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Tacos with Martin’ (prn:Marteen} – A Story of Contrast We just returned from our second trip to the Rio Sonora Valley in northern Mexico. I’ll write up a short piece on that trip soon, but for now, I thought I would share with you an account of one of the things we enjoy most about that area – tacos. Bill Harmsen, owner of La Posada del Rio Sonora, where we stay in Banamichi, Sonora, Mexico is someone who travels the […]
This is a piece that I wrote after we finished our project at the ASU Ceramic Research Center, I just never got around to posting it. And since I’m catching up on my blog work, here it is, just a couple of months late. It’s basically a timeless Arizona travel piece. Or it could be titled what to do should you find yourself stuck in Phoenix for a few days. On our way home from Phoenix we took an extra […]
Recently we spent a week in a somewhat remote area in northern Mexico known as the Rio Sonora Valley. It has little to do with the Mexico most people imagine, there are no Margaritas, chips and salsa and the violence that has plagued many of the border cities seems far removed. Until the 1970s, when a paved road was constructed, the upper and middle Rio Sonora Valley remained mostly isolated with a subsistence economy. The old road used to follow […]
Thinking back over the past year, I thought about writing a summary of all that we’ve done and for a number of reasons that didn’t hold much appeal for me. My posts to this blog over the last year accomplish that so I thought why bother. In exploring my options, I started looking back over the past twenty years that Athena and I have been building together. I guess that is an accomplishment in itself in that many couples can’t […]
This winter has kept us busy enough to make it difficult to find the kind of leisure I enjoy when it comes to creating posts to this blog. After our project at the Ceramic Research Center in Tempe, Arizona, we spent a week in the upper Rio Sonora river valley, a little known part of northern Sonora, Mexico, photographing the small towns and people. I’ll write about that later in that we will be making repeated trips over the course […]