sweet meeting of woman and goat

and no graffiti

November 21st 2010
Why visit a big city popular with foreign travelers when you can soak in thermal baths? I jumped off the gringo trail in Argentina and hopped across the border (after a 7-hour bus journey) to Salto in Uruguay's little-visited north. And as Robert Frost would agree, taking the road less traveled has made all the difference. I'd decided to skip Rosario, Argentina's third largest city with well o ... read more

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A violent Marxist urban guerrilla movement, the Tupamaros, launched in the late 1960s, led Uruguay's president to agree to military control of his administration in 1973. By yearend, the rebels had been crushed, but the military continued to expand i... ... read more

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Tara Cloud

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I´m a one-way ticket, slow traveler, relishing the freedom of the open road and trusting serendipity to guide my journey. When I was younger, I used to travel for a year at a time. Then a few years ago, I roamed Europe and North Africa for three and a half years and liked that even better. On August 1st, 2010, I left my peaceful Mission Canyon paradise in Santa Barbara's mellow summer and emerged from a couple of planes a day and a world later in the teeming, sub-zero streets of Buenos Aires´winter. Now, with the Andes, Amazon and Galapagos between here and home, will three years be enou... full info

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3rd December 2010

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sweet meeting of woman and goat
Lovely pictures, I am pleased that you went North to Salto, this is a great sculpture, I am not aware of the artist but your remark no graffiti makes me proud in a way as an Uruguayan living in the US, but also reminds me of my youth when all Uruguay was NO Graffiti in a broad sense. What has happened that has turned us into a disgusting reality of lots of Graffiti, lots of petty theft, lots of people not working and being paid by the social political infrastructure not to work.?

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