Steerage Yearns

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Tag Archives: Nature

Canal de Panamá

The Panama Canal will have been open for passage for one hundred years next year, and it is still rightly in many of the top ten wonders of the industrial … Continue reading

January 18, 2013 · Leave a comment

Arizona Archaeology

For this entry, I am going to take a break from the far away (at least relative to my home in Minnesota) and make a quick tour of my old … Continue reading

January 14, 2013 · Leave a comment

Cerro de Monserrate

Just to the east of downtown Bogotá is a row of mountains that stops the city from spilling out in every direction.  The generally angular shaped and tan coloured buildings … Continue reading

December 15, 2012 · Leave a comment

Uplistsikhe

I have mentioned the town of Gori in Georgia before in “The Stalin Museum” as it relates to the 2008 war and the home of Joseph Stalin.  The history of … Continue reading

December 2, 2012 · Leave a comment

The Blue Eye

Of all the floral species found on the continent of Europe, nearly one third of them can be found in the small country of Albania.  Even though it is rather … Continue reading

November 30, 2012 · 1 Comment