Posts for July, 2008

July 18, 2008

“My Mountains” Revisited

Eventually I visited Puentarenas on the Pacific coast where I paid a visit to the shrine of a local folk hero and priest Fray Casiano, who had founded a learning centre for poor local children. I recorded this visit in my notebook and tucked in a picture of the man for a memento. What I [...]

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The Road to “The Andes”

I recall sleeping on the way south by the roadside up near Big Sur.  On the highway early the next morning, a horse and rider appeared out of the fog.  They were majestic, the rider wearing a knitted Peruvian cap with long ear flaps and pointed peak, gray-bearded, looking for all the world like a [...]

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