The Great Security State
Coconuts and Beach/Stone Island Taking a tour break
Our tour boat docks, by a grouping of mangroves,and we disembark into a thatched eating area where a local family will serve us lunch in a few hours. While they prepare our tour's meal, we are taken for a look at this island's coconut farm, watch Polo...
White Tank Mountain Reserve, Arizona protected nature
Outside the Happy Trails Resort, to the southwest, is a nature preserve named the White Tank Mountains. Whereas Surprise is a continuation of development, an encroachment upon the desert, the White Tank Mountains are resolutely clinging to...
National Museum, San Jose Jail exhibit
The Costa Rican National Museum is not world winning architecture. It is a renovated Spanish fort, and, for that reason, has little frills. Inside you see thick walls, peer through lookout holes in towers, pass through heavy wooden doors with huge...
Hotel Talk/ Ramon Massini Suites/ Pocitos A typical day
Tourist days come in all kinds of packages. You are sleeping in strange rooms, surrounded by people you don't know, eating food on the go that your stomach doesn't recognize. There is television in a different language, obsessing with schedules, making...
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...
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...
Graffiti Steve
Steve is my age. He is standing on a ladder in work clothes scrubbing graffiti off pieces of slate glued to a concrete wall. We both agree it is a stupid place to put slate - stucco, or plaster painted, would make more sense. Still, vandals...
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...
Construction Crane in Punta Del Este All the way from Europe
The crane must be fifty feet tall. " She comes from Europe," the man in the hard hat tells me as he walks over. "Que donde esta?" "Estados Unitos, Nuevo Mexico ...". He holds a small orange box in his hand with buttons. As he pushes buttons the crane...
Truth is stranger than fiction National hero
Jose Artigas is to Uruguay what George Washington is to the United States. You see enough statues in enough places and finally you wonder about the men behind them. You do a little research and discover that Jose Artigas is a real person with a real...
Race Cars in Punta Del Este Formula E road race
The noise draws you. With stands visible, and walls keeping people out, this spectacle is a city road race. There are cameras and cameramen strategically placed and, in retrospect, the best way to see the race is to see it on television. Despite...
Car Accident on the Rambla/Montevideo Everyone was okay
There are car wrecks every minute, somewhere in the world. This is the first one that almost hits me. Taking a walk down the Rambla, this accident happens on the roadway at a spot I just passed. I hear braking,turn, and watch a white delivery van moving...
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