This is the cathedral across the street from the Veracruz state government building and adjacent to the main city park. The photo at the right shows the portion of the building to the right of that shown at left.
There are a great many magnificent colonial building here, and they appear to be well maintained. I [...]
During my visit to Xalapa on my trip North I had been walking the streets of Centro for a few hours looking for apartments for rent, and hoping to not become lost in the process, when I spotted an “apartment for rent” sign hanging above the gate. I rang the bell and someone answered [...]
Daniel Levy has written a very interest opinion piece entitled “Ending the Neoconservative Nightmare”. Levy is no mere pundit, the guy has serious credentials.
Aside from noting that the “neoconservative approach has not been good for Isreal, Levy notes the strangness of Isreal’s alliance with the USA Christian right.
“Beyond that, Israel [...]
I do not have an internet connection in m apartment and do not plan to have one installed as I hope to not be there long. Consequently I am relying upon internet cafes, though there is an unsecured wireless network in the Centro area which I can use if I hang out in a particular [...]
I arrived in Xalapa Saturday afternoon at about 1:00 . The parking space nearest to myapartment that I could find was about 5 blocks away, next to the Hotel Xalapa and across the street from the Parque Tacajetes, a fairly large forested park in El Zona Centro.
I walked the few blocks to my dump [...]
Tomorrow morning I leave for Xalapa and new adventures, so I thought I should post a garden report.
Upon my return form my trip North, which covered about 8,000 miles, five Mexican states, and seven USA states, my garden was engulfed in a sea of weeds. Once I had removed the weeds this is what I [...]
Late last week I visited Ria Lagartos, a long, narrow estuary along the North Yucatan coast, nearer to Cancun than to Merida. Like Ria Celestun, which I visited in February, Ria Lagartos is located within a “Biosphere Reserve” that supports a number of fishing villages and is home to flocks of flamingos, cormorants, pelicans, many [...]
Last Saturday evening I had dinner at the El Cumbanchero restaurant with a number of friends, whom I will miss upon my move to Xalapa. From left to right, Ariel, Maria, Ana Belem, Federico, and Armando.
Ariel, Maria and Ana Belem operate the cocina economica from where Armando gets his lunch each day. Ana, [...]
Florida Senator Mel Martinez excuses the 1976 bombing of a Cubana airlines plane by Luis Posada Carriles, saying “without condoning any specific act of violence, there was a hostile state of affairs at the time.” He also says that “Cuba began the practice of hijacking airliners…” as if no one will read the New Yorker [...]
John Lennon And Me In Havana Park
He Didn't Have Much To Say
Header Photo
The header photo is of school children bouncing on the branch of a tree over looking the Vinales Vally in Pinar del Rio Cuba.
Welcome
As I proceed into my mid-life adventures, of travel and relocation, I intend to regularly post updates of my activities, subject to my ability to access the internet.
I also intend to post reminiscences, ruminations and editorial commentary on whatever subject is currently abrading a lesion under my saddle.
