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Rocking and Rolling The Earth shakes
Tourist season is blooming and booming. Tour companies pack avid nature lovers into Costa Rica's National Parks, visit rain forests, hike deep into volcanic arenas, provide vivid sights for photographers, bird watchers and naturalists. You can do zip...
San Jose, National Theatre Tour Points of interest
Checklist traveling has advantages. You go to guidebooks, visit sites and attractions, book tours with an English speaking guide, get familiar with places deemed newsworthy by those in the know. You see five to seven points of interest, stop and...
Handstands Friday afternoon
The Temple of Music belongs in a different time and place. This edifice is in a downtown San Jose, Costa Rica city park where music is performed and people congregate. This afternoon there is a group of young gymnasts practicing handstands...
Coffee Sign/Hotel Massini Lobby Lobby of Massini Suites, Montevideo
This coffee is cheap, but not the best. You buy a dollar token at the hotel reception desk, drop the token in the coffee machine's slot, slide your cup in position, choose your poison, push a button, and wait as a small drizzle of coffee fills your...
Fabini Plaza Xmas is nearing
On a Montevideo city bus headed back to Ciudad Vieja, Christmas decorations catch my eye. I take a detour off the city bus to enjoy them closer. This Plaza is not far from Independence Plaza. Today, there are spectators lounging on park benches, not in...
Potty Training Bidet is here to stay
Many accommodations I have stayed in here have had a bidet. You see them in other countries, but I never remember seeing as many as there are in Uruguay. There have been issues. In bathrooms, bidets occupy the spot closest to the shower. The...
Photo Shoot On the pier in the Rio Uruguay
Saturdays start slow in Salto. Even hound dogs sleep in this morning, worn out from chasing girls all night. On the Rio Uruguay, small boat Captains are pushing their fishing boats hard, taking two, three, four paying customers further up the...
Plants For Sale El Nuevo Vivero
As in Montevideo, there are antiquated homes in Salto too. This old casa, on a street off the main thoroughfare, is one that needs more care than it will ever get. While it waits for someone with a dream to fall in love with it, it is a garden shop - El...
Juan Carlos and Mate National drink
Marijuana is legal in Uruguay. You don't see much of it on the streets. A few surfers under palm trees indulge themselves, the pungent smell immediately detectable. You see tourists enjoying the herb in public, flaunting authorities. However, the...
Casa Pueblo Reminding me of home
When you come towards the end of the winding road that leads you from the highway to the water, you look down and see a turnaround where buses and cars are parked and people are standing on stone walls taking snapshots of the ocean for their scrapbooks....
Me and My Shadow We go everywhere
At the end of the day, photos are sifted and sorted, evaluated, approved, or deleted. You take as many photos as possible on trips because you know not all things you shoot are going to work. It takes only a quick point, shoot, then you put the camera...
Houses in Piriapolis Neighborhoods
This day is spent in a small town that offers beach, shopping, a boardwalk,surrounded by hills and wooded areas, somewhat off well trod tourist tracks. To get here we pull off Route 1 out of Punta Del Este and cut through gorgeous hills and grasslands...
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