We have begun to get settled into Honolulu, and establishing our routines here. One of my personal routines is membership into the Eyes of Hawaii camera club here. At the request of members, I have created a couple of narrated slide shows. The most recent slide show, that will be shown at the end of […]
Cuenca New Year’s Eve 2022
It’s a New Year – Let’s hope the world can make the most of it and recover! A year ago was the first New Year’s Eve in more than a decade that we did not even create a blog post, because we were all locked down in our homes, to avoid further overloading hospitals with […]
Cuenca – Pase del Niño Parade 2021
This year’s parade was like no other before it… and yet it was exactly the same. Read on to see why… In 1823, the Vicar of the Archdiocese of Cuenca took a doll of the baby Jesus to various Holy sites around the world. The pope blessed the doll when it went to Rome. This […]
Cuenca – Festival de Luces 2021
Every year, shortly after sunset on December 7, families gather in front of the Santo Domingo church, and light more than 5000 lanterns in honor of the Our Lady of the Rosary. This is the 88th anniversary of the coronation of the “Morencia Virgin of the Rosary” as the patron saint of Cuenca (our city) […]
Cuenca – Return to Ecuador
After six months in our new paradise home of Hawaii, we returned to our second home in Cuenca. We were in for a series of surprises though… As we arrived at the Honolulu airport, I realized that I had forgotten my glasses. Oops. I was nearly blind for the remainder of the trip to Cuenca, […]
Cuenca Day 20 Lockdown
Along with much of the world, we have been put under “Shelter In Place” restrictions since March 17th, 2020. Today is Day 20 of the lockdown for us in Cuenca, and the current projection is for this to continue through April 30th. Ecuador has taken this very seriously, and has put the entire country under […]
Carnaval Cuenca 2020
When we first arrived in Cuenca in February 2012, we had high expectations for Carnaval. Instead, we found a sleepy town that was mostly shut down, as residents went to the coast or the mountains for the week. Festivities in Cuenca were limited to roaming kids with squirt guns or water balloons. The city has […]
Cuenca Artists Celebrate Cafe Reopening 2020
More than 120 people packed the inside and outside the Casa Azul cafe to welcome the new owners, Jose and Vivi, as they reopened a favorite artist’s haunt originally created by Gregory Kluyskens, a charismatic Belgium entrepreneur. Everyone was asking how we could display 6 artists in such a small gallery. When the furniture was […]
Cuenca New Year’s Eve 2020
How can it be 2020 already? This was a date in the mist of the far off future. The one with flying cars, life expectancy extended to age 150, robots doing laundry, self-driving cars and permanent moon colonies. Yet here it is, and even more amazing, we’re alive to see it! It’s hard to imagine […]
Pase del Nińo Viajero 2019
Christmas Eve is always the biggest event of the year for Cuenca. The parade is called “Pase del Nińo Viajero” or “Passage of the Traveling Child.” This parade has been held every year since the late 19th century. The main guest of honor is a small sculpture of Jesus, that was made in 1823, then […]
