Travels in Spain…

I haven’t posted regularly because Morgan and I are traveling in glorious Spain. We are in Granada now, leaving by car for Ronda tomorrow, then Seville, Cordoba and Madrid. So far, it has exceeded our wildest expectations. The Alhambra framed against the snow-covered Sierra Nevadas is unequaled in beauty.

Now we could admit to such indulgences as purely vacation travel…taking a break from hard work…completing the gestalt of Moorish travel. There is a lot of truth in the latter, since we often hunger for the Moorish world.

Yet one pursuit is primary. I have been on the trail of Queen Isabella I, the extraordinary woman who envisioned the evangelization of the entire world. At this moment, I intend to begin the third novel in the Cairo Diary Trilogy, to be set in Taos, New Mexico, with an introduction to Isabella’s thinking.

Please note that I am not sympathic with her vision, only captivated by the significance it held for the whole of the Americas. And, what should we discover? She is buried in a crypt across the street from our hotel, and held the fated meeting with Christopher Columbus in the Alhambra.

More next week…Hasta La Vista, Linda

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