Carlos has issued a challenge on his blog. He has posted 3 photos from an unidentified country, and asks us to guess the location.
My guess, Cambodia, was blazingly wrong. It didn't FEEL right to me, either ... I have never been to Cambodia but my idea of it is that the foliage is a bit more messy, more jungly.
Anyway, go check out the photos - see if you can guess. He will continue to post photos, until someone guesses correctly.
Posted by sheilaThanks for the link-I guessed Louisiana and the second guess Canal Zone
Posted by: Mike at January 29, 2004 9:16 PMI guess Louisiana and ventured a second guess the Canal Zone
Thanks for the link
Canal zone. very good call., I didn't even think of that.
Posted by: red at January 29, 2004 9:58 PMI'd love to pass through the Canal one day, all the more so right now since I'm reading about it in Theodore Rex.
Posted by: Bill McCabe at January 29, 2004 10:14 PMHmmmm, there's an interesting connection between Louisiana and the Canal Zone. The US District Court for the District of the Canal Zone used to fall under the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, headquartered in New Orleans...which is why there's a judge's bench from the Canal Zone in the trial moot courtoom at my alma mater, Tulane Law School.
Posted by: Dave J at January 29, 2004 10:41 PMBrooklyn?
Posted by: Jim at January 29, 2004 11:48 PMDave J -
How bizarre and interesting ... I didn't know that!
And Bill -
Paul Theroux traveled by train from Cape Cod to the very bottom of South America and wrote a very interesting (and very funny at times) book about it. The Canal Zone chapter was very bizarre - I'm sure the place is very different now - since we handed the zone back over to them, can't even remember when - but the way he described it was a kind of Stepford Wives or Truman Show existence - everything regulated, everything planned out ...
I'm not sure what it's like there now.
I gotta pick up that Teddy Roosevelt book ...
Posted by: red at January 30, 2004 7:45 AMMinor nitpicking correction: we didn't hand the Canal Zone "back" to Panama, but "over" to them. The Canal Zone came into existence simultaneously with U.S. recognition of Panamanian independence from Colombia.
Posted by: Dave J at January 30, 2004 9:06 AMThanks for the link Red...
Will from Morituri Te Salutant got the answer yesterday (he's been here quite a bit, apparently) - it's Belize (Central America). When I get back to the land of bountiful bandwidth (next week) I'll post more photos (I have hundreds just from this trip), as well as more info about Belize.
Posted by: CW at January 30, 2004 1:39 PMDave J -
Oh. It has been some time since I read that Paul Theroux book - I don't know much about it.
I don' know nothin' 'bout the Canal Zone.
Posted by: red at January 30, 2004 3:36 PMBelize! Very cool.
Posted by: red at January 30, 2004 3:37 PMFor some reason - my comments are not being emailed to me - so I feel a bit out of it over here. And it's my blog!!
Posted by: red at January 30, 2004 3:40 PMYour comments are being held for ransom in a third world state.
Posted by: Jim at January 31, 2004 3:24 PMI think your comments may have been with me on American Airlines today - absolutely incapable of reaching their destination.