Blast to the Past
Clines Corners Route 66 since 1934
Clines Corners is a travel center on I- 40 east of Moriarty, New Mexico. It opened in 1934 at the intersection of what was then Route 66 and highway 85 going north to Santa Fe or highway 85 south to Roswell. 1934 was long ago, at the end of the Great...
Panama Hat from Ecuador a traditional Ecuadorian craft
Panama hats have oddly enough always been made in Ecuador. From the 1600's, the weaving of hats out of the leaves of the toquilla palm has been done, at it's finest level ,on the western coast of Ecuador. These best hats are called Montecristo's and are...
Incan Code Pumapungo Museum-Cuenca
Walking through the Museum, and the grounds below, gives footnotes of the past. All that is left of the past here are rock walls of homes and stone walls built to terrace land so crops could be grown on hillsides. The soil is deep, dark, rich, and, with...
Dinosaur Comeback still popular
From the street, this exposition seems promising. There is a huge dinosaur on a flatbed in Parque Calderone. There is also, nearby, a tall movie poster featuring a reptile with big teeth, the word Dinosaurs in big letters, and an offer to children to get...
New Cathedral Blues stepping in
The domes of the New Cathedral can be seen from most high ground in Cuenca. The New Cathedral was built in the last hundred years but still qualifies to be called new. The Old Cathedral, on the other side of Parque Calderone, is smaller, less ambitious,...
Pictures from the Past Exhibit in Parque Calderone, Dec 2015
Cuenca is a World Heritage City. World Heritage cities possess geographical, cultural, artistic, archeological, and architectural wonders which UNESCO believes are worth protecting. In Parque Calderone, these photographs were taken between 1890-1930....
Washing Clothes At the Tomebamba River Wednesday morning
Humans wear clothes. Some wear more, some less. Some are expensive, glamorous with designer touches straight from the runway, some are little better than rags. This morning, in the Rio Tomebamba River, a family washes their clothes and bedding. Two...
Belize – Lamanai Ruins Mayan Ruins at Lamanai
What I should have done was read about the ruins before I got here. Lamanai, which means submerged crocodile, is a Mayan city in the Orange District of Belize. It dates to the sixteenth century B.C. and was occupied into the seventeen hundreds A.D....
School Days Revisited On the way to Mayan ruins at Lamanai, Belize
For most of our school days we rode big lumbering yellow school buses to big lumbering schoolhouses. We walked to a designated bus stop and waited, in all weather, for a driver to swing open narrow doors, and then saw faces of other kids who were just as...
Captain Morgan’s Resort and Casino privateers and pirates
The resort and casino are on the north side of Ambergris Caye and you get there in a taxi by the new road, or a water taxi with Coastal Express, or catch one of the resort's own shuttles that bring guests to and from their accommodations. This time of...
Fossil Hunt NM - South 14
New Mexico was once at the bottom of a great sea. Over millions of years, carbon creatures died and drifted to the bottom of that sea and became preserved in silt. Layer upon layer of silt turned to stone and the fragile bodies of once living creatures...
Gran Quivera Salinas Pueblo Missions
Between Roswell and Mountainair, in New Mexico, there is enough open space to house millions of people, plus livestock. Land stretches from the road as far as you can see. Whether the planet is running out of space or just resources needed to support...
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