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Cadillac Ranch Gift Shop/Texas Every tourist needs a memento
Just down the frontage road from the Cadillac Ranch is the Cadillac Ranch gift shop. It is before nine in the morning so it isn't open but they have a sign out front that encourages lollygagging. This gift shop is presided over by a twenty foot tall...
California Shopping Mall Ontario, California
The shopping mall is not only a metaphor for the Christmas season, but a melody. Jingle bells ring from inside closed stores as a security pickup patrols and deliveries are made to the back door. Stores open at ten in the morning and stay open till ten...
Tour Day at Hotel Aranjuez Just waiting for the bus
Half of the world is in winter with temps in the teens, or worse. Here, it is seventies with humidity but the sun shines more often than it hides. Jose, at the front desk, says it is busy in San Jose most of the year and his hotel has more visitors from...
Namu Folk Art Gallery, San Jose Masks, arrows and color
This little gift shop is not far from the Holiday Inn in Old San Jose, a hop skip and jump from the Municipal Square, a stone's throw from the Gold and Jade Museo's, several blocks from casinos. Browsing, I come across an authentic bow with arrows with...
Peanut Butter/Uruguay Peanut butter hunt in Uruguay
One might think getting peanut butter in Uruguay is easy. When your taste buds get the best of you though, it becomes a scavenger hunt to satisfy your suddenly craving taste buds. The only place I have found peanut butter in Montevideo has been at 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...
Three Crosses Bus Terminal Time to kill
The bus ride from Punta Del Este back to Montevideo takes three hours and ends at the Three Crosses Terminal. Downstairs, bus companies, representing large and small bus lines that cover all routes in Uruguay, are selling tickets and loading luggage and...
Real estate is always for sale Schemes and dreams
There must be as many real estate sales offices in Punta Del Este as there are places for sale and rent. No one stays put these days and for all the places here that has someone living in them, you still have plenty of places that are empty. This is a...
Sandwich bargains Construction site food vendor
Lunch is hours away but a foreman is already buying food for his troops before it rolls around A sale unfolds as I stand on the sidewalk in front of a construction site and watch sandwiches and sweets go into a five gallon bucket. A stooped figure is...
Pencil Museo/Ruta 1 You thought they were just to write with
The first stop on our day trip is a farm and museum off Route 1 that takes you from Montevideo to Colonia Del Sacramento through some of the best vineyards and cattle country in Uruguay. The Museo and farm are the creation of Emilio Arenas who not only...
Phone Accessories Battery and screen protector
When you travel it takes half a day to do what you do at home in thirty minutes. At home you drive to Best Buy to get your electronics, order your stuff on line and it is shipped to you at half the price in a couple of days. When you travel you go forth...
Grocery Shopping at the Frog You always have to eat
This grocery is a find - the Frog Maxishop. It is on the Peatonal Perez Castellano, a pedestrian walkway that connects the Montevideo port on one end and the Montevideo Rambla on the other. When cruise ships are in port, it is on this street that most...
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