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Karaoke Time Singing for fun

Karaoke Time Singing for fun

    In Belize, karaoke machines appear in bars and hotel ballrooms with guests wearing Wal-Mart pineapple and palm tree short sleeved perma-press shirts. They sing into late hours and consume vast quantities of rum. In Mogpog, karaoke machines appear in...

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Gran Cenote Mayan Fresh Water

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...

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Shuffleboard Masters On the front court

Shuffleboard Masters On the front court

    Shuffleboard is more cut throat than it appears. Before these players take a shot, they consult, put chalk on their hands,look at the weather, visualize their stride. You are the one responsible for propelling your disc down a slick, treacherous court....

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Train Station Rincon West Railroad

Train Station Rincon West Railroad

    Most people love trains. Just to the southeast of the main office at Rincon West RV Resort,in Tucson, runs the Rincon Railroad. Sitting on a little hill, train conductors sit in lawn chairs with wireless controllers and run their trains through their...

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Tournament Time Rincon RV - Resort, Tucson

Tournament Time Rincon RV - Resort, Tucson

    By eight in the morning, on a Saturday, a tournament is humming along. The game is simple enough. Each player has three discs and a stick. Each turn, a player pushes one of his disks down a slick court with his stick and tries to make his disc stop in...

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Riverbend Hot Springs Hot Soak

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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Maderas Beach going to the surf

Maderas Beach going to the surf

    The best surf is not in San Juan Del Sur. To reach any one of the best surfing spots north and south of SJDS you have to take a shuttle. For modest dollars, you load into trucks, jeeps, vans, and are driven through back country, down winding dirt paths...

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Baseball at the Lion’s Park Saturday morning in Granada

Baseball at the Lion’s Park Saturday morning in Granada

    When growing up, baseball was the national sport of the United States. We had the New York Yankees, a multi World Series winning team with a barn full of horses like Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Coach Casey Stengel and many others....

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Granada Swimming Hole Looking for a vine

Granada Swimming Hole Looking for a vine

    The Vista Mombacho Apartments are in a residential neighborhood in Granada. From the outside, their appearance is unspectacular, but, inside, the architecture, furnishings and decorations are nicely done. This pool courtyard is shaded and protected on...

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Found Key Rio Rancho Golf Course

Found Key Rio Rancho Golf Course

    We return our golf cart. The cart jockey is a tiny man wearing shorts, tennis shoes with big socks, a blue faded ball cap. There are four carts ahead of ours that he has to clean, toss trash, wipe down seats, check gas, and inspect. We use golf carts...

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Pompano’s and Whitey’s surf fishing on South Padre

Pompano’s and Whitey’s surf fishing on South Padre

    " Some days you do better in the boat and some days better on the beach, " the fisherman in coveralls tells us as he opens his cooler and shows us his Pompanos and Whiteys, game fish in this part of the Gulf of Mexico. The bottom of his cooler has five...

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