We woke up at 4 a.m. to make it to Machu Picchu, the sacred Quechua (Inca) city on the winter solstice, before the sun rose. We hiked up above the city and looked down on the temples as the sun crept steadily up over the mountains. As it crested,…
Walking around Lima... I actually recognized Kennedy Park, which is so much nicer now. And then we met Bianca and Pedro, who were feeding all the cats (yay!). Lots of paragliders flying so close to the cliffs. People dancing. Who knows what we'…
Every January, between 20,000 and 30,000 Catholic pilgrims journey into town from all over Central America to see the Black Christ crucifix at the church in El Sauce. He looks over the town every day from atop the church, which ALWAYS has the perf…
I'm adopting the Nicaraguan traditional campo/cowboy style because it's just so good. I've ordered a handmade leather belt with hand-hammered traditional designs in the back ... so it does not over-gawdy my silver belt buckle, which wa…
![Members of music groups from the countryside and El Sauce after their sets [https://wanderingkris.ghost.io/content/images/2014/Jun/KMD_7762-concert-1950s-word-1.jpg] yesterday went a little bit like this: •go in pick-up to help pick up and set up…
In the 1500s, Hernandez de Cordoba and other Spanish conquistadors came to Nicaragua, and well, conquered it as conquistadors do. Nicaraguan mestizo people created a traditional play with characters that represented the Spaniards and also native p…
I took some photos around the house today. Alé and Marcelo trying to get the pet parrot, Chocoyito, out of the backyard tree, some of the mangoes that drop off the tree and onto the tin roof at night and scare the crap out of me because it sounds…
Last night while it was raining so hard I couldn't run down the street with my computer and camera, I flipped on the TV in Xiomara's house and landed in 1950s America. The Rebel Cats "Mala Influencia" [https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Nicholas is a walking movie poster. I took this while he was watching his wife teach students how to make tortillas on a tour for the eco-tourism cooperative in Las Minitas.…
