Nick Moore recently came for a visit. On foot, on bike, on train, and by sea we explored. Hitchhiking happened. Twice. He is of the ever-curious breed, meandering down streets to get a better view of a door frame (a window, a chimney, a…) of a house he’d peep from two alleys away. He will [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Travel’
July 22, 2008
Wet shoes make a day long.
This past week my dear friends (Becca, Elise, Thyra, NWM) and I took a trip to Bariloche, Argentina (to be read: Patagonia). We got to Buenos Aires by ferry, to Viedma by bus, and then trained it to Bariloche–in total, a 36 hour and 1,000 mile journey. Bariloche was part Switzerland, part tourist trap. [...]
June 15, 2008
“Where have you been?,” asked Will.
I have been playing host. I have been relishing in families new & families that feel so old. I have been in Buenos Aires with Mother Mary and Sister-friend Lauren. We celebrated Lauren’s birthday there with champagne, brownies and a really spectacular tango espectaculo (I loved her—the one with the black bun, slick back with [...]
April 25, 2008
Buenos Aires—Semana de Tourism (15-23 Marzo 2008)
“The Paris of South America” is what Marga, a friend here in Montevideo, and so many others, call Buenos Aires. Having a week of vacation for Semana de Tourismo (which is the week before Easter. It is usually referred to as Semana Santa, but in Uruguay, a staunchly areligious country, they call it Tourismo), I [...]
April 23, 2008
Cabo Polonio, Uruguay 6-9 Marzo 2008
“Water brought by men in trucks. Nights lit by candle. Maté on the porch with the dreadlocked boys selling crafts. Cabo Polonio is otherworldly. Becca and I arrived yesterday afternoon having walked 8km through sand dunes and shrubbery—a sign in the house’s window signified that we were here. As we walked along the shore, [...]
April 14, 2008
Pre-arrival Vacation to Rio de Janerio for its world-famous (and totally worth the hype) Carnivale (29 Enero 2008-6 Febero 2008)
In all, I loved Rio. I loved its people and their thumbs-up. I loved the rhythm of Samba (and the way I never mastered its cadence). I loved the dancing in the streets and I was encouraged to discover “Para Ti” using handicrafts as a means of income for women in its community.
I hope to [...]
April 14, 2008
“Rio is a city of paradox, a city of contradictions.” (A visual).
“Top of Latin America´s inequality league table comes Brazil, one of the most unequal nations on earth, where the richest 10% of the population earns 49 times the income of the poorest 10%…Brazil has been scathingly rechristened “Belindia”–a hybrid where the middle class enjoy the European lifestyle of a Belgium, surrounded by the impoverished masses [...]
April 14, 2008
“Rio is a city of paradox, a city of contradictions.”
“Today Mike and I drove our bikes through side streets and alleyways to Sugar Loaf Mountain. From its heights we could see topography confessing to the inequality that inhabited it. Favelas built in the gaps shouting from the hillside ‘We are here. We are here.’”
Wikipedia defines a favela as the Brazilian equivalent of a shanty [...]
April 12, 2008
Tina and Rotary in Rio (3 Febrero 2008)
This is an excerpt from an article from the March edition of “Round The Wheel” (the newsletter of The Rotary Club of Las Vegas Northwest). It is the first of three posts about my Pre-arrival Vacation to Rio de Janerio for its world-famous (and totally worth the hype) Carnivale (29 Enero 2008-6 Febero 2008).
“Hello from [...]
