Category Archives: Cultural Focus

A story, tradition or experience relating to people in a particular place…

On a recent day trip from Santiago, Chile, I traveled an hour east to the Maipo Valley to ride with local arrieros (Chilean cowboys) and their beautiful horses in the Andes mountains. What a fabulous day!!! The Oldens, a British family who owns the ranch in El Toyo and operates Horseriding Chile, organized the excursion […]

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Later that same morning (see last blog entry Reflection of Lion’s Head) as we were about to leave this ocean pool, we saw a group of people gathering on shore, some with drums and some wearing red religious robes. So of course we stuck around.  It soon became clear that a baptism was going to take place. We […]

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  Ever wonder whatever happened to those giant statues of Communist leaders and exemplary workers that were scattered around Eastern Europe during Soviet occupation? Well, the statues that once lined important streets, intersections and squares in Budapest between 1947-1988 now stand in this park on the outskirts of town, just 15 minutes by car, bus […]

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On a recent trip to Warsaw, Poland, I  came across some incredible street art painted on the cement structures of the Lazienkowska underpass (a main thoroughfare for traffic east to west). Art is in the eye of the beholder… As are the many interpretations that each seems to portray…     Clearly the artist had a […]

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Hey, isn’t this the day the world will end–according to the Mayan calendar? Labna ruins, near Uxmal, Yucatan (shot with Lensbaby) There are people in panic mode all over the world. Special weapons are being sold, mountain passes are closing, and apocalypse kits are being snatched up as the countdown advances. Yet, apparently the Mayans aren’t afraid. […]

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