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Gulliver's Travels  03/20/2023

3/20/2023

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Ten National Parks and Other Wonders
Oct - Nov 2022

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   In October and November my Brazilian friend and I took a six-week trip touring national parks and other beautiful natural areas, from the Great Smokies in Tennessee to as far west as Antelope Canyon near Page, Arizona.  We drove over six thousand miles in my Toyota Tacoma, often sleeping in the back that had a camper shell.  We visited ten national parks, three national monuments, and some state parks.  Utah and Colorado were seen most extensively.

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Great Smokies National Park in Tennesse
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Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas
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White Sands National Park in New Mexico
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Taos Pueblo in New Mexico
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Cemetery at Taos Pueblo
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Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park in Colorado
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Rocky Moutain National Park in Colorado
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Bowtie Arch near the Colorado River in Utah
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Corona Arch, near Moab, Utah and the Colorado River
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The Colorado River, near Canyonlands National Park.
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Fisher Tower, near Moab, Utah and the Colorado River
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Delicate Arch in Arches National Park in Utah
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Landscape Arch at sunrise , 306-feet wide, in Arches National Park in Utah
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Double Arch in Arches National Park in Utah
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Dinosaur tracks near Moab, Utah
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Dead Horse State Park, overlooking the Colorado River in Utah
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Mesa Arch in Canyonlands National Park in Utah
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Newspaper Rock, indigenous petroglyphs near Canyonlands National Park in Utah
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West Mitten and East Mitten in Monument Valley in Utah
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Lower Antelope Canyon near Page, Arizona
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Upper Antelope Canyon near Page, Arizona
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The Toadstools in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah
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Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
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Grosvenor Arch in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah
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Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado
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Great Sand Dunes National Park
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Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado

Epilogue

   This was a long, long trip, and most of these scenes I had seen before--but I never tire of them, especially those in my favorite state, Utah.  I sort of wish my great grandparents had continued moving west after emigrating from Poland to Newton in the 1860s, and instead, settled in Utah.  But I suspect that the Mormons would not have been too receptive to Catholics.  Speaking of Poland, I'll be visiting my ancestral family farm there in April, where my third cousin operates the farm.
  
   The next Gulliver's Travels will be from our trip to Guatemala last December.  Stay tuned.

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Gulliver's Travels  01/30/23

1/30/2023

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Canadian Rockies
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September 2022

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​​   I had been to the Canadian Rockies before, but they deserved another viewing.  Plus, I wanted better photos.  However, the best camera in the world could not cut through the thick smoke from the numerous forest fires in the area.  I visited five national parks in Alberta and British Columbia.  On my way home I also visited Glacier National Park in Montana and Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota.
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Mt. Revelstoke National Park in moderate smoke
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No, that is not a fire, just the setting sun.
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Natural Bridge in Yoho National Park.
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A beautiful waterfalls in Yoho National Park
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On a rare clear day in Jasper National Park
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The Columbia Icefield has receded a mile since 1942.
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In Jasper National Park at sunrise
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In Jasper National Park
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Famous (smoky) Lake Louise in Banff National Park
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Moraine Lake in Banff National Park
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In Kootenay National Park
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In Kootenay National Park
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Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park in Montana
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In Glacier National Park
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St. Mary Lake in Glacier National Park
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A snowy morning in Glacier National Park
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   The glaciers are melting--and fast.  So, go see them in the Canadian parks as well as in our own Glacier National Park in Montana.  But even without ice and snow, all the seven parks I visited are very spectacular.

   Next up, my six-week trip from Tennessee to Arizona, plus Utah and Colorado, including ten national parks and lots of other neat places, accompanied by my Brazilian friend.

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Gulliver's Travels  10/10/2022

10/10/2022

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France
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April 2022

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   In April I took a short trip to France, mainly to see the WWII beaches of Normandy.  Also in the province of Normandy is the famous abbey of Mont-Saint Michel.  It's a small island off the Atlantic coast that becomes an island twice a day when the tide comes in.  Everyone has seen photos of it, on numerous calendars and in books.  So, of course, I just had to see it myself.  After Normandy I took a brief tour of the province of Brittany, then drove as far south as the city of Bordeaux before heading northeast to the city of Chartres.  
 I also wanted to see Paris again, as that city is one of my favorites in the world.  It has so many iconic sites, with such an incredible history, both good and bad.


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   Following WWI, in 1919, Nora Bayes had a hit song, "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em' Down on the Farm Once They've Seen Paree.?"  The provincial and "socially backward" farmer Doughboys were supposedly impressed by the sights and lights of glamorous Paris.  I can see why, as I was a bit of a "socially backward" farm kid from Newton--though the sights and lights of Manitowoc didn't wow me as Paris did when I first saw it in 1983, and again in April.

   Remnants of a hunter-gather village from 8,000 B.C., has been found there.  The Romans established the city of Lutetia there in 52 B.C.  After they left, Paris became Christian.  It really became an impressive city with the structures built during the reign of King Louis XIV beginning in 1661.  Things generally went well until they all fell apart in 1789 when the French Revolution ended the monarchy, for a while at least, resulting in the cutting off of the heads of King Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antionette.  Napoleon Bonaparte, a military genius, became emperor in 1804.  He was deposed in 1814, but he raised an army to regain power in 1815, only to lose his empire for good at the famous battle of Waterloo.  Finally, for a while the Nazis did a little better, occupying Paris from 1940 until 1944, when Patton's 3rd Army booted them back to Germany.


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The Eiffel Tower is 894 feet high and was built in 1889.
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Notre Dame Cathedral was completed in 1345. It is now being repaired after the fire in 2019.
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The Arc de Triomphe, 162 feet high, was completed in 1836
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The Louve art gallery was completed in 1793.
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National Academy of Music or The Paris Opera
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Palace de Concorde, site of most guillotine executions
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Versailles Palace, begun in 1671, with 2300 rooms
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The Versailles gardens cover three square miles

Normandy and Brittany

   Normandy and Brittany are two provinces in the northwest of France, both being on the Atlantic coast.  The former, of course, is famous for having the beaches that were the landing spots for the American, British, and Canadian forces on D-Day, June 6th, 1944.  Normandy is also famous for the launching site of the conquest of England in 1066 by William the Conqueror.  Its most iconic view is of Mont-de-Michel, the abbey that seems to float on the sea when the tide is in.  
   Brittany was the last bastion of the Celtic tribes, and until recently its residents spoke their own language, a Gaelic-based one.  I did not hear anyone speaking it, though one man told me that he did.  


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View of the causeway from the top of the abbey
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Begun in the 6th and 7th Centuries, it became a monastery in the 8th Century.
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The Cloisters
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The dining hall
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A memorial on Omaha Beach
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A German bunker
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Sword Beach, where the British landed
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Bayeax Cathedral, near the Normandy beaches, built in 1077
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A windmill and a field of rape, used to make canola oil
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Over 3000 of these Carnac Stones at Menec were placed here from 4500-3000 B.C.
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Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres, 371 feet high
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Chartres Cathedral, built from 1194-1252
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Chartres Cathedral

Epilogue


   Henry Ford once famously said, "History is bunk."  Henry knew lots about building cars, but little about the value of studying history.  France has a few cars....but TONS of history, with plenty to keep even the most jaded traveler enthralled.  Go there and be enthralled.

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Gulliver's Travels  08/29/2022

8/29/2022

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​Argentina and Brazil 
​Part 3

February-March 2022

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                              Brazil
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   The last part of my trip was spent in the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba and along the Atlantic coast near the city of Florianopolis.  Curitiba is the hometown of my new traveling companion.  Florianopolis is a large city near Uruguay that would be an ideal place to spend the winter should I ever do as so many others of our age do--in Florida or Arizona.  I spent several days in a nice two-bedroom apartment with a large kitchen/living room, two blocks off the Atlantic coast beach for $30 a night.  There were plenty of nearby shops and restaurants, where meals cost only 35-40% of our prices.  The beach surroundings were some of the best I've ever seen, with many forested hills everywhere.  There are plenty of things to do, and it is safe and clean.  A huge bonus: being it is their summer, it is light until very late at night.  So, if I ever get old and need to escape the cold and snow, that's where I'm going.


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Museum of Oscar Niemeyer, architect of Brasilia--Curitiba
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Niemeyer Museum
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The Botanical Garden of Curitiba
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Squeezing juice out of sugar cane at a street stall
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Flowers of the tree named Handroanthus serratifolius, commonly known as Ipe.
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A government building in Curitiba
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On the tourist train Serra Verde Express to Moretas
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In the town of Moretas on the Atlantic coast
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Shops in Moretas
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   My month-long trip to Brazil and Argentina was quite unexpected when I walked into a restaurant/dance hall in Lafayette, Louisiana last December 30th.  All it took was for me to ask a woman to dance who hailed from
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Curitiba, Brazil.  Next, we will be taking a five-week trip in October and November to Nashville, the Great Smokies, and Lafayette--followed by tours of ten national parks from Texas up to Yellowstone, followed by the Black Hills and the Badlands. 
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  Next up in Gulliver's Travels will be my April trip to Paris and western France.

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Gulliver's Travels  08/08/2022

8/8/2022

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​Argentina and Brazil 
​Part 2

February-March 2022

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Part 2 - Iguazu Falls--Border of Argentina and Brazil

   Perhaps the greatest waterfalls in the world is Iguazu Falls (Spanish in Argentina), or Iguacu Falls (Portuguese in Brazil).  The Guarani indigenous group call it Iguazu, meaning great river.  The Rio Iguazu (the Argentinian name)  forms the border of Argentina and Brazil.  The falls is not the tallest, the most voluminous, or the most of anything else.  It is just so overwhelming in its entirety.  People generally take two days to visit it, as it is so spread out.  It is nearly two miles long when one adds up all its courses and channels.  It has 275 separate falls, the tallest being 270 feet high.  Many walkways allow visitors to walk above the river, especially on the Argentinian side.
   This was my second visit to the falls, the first being in February 2003 following my trip to Antarctica.  The water level was lower this time, but the falls were still spectacular.

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Looking north upriver, with Argentina on the right and Brazil on the left
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The Argentinian falls
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Garganta del Diablo, or Mouth of the Devil, is 2300 feet long, 490 feet wide, and 270 feet high
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The heart of Garganta del Diablo
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   If you wish to see an amazing waterfall, visit Niagara Falls.  If you wish to see a waterfall that is ineffable, visit Iguazu Falls.  No words of praise can do it justice.  It reminds me of the old Japanese saying, "Don't say something is beautiful until you've seen Nikko Temple."  That means that a high percentage of Japanese people would say Nikko Temple is the most beautiful place in Japan.  A person who did not visit Nikko Temple but who saw another fantastic place might describe it as beautiful--but only out of ignorance.  I saw Nikko Temple, so I know what the Japanese man of olden times meant.
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   Next up: Part 3 of Argentina and Brazil, which covers the city of Curitiba plus the Atlantic coast area near the city of Florianapolis.

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Gullivers Travels  06/20/2022

6/20/2022

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Argentina and Brazil     
​February-March 2022

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    My life took a bit of a turn on December 30th last year.  I decided to go to Lafayette, Louisiana, for six days and nights of Cajun & Zydeco music and dancing over New Year's.  Dorothy and I started going there in 1993, and we went there many times.  On day three, the 30th, I asked a lady to dance, and she said yes.  We hit it off well--and parted company -- 16 days later after touring LA.  Miss X (she requested that I not reveal her name until she meets people I know) planned to travel alone in Louisiana for five weeks.  She is a native of Brazil, but she has worked for many years in South Africa, Sweden, Israel, England, and Germany (where she has lived for the last 13 years).  After Louisiana, she had plans to go to Brazil for several months, where she still has a family.  About a week after I got home, she told me she was going to northern Argentina for a few weeks, touring the desert and a few wineries.  She asked me if I wanted to join her.  My options were no and YESSSS.  So, I flew to Curitiba, Brazil, to meet her.  After spending a week there, we first went to the famous Iguazu Falls, which is on the border of Brazil and Argentina.  Then we flew to Salta, Argentina.  We spent two weeks in Argentina, after which we flew back to Curitiba.  In all, we spent 32 days together.  The future for us is unclear, but more travel might be forthcoming.  However, several factors have to work out right for that to happen, so time will tell. 

   Argentina and Brazil will be presented in three parts, each posted several weeks apart.  The first part will be on Argentina, the second on Iguazu Falls, and the last on Brazil.  For the benefit of my readers, the original Spanish and Portuguez that I wrote it in will be translated into English.  Those of you who took Spanish at Lincoln with either Bill Berringer or Donald Diekelmann will, thus, not have to suffer trying to translate it yourself into English. 

​Northern Argentina

   After viewing Iguazu Falls on the border of Brazil and Argentina, my friend and I flew to Salta, Argentina on February 17th.  Salta is fairly close to both Bolivia to the north and Chile to the west.  We rented a car and drove on some very good and some very, very, very bad roads, almost always in high desert areas.  Many of the desert rock formations were stunning, the like which I had never seen before.  My friend is a wine aficionado, so we visited seven wineries, one of which is the highest winery in the world.  After weather in the high 60s and sun every day, we returned to Brazil on March 2nd.

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City cemetery of Cafayte
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A museum of indigenous people of northern Argentina
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In the Colalao Valley
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Portulaca flowers
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In the Calchanuies Valley
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Typical gravel road in the Calchanuies Valley
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A very old cemetery in the Calchaquies Valley
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A decrepit tomb with wooden coffins stacked inside
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In the Angastaco National Monument
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The Colonne Winery in Molinos
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A cactus very similar to Saguaro in Arizona
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A church in Cachi
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The Cachi cemetery
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The Andes Mountains in the distance
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A canyon just outside Pumamarca
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A Carnaval celebration in Pumamarca
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A Carnaval procession in Pumamarca
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A salt flat at 11,200-feet altitude

Epilogue


   I thought of a lot of places to travel to in my life.  However, by the end of 2021 it never occurred to me to travel to northern Argentina--to drink lots of wine with a wine aficionado, visit lots of quaint cemeteries with a cemetery aficionado, and visit deserts and salt flats with a new friend.  Here's hoping there are more pleasant surprises for me.  Maybe all I have to do is ask someone to dance.  Sure beats the frustration of a dating service--not to mention the cost.

​Dale

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Gulliver's travels  04/25/2022

4/25/2022

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​Part 3  Utah & Arizona--November 2021

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​Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona 
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     This 133-square-mile park is on Navajo Nation land in northeastern Arizona.  The floor of its deep canyon has been farmed by indigenous people for thousands of years, and it continues to be farmed today by their descendents.  This park of red sandstone cliffs was established in 1931.  The name Chelly is pronounced as "shay," one syllable and a long a sound.

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Spider Rock, about 800 feet high
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Farm fields are on the canyon floor.
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Near the entrance of the canyon
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An abandoned cliff dwelling
​Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona

   This very remote park is in southeastern Arizona, bumping up against New Mexico.  These rugged mountains were the stronghold of the Apache Indians until the 1880s, including Geronino and Cochise.  It was established in 1924 primarily to protect its many hoodoos and balanced rocks.  


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     Well, that's all folks--of Utah and Arizona.  I almost always drive there, just loving the area and the way out.  You might wonder why I spend so much time there.  Well, it is just so phenomenally beautiful.  The second reason is that every day I spend there is a day I do not have to take the chance of getting run over by some old driver in Florida, South Texas, or "Sun City and Environs"--not to mention "catching" old age from them.

     The next Gulliver's Travels will be of my February-March trip to southern Brazil and northern Argentina.  

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Gulliver's Travels  04/04/2022

4/4/2022

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​Part 2   Utah & Arizona--November 2021

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White Pocket, Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona

     White Pocket is a one-square-mile wonder within the 459-square-mile Vermillion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona, just south of the Utah-Arizona border.  It is part of the Paria (Pa REE ah) Plateau and is composed primarily of swirling formations of Navajo Sandstone.  It takes a three-hour-drive from Kanab, Utah by 4WD vehicle to reach.  It is only a mile away from The Wave, an even more famous formation requiring winning a lottery to visit.  I've already failed to win it three times.  I'll keep trying.

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Next up will be Arizona's Canyon de Chelly National Monument and Chiricahua National Monument--also cool places, so don't miss them.  Better yet, go see them in person.

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Gulliver's Travels  03/21/2022

3/21/2022

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Part 1:  Utah & Arizona--November 2021


​   You might be thinking, "Haven't I seen this one before?"  No, not quite.  Yes, I was in Utah and Arizona in January 2021 and posted a Gulliver's Travels of that trip.  But there is so much to see in Utah and Arizona that I thought it warranted another trip, so here it is.
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   It will be presented in three parts, each appearing in separate postings.  This first part will be of Utah, and it will have two sections, the first of Peek-a-Boo Slot Canyon and the second of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

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Peek-a-Boo Slot Canyon, Page, Utah
   
   A so-called slot canyon is a narrow channel cut through rock by a river.  The river channel is usually devoid of water, only wet after rains.  Utah and Arizona have many slot canyons of varying lengths and depths.  They invariably twist and turn due to the tremendous force of the rushing water and accompanying rocks and other debris that transform the relatively soft sandstone into intricate and beautiful formations.  As they are always narrow and steep sided, they are deadly when flash floods occur.
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The entrance to the slot canyon
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Ancient Indians carved footholds for climbing the canyon walls.
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The exit from the canyon
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​Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah

   This area is part of the huge Colorado Plateau, sandstone formations created over a 90-million year period in shallow seas.  Tectonic forces forced it to rise up to two miles in height 15-20 million years ago.  The Grand Staircase refers to a series of five smaller plateaus, each higher than the next, the first one being in northern Arizona and the fifth one being the Paunsaugunt Plateau, which contains Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah.
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Voodoos are strange rock formations with harder, slower-eroding rocks on top of softer, faster-eroding rocks.
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Part 2 and 3 of Utah and Arizona will follow in subsequent weeks--so hold your horses.
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Gulliver's Travels  01/31/2022

1/31/2022

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Eastern Canada
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   I remember very well in grade school being intrigued by Leif Ericson discovering what is now North America, specifically, the northern tip of Newfoundland.  In September I finally went to visit the site.  I flew to Burlington, Vermont and then drove first to Montreal.  Then I went to Quebec City and up the Gaspe Peninsula in New Brunswick.  After that, I toured Prince Edward Island before taking the ferry from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland.  Then I headed south for a brief trip through Nova Scotia, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
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​Newfoundland

​  Americans pronounce the name NEWfoundland, but its residents pronounce it NewfoundLAND.  Bet you never knew that.  But Leif (pronounced LEEF, not LIFE, but who knows how HE pronounced it) Ericson (also spelled Erikson) and the 35 men who landed there around 990 called it Vinland, owing to the many grape vines they found.  The flat marshy land they lived on until approximately 1050 was called L'Anse aux Meadows (I don't know what that means, so tell me if you know, but just don't show off).  Actually, they were not supposed to land there, as in attempting to sail from Norway to Greenland their ship got blown off course.  Serves them right for saving money by not buying a Garmin.  And why go to Greenland, a God-forsaken icebox?  Because back then it was much warmer there, so much that agriculture was practiced.  My question is: who got the blame for that "global warming," as the use of fossil fuels was minimal then.  I'm not taking sides on that issue, just wondering why it was not the icebox of today.  That, and what did the polar bears eat if the Arctic Ocean was likely ice-free in the summer and it was far harder to hunt seals.

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​New Brunswick and Nova Scotia

   In 1979 our whole family visited these maritime provinces, so I figured it was time to return.  I noticed just one change: the residents no longer speak with a strong Irish brogue.  The countryside is as beautiful as ever, thank heavens.
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Famous Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, on the Atlantic coast
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Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, is an old fishing town on the Atlantic coast
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Hopewell Rocks, New Brunswick, on the Bay of Fundy, which have the highest tides in the world at 50 feet
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​Upper New England

   I entered New England at the New Brunswick and Maine border, then went north for a long way before turning south and going as far as New Hampshire.  Then I went back north, then west into Vermont before ending up in Burlington, Vermont to fly home.  The fall colors were incredibly beautiful, but my camera was on the fritz, so I got no great photos.

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American Stonehenge, a 4000-year-old settlement in NH with many rocks lined up for astronomical alignments
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Canterbury Shaker Village, NH, founded in 1792, whose last member died in 1992, has 25 buildings.
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At Mt. Washington, NH, at 6288', the highest mountain in the Northeast
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Epilog

   Well, that's  one more trip finished.  The next GT will be of my favorite Utah plus eastern Arizona, which I did in November last year.  I also spent three weeks at the end of December and early January in Louisiana, but that will not be posted.

    I leave on February 8th for Brazil, and on the 15th I fly to northern Argentina with a new friend.  There, mountains, deserts, salt flats, and wineries beckon us.

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