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The dawn was rosy on the bayou this morning, and the temperatures are already peaking. Guess it’s time to leave New Orleans and head to the coast – well a far away coast, but a coast nonetheless. Tin’s hair was cropped short last night, and mine hasn’t grown since I shaved it back in March, and Tatjana got her summer beach cut – so it looks like we’ve lost a pound or two of hair. Our goal is one suitcase = two months. Is it possible? More will be revealed.

Summer reading, flip flops, bathing suits, hats and scarves – computer, iPad, iPhone, chords – which of these is not like the other? Que lastima – dinero no hay – so there will be some work while I begin my healing summer.

First stop Madrid and catching up with our friends there, and then to discover the world in reverse – starting with the old.

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The LaLa, Bayou St. John, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

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Cádiz is considered to be the oldest Western city due to its strategic location on the coast dividing Europe and Africa. It has been occupied several times over its history and there is some evidence to suggest that Cadiz was a Fenecian settlement around 1000 B.C. and that it formed part of the Fenecian trade route to the Atlantic. Later on came the Greeks, the Cartagens and then the Romans. From the 8th century onwards it was taken over by the Moors. The in the 11th century Alfonso X took control of the province reconverting it to Christianity. In the 13th century Cadiz gained importance as the place where Christopher Columbus set sail from on his discovery voyage to America.

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