So you’ve got time to kill in Nassau and want to do something besides eat, drink or shop? Here’s your best option: The Pompey Museum of Slavery and Emancipation. Located in the aptly-named Vendue building – French for ‘sold’ – the museum is rightly described as a Bahamian national treasure, an important symbol of how –… Continue reading
For the Window Seats and In Transit series, here’s a gallery of 12 images snapped on Monday during American Airlines flight 4769, a quick hop from the Bahamian capital Nassau to Miami, south Florida’s international hub that’s home to the least transit-friendly airport I’ve experienced in the post-9/11 world. It started out well. Immigration went… Continue reading
I stepped into the cab at the intersection of Carrera 10 and Calle 4, one of Bogota’s many blurred frontiers between civility and third world urban reality. In heavy traffic, it’s about a 15 to 20 minute ride to the skyscrapers and modern high-rise apartments and shopping malls of the centro internacional to the north,… Continue reading
There are three toilet stalls in the men’s room of Cali’s Alfonso Bonilla Aragon International Airport’s international departures terminal, none of which have toilet seats. But one of the police rooms just beyond security has a state of the art x-ray machine through which one can see virtually every orifice of the human body. From my… Continue reading
Briefly chasing a Herring Gull in an afternoon chill.
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There’s a lot to like about PROJECT: ICE, a new feature length documentary about the Great Lakes of North America. It’s part history, part folklore and part geology lesson, all framed by the ice that created the lakes – and impact its disappearance is having on them.
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When I was in Ecuador last year, I posted a brief summary of how a loophole in Ecuadoran law allowed fishermen to legally sell sharks that ended up in their nets. While shark fishing is officially outlawed, the law didn’t clearly define a distinction between landings that were accidental or intentional, which meant that plenty… Continue reading
Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus) in Argentine Patagonia.
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About a year and a half ago, CNN correspondent Bruce Holmes came up with a list of 10 of the world’s most beautiful cemeteries. Purely by happenstance I visited two on his list within 13 days of one another; the second of the pair, the municipal cemetery in Punta Arenas, Chile, just 15 days before his… Continue reading
Manta, Ecuador – Shark fishing is illegal in Ecuador but a loophole allows fisherman to legally sell sharks that end up in their nets. The law doesn’t define a distinction between landings that are accidental or intentional, which generally means that sharks are plentiful among the morning catch fisherman unload on beaches throughout the coast.
If this scene reminds you of what the edge of the world might look like, it’s because it’s close. This is the view over Lapataia Bay at the southeastern corner of Tierra del Fuego National Park, a body of water that extends towards the Beagle Channel which itself leads towards the Southern Ocean north of… Continue reading
Visiting El Ateneo, a majestic former theater converted into a gorgeous bookstore in downtown Buenos Aires, really was on my List of Things to See Before I Die. Does that mean I’m now really one step closer?