Category: Latin America

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Mexico City, Mexico

July 1966

Hi

So you have this card in your collection? Are you swimming every day now?

Have fun – Love, Bill

“Angel de la Independencia” Monument. Night view from Mexico’s most modern and luxurious Maria Isabel Hotel, Mexico D.F.

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Santiago, Chile

Santiago de Chile y la Cordillera de los Andes un atardecer de inveirno desde el Cierro San Cristobal

December 2003

Dear

Our very best regards from this far away Chile. Congratulation for your wedding anniversary. As you say years seem to be fly by.

Saludos

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Taxco, Mexico

Excerpt from my book Expat Alien. This would have been in the mid to late 1960’s:

Taxco was a small tourist city built on the side of a mountain. Besides having a few interesting churches, it was mainly known for its silver and had shop after shop of silver jewelry. We would go there for a weekend and walk the steep, narrow streets. The hotel we stayed in had a back patio where cockfights took place after dark. The cocks screamed in anger and pain as they killed each other or maybe it was just the crowd I heard screaming. I thought the whole thing was disgusting but lots of people enjoyed it, including my brother.

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San Juan Teotihuacan, Mexico

Pyramid of the Sun

Imposing ancient Pyramid of the Sun, Almost seven hundred feet at the base, rises to a height of over two hundred feet. This postcard is from the 1960’s. It looks much different today with a lot more excavations.

I climbed this several times. Below a friend of mine is climbing it in the late 1970’s.

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Caracas, Venezuela

National Library, Caracas

April 1966

The conference in Maracay is over and I think was very interesting. I will tell you about it when I return to Mexico about the 9th of May. Hopefully I will find a little time to spend in the county-side before then.

Saludos