Yearly, Gauchos (Uruguayan Cowboys) and not gather in Tacuarembo, Uruguay (northern Uruguay) for a huge Gaucho Festival. An entire “camp” is set up around a medium sized lake just outside the city. The camps (in the grounds) are traditional gaucho camps and homes, displaying and demonstrating traditional living. Among other events, there are a parade [...]
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In the far northern part of Montevideo, about a 20 minute drive, is the Prado. Among the many things in the Prado area is the National Botanical Gardens. We were a little before the season for everything to be fully in bloom, but there were a variety of flowers still. There was also a Hawk [...]
Montevideo, of course, has a lot of beaches. It has a massive coastline, most of which is actually along a river (Rio de la Plata) rather than the ocean. The further east you go, the better the water is.
Not long after arriving in Montevideo, I had the opportunity to take a quick tour of Montevideo. We didn’t stay anywhere long, but we got a layout of town, where the historical areas were and a bit of the history related to them. Pictured here (in order): Cannons at the Cerro, Flowers at the Japanese [...]
Continuing the journey… I was near Manassas for work took a visit to the battlefield on the weekend. The short tour was fairly interesting. There was much more to the site than what we visited, but it was a scorching hot day, so we kept close to the visitor’s center.
One evening we went down to the Bay Bridge for some late evening/night photography. The results came out decently, I think.
It was late evening when I got to Central Park, so I did not take many pictures. However, Autumn in central park is a very pretty time and I’d managed to show up at the peak.
While back in the states visiting my parents, we went up to Mena, Arkansas for a walk and some photo taking. The day could not have been better and we got some really good pictures. We went up into the national park there, as well as around town. There’s an old train station museum in [...]
After a long break where work got very busy, I’m back and posting again. Now…back to my Texas trip…. One of my visits was to Innerspace Caverns. These are caverns that were discovered during a mjaor highway constructon project. They’d been sealed for thousands of years until core samples found them. There’s several tours avaialble [...]
On the trip through Texas we stopped at the state capitol building. It’s an interesting building to walk through and has pretty grounds.
