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2009-06-07T01:12:35Z

Coupeville is a small town on the eastern shore of Whidbey Island. It claims to be the second oldest town in Washington state. This is the century-old United Methodist Church.

2009-05-25T01:26:18Z

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Coupeville is a small town on the eastern shore of Whidbey Island. It claims to be the second oldest town in Washington state. This is the century-old United Methodist Church.

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2009-05-25T01:26:18Z

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And then they danced!

2009-05-25T01:29:34Z

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And then they danced!

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2009-05-25T01:26:01Z

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A good-natured MC introduced the members of the Tsimshian Haayuuk Dancers with descriptions of the button blankets and humorous commentary.

2009-05-25T01:26:18Z

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A good-natured MC introduced the members of the Tsimshian Haayuuk Dancers with descriptions of the button blankets and humorous commentary.

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2009-05-25T01:28:59Z

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Not everyone was completely fascinated.

2009-05-25T01:29:59Z

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Not everyone was completely fascinated.

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2009-05-25T01:26:18Z

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It would be a better world if the complicated layering of histories, cultures and georgraphies could be experienced in the ways the people around Penn Cove that day managed to do it.

2009-05-25T01:35:48Z

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It would be a better world if the complicated layering of histories, cultures and georgraphies could be experienced in the ways the people around Penn Cove that day managed to do it.

Coupleville is located on Penn Cove, famous for its mussels. On Saturday, May 16, 2009, Coupeville hosted its annual Penn Cove Water Festival (http://www.penncovewaterfestival.com/). Much of ...

2009-05-25T01:26:18Z

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Coupleville is located on Penn Cove, famous for its mussels. On Saturday, May 16, 2009, Coupeville hosted its annual Penn Cove Water Festival (http://www.penncovewaterfestival.com/). Much of ...

We walked from town to the isolated small beach called La Playa de Los Muertos.

2009-05-24T00:17:45Z

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We walked from town to the isolated small beach called La Playa de Los Muertos.

Sayulita faces a long beach and rises on steep ridges above the town square. There is lots of information and good help with researching vacation rentals at http://www.sayulitalife.com.

2009-05-24T00:19:03Z

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Sayulita faces a long beach and rises on steep ridges above the town square. There is lots of information and good help with researching vacation rentals at http://www.sayulitalife.com.

To celebrate Val's birthday, we spent a week in April 2009 at the condo Casa de Ensueño in Sayulita, Nayarit, Mexico. Sayulita is a village about an hour north of the Puerta Vallarta airpo ...

2009-05-23T22:42:37Z

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To celebrate Val's birthday, we spent a week in April 2009 at the condo Casa de Ensueño in Sayulita, Nayarit, Mexico. Sayulita is a village about an hour north of the Puerta Vallarta airpo ...

A large cemetary gives the beach its name.

2009-05-24T00:03:49Z

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A large cemetary gives the beach its name.

Casa de Ensueño has a cool dipping pool; welcome after walking up the dusty road from town.

2009-05-23T22:42:37Z

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Casa de Ensueño has a cool dipping pool; welcome after walking up the dusty road from town.

And sometimes with vehicles that seemed improbably large.

2009-05-23T22:42:37Z

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And sometimes with vehicles that seemed improbably large.

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2009-05-23T22:42:37Z

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Coupeville is a small town on the eastern shore of Whidbey Island. It claims to be the second oldest town in Washington state. This is the century-old United Methodist Church.

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And then they danced!

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A good-natured MC introduced the members of the Tsimshian Haayuuk Dancers with descriptions of the button blankets and humorous commentary.

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Not everyone was completely fascinated.

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It would be a better world if the complicated layering of histories, cultures and georgraphies could be experienced in the ways the people around Penn Cove that day managed to do it.

Coupleville is located on Penn Cove, famous for its mussels. On Saturday, May 16, 2009, Coupeville hosted its annual Penn Cove Water Festival (http://www.penncovewaterfestival.com/). Much of ...

We walked from town to the isolated small beach called La Playa de Los Muertos.

Sayulita faces a long beach and rises on steep ridges above the town square. There is lots of information and good help with researching vacation rentals at http://www.sayulitalife.com.

To celebrate Val's birthday, we spent a week in April 2009 at the condo Casa de Ensueño in Sayulita, Nayarit, Mexico. Sayulita is a village about an hour north of the Puerta Vallarta airpo ...

A large cemetary gives the beach its name.

Casa de Ensueño has a cool dipping pool; welcome after walking up the dusty road from town.

And sometimes with vehicles that seemed improbably large.

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Val had great luck with the pelicans in this picture.

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An iguana scavanging in the dry riverbed that runs through the center of town (dry, at least, in the dry season).

We visited the Alta Vista Archeological Site in the Piletas creek canyon on the side of the Copo volcano, about 35 miles north of Sayulita.

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The columnar basalt forms a sacred space. It was used by the Tecoquin people for several centuries. The group died out in the first quarter of the 16th from the combined effects of military ...

Petroglyphs appear on great rocks everywhere on the jungle floor. This figure is described as "el hombre maiz" on the interpretive panels.

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Coconuts end up in the driftwood on the isolated parts of the beach.

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The natural bridge at the lower left offered the easy, if damp, path to Playa Escondido. It's also possible to scramble over the rock ridge to get from the small beach on the south to the lo ...

A strange abandoned grand house....

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On the gatepost of the school were crests of Nayarit and Sayulita (one supposes).

There are miles of beaches. Just south of town, fishing boats are drawn up on the sand. Nearby there are hundreds of beach umbrellas and lounge chairs to rent by the day (some with food ser ...

The streets are crowded with vendors and underdressed American tourists.

Our unit looked out over the roofs of the village to the north. At night we could hear the waves of the beach (after the bands in the nightclubs settled down).

Our apartment was the top floor of this narrow building and stretched all the way through from C. d'En Tantarantana (where this picture was taken) to C. d'Allada Vermell. Up a twisty stairca ...

The flag of Catalonia.

The statue of Christopher Columbus overlooking Barcelona's harbor gestures incongrusously toward the East.

Put travelled back and forth to the meetings of the International Society for Third-Sector Research at the Facultat d’Economia i Empresa of the Universitat de Barcelona on the smooth, effi ...

This cheerful place, in C. Assaonadors near the apartment, served wonderful (and to us exotic) Catalan food.

This attractively named restaraunt was never open when we were in the mood for pizza.

The market is in an updated mid-19th century building over an ancient monestery and fills the space under a spectacular undulating tile roof. (More pictures at http://www.mercatsantacaterina ...

Though the partying lasted late, with cheeful laughter and subdued music, the sounds were just a pleasant background from the 6th floor where we were sleeping.

No automobiles drive through d'Allada Vermell, but cafes fill the area with chairs and tables from late afternoon until well into the hight.

Our apartment was in a wide courtyard, named for two streets once separated by a block of buildings that were demolished long ago to create the plaza: one for a field of garlic and the other ...

BCNeta! crews work night and day, ensuring a remarkable level of tidiness for the city´s streets.

It's a custom to add patterns to the stucco. Usually the designs are simply geometrical.

A typical street in Barri Gòtic. Walking through the area was a source of constant surprises.

The interior of Sta. Maria del Mar.

Sta. Maria del Mar from the roof of our apartment in Carrer d'Allada Vermell.

Modernism of a different era.

The archer on the left is aiming at the dragon on the right.

Relatively little of Barcelona's industrial past is visible. This tower is all that remains of a giant factory, surrounded by railyards, now the site of a modern neighborhood of apartments a ...

Some, like this huge assemblage of pipes in Poble Nou, is simply (wonderfully) odd.

Some, like this odd fountain in honor of Picasso, is eerily beautiful.

The city has outdoor art everywhere.

This is Man Ray's mobile constructed from hotel coat-hangers -- an homage (?) to Alexander Calder.

We were fascinated by the detailed presentation of the interconnected careers of these three artists (in a travelling show organized by the London's Tate Modern).

The city from the front terrace of the Palau Nacional in Parc de Montjuic. The grey towers are La Iglesia Sagrada Familia.

July 7 to July 14, 2008

C. d'Allada Vermell is between Princessa (where the motorcycles are parked) and C. dels Carders in the district known at La Ribiera. A useful fact for visitors staying in this part of town i ...

A furniture store.

Palau de Baró de Quadras, now Casa Ásia, is just off Avinguida Diagonal.

Two high towers support the tram on its run above streets, rail lines and water.

Keeping them in line used all the talents of the cheerful adult staff.

These are tomatoes from the tomato vendor. There is another merchant who fills a whole market space with varieties of olive oil. The café provided breakfast for us most days with a staff sm ...

From the Albuquerque Sunport early in the morning, 7 October 2008.