In depth recounting of my global wandering
The Abá (Guaraní). Guaraní is the common term used to identify the people indigenous to the area in and around Iguaçu. It’s generally believed that they are culturally related to the Tupi who settled in the Amazon rainforest around 900 …
If this blog was something other than a vanity project, this entry would likely be the shortest in its history. It would read something like this: We left Rio Saturday morning, took the two-hour flight to Foz do Iguaçu, left …
Another city, another city of the dead. Those of you who have, through this blog, joined me on my global travels are probably acutely aware of my penchant for visiting cemeteries. Beginning with my visit with Erin nearly six years …
And now we return to our regularly scheduled programming. Although he had won the competition, da Silva Costa’s original idea of Christ holding a cross in his right hand and the world in his left was sometimes ridiculed. People called …
At the end of the previous post, I noted that I’d initially considered calling it “The night of the singing cabbie.” Additional events of that evening led to another possible alternative title for that post. I’ve already mentioned the market …