By Nancy Wigston Argentines know it as Salta la Linda “the beautiful one.” Situated 3,400-ft above sea level in the De Lerma Valley of Northern Argentina, the city of Salta (pop 620,000) reigns in splendid isolation. Chile lies to the west, Bolivia to the north, and Paraguay to the east. But between Salta and Paraguay…
By Barbara Beckley “This is the spot! Here on the tarmac where William Shatner, Christopher Lloyd and Katrina Bowden, (a 20-something girl in a swimsuit) were chatting next to a fancy convertible parked between two Vietnam-era fighter jets,” says Ann Greer, an official with the Palm Springs Air Museum located at 745 North Gene Autry…
By Liz Campbell More than Chicken Wings Once one of the country’s most prosperous cities at the end of the 19th century, Buffalo by the mid-20th century mainly was known for obsolescence and frigid winters. But through it all, Buffalo held on to what counted – music, art, vintage architecture and a citizenry that never…
By Rich Grant “Wild Bill” Hickok, of Dakota’s most boisterous boomtown, was such a romantic figure that it is hard to believe he really existed. Of course, through dime novels, movies, HBO, television shows and merchandising for 155 years, his image has become a caricature of the real thing. Look back at what contemporaries wrote…
By Larry Bleiberg Everyone, it seems, has a theory about Peru’s Nazca Lines. The mysterious markings on the desert floor are a massive astronomical calendar. That’s a popular one. Or maybe they point to hidden reserves of water, the source of life in the desert. Then there’s my favorite: a UFO landing site. More than…
By Nancy Wigston Famously long and narrow—2,653-miles long with an average width of only 110 miles–Chile has been jokingly called the barrier that keeps Argentina from the Pacific. The Andes Mountains across Chile’s eastern frontier do a fairly good job of separating the two countries. The first Europeans arrived here in 1520 when Ferdinand Magellan…
A wave of terror washed over me as I squinted through the windshield and drove a Trabant in Berlin, Germany. There were other cars on the street around me, and hordes of pedestrians crowded the sidewalks. This was no time to be faint-hearted! My damp hands clutched the steering wheel with a death grip as…
Toronto’s skyline is dominated by its signature structure, the CN Tower. At 1,750 feet high, it’s the tallest tower in the Western Hemisphere. Below are the office towers that have made the city the business center of Canada. Photo by Francesca Saraco, Unsplash By Jacqueline Swartz I’m looking down at Toronto from its most prominent…
Built in 1936 to mark the quadricentennial of the city’s founding, The Obelisk is located at the intersection at 9th of July and Corrientes Avenue in the Plaza de la Republica in central Buenos Aires. By Nancy Wigston Imagine a chunk of 19th-century Europe breaking off and floating to South America where it lands at…
