by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Travel, Tribal Lands
This is the fifth and final page of a longer article about Canyon del Muerto. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 A couple of miles further along, the floor of the canyon widened significantly,...
by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Travel, Tribal Lands
The twin pillars of Spider Rock were left behind, like a pair of stubborn hold-outs, when everything else around them slowly weathered away. Technically, they are the last remnant of the geological process that created this part of Canyon de Chelly, but that’s...
by Richard Quinn | Jan 21, 2020
The primary purpose of this website is to inspire would-be travelers. If I’ve succeeded, and you’re ready to start planning a road trip of your own, the best site on the web for that purpose is my personal favorite: RoadTrip America. R.T.A. offers a wealth...
by Richard Quinn | Apr 28, 2021 | Archaeology
The ancients of Tumaco created quite a comfortable home for themselves. Their villages were well organized and prosperous, spread across a wide valley at the foot of the Andes, in the place where the Mira River and its tributaries come together and meet the sea. They...
by Richard Quinn | Jan 25, 2023 | South America, Travel
Original photographs by CARL DUISBERG The Bolivian altiplano is a land above the clouds, a high plateau situated between the eastern and western cordilleras of the Bolivian Andes, with an average altitude well in excess of 12,000 feet. There is less oxygen in the...
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