Mae Travels

April 3, 2014 -- post delayed due to no wireless internet or time for it while at the Grand Canyon for 2 nights! But now, here it is, as I ...

Traveling west from Oklahoma City today we enjoyed the changing scenery. Farmland and wind farms in western Oklahoma, the boring and very fl...

When we left Ann Arbor, everything was snow-covered. West Lafayette was cold, but no snow, and the trees were bare. We were very cold wh...

It's been a terrible winter in Michigan. Though the car was washed earlier this week, it's covered with salty splatters again. In a ...

Seattle, 2013 Colon, Panama, 2014 Colon, Panama, 2014, where we boarded the Sea Lion. A vast number of container ships either tr...

Not Mona Lisa: this is a Costa Rican Last Supper. Original Last Supper -- Wikipedia Our last bus stop on the way to the airport: a s...

In the afternoon, hammocks cast a long shadow Private inholdings in Costa Rica's national parks offer a perfect place for relaxing...

Every day of our trip in Panama and Costa Rica included a visit to a beautiful beach. The photos above show a selection of beaches, inclu...

Looking back towards the boat sharing the locks with us as we traveled through the Canal.  Our trip through the Panama Canal was beaut...

A sloth Here are a very few highlights of last week's trip to Panama and Costa Rica. I had always wanted to see a sloth. I had alway...

from Pirates on the West Coast of New Spain 1575-1742 The isthmus of Panama was of great interest to the early Spanish settlers. Th...

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Photo from my copy of Richard Halliburton's Book of Marvels From amazon.com In a week, if all goes as we've planned it, we...