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Baseball at the Lion’s Park Saturday morning in Granada

Baseball at the Lion’s Park Saturday morning in Granada

    When growing up, baseball was the national sport of the United States. We had the New York Yankees, a multi World Series winning team with a barn full of horses like Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Coach Casey Stengel and many others....

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Parade Practice Following the drumbeat

Parade Practice Following the drumbeat

    My Mombacho apartment is a few blocks from a neighborhood school attended by kids in uniform, carrying backpacks. They learn reading and math in the morning. In the afternoon, they assemble in the street in front of their school and little drummer boys...

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Christmas Baby Coming out of the New Cathedral

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...

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Adams family so closed up I can't get in

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...

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Kids in the Spotlight Dancing in the xmas parade

Kids in the Spotlight Dancing in the xmas parade

    It warms adult's hearts to see children doing dances they did themselves when they were little. There is always concern by one generation that the following generation is going to hell,but traditions do get passed down and kept alive. These children are...

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Boys crossing the Rio Tomebamba boys will be boys

Boys crossing the Rio Tomebamba boys will be boys

    This morning there is a Christmas concert in progress across the Rio Tomebamba, in Cuenca, Ecuador. Two young boys have decided they aren't going to walk up or down the river to either of the bridges to cross so they roll up pant legs, leave tennis shoes...

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Performance Art Unintended Consequences

Performance Art Unintended Consequences

    By the New Cathedral, on a cloudy afternoon, these performers stand motionless. Then, they move and beckon to a little girl to pose for a photo with them with her mom. After the photo, they blow them a parting kiss and return to their rigid pose. They...

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Ronald McDonald For President 2016

Ronald McDonald For President 2016

    Ronald doesn't mind getting photographed. Just five minutes ago, two kids sat next to the icon eating fries and sipping Coca Cola. How is it that a clown can become the most famous person in the world? Ronald's only resume is red hair, crazy colored...

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New Generation At the Gazebo on a Monday night

New Generation At the Gazebo on a Monday night

    Ecuador has a new changing young generation. A still small number of its children have adopted the music, talk, style of other big city children around the world. There is graffiti in Cuenca. You see some tattoos, some ear piercings and dyed hair, torn...

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Little Girl Feeding Monkeys cute as a bug

Little Girl Feeding Monkeys cute as a bug

    We don't see any other monkeys on this trip. More might be here, but this is the only one who is tame enough and smart enough to meet the boat, take food from us tourists, and entertain for his bread and butter. He is a spider monkey and almost as cute...

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Tarzan Kids at play

Tarzan Kids at play

    In San Pedro Town this afternoon, after school, a couple of boys come up with their own game. Tarzan's jungle can be any place on the planet as long as there is a little boy who puts two and two together. One of the boys grabs one end of a dangling palm...

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