Mother Nature Saddles Up
Gran Cenote Mayan Fresh Water
There is water wherever you look, but it tastes salty and won't take away your thirst. Water falls from the sky, but, on land flatter than a tabletop, it doesn't run into rivers and down into the sea. Water seeps into the ground and collects in...
Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum Side Trip
The best way to understand the Sonoran desert is to drive to the end of a dirt road, take no water or matches, leave your phone in the car, don't tell anyone where you are, wear light clothes and no hat, and hike till you get lost. The second best way to...
Cactus Saguaro paradise
Cactus and the desert work together in Arizona like salt and pepper. Inside the row after row of RV's, park model homes, clubhouses and accessory buildings, swimming pool and hot tub, pickle ball and tennis courts, are varieties of cactus. There are...
Riverbend Hot Springs Hot Soak
In the downtown historical district of Truth or Consequences, hot springs bubble to the surface. In old days dusty cowboys would hang their chaps on mesquite branches and swap stories with Indians who hung their moccasins on adjacent branches to look...
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Thirty seconds at shoreline of Laguna de Apoyo, Nicaragua, mid morning. https://youtu.be/LYx6V0DH8eQ
Laguna de Apoyo between Managua and Granada
This Lagoon was formed 23,000 years ago after an explosion on one on Mombacho's bad hair days. It is fed by a number of surface and underground water sources and is one of the first Nature Preserves created in Nicaragua to preserve the country's natural...
San Jun Del Sur, Nicaragua one reason people show up
In the heat of the day, the beach in San Juan Del Sur is almost unoccupied. There are few people walking its length, even fewer walking into the surf too cool off. Waitresses and waiters stay under their canvas roofs and swat insects with menus. Dogs...
Bromelias in Mombacho Hiking the rain forest trail
Mombacho Volcano is only two thousand feet above sea level but it has a commanding presence. From the Vista Mombacho Apartments, as well as most places in Granada, you can see its summit with its halo of clouds, a reminder that we live on an active...
Fumeroles Mombacho Volcano
Nearing the end of our trail, Jose takes a side trek to show us fumeroles. At this spot, the Earth's breath is moist and hot. There is a steady updraft of steam in columns as if it was squeezing up between clenched teeth. If you believe in dragon's, you...
Don’t eat the red berry In the rain forest
It is always good to hear about red berries. Walking in this rain forest we are truly in a different world within our world, surrounded by green, the smell of decomposing plant life, the sounds of unseen animals. The city, though not far away, is...
Mombacho Volcano a mile and a half hike
The last time Mombacho erupted was in the 1500's. It is a strato volcano and deposited lava in its last explosion for miles around its base. The rich volcanic soil around the volcano is a bonanza for coffee, rice, and bean plantations that cover the...
” It Looks Like Hell” Masaya Volcano, outside Managua, Nicaragua
The three hundred foot rock walls of the crater go straight down as if a giant using a post hole digger, dug a hole for a fence post and then walked away without filling it. Light on the sides of the walls is the color of the fire in the bottom, and, at...
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