Art, Music, Performance, Writing
Lost in Color Hotel Plaza de Mazatlan
In the hotel lobby, each day, this artist/craftsman unfolds two tables. He is dipping his brush into color and applying paint as I watch. When done with one color, he cleans his brush in a glass of water, wipes the residue off with a towel, then switches...
I wuz Here On the beach at Stone Island
One of the first things I come across on this Stone Island beach is a handwritten message scratched in the sand, still hours away from being erased, by the incoming tides. It brings up an old question - "If no one hears a tree falling in the forest, does...
Hotel Playa Stage Show/Mazatlan Dance revue
Every night, downstairs, the Hotel Playa offers entertainment. It is sometimes a DJ spinning tunes. Sometimes it is a duo of classical guitars. On certain nights you can hear song smiths warbling out popular melodies. This particular evening we get...
Night Dolphins/On the Malecon Sunday night in Mazatlan
On a tip from Pat, at seven thirty this evening, Alan and I pile into a pulmonia and tell the driver - "Dolphina's por favor ..." We are taken, for fifty pesos, to distant communication towers rising into the sky to the south of us. During the daytime...
Jack Kerouac in Mazatlan On the road
Back in the 1950's, after WW2, most people headed home to raise families. Men were tired of shooting bullets and women were tired of making them. Instead of killing humanity the focus became re-populating humanity. An era of big bands was...
California Soul Records Looking for a shirt
Victoria Gardens is a Rancho Cucamonga mall, one of many in the Los Angeles area where shopping ranks high on people's to do lists. The day before Christmas, late afternoon, crowds are thinning. By now, most have their shopping complete and are winding...
Back in the U.S.S.A. La Quinta Hotel room, Coral Springs
In a La Quinta hotel room in Coral Springs, Florida I am distracted with television, something I haven't been distracted by in over a month on the road. On TV is a show called "The Basement Tapes," about long lost recordings by Bob Dylan and friends...
Story Hour In the neighborhood /Hotel Aranjuez/ San Jose, Costa Rica
Towards the end of any visit, many travelers sort through high points, low points, things that didn't work out, things that went well. If you keep a journal, write a blog, take photos, or go with someone, you have a way to remember what you saw,did,...
Hemingway Inn/ San Jose, Costa Rica Barrio Amon
In walks, I see other places I might like to stay in San Jose, Costa Rica. This Inn has been passed before and always merits a second glance. From the outside, it appears Hemingway really might have resided in one of the upstairs rooms and composed at a...
Handstands Friday afternoon
The Temple of Music belongs in a different time and place. This edifice is in a downtown San Jose, Costa Rica city park where music is performed and people congregate. This afternoon there is a group of young gymnasts practicing handstands...
Namu Folk Art Gallery, San Jose Masks, arrows and color
This little gift shop is not far from the Holiday Inn in Old San Jose, a hop skip and jump from the Municipal Square, a stone's throw from the Gold and Jade Museo's, several blocks from casinos. Browsing, I come across an authentic bow with arrows with...
Theatro Solis, Montevideo Free day for English speaking tours
The Theatro Solis is a renovated landmark in Montevideo dedicated to the performing arts, fine arts, and community awareness of the arts. It was restored completely in the 1950s and looks now like it did in the 1800s. When you walk inside you are greeted...
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