Cementerio de San Francisco and other Thoughts
No logic in death!! Cemeteries are fascinating places: warehouses of history, with memorials displaying architecture for the After Life in memory of those buried within …
South/Central America
The Oswaldo Guayasamin Museum & Home
CAPILLO del HOMBRE and FUNDACION GUAYASAMIN. “Don’t leave Quito until you have visited Oswaldo Guayasamin’s Museum and home, ” I was told three weeks into …
Letter from Quito, Ecuador – CENTRO HISTORICO
I am staying in a Posada on a narrow cobblestone street, a five minute walk from the Independence Plaza, also known as the Grand Plaza, …
Letter From QUITO – La Posada Colonial
If you want authentic, this is it!! If you want the Hilton or The Four Seasons this is not it…………. but it is a wonderful …
Quito: Casa Gangotena
QUITO – Casa Gangotena I walked. And walked. And walked some more around the Old Town and each time, I would stumble on something I …
Letter from Bogota — The Capital of Columbia and a City of Eight Million People
Bogota has been on my “to do” list since earlier in the year when I had visited Medellin in Colombia. I had read that Bogota …
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COFFEE TOUR OF JARDIN, COLOMBIA
MY FRIEND, LUCAS While I was a student at Centro Interactivo de Espanol, I stayed with a family in Envigado (suburb of Medellin). Lucas, who was …
LIVING IN EL CANGREJO, PANAMA CITY, PANAMA
Some time ago, my travel blog of four years was hacked and totally destroyed. Fortunately, one of my friends had saved all of the blogs …
Arriving in Panama City
Phylonthego.com was a four-year travel Blog that was hacked, covering my travels in South and Central America and the United States. In a nanosecond, it disappeared …