USA | Sunday, 21 Apr 2013 | Photo Gallery
Galveston to Barcelona (Again)
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USA | Friday, 19 Apr 2013 | Views [491]
April is the cruelest month, certainly not the most scenic time to go looking for America. Heading east from Nebraska to New Jersey, the stubbled fields were still dappled with gray melting snow and the ravages of winter could still be seen through ... Read more >
USA | Monday, 25 Mar 2013 | Views [365]
Colorado treated us to a spring snowstorm – nothing much by Rocky Mountain standards but enough to make driving a challenge. Our rented Toyota minivan doesn’t have winter tires or all wheel drive either. Oh, how I missed our old ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 23 Mar 2013 | Views [403]
Jim and Cathy have been friends and partners in crime for 20 years. We have shard campfires and condos, skied countless thousands of vertical feet together and belayed each other on rock walls throughout the Rockies. Their family has adopted ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 20 Mar 2013 | Views [495]
We’re back in Colorado, a state we once called home. Our mission is to take care of essential business and catch up with some old friends. After seven years, as many continents and fifty countries, the wheels, quite literally, fell ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 14 Mar 2013 | Views [411]
It isn’t too difficult to see America as if through the eyes of a foreign tourist. In a way, I am a stranger here myself. And I can’t imagine why any sane tourist would drive across Texas. Even at 85 mph (140 km/hr) it took ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 9 Mar 2013 | Views [464]
Baseball, that most American of games, is one of our homecoming rituals; a way to touch base (pun intended) and reassure ourselves that we are home. Not that Texas is home. Nor is the US, now that I think about it. And we are told that ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 7 Mar 2013 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Wednesday, 6 Mar 2013 | Views [521]
The airline gods must have been smiling down on us. We had a mere two hours between the JetBlue flight from Bogota to Orlando and our United connection to Houston, scarcely enough time for immigration, collect our luggage, clear customs, get to ... Read more >
COLOMBIA | Thursday, 28 Feb 2013 | Views [716]
Both the temperature and the humidity were hovering in the mid-80s as we stepped off the plane, ill-attired in our "Bogota clothes" - long trousers and fleece tops. But it was only a short ride to Hotel Torre del Reloj and a quick change into shorts ... Read more >
COLOMBIA | Tuesday, 26 Feb 2013 | Photo Gallery
Bogota and Cartagena
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COLOMBIA | Tuesday, 26 Feb 2013 | Views [663]
After Brazil, Bogota was a breath of fresh air - rarified to be sure at 8000 feet above sea level - but a welcome change from Brazil. Of the 92 countries I have visited Brazil ranks towards the bottom on the list of favorites. It's nothing ... Read more >
BRAZIL | Wednesday, 20 Feb 2013 | Views [483]
We have traveled into the Amazon basin twice before in Peru; once in Manu near Cusco and the other time upstream from Iquitos. Each was fun and rewarding, trips we will remember fondly for the companions (few) and the birds and wildlife (copious.... Read more >
BRAZIL | Monday, 18 Feb 2013 | Photo Gallery
Manaus and the Amazon
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BRAZIL | Sunday, 17 Feb 2013 | Views [628]
The church carillon awakened us seconds before the alarm buzzed. We needed an early start to get to Amazon Antonio's lodge, 200 km from Manaus on the Urubu River.
It took us seven hours and three planes through two time zones to travel from ... Read more >
BRAZIL | Wednesday, 13 Feb 2013 | Views [1965]
It was the final day of Carnival when we arrived at Alto Paraiso, a small, dusty town four hours by bus from Brasila. Once a gold mining center, then a source of quartz crystals, Alto Paraiso is a jumping off point for trips to Chapada dos Veadeiros ... Read more >
BRAZIL | Saturday, 9 Feb 2013 | Views [564]
Conferring World Heritage status on a historic town provides funds to help insure its preservation. But the money comes - or should, at least - with certain guidelines and restrictions.
For instance, Lonely Planet raves, "isolated but ... Read more >
BRAZIL | Saturday, 9 Feb 2013 | Photo Gallery
Colonial Towns
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BRAZIL | Friday, 8 Feb 2013 | Views [442]
I had visions of a city hacked out of the rain forest, Tikal-like, when I first heard about Brasila back in the 60s. Brazil's capital is towards the middle of the country, but on the high plains, the serro, not in the jungle. It is a planned ... Read more >
BRAZIL | Thursday, 7 Feb 2013 | Photo Gallery
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