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Autumn 2009
Jim McPherson's pre-2010 Travels Site
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A Tabbed List of Lynx for Jim McPherson's Travels Site©Jim McPherson (www.phantacea.com) 2010
The main menu provides lynx to all the pages on this website. Then again so does this tab set up.
Just hit the blue highlights whenever you see one and go where it takes you There are two (and counting) entries re my trip to Costa Rica and Panama in January/February of 2009.
The first is entitled "Sloshing around with Sloths". I called the second "Domingo Demencia -- A Bi-Tropical Disorder" mostly because I couldn't decide which sounded better There are also two photo essays re my trips to Brazil in 2006 & 2007
The "No Cane Trip" is the funnier of the two but there's plenty of unsolicited observations and photos in the much longer "Brazil's Burning" essay In 2005 I went to India for the first and thus far only time. The trip also resulted in two Travels in My Pants photo essays.
The shorter of two starts with a plea: "Peas for Knees Please". The longer one includes the wry as well as rather obvious observation that in India, patience is NOT a virtue, it's a necessity. Both essays have their humourous moments. Both also contain rants re the plague of priests that seems to afflict that vast, but caste-ridden and hence, um, exceedingly diverse, subcontinent. Two trips to Turkey, one in 1996 and the other in 2003, have resulted in three photo essays.
The only one for 2003 is a sad saga of my seemingly neverending battle with bad knees. Called "The Necessity of Knees", it does have a remarkably happy ending, at least it does for that trip. The "Rockhead" essay is a definite curiousity but "The Phantom Train", well, that's what got me onto this whole timps kick (pun intended) in the first place. You'll have heard of the al-Aqsa Intifida. I was in Egypt when it began in September of 2000. That's just one of stories I recount in my two photo essays on that trip
Among the better ones are "Godly Catterwauling" and, especially, "Beware of Aussies being Breezy" Although written shortly after surviving it, for many years thereafter I hesitated about putting "El Retorno del Maximon" online for fear of, um, re-attracting his attention.
Maximon ('ma-shee-mon') is the modern Mayan embodiment of success, among many other things (including Evil Delight). He also seemingly tagged along with the tour group I was on in January/February 2003. The form he took? An Italian ice cream salesman by the rather too blatant name of Massimo. Tholoi is the plural for tholos. I understand it's a Greek word for beehive.
The first time I heard it was in Delphi, Greece, in 1995. There the guide we were with described them as Guest Houses for the Gods. I've never forgotten that description and have been taking shots of them ever since. (Some are here, with another installment in the works for the next update.) Haven't managed to shoot a god yet, though. |
Jim McPherson'sTravels in my PantsBeing an unscheduled, yet ongoing, series of photo essays written, photographed, scanned in and/or otherwise prepared by Jim McPherson as an addendum to PHANTACEA on the Web, which has been online since 1996, and www.phantacea.com, which made its online debut in the Summer of 2008| today's travel essay | commence timp | notes on graphics | top of page | |
Online Travelogues
Photographs taken by Jim McPherson on his travels, as well as collages usually composed at least in part with these photos, can also be found on websites devoted to Phantacea Publications and Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos Click here for lynx to their welcoming pages
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This would be jmcptimps, which stands for as per here. As for what it is, that'd be here whereas why it is, that's simple. I ran out of space for travelogues in PHANTACEA on the Web didn't I. I also haven't got around to moving my travels site to a sub-directory of www.phantacea.com, which I may do if I run out space on this server. (As for where I put the Rockheads stuff from back then, that'd be here. For the completists amongst you, a list of lynx to all the Welcoming Pages thus far presented is here.) - Top of Page - Essay Contents - Start Section Again - Go on to Notes on Graphics Section -
At least the main improvement's done. That'd be the tabbed list of lynx to most, if not necessarily all, the photo essays thus far residing herein. It also avails me of an opportunity to add some short, succinct summaries of what you can expect when you cruise the site. Call it my effort to twitter the entire jmcptimps website in a gaggle of clickable tabs and you wouldn't be far wrong. At least, having never twittered before (if 'to twitter' is the correct verb), I assume you wouldn't be far wrong. I know 'to twitter' is a verb when it comes to birds. Which in part explains why I put some birdies at the top of this column. It also semi sort of explains why I've put a graphic I scanned in out of a newspaper, the one featuring a pterodactyl, below this section. You see, as noted in my actual 'latest photo essay', the one on the Panama '09 page, I've long called frigate birds just that, pterodactyls. (In case you haven't figured it out yet, I'm a big fan of pterosaurs. I even made one of the characters in 2008's (I also make her both omnivorous and insatiable, not to mention, perhaps as a consequence of her eating habits, unnaturally huge. (I can do that sort of thing because, not surprisingly for a PHANTACEA imprint, the novel's a fantasy.) - Top of Page - Essay Contents - Start Section Again - Go on to Notes on Graphics Section -
So, where am I going next -- either physically or web-wise?
There, once an Olmec centre I understand, I'll be in quest of, among other things, some more Byronic Big Heads to add to my photographic collection. (Olmec heads are ever so useful when it comes to preparing collages featuring Thrygragos Byron. Sooth said, they're the main reason I made north, central and south America Byron and his Byronics' sphere of influence back in '4-ever & 40'.) Speaking of which (and thus rather cleverly providing myself a segue into here), Unmoving Byron is probably the biggest, if perhaps not the most important, character in As I've said many times before, the more sales there are the merrier, and more travelled, I become. JMcP - Top of Page - Essay Contents - Start Section Again - Go on to Notes on Graphics Section - |
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The shot to the left is a sunset. And, yes, even though the ocean lies to the south of Santa Clara's Playa Blanca, the sun still sets in the west. The other shot is from a Sunday horror show. ATVs shouldn't just be banned in Panama of course. They are not recreation vehicles; they are instruments of destruction, of disharmony, of natural ruination. They're also ambulance attractors from the get-go. Would that they would get gone. |
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Birdies there are aplenty above, on and around Veranares Beach Bar and Cabinas in Santa Clara, Panama. I have no idea what the one on the right is but there are frigs, buzzards and pelicans in the double-click shot on the left. |
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Frigate birds (frigs, for short) have always reminded me of pterodactyls. Whenever I see one, I shout 'pterodactyl' and point to it. I'm hardly the one to do so either. No doubt "There goes another frigging pterodactyl" is a common cry among English-speakers in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean. As for the Turkish Rockheads stone, he's here because I like him. In truth, I like him so much I did an entire photo essay on him. It's here. |
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Even though I took it in Costa Rica, I used the wooden diver (Diver Jim) as the background image for this table as well as for the page background for the Panama '09 webpage. I also used the sunset shot on the right. At least it was taken at Santa Clara's Playa Blanca. As for the rollover in the side column above, and the double click guy, him I shot in Panama City. There's more on both rollover images here and here. The best place to see the complete background image is here. |
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