Fotos del Camino – Photos from the Road

Albums 1 - 74 out of 74

	Nicaragua Border to Leon 17 photos
	Honduras 13 photos
	Panama City, Panama Borrowed a camera for a few shots of the city! 9 photos
	Colombian Prayers Part 1 22 photos
	Wall Photos 1 photos
	Profile Pictures 8 photos
	Photos of Me 75 photos
	Highway Robbery...Border, El Salvador and Honduras An attempted robbery has me loose my passport at the home of the thief, in Honduras, near the border with El Salvador 25 photos
	A day in the life ... Just a few snapshots of an average day...I just finished photographing the most recent prayers, which were loaded to another album. In this album, I change my shoes :) 14 photos
	Declarations of Faith 13 photos
	Prayers (From Guatemala City to San Salvador) Please see the website www.iamwalking.org for transcriptions and translations of the prayers, and a place to leave your comments of support, encouragement, and to write your own prayers. There was a "problem" with my camera in the last bunch, so I made them black and white to make the editing more ... streamlined :) 28 photos
	Guatemala City through El Salvador 41 photos
	Kites for the Dead Dead of the Dead ceremonies near Antigua...Kite flying is a national pastime in Guatemala, made with tissue paper, these kites were originally part of an indigenous ceremony of kites decorated by the faces of family members, stories from family history, etc., that would allow the souls of ancestors to recognize their families below. The kites are massive, perhaps 30ft or more in width! 5 photos
	Walking through Antigua Antigua, old, the intended colonial capital of Spanish America, destroyed over and over and over by surrounding volcanoes and the way they make the earth shake, and tall buildings crumble. Colonial churches litter the blocks...I have only uploaded photos of a few. A walk down the street, I stumble upon a massive procession for a local saint, tubas blowing through and carry the night. 39 photos
	Lago de Atitlan More coming to this album soon! 1 photos
	Radio Interview Announcement Tonight 10PM EST/7PM PST hear nitty gritty about the iamwalking project...Interview with Laura Fox on Visionary Culture Radio! 1 photos
	Guatemalan Friends 5 photos
	Quetzaltenango (Xela), Guatemala (From a caption...) The religious and spiritual landscape has been changing rapidly in the years since the bloody civil war ending in the early 90s. The Catholic Church, who did much to shelter and provide literal sanctuary to indigenous people being slaughtered, are now suffering heavy losses with the rise of secularism and sects of protestant/evangelical Christianity. The Evangelical movement here is largely domestic, ie. not (or no longer imported) but spread to Guatemalans by Guatemalans. One reason for the shift may be to stem the tide of alcoholism, which the Catholic Church doesn´t necessary agree with, but it doesn´t forbid consumption as do many more recent protestant lines. 10 photos
	Prayers-Group 3 One of the best things about this project is its authentic look into the beliefs, the thinking, expressed through language, of so many different types of people. There is a marked difference between the prayers collected from Los Angeles and the California Coast, Arizona, etc. and the prayers collected in Mexico and now Guatemala. That said, the more I talk to people, the more prayers I read, I see that when it comes down to it, we all have the same basic needs, fears, doubts, hopes, and dreams. 165 photos
	Oaxaca City After walking 83km (my longest day on record) I arrived in the city of Oaxaca at about 2 in the morning. Stretching my back on a concrete bus stop bench, I was approached by a stranger in the night. Clothes wet, cut and bruised, he had just been beaten and robbed by the police. Seeing me there, he wanted to practice his English and I told him about the project. He turned out to be an awesome person, and invited me to stay with him at his friend´s house for the night. On the way home, he told me about his love, his passion, playing guitar, while also showing me where he had lost 2 fingers on his left hand in an accident at work the week before. Undanted, he was detirmined to learn to play with is right hand like his heros McCartney and Hendrix. What I love about Mexico isn´t so much the architecture, as seen in many of these photos, but in the hearts of the people who make my walk through this country truly memorable. 11 photos
	Coastal Chiapas Chiapas is amazing. My only regret is that I wasnt able to spend more time there. Really feeling the pinch of time as my visa was running out, i was running to the border with Guatemala as quickly as I could. Again, without batteries or money to replace them, I was only able to squeeze out a few shots of this beautiful countryside. 4 photos
	Leaving Oaxaxa Still very mountainous, the road from Oaxaca City to the coast was downhill, with environs and terrain changing drastically every 10-20k. Many wild experiences here, from collecting crickets for food to staying with a former Pentacostal minister, now brothel owner who gave me food, tea, and shelter for the night in a van filled with condoms and ganja (sorry if you dont like it folks, this is the real deal). Stranded in the middle of nowhere, in the rain, the women helped me, treated me with kindness, as I listened to their stories and prayers. The mountains turn to a coastal plane further down the road. Frigid nights turn balmy with hotter days than I have ever experienced in my life. Walking from 12ish to 4ish, I would feel l I was going to pass out, so I often walked silent nights and empty highways in the company of the moon. 13 photos
	Walking into Oaxaca Though pressed for time (I had 3 weeks to walk 700 miles), the people and terrain of Oaxaca stunned me, step by step, at rapid pace. This is the first album of three in Oaxaca...trying to upload on very slow connections...but wait for the next few albums! Mexico, from the heart of Guatemala! 25 photos
	Mexico City to Puebla State 21 photos
	Quiroga to Morelia Again, I am not sure the pictures do this town justice. One the one hand, the city center reminds you of many you might see in Europe, on the other hand, it is Mexico, and quite different! 24 photos
	Popocatepetl I took these shots and others walking to the west of Popo...incredible, majestic, walking by its side for 3 days now! 5 photos
	The Bosque Village The Bosque Village is permaculture retreat center high in the mountains of Michoacan. The people at the Bosque found out about the iamwalking.org project and invited me to stay with them for a few days. This is an incredible place, incredible people, up to trying something new in this world, thinking differently about the way we approach almost everything in life. www.bosquevillage.com 8 photos
	Prayers: Group 2 6 photos
	Frida Kahlo´s Home and Coyoacan This is one of the best parts of the city, but I still have yet to get good pics of Coyocan. We were allowed to take pictures of the outside of Frida and Diego´s home, but not the inside...where there is a fantastic museum featuring their works, libraries, studios, etc...Interesting Bauhaus-ish architecture of volcanic rock, built around the same time as waterfall. 19 photos
	Last Shots, Last Thoughts, of Mexico City This is a random collection, compilled from different areas in a city that I have fallen in love with, from El Centro/Zocolo to Condessa and Colonia de Vale, with love! 37 photos
	Blog Photos 1 photos
	Basilica de Guadalupe This point marks the near 1/2 way point for me and was a source of major inspiration as I walked to come here. People from all over Mexico journey here, many on foot, for weeks on end to visit the Basilica de Guadadlupe 34 photos
	Teotihuacan Pyramids Incredible. Incredible that larger pyramids were in the area, now the Zocolo, in Mexico City! 8 photos
	Tepoztlan Work A beautiful forest in the hills above Mexico City and Cuernavaca frame the mysteries that took place there... 3 photos
	Leaving Benito Juarez International Airport 13 photos
	Taxco with my Boys and Dad A pit stop turns into an adventure in its own right. Located high in the Sierras, Taxco was shrouded in midst, clinging to the cliffs that surround this beautiful city. 26 photos
	Acapulco with my Boys! I wish I had more shots, but we were busy playing in the sand! 14 photos
	More Morelia I wasnt quite sure how to take pictures of Morelia...beautiful buildings everywhere to me, often translates as another boring building to another. Still, I decided to take a few more on the way out, snap happy tourist IAM. 21 photos
	Morelia to Mexico City: La Cruz de Caravaca de Charo Again, stumbled upon this beautiful city a few miles east of Morelia. The Caravaca Cross features prominent... 8 photos
	Ocotlan to Lake Chapala Getting on my feet, so to speak, after my belongings were stolen in Zapotlan del Rey. 10 photos
	Over the hills...from Zamora to Quiroga Leaving the flat areas near Lake Chapala, I begin to climb into the Sierras, passing many indigenous villages, volcanoes, pine/oak/madrone forests that remind me of home in northern California. When I was a high school teacher, many of my students were from this area. 15 photos
	Guadalajara to Ocotlan 9 photos
	Prayers from Zamora to Zacapu 11 photos
	Beautiful Zamora Unexpected neo gothic architecture in a city off the tourist path. 21 photos
	On the Road to Guadalajara: Magdalena to Tequila Thats right! Tequila. A unesco site, it is a little spoiled by tourism, and it is still a beautiful city. At the foot of a volcano and at the base of a cliff to rival the Grand Canyon, the city looks north toward an unparalleled view of the Sierra Madre, surrounded and studded by this plant at the heart of Mexican culture. 16 photos
	Around Guadalajara: Part 1 16 photos
	On the Road to Guadalajara: Guadalajara At once modern and colonial, this city represents all that is Mexico today. 23 photos
	On the Road to Guadalajara: St. Tomas to Magdalena Here the old, unpaved cobbled road, brings you to another very old town with a fort, almost never visited by foreigners. The path brings you past abandoned mango groves and mountains leading down into an agricultural basin where they grow mostly agave (used to make Tequila). Magdalena is a beautiful city, with the cathedral, built by Franiscans as a monastery, completed in the mid 1700s. I stayed in a bed at the local Catholic Church, and had a very interesting conversation with the local priest, which I will tell you more about soon. 12 photos
	On the Road to Guadalajara:The Four Paths A wrong turn leads to distaster and salvation in an ancient city where I spoke for an hour to a beautiful toothless man. 23 photos
	On the Road to Guadalajara: Sta. Isabel to Ixtlan del Rio From celebrations in Santa Isabel for their saint of the same name to the most north western preColumbian ruins..the path from Santa Isabel to Ixtlan del Rio. 15 photos
	Santa Maria del Oro I am starting to get into "old" mexico. This town was founded by the nephew of Cortez and has a rich history, often tragic, and at odds (I cant even say that...there were outrageous massacres here) between the indigenous and the Spanish seeking gold. The Francsicans tempered these abuses, protecting the Huichol, but discrimination is persistant. 5 photos
	Acaponeta 9 photos
	Tepic 15 photos
	Rosamorada I had a very special experience in this town...More comming soon 13 photos
	Prayers: Group 1 This project s not about I, it is not about walking, and it is not about Brazil. This project is about the collecting and sharing of authentic prayers across the borders of language, culture, country, class, and creed. This project is about people praying for one another without judgement. This project is about you stepping into someone elses shoes, their view, their hopes, their fears, their families, and seeing that their prayers are often your own. This project is about seeing that walking is not difficult, just take the first step. That we make up in our minds what is difficult and important. This project is about us holding that with God, anything is possible in life. That what you think is possibile is possible and so much more when tapped into that realm beyond yourself. Pleae help translate the prayers, comment on the prayers, offer advice, love, and support. 58 photos
	Mazatlan to Tepic 278k from Mazatlan to Tepic 13 photos
	Culiacan 101.2 Second in the series. 40 photos
	Culiacan to Mazatlan The walk from Culiacan to Mazatlan was the best section of the journey thus far. With no money in my pocket (well...I had 3 pesos) and only a half bag of tostada shells, I had no choice. Already 20 miles outside Culiacan, but still another 120 to Mazatlan with nothing in between. What to do? Trust God and take the first step. More coming soon! 53 photos
	Culiacan 101.3 The last on the road from Los Mochis to Culiacan. A city I have heard so much about, so many bad things. A city I have spent so much time trying to prepare myself, the project, for security, insurance, everything, boils down to this city at the heart of the narco-violence and war in Mexico. 27 photos
	Mazatlan Arte Urbano 7 photos
	Mazatlan 15 photos
	Culiacan 101.1 41 photos
	The Heart of Culiacan This is the first album of a series of an incredible story produced in collaboration with Brenda Isabel. As many of you have seen in the news, Culiacan is at the heart of the drug war in Mexico, and I am now in the Heart of Culiacan. Though very different from the perspective framed by mass media, there are many pictures that, well, I can not publish. 49 photos
	100 km to Sinaloa 26 photos
	Across the Great Divide 57 photos
	Mobile Uploads 60 photos
	San Xavier/Tucson Leap 23 photos
	Bisbee, AZ Went for a Sunday drive through the Arizona desert with my host Robert Grant and stumbled upon the bisbee rated one of the "funkiest towns" in america. Not quiet sure what that meant, exactly, still. I have a habit of taking lots of pictures of buildings. I apologize for those who don't like buildings. 9 photos
	Tour o Tucson 8 photos
	Eloy to Picacho Peak 8 photos
	Walking Gila Bend to Casa Granda 10 photos
	Yuma AZ to Gila Bend AZ 22 photos
	El Centro to Yuma 16 photos
	San Diego > El Centro 52 photos