Charreada, a stylish rodeo!
Earlier this year, I spent a brief time in Oaxaca, a town in southern Mexico where one can eat a different mole every day of
June 9, 2024
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Bucolic Time at the Ranch
In the midst of the pandemic, looking for something that would remind me of what the world looked like in better times, I visited a
July 11, 2021
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La Romería del Rocío: Honoring the Virgin Mary on Horseback.
After a week of intensive horse sightings in Appleby (ApplebyHorseFair), I was not expecting to see horses again soon, and indeed not so many, in
September 15, 2019
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Horsing Around with the Irish Travellers
As I mentioned in my previous post (Irish Travellers who No Longer Travel), the Irish Travellers had been nomadic for generations, traveling the countryside in
September 9, 2018
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Western Mongolia: Warm People in a Cold Climate.
As readers of this blog know, I particularly enjoy photographing people. So one might reasonably ask why I would want to go to Mongolia, the
December 3, 2017
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Kyrgyzstan, the Land of Horse Games and of Golden Smiles
Central Asia, home of most of the Silk Road, the ancient trading route connecting the East and the West, was once a well-traveled part of
August 13, 2017
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