Well we found a place to stay rather quickly…at least for a month or so. At our first stop in Corazol I struck up a conversation with a gentleman who managed the hotel we were staying at, The Copperhorse Inn. He knew a guy in San Ignacio, a town that was already on our radar […]
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So we decided to stay another night in Chetumal, Mexico for a couple of reasons. After 2 long days of difficult driving in the Yucatan, filled with tons of topes, or speed bumps (walls…basically…put at random places), we needed a day to relax. Also we wanted to look into rentals in Belize so I wouldn’t
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Such a beautiful town, I have so many pictures accompanying numerous stories. However, at this time we are still on the road to Belize and I don’t have the time to go into detail. So for now I am posting a couple select pictures from each one of my shoots in San Miguel de Allende…
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Our first night in Mexico! We ended up in a town recommended by our new car insurance agent, Jesus, from Vitesse out of Monclova, Mexico. He could not have been more pleasant and helpful, besides being spot on in suggesting we avoid Matehuala, our original first night destination, and stay in Saltillo. We didn’t arrive
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We crossed the border at 7:30am with no troubles; it took a total of 2 minutes as I answered yes and no to the questions, “Do you have any fruit? Do you have guns?” One Mexican border agent asked the questions while another lightly perused our belongings, not opening anything but our giant bin of
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Houston is the fourth largest city in the US, and once we got close there was no doubting its massive size and number of people. Houston’s highway system is impressive on its own; it has to be to handle around 2 million residents living in the metro area. You can also tell Houston has a
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Located in what now is the heart of the Garden District, between Washington, Sixth, Prytania, and Coliseum streets, Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 is the oldest of the seven municipal, city-operated cemeteries in New Orleans. It is a non-segregated, non-denominational cemetery. There are immigrants from over 25 different countries and natives of 26 states as identified
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Established in the late 1700′s, St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 is the oldest extant cemetery in New Orleans and is still the site of several burials a year. The cemetery is the final resting place of many prominent New Orleans families, particularly the Creole population. Upon initial development, St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 was divided
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We are on the road!! I haven’t been able to post in a timely manner, so these are a bit late, but I hope to remedy my tardiness once across the Mexican border. We made it to our hotel just outside Nashville late NYE, settled in for some pizza and champagne, and went deep
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While the Indiana legislature had authorized the establishment of a “hospital for the insane” as early as 1827, the doors of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane (later re-named Central State Hospital) did not open until 1848. At that time, the hospital consisted of one brick building situated on a large parcel of land, numbering
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