To go to the top of the Statue of Liberty requires buying tickets months in advance. We had ours for today — which turned out to be the only day on our New York trip that was raining. Besides getting soaked, it gave us lots of photographs of the Manhattan skyline partially hidden in the […]
Exotic New York
Another day of wandering around New York City and running up record numbers on our pedometers. We have gotten used to seeing a lot of fresh fruits and flowers in Ecuador. New York has small corner stands throughout East Village, with everything just as fresh but having a more polished display. First target neighborhood was Chinatown. […]
The City of the Young
This was a long day of walking and subway-ing (I know it’s not a word, but we did it!) around New York City. We started by going to the 9/11 memorial where the World Trade Center once stood. It was massively impressive, with more buildings still going up. The internal display was extremely well done, […]
New York, Here We Come
We have spent the last couple of days in New Jersey, visiting with Zoya and Vladimir (friends we first met in St Petersburg, Russia in 1992), seeing the last of the Fall Colors, visiting the New York PhotoPro expo, and shopping for last minute items for Iceland. Today we moved to East Village in New […]
Always a Parade
As I have said before, Ecuadorians will start a parade at the drop of a hat, and for almost any reason. Apparently this applies to Peru too. We went in the town of Tumbes, and quickly came across these school kids preparing for a parade on the theme of ecology. Taxis in Cuenca are plentiful, but […]
A Free Lunch
Whoever said there is no such thing as a free lunch was obviously not thinking of blue footed boobies around a fisherman’s catch! The boobies would stand around the crates of fish being brought in by fishermen. As soon as the men turned their backs (with only a couple exceptions, they were all men), the […]
Dramatic Elevator Rescue
Today we embarked on a short trip to Northern Peru, traveling with Alberto and Maite Soriano. It started off on an exciting note — we were stuck in an elevator! We loaded up our small packs and camera bag and got in the elevator at 6AM to go down to meet Alberto and Maite. The […]
Lift Off!
Like many kids, I was enthralled with space exploration. I remember going outside at night to watch Sputnik go overhead in 1957. I saved extra copies of the newspaper when was I a paper-boy the day John Glen went around the earth in a Mercury capsule in 1961. And I actually helped design the mirror […]
Hit By Dragon Snot
Entering Hogsmead felt like Harry first showing up in town, not sure where to turn We are both fans of the Harry Potter books and movies, so when coming to Florida, we had to stop by and see the new Harry Potter World. We bought a two day pass to let us go to Adventure […]
Ringling Circus Museum
Sarasota, Florida was the home of Ringling Bros Circus, and now presents the Ringling Bros Art Museum. Upon entering, the first thing you see is a massive circus in miniature, covering 3700 square feet, reproducing in astonishing detail an early circus lot. The original circus would typically cover an area of 30 acres, requiring 1000 […]
