Putting Food By
I’m pretty sure chicken exceeds any other animal protein consumed in Central America, by a wide margin. This ‘chicken ranch’ was tucked just off the highway in Roatan, between the propane filler and a...
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PHOTO VIEW ACROSS GRAHAMS CAY‘If you like it here, don’t say anything’ one man told me, and so I’m telling only you select few, sotto voce. It’s sage advice here on Guanaja, where there seems a...
View ArticleCarnival of San Isidro
Back in La Ceiba, we arrived during one of the biggest events of the year, the week-long carnival of San Isidro, reputedly one million in attendance from throughout the country. It ended with a parade...
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PHOTO LINE OF COWBOYSI’ve never been to a rodeo ([from Spanish, from rodear to go around, from rueda a wheel, from Latin rota] says freedictionary.com), and maybe that’s still true despite the hours I...
View ArticleWHAT’S AFOOT IN GUANAJA
If you look at the chart of Guanaja, Honduras, the easternmost of the Bay Islands, you’ll see a series of ‘peaks’ in the one to three hundred-meter range. The highest point, Michael Rock Peak, logs...
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