The rock paved streets of Chacala

By Jack Brummet, Mexico Ed.

Except for the one road leading into town, the streets of Chacala (much like Bucerias) are paved just like this. The further you get from El Centro, the sparser the rocks become. It's like the entire road is a speed-bump and no one drives over 10 mph. 

On Wednesday, I watched the municipal road crew working on road repairs on Tuesday. It was one guy with a wheelbarrow, and a small shovel. When he encountered divot in the road, he'd sort through his bucket, find the right size rock and replace it. He would tamp it down with his foot and if it didn't fit right, he'd pound it into place with another rock or the shovel.

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Deflategate: The Smoking Gun finally appears

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A roadside attraction between Rincón de Guayabitos and Bucerias, Nayarit: scarecrows and El jugo de la caña

By Jack Brummet, Mexico Ed.

A roadside attraction in the Nayarit boondocks, between Rincón de Guayabitos and Bucerias. Great scarecrows/dummies/whatever. This stand was selling cane juice for ten pasos a glass.

 El jugo de la caña, as sweet as it sounds actually tastes kind of nasty. . .

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Tuesday's terra cotta, blue bisque, and pale yellow sunset in Chaclaa, Nayarit, Mexico

Photo by Jack Brummet, Mexico Travel Ed.

Tuesday's stratocumulus (or cumulus?) clouds at sunset at our house on  the beach in Chacala.  The clouds blew away fifteen minutes later.

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The Market in La Peñita de Jaltemba

By Jack Brummet, Travel Ed.

We went to the weekly market in La Penita today. About 90% tourist stuff and 10% beautiful arts and crafts. So much of the stuff, though, seems geared to the 14 year old demographic, of which I've seen virtually none the entire time we've been here.We did pick up a few things--textiles, a couple bandanas for me, and some gorgeous red snapper, spuds, and a couple bottles of Spanish red.

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A "no defecation" sign I saw today in a field in Chacala, Nayarit

By Jack Brummet, Mexico Ed.

This "no defecation" sign in a field is fairly baffling. Shouldn't no defecation be the default/factory setting??

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Humpback whales, Pelicans, and boats on a boat trip near Chacala, Nayarit

By Jack Brummet, Mexico Ed.

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Drawings: Faces No. 991 - scratchboard

By Jack Brummet

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Images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

By Jack Brummet, History Editor

If you run a Google/Bing/Yahoo search on Martin Luther King, Jr. images you come up with millions of hits.  Of these, there is a core group of about fifty or so that are ubiquitous.   Here are some of our favorite photos of MLK, along with some of the many hundreds of postage stamps created in his honor; a couple of shots of the MLK memorial in Washington, D.C.; and a short video on the National Archives holdings of MLK photographs.

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Two uneasy partners:  Martin with his frenemy; President Lyndon Baines Johnson

 One more shot of LBJ/MLK

I have never been able to find out more about this photo. I don't 

really know if Martin knew his way around a pool table or not...

What if?

Jesse Jackson, Joan Baez, Ira Sandperl, and MLK.  This shot was taken at a 1964 free speech event.

Bayard Rustin with Martin

MLK with Coretta

The "I Have A Dream" Speech

 Speech in Washington, 1963

 MLK with Malcolm X

Some selected MLK postage stamps:

 

Photos of the Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington, D.C.:

 A background video on the photographs of MLK, Jr in The National Archives:

 

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