Yesterday was so much excitement with taking food to the outside of Yaurisque that Im exhausted today. After nine weeks of sitting on the couch, getting up early to go to the equivalent of Sams Club or Costco, then driving with the mayor of Yaurisque almost two hours from Cusco, then giving out food to over 200 families, all the way back to Cusco, was way more action than Ive had in nine It was im Read on...
Before we move on to the blog proper can we just acknowledge those events. Personally, except for the impacts of lockdowns and new precautions, and the need for Pip to take shielding care for health reasons - asthma - during the first lock down especially, we have been fortunate in our avoidance of the worst aspects of covid. No illness for ourself nor do we personally know of any family or friend Read on...
Aujourdhui, on se fait plaisir et on retourne voir deux des merveilles du parc national de Banff: le lac Louise et le lac Moraine. Nous y tions passs en septembre dernier, pour observer un lever de soleil plutt gristre et morose... Cette fois, cest drastiquement diffrent. Le soleil est de la partie et le ciel, dun bleu figurer sur une carte postale.On arrive au stationnement pour prendre le vers Read on...
According to mythology, when Lord Krishnas wife Rukmini requested her husband for the idol of Balkrishna, the child form of the Lord, Shri Krishna entrusted Vishwakarma with the task of designing the idol. Vishwakarma made a beautiful idol of Balkrishna with the holy saligrama stone and gave it to Rukmini for worship.
The idol, in the course of being worshipped by hundreds of devotees at Dwaraka Read on...
Visiting Stepantsminda means the obligatory visit to the Gergeti Trinity Church. It sits atop a mountain and stares down at anyone passing through the tiny town. While in the Khevi province, we spent our mornings, afternoons and evenings admiring it from afar as it caught the sunlight and hid behind the clouds. It only seemed fitting we make the trek to the top of the mountain to get a closer look Read on...
Het Marne kanaal dat parallel loopt aan de rivier de Marne. Dit kanaal is gegraven omdat de Marne rivier hier vrijwel onbevaarbaar is. Het is 67 km lang en is gebouwd van 1836 tot 1846. The Marne canal that runs parallel to the Marne river. This canal was created because the Marne river is not really navigable here. It is 67 kms long and was built between 1836 and 1846.
A short day today, 18.9 km Read on...
I had a nice drive up the Rio Pueblo Canyon in the Carson N Forest SE of Taos, New Mexico. I passed the Comalas pay Campground. In the 1980s I had a wonderful dispersed camp (on a very rough dirt trail) there by the Rio Pueblo, before the pay Campground was made. Now this is a great camp location, with few other campers, and a low National Forest camping fee. There are other nice forest service ca Read on...
We FINALLY made it here - Ive had my eye on this place, reading hearing friends rave about it, booking here in 2020, and again in 2021and were finally here. Milos, apparently the ‘next Santoriniwere just happy to be here NOW!!
Id also heard the horror stories about lost luggage in Athens airport and we were not holding out much hope of successfully making both flights with luggage in tow. It wa Read on...
Today is going to be a beautiful sunny day! Tom and I are later than usual starting off because we are not going too far – Palo Alto to be exact. Our mission today is to find an outfit for me to wear to my daughters wedding in five weeks time. For several weeks I have been searching for something suitable but without luck. Yesterday I spent several fruitless hours at the mall, but everything was Read on...
I am no real astronomer, but on the internet I saw that over a five day period the moon would be alligned with Saturn, Jupiter. Venus, and Mercury. (No chance I could shoot Mercury.) I could only tell the planets by their relative position with the sunset and the rising moon, as per the internet information. With my simple camera I could not shoot Saturn with its dim light though it was visible to Read on...