Tag: South America

Total 5 Posts

It Was a Dangerous Trail… But We’re Used to Danger

Yesterday, we visited one of our distant ‘puestos’ (outposts). There are five or six of them scattered across many thousands of acres of desert, mountain, and valley.

Once a Gaucho…Always a Gaucho

This week, we got a surprise. Eight gauchos rode up, after crossing over the pass from the high ‘puna.’ They dressed in traditional regalia.

How Did She Survive Here?

This was our land. We had heard that there were people living up here. But we doubted it. It was too barren, too bleak, and too dry.

Bill vs the Bull

Warning: The following may not be suitable for today’s namby-pamby, panty-waisted, gluten-fearing audiences.

On the Front Lines in Nicaragua

Nicaragua, like Venezuela, is in the middle of a power struggle. The proximate cause is a tax increase. But the trouble runs much deeper…