Through Five Administrations: Reminiscences of Colonel William H. Crook, Body-Guard to President Lincoln - Book Review

Book Review - Five Stars 

Through Five Administrations: Reminiscences of Colonel William H. Crook, Body-Guard to President Lincoln by William H. Crook

This book relates the rapid and dynamic alteration of American history from the Civil War era to the late 1800s: Half a century of political turmoil as the Industrial Revolution forever accelerates humankind from the slow pace of horse and buggy to steam trains and the age of aviation.

A piece of history not to be overlooked.

EXCERPTS:

“What has happened?” He looked at us in amazement, not recognizing Mr. Lincoln. “Why, where have you been? Lee has surrendered.” There is one point which is not understood, I think, about the President’s trip to City Point and Richmond. The streets were alive with people, all very much excited. There were bonfires everywhere. We were all curious to know what had happened. Tad was so excited he couldn’t keep still. We halted the carriage and asked a bystander, “What

has happened?” He looked at us in amazement, not recognizing Mr. Lincoln. “Why, where have you been? Lee has surrendered.” There is one point which is not understood, I think, about the President’s trip to City Point and Richmond. I would like to tell here what my experience has made me believe. The expedition has been spoken of almost as if it were a pleasure trip. Some one says of it, “It was the first recreation the President had known.” Of course, in one sense this was true. He did get away from the routine of office-work. He had pleasant associations with General Grant and General Sherman, and enjoyed genial talks in the open over the camp-fire. But to give the impression that it was a sort of holiday excursion is a mistake.

From it has grown the series of receptions to the Diplomatic Corps, the Army and Navy, the Judiciary, and Congress, which are perhaps the most important general social events of the season. The first of these receptions was in February, 1878. The indiscriminate evening receptions at the White House had been for many years a source of great annoyance. In Lincoln’s time they had been marked by disgraceful vandalism; even when that was not true, there were violations of what one would think the simplest rules of good breeding. Carelessly dressed women who had not even taken the trouble to smooth their hair or wash their faces elbowed—sometimes sharply—women in dainty evening gowns. Sleepy children were dragged into the crush. Cloaks which were often greasy with dirt were worn into the very presence of the receiving party. It had become evident that the time for being democratic was not at evening receptions. Tourists and the curious generally could shake the hand of the President in the afternoon.

Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, book review

Book Review - Five Stars 

Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam by Michel Onfray

An old friend said about organized religion: “They are all right or they are all wrong.”

Atheist Manifesto cuts this issue to the bone, giving numerous explicit examples of mass self-hypnotism using the age old tried and true methods of fasting, sleep depredation, and chanting.

Recently cult leader Jimmy Jones took nearly a thousand of his dedicated disciples to their suicidal deaths at Jonestown in South America.

The Islamic state duped a group of their zealot followers into a kamikaze suicidal mission September 11, 2001. The heavenly reward was a promise of 40 young virgins. Evangelicals, Orthodox, and other science deniers decree to kill all those who do not believe in their particular sect. This “go for the juggler approach” does away with any type of world harmony.

I found the book a timely and thought provoking eye opener.

EXCERPTS:

A man can certainly avoid facing tragic reality by imagining himself as somehow different from the being he truly is, but only at the cost of turning himself into something unrecognizable. I do not despise believers. I find them neither ridiculous nor pathetic, but I lose all hope when I see that they prefer the comforting fairy tales of children to the cruel hard facts of adults. Better the faith that brings peace of mind than the rationality that brings worry, even at the price of perpetual mental infantilism. What a demonstration of metaphysical sleight of hand and what a monstrous price! Having realized all this, I experience the feeling that always arises deep within me when I am confronted with the symptoms of indoctrination and deception: compassion for the sufferer, coupled with burning anger toward those who perpetuate the deception.

No hatred for the man on his knees, but a fierce resolve never to collude with those who urge him to adopt this humiliating posture and keep him there. Who would not sympathize with the victims of fraud? And who would not approve of battling the perpetrators?

The Catholic who eats fish on Friday derides the Muslim who refuses pork, who in turn scoffs at the Jew for refusing shellfish.

Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans - Book Review

 

Book Review: 5 Stars

Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans (Forbidden Bookshelf Book) by Stephen Pizzo.

It has been said that you can sell the American public anything, even a war. Glib tongued and charismatic Ronald Reagan pulled it off, and he even became a two term president. Only in America!

I found this well-written and remarkable book informative and educational in the extreme. The numerous examples of shyster financial skullduggery are overwhelming.

Excerpts:

Those pushing for deregulation are promising that, if Congress relaxes its hold over them, they’ve learned their lessons from past mistakes and will act only in the best interests of the industry and nation. Congress is, again, in a listening mood. And there’s more lobbyists and more money flowing in their direction than ever before. And once again, those of us with long memories worry.

Of the missing money as much as half had been stolen outright. Yet few of the hit-and-run artists who infiltrated the thrift industry went to jail and little of the money was recovered. In short, these inside jobs not only paid but paid very well

Just when the country needed the best regulators money could buy, those regulators were stopped cold in their tracks by some of the best politicians money had bought. indeed. The savings and loan industry as Americans had known it for 50 years teetered on the edge of collapse.

Not until meaningful campaign finance reform was enacted meaning, public financing and limits on spending would this change. It was simply cheaper to pay for politicians’ campaigns than it was to pay later for their corruption.

The Hoover years from the roaring twenties to the early 1930s left the lasting impression of the great depression and Ronald Reagan would do him one even better. The period that came to be known as “the Reagan years” spawned a wave of graft and corruption along with the Iran-Contra scandal unlike any period in history.

Between 1981 and 1989 the net worth of the 400 richest Americans listed by Forbes magazine rose 300 percent.

At the same time, the federal government debt grew by trillions.

After 50 years of trying to entice the communists into the capitalist camp, the United States was too broke to help them when they finally did capitulate.

Review by John Grimsrud

The Real Fidel Castro by Leycester Coltman - Book Review

Book Review - Five Stars

The Real Fidel Castro by Leycester Coltman

A biographical look into a highly intelligent charismatic self-centered narcissist who was possessed with the uncanny ability to be pitied for his actions while portraying opponents as persecutors. Considering his high-powered political enemies persistent efforts to eliminate him, he actually lived to die of old age, and he left a legacy of lengthy accusatory speeches to posterity.

Castro told Alfredo Guevara: “I would be a Communist if I could be Stalin.”

Will Rogers said after visiting the Soviet Union in 1926 “Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.”

Excerpts:

Most of Castro’s contemporaries at Belin college, both pupils and teachers, would become his political enemies when he turned Cuba into a Communist state. Many went into exile. Some spent long years in prison. But there is a surprising degree of convergence between their recollections of Castro as a schoolboy and his own reminiscences in old age. As a teenager he had been subject to conflicting influences. He had a mother who was warm, extrovert and loving, always ready to support and defend him. But he had been taken away from his home at an early age and spent many years in the environment of an all-male boarding school, where he learned to be hard and emotionally self-reliant.

With Mirta, Fidel was usually loving and protective, in a courtly Spanish manner. It soon became apparent, however, that his personality and lifestyle were highly unsuited to married life. Like many idealistic and charismatic people, he was at the same time monumentally egocentric. He could wax indignant about the downtrodden and oppressed in general, while showing no concern for the sensibilities of the particular people closest to him. He often failed to turn up to meals at home, preferring to spend his evenings at the Ortodoxo party headquarters or in cafeterias frequented by fellow students. If he did come home, he would often bring a bunch of political followers, and expect Mirta to cater for them. If he had money, he would spend it on his political projects rather than on his wife and home.

Castro maintained the contempt for money which he had shown as a student. At home in Oriente his father owned virtually everything and he could simply take or borrow what he wanted. When he needed to buy something he asked his father for money, but felt little gratitude when he received it. At school the Jesuits had taught that it was spiritual values that mattered and that worldly goods were a snare and delusion. At the university he had spent much of his time denouncing the greed of money-grubbing politicians, unscrupulous businessmen and exploitative landowners.

Castro may have been privately pleased at Batista’s coup. He had for years been advocating the revolutionary path to power. It would be easier to justify the violent overthrow of a military dictator than of a democratically elected government, however flawed.

The head of the Caribbean desk in the State Department said that many people thought Batista was a son of a bitch, but American interests came first: “At least he is our son of a bitch.”

He was especially infuriated by Americans who referred to the condemned men as “Batista supporters”, implying that support for Batista was their only crime. “We are not executing innocent people or political opponents. We are executing murderers.” He accused the Americans of hypocrisy, saying that Batista did not give his opponents any sort of trial: he just had them killed, and there were no protests in the United States. “They did not write against the dictator, because the dictator was nothing more than the servant of their economic interests. Who are they to protest, who had war criminals in their service?”

After nine months in power, Castro had made a lot of enemies. He went everywhere with a team of bodyguards. Even his closest associates seldom knew where he intended to spend the night. His security services were receiving numerous reports of plots to kill him. Groups of anti-Communist rebels, some supported by the CIA, had established guerrilla bases in the mountains of central Cuba. Thousands of middle-class people, including much-needed doctors, engineers and other professionals, were moving to Florida, hoping and expecting to return when the disastrous Castro government collapsed.

Brazilian observer made a speech obliquely but clearly criticizing Cuba for interfering in the affairs of other countries. Qaddafi applauded the Brazilian loudly. But now Castro played his trump card. He had once been well disposed to Israel, and an admirer of its military prowess. But Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians, and its ever-closer alliance with the United States, had led him to change his mind. He now stood up and announced that Cuba was breaking diplomatic relations with Israel. It was a dramatic gesture of solidarity with the Arab countries. Qaddafi rose and embraced Castro warmly. From then on they were friends. No East European country had broken relations with Israel. So perhaps, Qaddafi no doubt thought, Castro was non-aligned after all. In justifying his condemnation of Israel, Castro would always start by emphasizing that he felt no hostility towards the Jewish people:

inks with Cuba fifteen years earlier had mostly restored at least commercial ties. Presi

We repudiate with all our strength the ruthless persecution and genocide that Nazism unleashed in its time against the Jewish people. But there is nothing more similar in contemporary history than the eviction, persecution and genocide being carried out by imperialism and Zionism against the Palestinian people. Piece by piece the Palestinian lands, and territories belonging to neighboring Arab countries, have been seized by the aggressors, who are armed to the teeth with the most sophisticated weapons of the United States arsenal. United Nations resolutions have been contemptuously ignored or rejected by the aggressors and their imperialist allies. Can anyone doubt that the United States plays a fundamental role in preventing a just settlement in the region, by aligning itself with Israel, by supporting it, by working towards partial solutions that favor Zionist objectives, and by safeguarding the fruits of Israeli aggression at the expense of the Palestinian people? Castro’s change of position on Israel looked to many people in the West like cynical opportunism. But most Arabs, like Qaddafi, welcomed the change without worrying too much about Castro’s reasons or motives. Castro made the most of his new popularity in the Arab world. He flew from Algiers to Baghdad, before continuing to India and Vietnam. In New Delhi he heard that in Chile Allende had been overthrown and killed in a military coup.

Castro felt vindicated in his view that to achieve socialism in Latin America without an armed revolution was virtually impossible. The military caste, trained in the United States and backed by the CIA, would always act to bring down a socialist government,

With Castro consolidated in power, and the economy growing, many Americans began to question whether there was any point in maintaining the trade embargo against Cuba.

The Latin American countries which had followed the United States lead in breaking ldent Nixon said: “There will be no change towards that bastard while I’m President.” But Nixon was forced to resign over the Watergate scandal. The more pragmatic President Ford, and later President Carter, were willing to look at the possibility of normalizing relations with Cuba.

Applying double standards: Through the International Monetary Fund, they demanded that other countries must eliminate their budget deficits, while themselves running the world’s biggest budget deficit. Belonging to the world’s only superpower, they took it for granted that their way of life was superior to all others, and that they were helping humanity by spreading their own values and methods. With rare exceptions, they felt no need and no incentive to find out about other countries and other cultures. They shut themselves off from ideas or information which challenged their comfortable assumptions. “They are afraid of ideas, of words, they are afraid of the truth.” The US Congress was constantly insisting that more information should be broadcast from the United States to Cuba, by television as well as radio. But it was the Americans who needed information. “It is the most ill-informed population in the world. Statistics and surveys show that a huge number of Americans do not even know where Latin America is, nor what are the capitals of Mexico or Brazil, and they confuse Argentina with Brazil, Brazil with Colombia, and so forth. There is generalized ignorance. They know nothing at all about Cuba, but they want to inform us!”

The Hidden History of the Korean War, 1950-1951 by I. F. Stone

 

The Hidden History of the Korean War, 1950-1951 (Forbidden Bookshelf Book 10)

by I. F. Stone

Right wing radical Republicans had been searching since the Hoover days in the early 1930’s for a war to propel their man Eisenhower along with his like minded cronies Nixon, the Dulles brothers, Earl Butts and their rabble rousing Joe McCarthy spewing anti-communistic hate mongering rhetoric. If you don’t vote Republican you are a commie!

Ironically the Korean War would begin a long string of military defeats making World War Two the last war the Americans would win.

I truly found this fascinating factual historical book an intriguing and enlightening look inside the political forces that moved America with poisonous personalities. NATO and the United Nations locked horns with Soviet Russia and Red China leading the Americans to discover they no longer had military supremacy.

Excerpts:

The major conflicts that the United States has fought since 1945, the Korean War is the least understood, the most likely to be “forgotten,” and the most important one of all. It was the occasion for Pentagon spending to reach its highest point during the Cold War, and for establishing hundreds of American military bases on a world scale; it was the crisis that created the national security state at home and at large, including a permanent standing army for the first time in American history; and the prosecution of the war stabilized a containment doctrine that had been under attack, if only because China intervened and demolished the American attempt to overthrow the North Korean regime. The Korean War is also the longest-lasting of American conflicts. Some twenty-five thousand US combat troops arrived in Korea in September 1945 to set up a three-year military government, and today, nearly seventy years later, twenty-eight thousand American soldiers remain in the South.

The British were curious to know how the Russians got so much more power out of this engine than the British did. “How have the Russians,” the question was put, “obtained such high performance from a centrifugal flow engine?” The Manchester Guardian’s aviation correspondent was quoted as asking how the Russians had managed to “fly at the speed of sound” with such an engine. Aviation Age had warned, in its special Russian survey number, that “the industrial-technical gap between the U.S.A. and the USSR is not as great as some Americans think.”

The subsonic bombers on which the American military had depended for delivery of the atom bomb in a future war against Russia were indefensible against jet interceptors flying at or above the speed of sound.

I. F. Stone (1907-1989) was an American journalist and publisher. After working at the New York Post, the Nation (as editor from 1940-1946), and PM, he started his own journal, I. F. Stone’s Weekly, in 1953. This publication notably covered the New Deal, McCarthyism, the birth of Israel, and the Vietnam War. In 1999, I. F. Stone’s Weekly was voted the second-best print-journalism product of the entire twentieth century in a poll of fellow reporters. Stone also published more than a dozen books and was considered one of the most influential journalists of the post-war period.

The Robber Barons: The Classic Account of the Influential Capitalists Who Transformed America's Future by Matthew Josephson

 

Book Review - Five Stars

The Robber Barons: The Classic Account of the Influential Capitalists Who Transformed America's Future (Harvest Book) by Matthew Josephson

This book explores America’s explosive growth and expansion beginning with the Industrial Revolution when the Erie Barge Canal made New York the Empire State and the money grabbers found that it was far cheaper to buy politicians than to pay taxes or employees making New York City the shyster capital of the planet.

I positively loved the author’s amazing collection of rags to riches financial roller coaster rides. It is compiled in perfect historical sequence detailing the unremitting wealth scavenging of those who would never have enough.

Excerpts:

Five trunk lines now plied between the Atlantic and the Great Lakes at Chicago. Numerous “middle railroads” radiated out of Chicago across the Rocky Mountains, four additional transcontinental lines were virtually completed to the Pacific Coast in the same decade, which saw the laying of over 70,000 miles of track.

During a generation, the natural impulses of the railroad barons, as of the captains of industry, led them to set upon each other, with sandbag or in ambush. With the levers of giant machines in their hands they would effect destruction, dispersion and anarchy, engulfing the millions of citizens over whom they had power of life and death.

Limited in their capacity of enjoyment and bored, yet prompted to outdo each other in prodigality, the New Rich experimented with ever new patterns or devices of consumption. In the late 70’s, the practice of hiring hotel rooms or public restaurants for social functions had become fashionable. At Delmonico’s the Silver, Gold and Diamond dinners of the socially prominent succeeded each other unfailingly. At one, each lady present, opening her napkin, found a gold bracelet with the monogram of the host. At another, cigarettes rolled in hundred-dollar-bills were passed around after the coffee and consumed with an authentic thrill. One man gave a dinner to his dog, and presented him with a diamond collar worth $15,000. At another dinner, costing $20,000, each guest discovered in one of his oysters a magnificent black pearl. Another distracted individual longing for diversion had little holes bored into his teeth, into which a tooth expert inserted twin rows of diamonds; when he walked abroad his smile flashed and sparkled in the sunlight. As the years pass new heights of fantasy and extravagance are touched…

...The organization of “conspicuous waste” by the owners of masses of money may be said in fact to have had a clear economic justification. Yet to effect a redistribution of wealth in this fashion was a stupendous and well-nigh impossible task which was never to be completed.

Captain's Wife by Abby Jane Morrell

Book Review - Five Stars 

Captain's Wife by Abby Jane Morrell

A remarkable memoir of sailing before the age of steam vessels, 1829-1831.

Excellently written, extremely informative and filled with thoughtful insightful philosophy. I loved the author’s remarkable observations and her extraordinary ability to paint pictures with her words. A worthwhile read.

Excerpts:

How wondrous are laws of nature, that the tree and plant should drink up the poisonous part of the air in the night, and breathe it out a balmy restorative in the morning!

The East India Company, whatever politicians may say about “monopoly” and “exclusive privileges”, has done more to make safe the navigation of eastern waters than all the world besides. Governments are not generally disposed to do much for the general interest, and our own has hardly made a chart for the navigator. I was mortified that in every country we visited, we sailed by charts of other nations, even leaving New York by an English chart. Nor had we any books on board written by our countrymen, giving particulars of these areas, although I understand one or two volumes have lately been issued upon this subject, but I have not seen them, and we had nothing of the kind when we sailed. It was to English books only we had recourse!

This was the era of naivety as to the earth's seemingly endless bounty:

The whale fisheries in all parts of the world, although they furnish no small part of man’s food yet there is no diminution of the stock. These great fish are no doubt diminished, but it is not in the power of man to destroy their race which, according to the best accounts, produce ten thousand, and even a million yearly, while millions of the cod are caught annually off the northern shores of America, without a diminution having ever been perceptible.

Our great mathematician, Dr. Bowditch (although considered greater in Europe than in America), performed many long voyages from the United States to India, and always having with him good officers, had leisure to go through those long and difficult calculations which have since laid the foundation of his fame. Every person at sea is constantly reminded of him, as his Navigator is on every officer’s table.

As eternity is beyond time, so are these subjects beyond those that lie in our pathway through life.

Theodore Roosevelt Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt

 

Theodore Roosevelt Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt was an outstanding, self motivated, determined, resolute, genuinely honest, unbiased, fair minded and an All-American icon.

Theodore grew up in New York City, then the shyster capital of the world entrenched in Tammany Hall political cronyism, and corruption where he quickly learned the lesson of what not to do in government. I loved this story of his learning experiences as he worked his way up from local government to state and federal step by step, building experience and gaining priceless knowledge using personal profiling from the bottom up to the presidency.

Excerpts:

He also gave me a piece of advice that I have always remembered, namely, that, if I was not going to earn money, I must even things up by not spending it. As he expressed it, I had to keep the fraction constant, and if I was not able to increase the numerator, then I must reduce the denominator. In other words, if I went into a scientific career, I must definitely abandon all thought of the enjoyment that could accompany a money-making career, and must find my pleasures elsewhere.

My experience in the Police Department taught me that not a few of the worst tenement-houses were owned by wealthy individuals, who hired the best and most expensive lawyers to persuade the courts that it was “unconstitutional” to insist on the betterment of conditions. These business men and lawyers were very adroit in using a word with fine and noble associations to cloak their opposition to vitally necessary movements for industrial fair play and decency. They made it evident that they valued the Constitution, not as a help to righteousness, but as a means for thwarting movements against unrighteousness. After my experience with them I became more set than ever in my distrust of those men, whether business men or lawyers, judges, legislators, or executive officers, who seek to make of the Constitution a fetish for the prevention of the work of social reform, for the prevention of work in the interest of those men, women, and children on whose behalf we should be at liberty to employ freely every governmental agency.

Americans learn only from catastrophes and not from experience.

My Life and Work by Henry Ford

Book Review - Five Stars

My Life and Work by Henry Ford

Henry Ford was a self-made man, philosophical thinker of exceptional intellect with self-motivated determination who strived for and achieved perfection. He considering his workers, and at the same time his perspective buyers. A true American icon.

I loved the book and the inspiring resoluteness of character...Henry Ford was a one of a kind phenomenon. A great must read book.

Excerpts:

“Russia will have to go to work,” but that does not describe the case. The fact is that poor Russia is at work, but her work counts for nothing. It is not free work. In the United States a workman works eight hours a day; in Russia, he works twelve to fourteen. In the United States, if a workman wishes to lay off a day or a week, and is able to afford it, there is nothing to prevent him. In Russia, under Sovietism, the workman goes to work whether he wants to or not. The freedom of the citizen has disappeared in the discipline of a prison-like monotony in which all are treated alike. That is slavery. Freedom is the right to work a decent length of time and to get a decent living for doing so; to be able to arrange the little personal details of one’s own life.

When a man is master of his own sphere, whatever it may be, he has won his degree, he has entered the realm of wisdom.

Perhaps no word is more overworked nowadays than the word “democracy,” and those who shout loudest about it, I think, as a rule, want it least.

2021: John M. (Bing ) Grimsrud a brief personal profile

 

I live with my wife of 51 years, Jane, in our ecologically friendly home of our own design in Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico. Being minimalists and choosing to live with nature we have no motor vehicles, exclusively using bicycles, no insecticides or commercial food additives. Our home with its jungle garden is all natural with indigenous vegetation. The compost environment provides us with fresh 100% natural tropical eats year round.

We have three Mexican children, Guero Alex 46, Lupita 43, and Grisel 37. They have given us 6 entertaining spirited grandchildren ranging in age from 21 years to 2.

Jane and I have led an adventuresome and rewarding life of diverse traveling and educationally rewarding experiences by bicycle, canoe, sailboat, shrimp boat, camper van, cruise ship, freighter, train and airplane. We have lived in Wisconsin, South Carolina, Florida, Texas, and Yucatan, Mexico. Touring across, Canada, the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean Islands, and extensively across Europe from Norway and Sweden to Spain and Portugal plus from England and Ireland to the former East Block countries with annual tours averaging from three and five months.

Our various adventures and travels required expanding our knowledge base. Here is a brief list of some of those cognitive enhancement of learning we acquired: business management, architectural design, structural design, electrical/electronics both commercial and industrial, metallurgical properties, machine tool operations, cutting, welding and brazing, seamanship, boat handling, three semesters of sailing, coastal navigation, celestial navigation, atmospheric phenomenons, basic survival at sea, cabinet making, carving and joinery, diesel engine operations, seafood procurement and preservation, heating and cooling/residential and commercial, ceramic tile/carpet instillation, philosophy/personality profiling, history studies/American, Mexican, European, Viking and family. Our quest for knowledge is ongoing.

Still keeping physically active at 80 years of age and Jane at 76. we continue to bicycle every day. Ten years ago were were still averaging 40 to 60 miles of biking daily and gray hair was just beginning.

We are very happy to be quarantined together in our tropical sanctuary home with never a dull moment.

Books and blogs generated by our travels and studies:

Books available on Amazon.com, both digital and paper

Dursmirg travel series:

Sailing Beyond Lake Superior

Sailing the Sea Islands

Sailing the Florida Keys

Sailing to St. Augustine

Yucatan travel series:

Yucatan’s Magic

Yucatan for Travelers

Jane’s historical books:

Looking for a New Frontier, by Jane Pearson Grimsrud

Brule River Forest and Lake Superior, by Jane Pearson Grimsrud.

Our blogs:

Bingsbuzz

Note about our reading: Jane and I are avid readers averaging more than a book a week plus listening to audio books every night in our hammocks. I publish book reviews of books that I deem worthy of a five star rating and post them on my bingsbuzz blog.

Yucatan by Bicycle

Bicycle Yucatán – Yucatán’s Magic