The Great Security State
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...
Bus Crash Taking out a retail shop
The last accident covered in Scott Treks was a rollover in Montevideo, Uruguay on the Rambla. In this case, in the Cuenca Historical District, by the time I walk to see what the crowd is about, the scene is just a crashed blue bus with its front end...
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,...
Andean Music Winay - from Otavalo, Ecuador
This band is from Otavalo, Ecuador and is playing on a corner by the Cuenca New Cathedral. Dressed in costume, the musicians play, sing, dance,and pose with a European tourist who wants his wife to take a photo of him playing an Andean pipe. Managers and...
Ecuadorian Zones differences in style, not substance
The Museo Pumapungo's second floor features exhibits on Ecuador's geographical zones. In one room is Amazon man with a blowgun who welcomes you into his jungle. Amazonian's dress light and move silent as the animals they pursue. They live in thatched...
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....
Protest Cuenca, Ecuador,December 4, 2015
When people are shut out from having a say about what happens to them, by those they have elected, protests are inevitable. Some protests move into chaos and violence,some are contained, others are snuffed out like the tip of a burning candle. I make...
Who is in charge here? sign of our times
There is political and social unrest around the world. This protest in Parque Calderone centers around recent Constitutional Amendments approved by the National Assembly in Quito. Ecuador has a representative democracy and it is written in their...
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....
Is a Church More than its Members? Belize Satellite
This church rents a shut down movie theater on Sundays for two services -8 :30 and 10:00 am. The mother church is in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Sagebrush, I have been told by an Albuquerque friend who is a member, is on Albuquerque's west side and...
Break and Enter Belize locked out of Number three unit
Lodgers left and leave the only key where Jack can't find it. " I only have one key, " Jack explains, as he takes a hammer and knocks apart the dead bolt. " I don't want to be accused of taking any ones stuff. " It only takes a few seconds of hammering...
Dogs and Birds-Belize Morning walk
Dog lovers often bring their dogs on vacation with them. This little guy runs down the beach and his owners tell us, as we pass them, that he will swim out to get birds all the way to the end of the pier. Down the beach, only moments ago, Rabbit and I...
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