Lorraine Caputo (@lorrainecaputo)

COCONUT-BLACKBERRY CAKE º Talking with housemates about what cake I should bake on Sunday, one suggested something that would be purple – for International Women’s Day. But what would give the desired color? I hit the mar…

A perfect dessert for Women’s History Month … or anytime!

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¡Buen provecho!

… and …

Safe Journeys!

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HOLY & OTHER SPECIAL DAYS Poetic Adventures These cross-geographical collections invite you to witness holy and other special days in Latin America, through poetry and photography. Some are also guides, to help you plan your trip. º (eBook &…

Happy WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH!

Women of Latin America – Central America
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#WomensHistoryMonth #Travel #Poetry
#CentralAmerica #Guatemala #Honduras #ElSalvador
#Nicargaua #CostaRica #Panama
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Galápagos Sketches – THE SATURDAY FERIA º The morning mist has ended. Now the hammering of a new house being built, the crowing of a cock echo through this Saturday’s streets. Occasionally a white pick-up truck taxi winds through Barrio …

10 March 1535, Fray Tomás de Berlanga discovered the #Galápagos Islands.

Galápagos Sketches – THE SATURDAY FERIA
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Happy WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH!

Women of Latin America -- Peru
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10.03.2026 14:29 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ADVENTURE ON RAILS (Aventura sobre Rieles) (Note: This story is based on my journey on “Aventura sobre rieles” on 21 August 2003. If anyone knows whether this train service is still in operation, please tell us in the com…

9 March 1916, Pancho Villa led an invaded Columbus, New Mexico.

Let’s head out for this …

ADVENTURE ON RAILS
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#Mexico #trains #TrainTravel #revolution
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09.03.2026 20:52 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

10 TRAVEL TIPS FOR SOLA WOMEN TRAVELERS º Ah, sister – so you’re heading out on an epic Latin American journey – all on your own! Sola, solita! Your family and friends have all questioned you: But is it safe? It is, indeed, much safer th…

Happy INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY!

10 TRAVEL TIPS FOR SOLA WOMEN TRAVELERS
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#InternationalWomensDay #WomenTravelers #Travel #TravelTips #Safety
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08.03.2026 17:52 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Tomorrow is International Women’s Day.

But we are celebrating women all throughout March.

Let’s visit our sisters in ...

Women of Ecuador
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#InternationalWomensDay #women #Ecuador #travel #photography

07.03.2026 21:17 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ANNIE S. PECK – A South America Explorer One day while in Quito (Ecuador), I stopped by the The English Bookshop. There I found an intriguing book, Women of the Four Winds: The Adventures of Four of America’s First Women Explorers. Elizab…

Happy Women’s History Month!

Let’s salute pioneer woman traveler

ANNIE S. PECK – A South America Explorer
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GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ : His Macondo, Aracataca One of Latin America’s greatest writers is Gabriel García Márquez. He was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in the midst of United Fruit Company’s banana plantations, on 6 March 1927. The great author d…

6 March 1927, Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez was born.

Let’s visit his birthplace …

GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ : His Macondo, Aracataca
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#GabrielGarciaMarquez #Colombia #Aracataca #travel #travelogue #TravelNarrative

06.03.2026 11:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

5 March is ABSINTHE DAY :

“L’Absinthe” in Storyteller Poetry Review (Super-Sized Series: Ekphrastic Poems Part 2, 18 October 2024)
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#AbsintheDay #absinthe #poetry #EkphrasticPoetry #EdgarDegas

05.03.2026 20:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH!

Enjoy my poetic tributes to …

Women of Latin America – South America
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04.03.2026 20:03 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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Happy WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH!

Every Tuesday during the month of March, we visit sisters in South American countries.

Women of Latin America – #Colombia
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03.03.2026 12:52 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

FULL MOON SEASONS º The starry skies change remarkably once you journey south of the equator. One heavenly body, though, remains pretty much the same: la luna, a lua, the moon. The positions of her horns change dire…

FULL MOON SEASONS
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02.03.2026 19:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

STARGAZING IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE º I’m a Northern Hemisphere born and raised gal. The night sky has always fascinated me: the passage of the seasons marked by the equinoxes and solstices, the passage of the moon from full to new t…

STARGAZING IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE
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02.03.2026 19:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

STARGAZING IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE º I’m a Northern Hemisphere born and raised gal. The night sky has always fascinated me: the passage of the seasons marked by the equinoxes and solstices, the passage of the moon from full to new t…

Tonight and into tomorrow morning (2-3 March 2026), a total #eclipse will be visible in some parts of the Americas.

Prepare for this night of celestial wonders:

#LunarEclipse #moon #astronomy #LatinAmerica #SouthAmerica
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02.03.2026 19:39 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

BECAUSE OF CIRCUMSTANCE Sensitivity Warning: Sexual assault content. º º Clouds still fill the sky enough to disappear the stars, but not the three-quarter moon. Its light slithers across the blackened water. I lean again…

Happy Women’s History Month!

And happy First Sunday of the month, when we journey through one of my travel narratives (trigger warning).

BECAUSE OF CIRCUMSTANCE
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#Honduras #Travelogue #SexualAssault

01.03.2026 18:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

THE WELSH HEARTLAND OF ARGENTINA’S PATAGONIA Y mae Patagonia yn annwyl i mi, Gwlad newydd y Cymry mwyneiddlon yw hi; Anadlu gwir ryddid a gawn yn y wlad, O gyrhaedd gormesiaeth a brad: Cytgan: Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i’m gwlad, Tra h…

HAPPY DYDD GŴYL DEWI!

1 March is St David, patron of the #Welsh, is fêted.

Let’s visit …

THE WELSH HEARTLAND OF ARGENTINA’S #PATAGONIA
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#Argentina
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Orinoco Plains | Lorraine Caputo Wandering troubadour Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator and travel writer. Her works appear internationally in over 500 journals and 24 collections of poetry – including In the Jaguar V...

28 February 1788, San Fernando de Apure was founded in the #Llanos of #Venezuela.

My latest poetry chapbook takes you there:

Orinoco Plains
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27 February 1812, in Rosario, Manuel Belgrano raised the Argentina flag for the first time.

Every year, a ceremony is held at the Monumento a la Bandera in that city.

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#Argentina #Rosario #bandera #belgrano
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27.02.2026 21:36 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Recipe Corner : CHILI The changing seasons herald steaming bowls of Chili. The instable weather of the coming Spring and of Autumn’s end are the times to sit down to this gut-warming classic of Capsicum ho…

The fourth Thursday in February is CHILI DAY!

Stew up a pot of my …

CHILI
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¡Buen provecho!

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#ChiliDay #chili #recipe #vegetarian

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Recipe Corner : SEAFOOD CHOWDER Earlier this week, Pilar posted on facebook about waiting for a snowstorm to hit her hometown. She lives in Punta Arenas, at the far tip of Chile, on the Magellan Straight. How insane, I tho…

Happy CLAM CHOWDER DAY!

One of my great experiments in a hostel kitchen in the middle of winter in southern Chile was this delight:

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¡Buen Provecho!

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On Cerro Ñielol. Temuco, Chile. photo © Lorraine Caputo

24 February 1881, Fort Recabarren is founded in Chile’s Lake district, on the frontier of Araucanía. This settlement will late be called Temuco.

#history #temuco #chile

25.02.2026 01:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A HEALTHIER BANANA CAKE A healthier banana cake – and would you believe with no butter or oil, and only half the usual sugar?!

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Celebrate with my special recipe …

A Healthier Banana Cake
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