Finding unique answers to this simple question is the sole mission of Pan American Dreams as we travel to all 35 nations of America, the Arctic and Antarctica over the next 5 years. One question, answered in many ways.
Read more... |
 |
America has blue people
Although Ray was born in Mexico City, his father was a prominent medical doctor in the southern U.S., and Ray lived with his family through high school in the Carolinas. He stayed in the South to get his undergraduate degree in biology from the University of Kentucky. As a small town southern boy, one of the local traits that Ray picked up that continues to define him as an adult is storytelling, at which traditional Southerners in the U.S. often excel. Today Ray told me about the blue people...
Bolivian mercado in Buenos Aires
Because we are filming our first episodes of La Comida Aborigen this Wednesday, August 6, Rodrigo, María Eugenia and I spent all day shopping for ingredients for the shoot in a remote mercado (market) just outside Buenos Aires that I will call little Bolivia, although there is also a strong Peruvian presence. Let's just call it the little Andes! What a wonderful and fascinating mercado, a riot of colors and scents and sounds that made me feel for a while as if I were back in La Paz! We...
Mummies (Las Momias)
Today, our first full day in Salta (map), we had a private tour of the Museo de Arqueologia de Alta Montaña (MAAM - Museum of High Mountain Archaeology), arranged by the government of Salta, complete with an archaeologist to answer questions. It was riveting! The centerpiece exhibit is the frozen remains of three Incan niños who were found perfectly preserved at the 6,739 meter summit (over 22,000 feet!) of volcanic Mount Llullaillaco, the objects of religious sacrifice more than 500 years...
