ClickToday we went on a tour of Panama City. We’ll talk about most of it in other posts. There was one place we visited, however, that would have been a huge hit with my dad. The Church of San Jose in Casco Viejo, or La Inglesia de San Jose, is one of the most prominent […]
ClickLanded in Panama City via Miami. We had a driver waiting for us, as it was 10:30 in the evening on Christmas Eve. Our hotel, the Magnolia Inn, is in the old town, or Casco Viejo, and we drove through miles and miles of high rise buildings to get there. We thought it strange that […]
ClickWe would be remiss if we did not express our gratitude for the generosity of our host in absentia in Quepos. Kevin’s place is named “Dos Palmas,” translated to “Two Palms.” Now the truth is that there are more than two palms on the property, but there are two that are worthy of having the […]
ClickA word about Quepos, the town in which we stayed most of the week. Quepos is a district and the capital of Aguirre canton in Puntarenas Province. The population is about 22,000 people. Although the town is about 60 km. south (in a straight line) from Costa Rica’s capital, San José, it is 157 km from that city by road, and the traffic was […]
ClickWe decided to go to the beach, so we asked Annie Lambert, a neighbor who helps out Kevin, (we’re at Kevin’s place), where to go. Annie did not disappoint. She found us a driver who took us to Playa Playita. When we were at Manuel Antonio yesterday, they claimed that Playa Numero Tres, the beach […]
ClickManuel Antonio is two first names. Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio is a small National Park in on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, just south of the city of Quepos. Established in 1972 with a land area of about 3 square miles (the smallest of any Costa Rican national park), it is the destination of as many as 150,000 visitors annually and well […]
ClickWe’re baaaack! Ellen and I, and our good friend Marlene, flew into Liberia, Costa Rica on the afternoon of Saturday, December 30th. It was 14 degrees below zero when we left MSP. Liberia had a high of 90 degrees the day we arrived. The sun set quickly, so we weren’t able to see much as […]
ClickOn the way to Door County from Little Compton we decided to drive through Sheboygan, Wisconsin. I was born and raised in Sheboygan. While I was in high school, I worked as a janitor at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. The job was much more than janitoring. I helped set up shows, was the […]
ClickHappy American Independence Day! Well, all good things must end. This will be the last post from Europe. From Oslo we fly via Reykjavik to JFK and Montclair, NJ where we establish a beachhead in North America. We didn’t have much time in Oslo, but we were able to walk up Karl Johan Gate to […]
ClickWe were recommended to check out Vigeland Park in Oslo. So we did. It is an impressive place, filled with tourists, primarily, it seemed, from Asia. Little did we know, as we walked through the place, that Vigeland himself was something of a Nazi sympathiser and that his works are sometimes considered to “reek of […]
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