Thursday, April 06, 2006

VISUAL EPIGRAMS 1

SOME SCENES FROM CHILE AND ARGENTINA

Above you see a detail from one of the upper floors of the BBVA building on Paseo Huerfanos, in Santiago Centro. BBVA is a huge commercial and retail bank in Chile with strong connections to the Spanish bank of the same name. I'd have sworn that such an image would have been found on a church, but no. The abbreviation BBVA stands for Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria.


A broad mural locatred on the street in front of La Chascona, which was the poet Pablo Neruda's home in the Barrio Bellavista in Santiago.


Here is a statue of the Chilean naval hero/martyr from the War of the Pacific (1879-1883), Arturo Prat, located in the plaza at Pichilemu, on the Pacific coast southwest of Santiago.


A rather impressionistic view of the rarely-used road which leads from the old railway station (now closed) to the beach in Pichilemu, Chile.


An armadillo, photographed near the village of Tres Lagos, in Santa Cruz Province, Argentine Patagonia.

These were all images which caught my eye during my recently completed epic 3½ month journey through Chile and Argentina. Check back occasionaly to see more.

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

ATACAMA VIAJERO REBORN


ATACAMA VIAJERO SITE PURGED;
PLANS FOR NEW BLOG TO INCLUDE
OCCASIONAL ESSAYS ON SOUTH AMERICAN TOPICS,
PLUS PHOTOS

Okay, so I purged the site. Actually, I deleted the blog and then re-started it after downloading the contents into my own archives for reference purposes. I do not even know if the old URL will connect to the new one, so I don't know if any of my old faithful visitors can even access this via their bookmarks. Maybe I will be sending out some notices if and when I put up something here.
But essentially, I wanted to dump the old but retain the name and keep a presence here at the blogger.com site. It will likely be useful for documenting future trips, which might take me off to new and different destinations, but at the moment those are only speculative at best. In the meantime, I might be posting some essays and occasional photographs from my journeys, and these might not necessarily be limited to South America, although I suspect most will be.
Anyway, you're invited to stop in from time to time to see what's up. By the way, the photo above is of the Glaciar Grande, which is located in the Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, in the Fitz Roy Massif down in Argentine Patagonia.