Shop ’til You Drop
Cheap for Who? Granada, Nicaragua
A trip to the grocery in a foreign country can be setting yourself up for shock treatment. There are items in the grocery here that are less than what I pay at home, but many items are far more expensive. In a country where the minimum wage for a working...
Panama Hat from Ecuador a traditional Ecuadorian craft
Panama hats have oddly enough always been made in Ecuador. From the 1600's, the weaving of hats out of the leaves of the toquilla palm has been done, at it's finest level ,on the western coast of Ecuador. These best hats are called Montecristo's and are...
Karana – House of Chocolate Equadorian export
Chocolate is a money maker for Ecuador. Karana is a Cuenca chocolate shop that uses only the best chocolate ( arriba) and makes their own delights in a kitchen in the back of their showroom. This business is located at the intersection of Guayas and...
Public Mercado down Gaspar Sangrimuno from Luis Cordero
In the historical district are public mercados where vendors sell fruits, vegetables, meats, fish, and sundries from little stalls inside huge open buildings. There are modern groceries in Cuenca but visitors, and locals, like to shop in this old...
Dorado Panaderia In the Cuenca Historical District
If you like strolling empty sidewalks with little traffic, and only a few walkers, seven in the morning is good in Cuenca, Ecuador. It is a downhill jaunt from the end of Munoz Luis Cordero to the Parque Calderone. There are many General streets in this...
La Taqueria street food
There is street food in San Pedro Town. This little enterprise, " La Taqueria ", opens at seven thirty each morning on Coconut Street where the road turns towards the Average Joe Bar and Caribbean Fuels gas station, and turns again past the S & P...
Captain Shark’s Going Fishing
The ocean is a grocery store. At the end of piers, the tips of jutting land, on bridges or banks, in small boats and large, men shop for dinner. Early today three men are casting from the end of a pier at sunrise. They have been up all night and one...
Headless Horseman Shopping
It isn't here yet but Halloween is galloping down the road and the headless horseman will soon be here. New Mexico and Mexico have much in common this time of year as our town celebrates both Halloween and Dia De Los Muertos or " Day of the Dead. " There...
Shopping at ” 99″ Chinese shopping
If it crawls, slides, slips, flips,slithers, climbs, it is not safe. At "99", in Albuquerque, there are selections to fit Chinese tastes. Today, Ruby has a taste for seafood, and, lifting up a black cloth, she goes after blue and white colored...
Railway Market Sax Therapy
On Sundays, during warmer months in Albuquerque, an old train barn opens its huge metal doors to the public. Vendors set up inside to sell their produce, art, clothes, soaps and lotions, health food, get signatures for green projects and alternative...
Russell’s Travel Center Blast to the Past
Russell's Travel Center sits on a New Mexico hill just before the Texas/ New Mexico State Line. It is close to Endee, one of those almost vanished New Mexico towns that shrink smaller and smaller as time barrels forwards. At Russell's you can gas up,...
Hillsboro General Store The old west in a new century
The General Store and Cafe is not really a General Store. You can't buy barbed wire, bullets, hard candies scooped from an oak barrel. There aren't bags of flour to load into wagons, fishing hooks or Doctor Edward's best elixer to cure aches and pains in...
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