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 […]
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 […]
Carlos Slim is the richest person in Latin America and the 16th richest in the world according to Wikipedia. In Mexico City he built a modern building to house his […]
On a sunny warm Sunday afternoon we took a stroll around Alameda Central Park and stopped in at some palaces that were on the “must see” list. Mexico City is […]
Two volcanoes stand guard over the city of Puebla: the symmetrical cone of Popocatépetl rises to an elevation of 17,930 feet and Iztaccíhuatl, 10 miles north, with three summits, the […]
The desire to travel new places can blind us to the beauty around us and the “Beauty in the Mundane.” No matter where you live there is beauty to behold […]
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 […]
Business took us to Salem last week. Traffic took us home on an alternate route. We got off of I-5 and took a more scenic route home. In the past, […]
The very first Olympic Games were held at Olympia, Greece in 776 BC and held every four years until 393 AD, a period of 1169 years. The duration of the […]
A is for Alpha, Attica, Athens, Acropolis, Agora, Archeology, and my aching feet. There are layers and layers of many millennia of history, legend, myth, culture, art, religion and war […]
Day Two: We rode the Subway Uptown to Columbus Circle, walked through Central Park and down 5th Avenue, seeing Trump Tower, several churches, Rockefeller Center, and Times Square. That evening […]