Category Archives: Cultures

One Lap of America

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

PDF version of this document is here: http://www.hackneystravel.com/ecuador/onelapofamerica.pdf Last year I met a European traveler in Argentina who spent six weeks in the United States a few years earlier. His six week visit gave him, in his opinion, total understanding …

Chicken Bus Roads

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

  One common denominator of developing country travel is chicken bus roads. No matter where you go in the world, if you get off the tourist trail and out into the places where the regular people live, work and travel, …

Line Ball

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

    The Nazca Lines are located in southwest Peru near the modern-day city of Nazca. They were created by the Nazca culture, who flourished there between 200 B.C.E. and 600 C.E. During those 800 years, the Nazca created a …

Weavers 2.0

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

  The 22 highland weavers of Patacancha, Peru received payment for goods sold today. Their efforts to revitalize and maintain the skills of the ancient craft were rewarded with a small percentage of the millions of tourist dollars that annually …

El Ojo

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

  I went down to the market and sat down on the curb. I asked around about who was holding but no one was talking. Click here for the rest of the story: http://www.hackneystravel.com/peru/docs/elojo.pdf .

The Room of Wakes

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

  For 391 years no outsider walked the passageways. For 391 years no outsider touched the walls. For 391 years no outsider saw the interior. Click here for the rest of the story: http://www.hackneystravel.com/peru/docs/roomofwakes.pdf .

Just Ask

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

  10:15 AM I was sitting at the table outside the gas station using their WiFi to finish our monthly finances when I first noticed it. It was something on the underside of the truck. It looked like we picked …

La Tirana

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

  Every year there is a festival at La Tirana, Chile. La Tirana has about 250 full time residents. Over 10,000 people come to La Tirana for the festival. This year, we were two of those people.Click here for the …

Market Town Saturday Night

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

We broke the rule. We knew the rule. We knew it very well. It was kind of hard not to know the rule since we wrote it ourselves. It is a simple rule. A just a few words rule. An …

Where My Heart Lies

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

  I am in a rural area.   It is a flat plain, with rich, dark, loamy soil.   The dirt here is dark, from cocoa to black – from merely laced with fertility to boiling with it.   The …