Places to Go & Things to See

Tulum Beach in the surf

Tulum Beach in the surf

    The surf rumbles all day and all night. Where water meets land, long white capped waves roll over, roll under, and roll onto the land like conquerors. There are high and low tides and thin legged birds kick bubbles left by the waves like Colombian soccer...

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Holy Water San Xavier Mission - Tucson

Holy Water San Xavier Mission - Tucson

    After Spanish explorers conquered Central and South America, they scoured the present states of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Utah and Nevada searching for lost cities of gold. Motivated by faith, Spanish priests established missions for the...

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Bomb’s Away Pima Air Museum, Tucson, Arizona

Bomb’s Away Pima Air Museum, Tucson, Arizona

    The Pima Air Museum is an equal opportunity museum. It has fighter planes, bombers, helicopters, experimental dreams, cargo planes, There are hangers filled with donated airplanes of every vintage, staffed with volunteers, and a large open field where...

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Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum Side Trip

Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum Side Trip

    The best way to understand the Sonoran desert is to drive to the end of a dirt road, take no water or matches, leave your phone in the car, don't tell anyone where you are, wear light clothes and no hat, and hike till you get lost. The second best way to...

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Riverbend Hot Springs Hot Soak

Riverbend Hot Springs Hot Soak

    In the downtown historical district of Truth or Consequences, hot springs bubble to the surface. In old days dusty cowboys would hang their chaps on mesquite branches and swap stories with Indians who hung their moccasins on adjacent branches to look...

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Nicaragua Primitive Art Solentiname

Nicaragua Primitive Art Solentiname

    There are only three countries in the world that have a primitive art movement. One is in Haiti, another is in Yugoslavia, the last is in Nicaragua. In the southern part of Nicaragua are a group of 26 islands in a province called Solentiname. A Catholic...

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History Lesson Baby Steps

History Lesson Baby Steps

    In the San Francisco Convent Museo are a series of paintings that chronicle Nicaraguan history. The paintings start with aboriginal peoples who first inhabit lands before they are claimed by anyone but God. Then paintings move, in  book style,...

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Ann’s Studio In the Cafe De Arte

Ann’s Studio In the Cafe De Arte

    Ann's art studio is also a gallery, a meeting place, a classroom, a resource of information, a great place to pick up a brush if you have an itch. Studios, as opposed to galleries, are works in process. There are finished and unfinished compositions on...

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Colonial Homes Granada Old and New

Colonial Homes Granada Old and New

    The Historical District is deceptive. Walking narrow streets and sidewalks, you meet massive walls and sturdy doors, wrought iron,sturdy secure steel gates. When you peek through cracked doors, or open windows, you are surprised with glimpses of cozy...

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Vegetable Barley Soup at El Garaje Restaurant

Vegetable Barley Soup at El Garaje Restaurant

    When you ask locals where the best places to dine are, in Granada, El Garaje restaurant is one of the first to be mentioned. The first time I walked past the place, it didn't register as important. It was closed then because of an electrical outage but...

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Laguna de Apoyo between Managua and Granada

Laguna de Apoyo between Managua and Granada

    This Lagoon was formed 23,000 years ago after an explosion on one on Mombacho's bad hair days. It is fed by a number of surface and underground water sources and is one of the first Nature Preserves created in Nicaragua to preserve the country's natural...

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