Hacienda, Henequén & Hipil
Hacienda, henequén and hipil: three Spanish words that begin with the letter H. For starters, the letter H is silent in Spanish and when speaking Spanish, unless there is an […]
Tag Archives: animals
Exploring Beverly Cleary’s Portland
It started simply enough with a library book. But that little book led me down a rabbit hole on to an amazing journey – all of it in my own […]
An American Toddler in Paris
I was surprised by the strange and unusual emotion I was feeling. I had just dropped off my family at the airport. This time, I was the one staying home; […]
Thailands’s Tiger Kingdom
I loved Born Free, a 1966 British film of the true story of an orphaned lion cub raised by humans to adulthood, taught to hunt, and eventually released to live […]
Faces of Perú
Faces of Perú: Beautiful, honest, proud, patriotic, industrious, inquisitive, friendly and welcoming. The main reason we traveled to Perú this summer was to participate in a week-long convention in Cajamarca […]
Alpaca My Bag…and Go To Perú
On our bus journeys through dry high antiplano country and nature preserves it has been exciting to see both wild and domesticated herds of South American camelids: llamas, guanacos, vicuñas, […]
Making Friends Around the World
Conversation-starved world travelers find a listening ear among the animals. A few moments with a dog in Vilcabamba, Ecuador. Good Morning! Mind sharing a few crumbs? (Romania) Keeping my distance, […]
Meet You In The Morning 