Rio La Vieja; Mangosteens 110. Banana raft, with tourists

February 22nd 2015
Rio La Vieja, and Mangosteens We are just back from a rafting expedition here in the Zona Cafetera. This region is known for its coffee, but there are other crops grown here, very tall wax palms and also a lot of bananas, and many unfamiliar fruits such as mangosteens. All the bananas grow inside blue plastic bags, an incredible miracle of modern genetic engineering. But bananas are not a ... read more

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Colombia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Ecuador and Venezuela). A 40-year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Colombian Government escalated during the 1990s, undergirded in part... ... read more

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William Martin McClain

El Gringo Viejo

On the WordPress blog I was The Old Gringo, but somebody took that name before me on TravelBlog, so I have translated it into Spanish as El Gringo Viejo. I was a Chemistry Professor at Wayne State University until 2010. Now I am retired, and with my wife Carol I travel a bit every year. She loves the Spanish speaking countries, while I prefer countries that don't really exist any more: ancient Rome and Greece and the Greek colonies of Sicily, Italy, and Turkey; maybe also Tolstoy's Russia. I promise not to write up the boring parts.... full info

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