Remembering “The Disappeared”
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo On our tour of Buenos Aires, we were taken to the Plazo de Mayo. This is a square in the center area of Buenos Aires near Casa Rosada. Casa Rosada is the pink building…
Are You Intensely Curious?
Are You Intensely Curious?
Category Travel
Mugging in Buenos Aires
-Sorry I haven’t written in a while. I struggle with writing to start with, and the mugging experience gave me writer’s block. In Argentina and Brazil, we were warned by Viking and local tour guides to leave jewelry back on…
Getting the Shore Excursions You Want
I mentioned in an earlier post that I had built a spreadsheet to track lots of things related to this long voyage. One of those things was to assess what shore excursions we wanted to take. Our goal was to…
Les Îles du Salut, French Guiana
Two of the islands in the Les Îles du Salut were used as a French prison. Îlse Royale held the main prison complex, the guards. And the home of the prison warden. Îlse du Diable was for the most challenging prisoners, and those…
Grenada
St. George’s, Grenada Grenada and my high school friend, Mike, are forever linked in my mind. This is my first visit to Grenada, but when I was in college, Grenada was on the news. I walked into the student cafeteria…