Is it my imagination or are there wine and food festivals every weekend? There are wine auctions that raise money for local charities: Napa, (attended) Naples, Sonoma, (attended), and High Museum of Atlanta, etc. Then there are the biggies that …
Category: South and Central America
Oaxacan Center for the Rehabilitation of Hearing and Speech by Alvin Starkman
When the Cole-Gardner family recently vacationed in Oaxaca, Mexico, they brought along several basketballs, soccer balls and baseball gloves, to donate to indigenous children without ready access to such sports paraphernalia. They’d read this writer’s article about the opportunity to …
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Exciting LABRFF 2010 Stirred Up Recollections of Brazil by Barbara Singer
It’s been said a destination photo is worth a thousand words, so you can image a film is just like being there. The exciting Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival 2010 (LABRFF) stirred up recollections of my fabulous trip to Brazil …
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Puerto Vallarta in Sea Foam and Tolling Bells by Emma Krasov
Photography by Yuri Krasov The most popular destination on the Mexican Riviera caters to all tastes and satisfies all lifestyles. Tourists mingle with the locals on overcrowded sandy beaches of Bahia de Banderas during the day, and at dusk every …
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Las Alamandas The Shining Paradise by Emma Krasov
Photography by Yuri Krasov Emerald lawns, criss-crossed by the shadows of gently swaying coconut palms, and brightly colored villas in fuchsia, sunflower, and bluebell hues opened up like paradise after a two-hour drive from Puerto Vallarta airport through a dusty …
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Belize: Eco Lodge Preserves Wildlife by Terry Zinn
Belize, that little country south of Mexico off the Caribbean Sea, formerly called British Honduras, is a beautifully rustic, yet luxurious vacation retreat. When I had the opportunity to visit the Casa del Caballo Blanco eco lodge, I jumped at …
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Traveling With Grandparents: Through the Eyes of a Grandson by Tyler Hoch
Gazing out at the snow-covered pine trees in Washington, our phone rang. My Grandma and Grandpa invited me and my brother Kyle to vacation with them to Mexico. Mexico in December? We didn’t think twice. A few weeks later I …
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Dental Tourism in Beautiful Buenos Aires by Robert Painter
Did you ever wake up in the middle of a dream and discover that you were in a beautiful cosmopolitan city; your teeth were beautiful; you had learned how to Tango; the finest steak dinners in really nice restaurants were …
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Mexico’s Day of the Dead Celebration
During the time when many Western countries are celebrating Hallowe’en at the end of October, Latin countries are preparing for the festival El Dia de los Muertes, or Day of the Dead, which is October 31 and November 1. I …
Ecuador’s Equator by Mary Anne Lonze
Where can you stand with one foot in the northern hemisphere and the other in the southern hemisphere? How can you feel chilly standing at the Equator? Is that a real shrunken head? The answer to all of these questions …
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