inserted text in English, with the subjects I teach, or like the most, or simply enjoy reading about or exploring.  Look at the bottom left corner, Tecnology (no h), is misspelled on purpose.  If you were paying attention, you would have noticed.  Now go to the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov, and start reading the laws our Congress is passing, or not, many in total.  Could there be any more “bacon” and bullshit?  Could Washington politicians be any more corrupt than these crooks and liers?  Speak up.  That is, if you want to continue living in a free country.   Fe de Erratas: En la imagen de fondo, con el Disco de Festos, incorporé líneas de texto, en inglés, con las asignaturas que enseño, o que más me gustan, o que simplemente disfruto leer o explorar.  Fíjate en la esquina inferior izquierda, en donde la palabra ‘Tecnology’ (sin h, en inglés), está mal escrita, con toda intención.  Si estuvieras atendiendo, entonces te habrías dado cuenta.  Ahora véte a la Biblioteca del Congreso, www.loc.gov, y léete las leyes que está aprobando el Congreso, o las que no aprueba, que son muchas.   Te darás cuenta de cuánto “tocino” (bacon), y cuánta mierda nos venden estos bandidos, mentirosos, y políticos corruptos, de Washington.  Alza tu voz.  Digo, eso es si quieres que sigamos viviendo en un país libre.

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MORE ABOUT MATTRESSES  

If you are interested in purchasing a new mattress, a new sleep system, or a new bed, or other furniture or home furnishing, the best way is to stop by the store and spend some time browsing our beautiful mattresses and furniture.  Honestly, one can watch 300 YouTube videos about mattresses, hear 500 stories about this bed or that mattress, or talk to a million people with a trillion stories about mattresses.

But none of that compares to laying down on one of our superb mattresses, for a good 10 – 15 minutes, so that the body starts conforming, or adjusting, that is, “talking” to the mattress, and really experience how a top-quality new mattress can help you regain full rest and healing, to assist your body gain much needed rest, and let it get reenergized.

Give yourself an hour or so, or even more, if needed, in our Mattress Gallery.  You’ll see the difference, and understand how you can improve your life with a new sleep system.

If you want to send me an email, so that we can set up an appointment, then email me at RTrelles  at the Fine Furniture dot com, no spaces, of course.  Actually, this is not my real email.  Some issues have arisen with using the company name on my blog, so I am always a law-abiding citizen, and as a matter of discipline and respect for the rules, I am not mentioning the company name in my blog, only to identify that I am a Sales Advisor with them.

By the way, this thing about using extra spaces here, or wherever you write your email address, looks a bit crazy, but I do to avoid cyber bots, internet disruptors, and data-hungry robots from copying email addresses and putting them in automated databases to bombard us with unauthorized, unsolicited online marketing offers.

Or just stop by the store, Wednesday through Sunday.  I take Mondays off, Tuesdays off.

Ask for Ricardo, and I will come and greet you at the front of the store.  IMPORTANT:  do mention you are coming to see Ricardo, because we work on commission, and if you start “walking” with a sales person, then technically, per store rules when it comes to helping customers, that sales person can now claim that they “own you” or rather, “own the sale.”

Nothing further from the truth.  Nobody owns you, but only you, yourself.  The reason Capitalism is so great is that competition is healthy and alive.  Thank God for Capitalism.

Competition is also necessary, yes, if we want to improve our skills and manners, in this case, in the sales world, then ultimately, the best sales people (those of us with manners and respect for our partner’s territory, if you will), are bound to create meaningful relationships with customers, create sales, create happiness, and create trust, so that customers come back and buy some more and recommend us to their family and friends, and to others folks in their circles.

You shop where you want to shop, and you visit where you want to visit.   Of course, I am hoping that after we do a mattress rest test, that is, a test in which you will lay down horizontally on one mattress, or two mattresses, possibly but not necessarily on three mattresses, you buy your mattress from me, as a Trusted Sales Advisor at the Fine Furniture, and from our store, as a merchant, the Fine Furniture place.

Coming back to your visit, I respect my guest’s rights to visit, shop, and ultimately buy wherever they consider the best reputable merchant with the best deal.  I happen to think–and know, with proven factual financial data–that we have the better financing terms, and the shortest delivery times, but again, customers should have the last word on where, when, and with whom to buy their new mattress, pillows, mattress protectors, adjustable lifestyles bases, fine furniture, and home furnishings.

So, give me the opportunity to bring you and your sleeping partner into our gorgeous Mattress Gallery, and have you take a “rest test” with us, and feel a couple of our many mattresses on display.

Notice I didn’t say “test 8 or 10 mattresses.”  In this regard, it does not make sense at all to test 10 mattresses, because after the 2^nd or 3^rd mattress, most people will feel lost and will probably not be able to clearly differentiate features, or how they felt during the time they “tried” or “tested” the mattress, and they most certainly will not be able to clearly identify the subtle differences in comfort, temperature, and firmness.

So, allow me to help you test the right product that would fit your specific body type, sleeper type, and comfort (firmness) level desire, to find the most suitable mattress for you and your sleeping partner.

By the way, I am a very discrete and respectful person, who is not interested in people’s private lives.  I have one too, and I am jealously vigilant in not sharing too much of my private life with anyone other than a medical professional, if they asked me.  Exactly.  Things that are very private, intimate level private, honestly, are NOBODY’S BUSINESS.

So, I respect our guests’ privacy.  And I will NEVER ask anything other than what we as Sleep Experts in the mattress sales business, as sales professionals, may need to know in order to help find the right fit for your next mattress.

I will ask you, though, a few things that are fair questions, needed for the rest test:

• Does one of the sleep partners move a lot in bed, tossing and turning incessantly that it somehow bothers the other partner?
• Does one of the sleep partners snore, perhaps to the point that the other partner’s sleep gets disrupted repeatedly?
• Does one or both sleep partners confront lifestyles/medical issues in the area of overweight, serious overweight, obesity, or what they call in clinical literature, morbid obesity? I am a medical doctor, and do not purport to be one.  I do not even like the term “morbid” in this case, but when the sleep partner weight is something that may affect the quality of sleep of both partners, we will always recommend that the partners consider a Hybrid architecture, with a layer, or layers, or wrapped coil systems that augment the support for that weight.
• We will also recommend that a heavy set person, or very tall, and heavy set, or heavy weight person, consider a mattress with less soft (S) foam layers, as it will feel like he/she is “drowning” in the mattress, and choose to consider instead, hybrid mattresses that contain more firm (F) architecture with more coils and less foam layers, again, to help support the weight better.
• In the case of two sleep partners with substantial difference in weight, size (tallness), and body type, we will recommend that the couple opts for a combined feature setup, with two (2) different mattresses, typically one soft (S) or medium (M) firmness, whether strict foam or hybrid type, for the thinner, lighter person, and the other being a firm (F) mattress, typically a hybrid mattress with less foam layers and more wrapped coils system support, or a Tight-Top Firm (F) mattress for the other sleep partner.

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MÁS INFORMACIÓN SOBRE COMPRAR COLCHONES

Si estás interesado en comprar un colchón nuevo, o un sistema de cama especializada, o una nueva cama, o algún otro mueble para la casa, lo mejor sería que pasaras un rato por la tienda, y nos dedicaras un rato viendo las bellezas que tenemos en colchones y muebles.  Honestamente, uno puede ver 300 videítos de colchones en YouTube, oir 500 historias sobre tal cama o más cual colchón, o hablar con mil gentes con miles de historias más sobre colchones.

Pero ninguna de esas historias se compara con acostarse en uno de nuestros colchones por 10 – 15 minutos, para que el cuerpo comience a conformarse, a ajustarse, a “hablar” con el colchón, y pueda realmente experimentar cómo es que un colchón nuevo de alta calidad puede ayudarte a recuperar el descanso completo, para contribuir a que el cuerpo sane y se energice.

Dáte una hora o así, quizás más, si hiciera falta, para visitar nuestra Galería de Colchones.  Verás la diferencia, y entenderás cómo mejorar tu vida con un sistema de cama especializada.

Si deseas comunicarte via email, para que hagamos una cita, o appointment, entonces me puedes escribir a:  RTrelles  at Fine Furniture dot com, sin espacios, claro.  Esta no es mi dirección de email electrónico.  Hay reglas y regulaciones en la empresa que restringen el uso de algunas cosas de información, y yo respeto, con disciplina, todas las reglas de mi empresa.

Esto de los espacios es para evitar que los robots de internet se apropien de las direcciones de email con robots de internet que usan bases de datos automatizadas y nos bombardeen luego con miles de ofertas electrónicas de mercadeo no autorizadas sin haberlas pedido.

Lo mejor es pasa por la tienda.  Pregunta por Ricardo, y entonces yo vendré a recibirte al frente de la tienda o en la Galería de Colchones, que es donde casi siempre ando.

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Oh, and don’t forget, I take Mondays and Tuesdays off, so please, do not come to the store those days.  But do stop and visit with us at our beautifully remodeled Fine Furniture store, right on US 19 in Pinellas Park.  I’ll be waiting for you!

It’s a free country, my friend, and you can drive to any store you want, any day you wish.  But if we make an appointment, I will be devoting all my time that specific hour to assist you and your family, and those who arrive to see me without an appointment, will be invited to look around the store while I complete helping the appointment guests complete their mattress/adjustable base purchase.

So, wouldn’t you want NOT to have to wait, and NOT to have to spend more time walking around the store, and instead, be serviced immediately after you arrive? That is the convenience and wisdom of making an appointment.

Thank you for consideration, and THANK YOU for your business!

Ricardo Trelles

Bedding and Sleep Expert at the Fine Furniture, Pinellas Park, FL

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