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Cattle Drive Heading for greener pastures
Granada is built on the shores of Lake Nicaragua. In olden days, the rich or famous of Managua came to the lake to relax with their families and built huge homes that go unused by heirs who have moved to the United States or other foreign lands for more...
Found Key Rio Rancho Golf Course
We return our golf cart. The cart jockey is a tiny man wearing shorts, tennis shoes with big socks, a blue faded ball cap. There are four carts ahead of ours that he has to clean, toss trash, wipe down seats, check gas, and inspect. We use golf carts...
Sea Turtle Rescue Center South Padre Island Drive
Sea turtles can grow to five hundred pounds and range widely over the world's oceans. They mysteriously return to lay eggs on the same beach where they were born and man has been one of their biggest enemies since their meat is tasty, their shells can be...
Sandcastle Art Mermaid and Dolphin
Sand is the most common material on the beach. While we walk on it, draw initials or hearts with arrows through them, there are those who use sand to sculpt fantastic visions. Outside Pier 19 in South Padre Island there is a sand sculpture. There is sand...
Fact and Fiction South Padre Island, Texas
South Padre Island is accessible from Texas highway 100 via the Queen Isabella Bridge that connects Port Isabel, Texas on one end and South Padre Island on the other. When you hit the beaches here you have miles and miles to walk and on most mornings men...
Burning Man couldn't wait till dark
This affair starts early. Usually, people wait till dark to do their exorcisms, but this bunch has already laid their body in the street in front of a business and are stuffing papers down its pants. In a world of camera phones, nothing goes un-noticed...
Angels and Demons Halloween revisited
Ecuador doesn't celebrate Halloween but they have New Year's Eve to take Halloween's place. Today there are bad spirits about. They are atop cars, seated in chairs in retail stores, looking down from balconies, slumped on curbs and grouped near churches....
Christmas Baby Coming out of the New Cathedral
On the 24th of December there is a massive Christmas parade through downtown Cuenca. On the 25th of December, the day officially celebrated as Christ's birthday, there is a much smaller and simpler celebration at the New Cathedral across from the Parque...
Adams family so closed up I can't get in
Walking, you see odd stuff. This Museo and Cafe is on a walkway, just down from one of the tortuous staircases that lead you from Cuenca's Historical District to the Tomebomba river. The first time I tried to visit this curiosity, its front door was...
Skeletons on the wall Seems like Mexico again
There is a lively street art scene in Cuenca. One can google Cuenca Street Art and find examples I haven't met yet. At an intersection where traffic moves from the Rio Tomebamba into the Historical District there are two skeletons on an exterior wall of...
Wedding Pictures A different kind of wedding
These two couples, just married, are getting their wedding photos taken in Parque Calderone. When I first see them they have, with them, a young bearded tenor sax player playing " Here comes the Bride " on a street corner. Their little photographer is...
Three odds on an even walk odd things stand out
There are surprises on walks, many of them small, many that will be missed if you are not in the right mind to see them. My first surprise this morning is horses in Calderone Park that kids can ride, pushed by a man. These equines roll easily on park...
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