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From Quito by bus to the Peruvian Border, through Customs and a bus to Lima.  I've been to Lima a few times, taxi to the Plaza de Armas and went inside the great Cathedral, it contains the remains of Francisco Pizarro who conquered Peru in 1533.  The Conquistadores were often Illegitimate, as was Pizarro, or other than lst born Sons, people who had nothing to lose.  The Presidential Palace is here and the Changing of the Guard is something to see, long ago they brought in Prussians to teach them how to GooseStep.  I walked to the Plaza San Martin, I walked all over carrying that heavy bag.  I went to the Inquisition Museum, I had been to all this and more previously.  Parts of Lima are very rough but you should be all right if you have your wits about ye.  I took a bus to Nazca, was there 7 years prior and had taken a plane to view the Nazca Lines, big lines of animals and other figures only visible from the air.  That cost 80 U.S. then and now, they're safer today as since then 8 people have died in plane crashes viewing the Lines.  What I wanted to see now was both the Nazca and the Pulpa Lines, this cost $150, I had wanted to do both 7 years ago but was stymied (they won't do it for one person and most people are Sissies and are satisfied with just seeing the Nazca Lines).  But this time there was a Frenchie (he was okay) who also wanted to see both and going up and seeing the Nazca and Pulpa Lines was great and exciting.  The Lines were drawn in the desert by the Paracas and Nazca Indians from 900 B.C. to 600 A.D., there's a Spider, there's a Monkey, all kinds of things, Maria Reiche, a German Mathematician came here in the 30's and devoted her life to Study of the Lines, she thought there was an Astronomical purpose to them.  I think these Indians had nothing better to do.  The Maria Reiche Museum and the Maria Reiche House (a big museum) are fascinating.  In the evening I went to the Hotel Nazca Lines where they have a Planetarium (also 7 years ago) and this German Professor was so informative and great during the l hour lecture and viewing, mostly outside.  You look through this telescope and see the ring around Saturn, the air is clear and the viewing is wonderful.  The Professor was wonderful.  Supposedly, you can't see the Big Dipper south of the Equator, then you see the Southern Cross-- I saw them both.

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Billy Conn gave up his Light Heavyweight Championship to fight Joe Louis on June 18, 1941 in a Bout that lives on in Boxing Lore.  The light-hitting and light (175 lbs.) Billy was well ahead on points in the 13th Round (of 15) Against the much bigger and hard-hitting Brown Bomber in his quest to win the Heavyweight Championship of the World.  Then Billy foolishly went for the knockout and was knocked-out himself.  This Match had been postponed for 6 months.  Billy was married to the former Mary Louise Smith, the daughter of long-time Major League Baseball Player, Jimmy Smith.  I saw a picture of the 2 at the Jersey Shore and both were very good-looking young people.  But Jimmy Smith thought his daughter far too good for Billy and things became heated at Jimmy's Pittsburgh home after the Baptism of Billy's and Mary's lst born child and Jimmy's lst grandson, with Billy breaking his hand on his father-in-law's head (Irish).  Billy and Mary were married for 48 years.  In 1959, in Henderson, Nevada, Harry Reid went over to his girlfriend's, Landra Gould's, house and was met at the front door by her father who said ...Stay Away From My Daughter... Harry said, He Didn't Like Me Because I wasn't Jewish.  Then Landra's father shoved Harry, Harry beat up Landra's father, Landra leapt into Harry's car leaving her father lying in the dirt, the 2 eloped, Harry was "20," Landra was "19."  The Reids have been married for 55 years and have 5 children.  You don't easily interfere with young love.   

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I never go to a lawyer but have been told that they all say ...You have a good case...  Unfortunately, there's been no rush of Comely Females towards myself, perhaps you'd be interested in my friend, Scott, who recently broke-up with his girlfriend of 2 years.  Scott is "43" and an Oddsmaker who has had his picture and comments in "Sports Illustrated."  He's youthful-looking with nice blue eyes, good hair, a large-boned muscular build, anyone would consider him to be a good-looking guy.  He has a nice house and does well financially.  He's kind and easy-going with a friendly disposition, I have other friends but Scott is my only true-blue friend (they're hard to come by).  He probably tokes, drinks and gambles too much and could use the influence of a good woman.  15 years ago Scott was a Supervisor for SAV-ON Drugstores and was fired when an older woman complained vociferously that after going on and on about this problem she encountered at his Store, he had told her ...Tell It To The Pope...  Quell this rebellious streak, Tame This Tiger     

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I haven't had a cavity since the 90's, you should practice hygiene.  Scotland is lucky that Britain would have them, a miniscule almost non-entity.  I was just reading one of my favorite Blogs, Sept. 21, 2010, Oscar Romero was the Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador is the Capital.  The bus from Medellin to Quito, Ecuador was supposed to take 26 hours, it took 37, I got in at 2 A.M. and took a taxi to the nice Hotel Viena Internacional (correct spelling), 2 blocks from the main square of Plaza Grande.  Quito, 2.2 mil is the Capital of Ecuador, 15.2 mil and up 9400 ft.  Founded in 1534 by the Spanish it achieved Independence through Jose de Sucre and Simon Bolivar winning the Batttle of Pichincha in 1822.  I've been to Quito thrice, lotsa good stuff to see.  Near the Square is the impressive Cathedral, de Sucre is interred.  La Campania de Jesus is a beautiful Jesuit Church, Museo Franciscano is good, as Museo de la Cuidad. Basilica del Vota Nacional is big and interesting.  The Museo Nacional is real fine and features an extensive pre-Colombian gold collection. I had been to Mitad del Mundo twice, didn't go there this time.  22 km north of Quito, it's right on the Equator and I've had my picture taken with one leg in the Northern Hemisphere and one leg in the Southern Hemisphere.  What currency do they use in Ecuador, the Yankee Dollar.

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I have a huge number of hits today and I haven't been Online in a week.  I'm a Powerful Man, I have Huge Influence and I should be getting paid for it.  You Unevolved, Primitive Bastards, Who the Hell are You?  Leeches.  Goodell couldn't be doing a better job of making the Owners and Players huge money over the 8 years and serving a highly Palatable Product to the Fans.  Out of a great number of Players somebody is always going to be misbehaving, you're going to fire Goodell over these trifles?  You're Merciless.  You're bad people.  I saw a good Boxing Card at the Hard Rock, my 75th Pro Card in Las Vegas, there were 9 fights with a DJ jamming away between fights and rounds.  The Co-Mains were Luis Ortiz of Cuba, 21-0 vs. Lateef Kayode of Nigeria, 20-0 (an "O" must go) for a Jive Heavyweight Title, with the hulking Ortiz knocking down Kayode and then TKO'ing him in the lst round.  Due to his power (King Kong is his nickname), Ortiz would stand a chance against anybody.  And Jesus Cuellar, 24-1, vs. Juan Manuel Lopez, 34-4, for a Jive Featherweight Title (126 lbs.) with a Vicious Knockout of Lopez halfway through the 2nd round, the Ref barely glanced before waving it off.  Lopez, a former Champion, had a previous bad Outing and should hang 'em up.  Except for that a night of Pugilistic Pleasure.  Sat. Nite I saw UNLV play Northern Illinois, who is often in the top 25, played in the Orange Bowl 2 years ago.  The Rebels really came back and came close and except for a bad break could have won, much closer than 48-34 would indicate.  I had my Teeth Cleaned and saw my Dentist, from Nigeria, a Benin Tribesman.  Jan Scraped all that congealed, caked-on Guck off my Teeth, a Scrapejob, and they feel a lot better.  Biannually, Jan is the best.  I talk boxing with my Dentist, all Nigerians like boxing.  Ever count your teeth?  I did once, I figured since I had had my 4 Wisdom Teeth pulled that I should have 28, yeah, I do (none of you have but now you will).  I had 3 pulled when I was "33" and there was so much more room in my mouth, the lst I had pulled in College at the Ohio State Dental School for $4 by a Student.  The thing came in funny and was driving me Nuts, I got a conscensus from the other Students that it should be pulled.  I saw Ray Pryor there, Ray was an All-American Center in Football in 1966 for Ohio State.  Ray, a Black Guy, after the Season received invitations to play in All-Star Games where he could showcase for the NFL, but Woody Hayes kept this from him as he thought Ray should go to Dental School instead.  Ray found this out and confronted Woody and a Player told me that the 2 were standing and shouting at each other seemingly almost coming to Blows.  The NFL paid peanuts back then, get your brains knocked out,  Woody had his Failings but no-one ever said that he didn't have his Boys' best interests at heart.  Anyway, there was something weird about my tooth and my Student was going around showing it to all his Friends  ...You can never tell about a 3rd Molar...You can never tell about a 3rd Molar... While he was doing this the Instructor came up behind him with a look of Outrage  ...The next time use a Thingamajig instead of showing how good you are with a Forceps....  I got my Wisdom Tooth pulled, Drama and Human Pathos all for $4

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Pablo Escobar was killed on Dec. 2, 1993 (belated Happy Birthday), hey, you people wear me out, you're basically bad people (doesn't bother you).     paP?  I wrote "good talk" but it was somehow convoluted by the Current.

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To Bogata and by Cama (luxury) bus, very comfy, to Medillin, to which I had never been.  A gritty, working city of 3 mil, arriving early in the morning I found a good flop then proceeded to see the sights.  To the Basilica de la Candaleria, completed in 1774, and the huge and impressive Catedral Metropolitana, 1931.  The Museo de Antioquia has 23 of Fernando Botero's sculpture's around it, like his paintings many of these feature himself.  Inside is an eclectic array of Art spanning Colombia's History as well as 92 of Botero's paintings and a small collection of foreign artists, it was pretty good.  Medillin is primarily known to the World as the center of Pablo Escobar's Medillin Cartel.  Pablo (Dec. 1, 1949 to Dec. 2, 1993) was the Ruler of a Cocaine Empire that controlled 80% of the world trade by it's height in the 1980's.  Beginning in 1975, Pablo began exporting tons of Cocaine primarily to the United States such that by the early 1990's he was worth 30 bil.  He controlled much of everything in Colombia through Plato o Plomo (Silver or Lead), thousands were killed but many more chose to be bribed and live.  The Storming of the Colombia Supreme Court on Nov. 6, 1985 by the M-19 Rebels in which 11 of the 25 Supreme Court Justices were killed was thought to be backed by Pablo.  On August 18, 1989, the uncorruptable Presidential Candidate, Luis Galan, was assassinated on Escobar's orders, one of many killings of high political and business figures in Colombia due to Pablo.  The huge amount of Cocaine smuggled into the U.S. by Escobar brought huge U.S. support for his Extradition to the U.S. which was what he feared.  A Compromise was reached in 1991 whereby Escobar would be imprisoned in palatial surroundings, but he continued to carry on his drug trade and ordered killings while in "prison."  The U.S.-backed Colombians then sought to send Pablo to a real prison, so Escobar escaped on July 22, 1992 and went on the run.  Hunted like a wild dog, Colombian Special Forces detected Pablo's whereabouts on Dec. 2, 1992 in Medellin (correct spelling), Pablo made a break for it and was shot through the legs and torso, with a fatal bullet fired behind his right ear from close range, as they weren't about to take him alive.  Much beloved today in Medellin due to his Cultivation of a Robin Hood Image and Charity to the Poor, there were 25,000 at Pablo's Funeral.  A Painting in the Antioquia by Botero is "Pablo Escobar Dying On A Rooftop."