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Argentina 2017
Bariloche: All About the Scenery
Patagonia is a vast land of mountains, lakes, glaciers, forests and deserts. It has attracted dreamers, exiles, outlaws as well as those seeking legitimate business opportunities. The early European settlers (German, Swiss, Austrian) came after WWI hoping to improve their lives economically. Located in the "Lakes District" on Lake Haupi,  Bariloche  has a distinct Alpine…
February 16, 20170Comments
Chile 2017
Adios Santiago
Fourteen days in Santiago turned out to be way too long a visit. The problem was that nearly all the museums and art galleries, which is the reason I went there, were  closed. Not even the tourism office knew they were closed. Stranger still, neither do the museum websites let the public know.  One day…
February 16, 20170Comments
Chile 2017
That Valparaiso!
The poet, Pablo Neruda, in an ode to his city,  captures it: "What nonsense you are. What a crazy insane port. Your mounded head disheveled. You never finish combing your hair. Life always surprised you." The city is in a continual state of delapidated and new construction. The old area of "Valpo", where Europeans lived during the…
February 4, 20170Comments
Chile 2017
The Female Traveler
Before I knew anything about the painting in today's featured image, I took  a photograph of her.  She is part of the permanent collection in Santiago's Belles Artes Museum.  A woman alone on a train, going somewhere, accompanied by a book. The 1928 painting is by Chilean artist Camilo Mori and is titled La Viajera,…
January 30, 20170Comments
Chile 2017
Mr. Rodas: A Dream Come True
The featured image shows me sitting with Claudio Amarza, a renowned Chilean photographer whose work has appeared in National Geographic, among other publications.  Here is the back story: In December, 2013, I went on a hiking tour of Patagonia. Our group stopped for lunch in Punto Arenas and a black and white photograph on the wall…
January 23, 20170Comments
Argentina 2017
Art in Mendoza
The featured image is the top of a sculpture in the Plaza Espana and is my favorite work of art in Mendoza.  On the left  is Spain, symbolized as the older, more motherly woman, reaching out and holding on to securely her new daughter, Argentina, by way of the Santa Maria, which brought them together.…
January 19, 20170Comments

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