From San Pedro Sula to Pico Bonito
Yet again...here is some more footage of one of the main highways outside of San Pedro. It is very common to see people walking on the side of the road and riding 2-3 people to a bicycle. I love the mountains in the background! This scenery is very typical for this region.
SEE THE WORLD 29: La Ruta De Los Seis Miles (Bikepacking Argentina)
****some song problems, new upload coming soon....
29th episode of SEE THE WORLD video series, bikepacking from Alaska to Argentina and around the world
Finally after almost 5 years - in ARGENTINA! This one starts in San Pedro de Atacama in Chile and ends near a roadless 5600meter pass in the middle of nowhere. Starting on an old but still ocassionally used train track and moving onto the remote and dry Argentinian high desert - the Puna. Its a constant battle with the wind and trying to make sure I have enough water while the least of my concerns are the sandy and rough roads. While tough, muting the sound and adding music makes these landscapes so amazing - i would space out for hours at a time while walking my bike with the wind and wonder where the day went! A short resupply stop and off again!
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notes: the miners are actually aqueduct construction workers but saying miners was just easier; the train track is not abandoned and i was listening and watching for a train!; the volcano is the second highest active volcano in the world; error with the subtitles during the TV news;
as a side note - i take no claim that this is how the world is! This is just what I saw, what I like to videotape and what I like to show (so basically lots of donkeys and dogs!). I dont like cities too much and rarely find the courage to film there, Fiambala for example was a very cool town and worth visiting! I for example was too busy stuffing my face with food and scrambling to organize food and research the route for the next 15 days.
Gear Sponsors:
these great companies are helping me out with gear either once or from time to time and I am proud to be riding with stuff that works.
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MUSIC:
Jeremy Messersmith - Ghost
Charlie Jefferson - Smoky Mountains
Bill Callahan - Too Many Birds
Gustavo Santaolalla - The Journey
Yann Tiersen - Porz Goret
The SteelDrivers - Where Rainbows Never Die
Charliie Jefferson - Wheels of Dust
Gustavo Santaolalla - Compañeros del Sendero
Iron and Wine - The Trapeze Swinger
Trevor Hall - Green Mountain State
Translations (email me via my website if you'd like to translate this in your own language! and thank you!)
Spanish - Enediel Gonzales
All mountain Guatemala
Bajando a zona #1 de mixco Guatemala
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Scary video OMG!! I thought we were going to get linched. hahaha
Fun motorcycle rental time very fun windy lots of things to see new places to go BAD situation and an early escape route needed.
Motorcycle drive up the mountain in Antigua Guatemala, came to a small town saw MS13 signs very scary situation being in the countryside people didn't seem very friendly there.
Nantasket Kayak Rentals
One of the places you'll find on Steamboat Wharf is Nantasket Kayaks, where you can rent a kayak for as little as $20 for an hour. By Cathleen Jeffrey
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Spanish conquest of Petén | Wikipedia audio article
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Spanish conquest of Petén
00:02:38 1 Geography
00:04:50 1.1 Climate
00:06:12 2 Petén before the conquest
00:09:44 3 Background to the conquest
00:11:41 4 Impact of Old World diseases
00:12:52 5 Weaponry and armour
00:14:02 5.1 Native weaponry
00:16:01 6 Strategies and tactics
00:18:53 7 Cortés in Petén
00:21:43 8 Prelude to conquest
00:22:50 8.1 Missions in southern Petén
00:28:21 9 Conquest of the central lakes
00:29:47 9.1 Early 17th century
00:32:42 9.1.1 Spanish setbacks in the 1620s
00:36:27 9.2 Late 17th century
00:37:14 9.2.1 Spanish–Itza diplomatic contacts, 1695
00:40:38 9.2.2 García de Paredes' entry from Yucatán, March–April 1695
00:42:06 9.2.3 Díaz de Velasco and Cano's entry from Verapaz, March–April 1695
00:43:46 9.2.3.1 First skirmish
00:45:25 9.2.3.2 Second skirmish
00:47:47 9.2.3.3 Retreat to Guatemala
00:49:27 9.2.4 García de Paredes' entry from Yucatán, May 1695
00:53:41 9.2.4.1 Skirmish at Chunpich
00:54:44 9.2.4.2 Reinforcements
00:55:45 9.2.5 Avendaño's entry from Yucatán, June 1695
00:59:46 9.2.6 San Buenaventura among the Kejache, September–November 1695
01:02:13 9.2.7 Avendaño's entry from Yucatán, December 1695 – January 1696
01:05:40 9.2.8 Battle at Ch'ich', 2 February 1696
01:10:19 9.2.9 Amésqueta's entry from Verapaz, February–March 1696
01:12:13 9.2.9.1 Amésqueta's attempt to locate Díaz de Velasco
01:14:54 9.2.9.2 Fate of Díaz de Velasco's expedition
01:16:39 9.2.9.3 Aftermath of Amésqueta's entry
01:17:49 9.3 Fall of Nojpetén
01:18:29 9.3.1 Final preparations
01:20:39 9.3.2 Assault on Nojpetén
01:23:42 9.3.3 Aftermath
01:25:45 10 Final years of conquest
01:28:35 10.1 Reductions around Lake Petén Itzá
01:30:12 11 Legacy of the conquest
01:31:54 12 Historical sources
01:34:28 13 Archaeology
01:35:01 14 Notes
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The Spanish conquest of Petén was the last stage of the conquest of Guatemala, a prolonged conflict during the Spanish colonisation of the Americas. A wide lowland plain covered with dense rainforest, Petén contains a central drainage basin with a series of lakes and areas of savannah. It is crossed by several ranges of low karstic hills and rises to the south as it nears the Guatemalan Highlands. The conquest of Petén, a region now incorporated into the modern republic of Guatemala, climaxed in 1697 with the capture of Nojpetén, the island capital of the Itza kingdom, by Martín de Ursúa y Arizmendi. With the defeat of the Itza, the last independent and unconquered native kingdom in the Americas fell to European colonisers.
Sizeable Maya populations existed in Petén before the conquest, particularly around the central lakes and along the rivers. Petén was divided into different Maya polities engaged in a complex web of alliances and enmities. The most important groups around the central lakes were the Itza, the Yalain and the Kowoj. Other groups with territories in Petén included the Kejache, the Acala, the Lakandon Ch'ol, the Xocmo, the Chinamita, the Icaiche and the Manche Ch'ol.
Petén was first penetrated by Hernán Cortés with a sizeable expedition that crossed the territory from north to south in 1525. In the first half of the 16th century, Spain established neighbouring colonies in Yucatán to the north and Guatemala to the south. Spanish missionaries laid the groundwork for the extension of colonial administration in the extreme south of Petén from 1596 onwards, but no further Spanish entry of central Petén took place until 1618 and 1619 when missionaries arrived at the Itza capital, having travelled from the Spanish town of Mérida in Yucatán.
In 1622 a military expedition set out from Yucatán led by Captain Francisco de Mirones and accompanied by Franciscan friar Diego Delgado; this expedition was a disaster, and the Spanish were massacred by the Itza. In 1628 the Manche Ch'ol of the south were placed under the administration of the colonial governor of Verapaz within the Captaincy ...
Nicaragua | Wikipedia audio article
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Nicaragua ( ( listen); Spanish: [nikaˈɾaɣwa]), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (Spanish: República de Nicaragua ), is the largest country in the Central American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the northwest, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. Managua is the country's capital and largest city and is also the third-largest city in Central America, behind Tegucigalpa and Guatemala City. The multi-ethnic population of six million includes people of indigenous, European, African, and Asian heritage. The main language is Spanish. Native tribes on the Mosquito Coast speak their own languages and English.
Originally inhabited by various indigenous cultures since ancient times, the Spanish Empire conquered the region in the 16th century. Nicaragua gained independence from Spain in 1821. The Mosquito Coast followed a different historical path, with the English colonizing it in the 17th century and later coming under the British rule, as well as some minor Spanish interludes in the 19th century. It became an autonomous territory of Nicaragua in 1860 and the northernmost part of it was later transferred to Honduras in 1960. Since its independence, Nicaragua has undergone periods of political unrest, dictatorship, occupation and fiscal crisis, leading to the Nicaraguan Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s and the Contra War of the 1980s.
The mixture of cultural traditions has generated substantial diversity in folklore, cuisine, music, and literature, particularly the latter given the literary contributions of Nicaraguan poets and writers, such as Rubén Darío. Known as the land of lakes and volcanoes, Nicaragua is also home to the second-largest rainforest of the Americas. The country has set a goal of 90% renewable energy by the year 2020. The biological diversity, warm tropical climate and active volcanoes make Nicaragua an increasingly popular tourist destination.
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The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is the police department of the city of Los Angeles, California.
The LAPD has been copiously fictionalized in numerous movies, novels and television shows throughout its history. The department has also been associated with a number of controversies, mainly concerned with racial animosity, police brutality and police corruption.
The radio show Calling All Cars hired LAPD radio dispacher Jesse Rosenquist to be the voice of the dispatcher. Rosenquist was already famous because home radios could tune into early police radio frequencies. As the first police radio dispatcher presented to the public ear, his was the voice that actors went to when called upon for a radio dispatcher role.
The iconic television series Dragnet, with LAPD Detective Joe Friday as the primary character, was the first major media representation of the department. Real LAPD operations inspired Jack Webb to create the series and close cooperation with department officers let him make it as realistic as possible, including authentic police equipment and sound recording on-site at the police station.
Due to Dragnet's popularity, LAPD Chief Parker became, after J. Edgar Hoover, the most well known and respected law enforcement official in the nation. In the 1960s, when the LAPD under Chief Thomas Reddin expanded its community relations division and began efforts to reach out to the African-American community, Dragnet followed suit with more emphasis on internal affairs and community policing than solving crimes, the show's previous mainstay.
Several prominent representations of the LAPD and its officers in television and film include Adam-12, Blue Streak, Blue Thunder, Boomtown, The Closer, Colors, Crash, Columbo, Dark Blue, Die Hard, End of Watch, Heat, Hollywood Homicide, Hunter, Internal Affairs, Jackie Brown, L.A. Confidential, Lakeview Terrace, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Life, Numb3rs, The Shield, Southland, Speed, Street Kings, SWAT, Training Day and the Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour and Terminator film series. The LAPD is also featured in the video games Midnight Club II, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, L.A. Noire and Call of Juarez: The Cartel.
The LAPD has also been the subject of numerous novels. Elizabeth Linington used the department as her backdrop in three different series written under three different names, perhaps the most popular being those novel featuring Det. Lt. Luis Mendoza, who was introduced in the Edgar-nominated Case Pending. Joseph Wambaugh, the son of a Pittsburgh policeman, spent fourteen years in the department, using his background to write novels with authentic fictional depictions of life in the LAPD. Wambaugh also created the Emmy-winning TV anthology series Police Story. Wambaugh was also a major influence on James Ellroy, who wrote several novels about the Department set during the 1940s and 1950s, the most famous of which are probably The Black Dahlia, fictionalizing the LAPD's most famous cold case, and L.A. Confidential, which was made into a film of the same name. Both the novel and the film chronicled mass-murder and corruption inside and outside the force during the Parker era. Critic Roger Ebert indicates that the film's characters (from the 1950s) represent the choices ahead for the LAPD: assisting Hollywood limelight, aggressive policing with relaxed ethics, and a straight arrow approach.