Below, where we looked at the black volcanic sand that covered the Barriles Panama village so long ago, Edna was telling a story about a UFO in the mountains near the volcano... "...we saw one just out there...one afternoon...all…
The Quetzales Trail Panama connects the town of Boquete to the town of Cerro Punta along the edge of the Baru Volcano, the highest mountain in Panama at 11,398 feet. The trail cuts through the cloud forest along the Talamanca…
Miraflores is the name of one of the three locks that form part of the Panama Canal and the name of the small lake that separates these locks from the Pedro Miguel locks upstream. In the Miraflores locks, vessels are…
At the top of the island of Isla Grande Colon the French built a lighthouse in 1893. De Lesseps meant the lighthouse to be one of the guiding markers to help ships find the canal and his partner Gustave Eiffel…
These gentlemen were enjoying a Friday evening beer after working on a carnival float for the big festivities next month. I spent the afternoon walking around the Casco Viejo area of Panama City - a World Heritage Site. ##
It is a little difficult to think of more perfect weather : Very warm but not hot, humid but not oppressive, a light breeze off the sea, blue sky with just a few puffy clouds..... An easy walk from Bridge…
I was rather heartbroken when I left my kids at the train station on a drizzly morning in Vasa, Finland at the end of March. They were flying home to New Mexico. I was flying south to Toulouse, France. 2011…
I visited the Söderfjärden on a warm, rainy August morning. The ten kilometers of road south from Vasa were perfectly clear except for two fearless foxes moving from one stand of Red Pine to the other. I had spent the previous several days in Finland's…
Its cloudy and -7 Celcius here in Taos, New Mexico as I write this with five inches of fresh snow on the ground. Snow in Taos is most welcome. Over the past few months we've hardly seen a cloud. Skin…
Every winter, just a week or two before the solstice Taos, New Mexico hosts one of the most entertaining and beautiful holiday-season events around: The Lighting of LeDoux. It all started in the way-back before the Spaniards ever set foot…
This is the place to spend your Saturday morning in Santa Fe, New Mexico. My friend Maria Elena and I took the five minute stroll over to the Santa Fe Farmers Market at the the re-furbished rail yard area from where we…
There is nothing better than a good mystery. Many times, a mystery reaffirms faith in a larger power. But, what happens when there is no actual mystery? The author Willa Cather based her masterpiece Death Comes for the Archbishop on…
