Dear Friends and Fellow Travelers--
This post is to make sure you are online for the posting site that I've put up for our Patagonia trip. There will be postings from wherever we're near a wi-fi site in Argentina or Chile. Suggestions welcome!
Cheers,
John Coldewey
This post is to make sure you are online for the posting site that I've put up for our Patagonia trip. There will be postings from wherever we're near a wi-fi site in Argentina or Chile. Suggestions welcome!
Cheers,
John Coldewey
If you're interested in getting a bird's eye view of our route, try this. Posterous may make the attachment work by itself, but if not, make sure you have downloaded Google Earth (not Google Maps) onto your computer. Then click on the link Janice and Tom provided below (Thanks J&T; Laura sent us one like this back in June, but no-one seems to have accessed it). Once Google Earth loads using this link, look down the list on the left hand side of the screen and you'll see the places we are going to visit and, below those, scroll down to the daily routes we will be following. Click on the route you'd like to see and then click on the nearby small icon with three connected squares. That will get you started. You can stop along the way and check out actual pictures taken from various spots, and you can change your altitude by moving the cursor to the Google Earth screen and manipulating the "+" and "-" view slide on the right hand side.
Excellent entertainment, and instructive too. :-)
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John, Tom did this google earth thing with "pins" for each one of your stops etc. You get to zoom in/out and see the actual scenery etc. pretty cool. I think people might enjoy this on the blog. Thanks again for a great dinner/evening!!! Janice & Tom Janice Sears MBA CMC Business Planning + Merchandising Solutions 206-369-3726 My Blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/janicelsears http://www.tagteambiz.com -----Original Message----- From: Tom Brown [mailto:tbrown1200@comcast.net] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 12:50 PM To: Janice Sears Subject: Google Earth Placemark: My Places.kmz Google Earth streams the world over wired and wireless networks enabling users to virtually go anywhere on the planet and see places in photographic detail. This is not like any map you have ever seen. This is a 3D model of the real world, based on real satellite images combined with maps, guides to restaurants, hotels, entertainment, businesses and more. You can zoom from space to street level instantly and then pan or jump from place to place, city to city, even country to country. Get Google Earth. Put the world in perspective. (http://earth.google.com)
Here's an article that should make your mouth water for Argentina. A different kind of Omnivore's Dilemma! Brought to us courtesy of my son Chris Coldewey, who will be shadowing our trip from Seattle and overseeing this site, which he helped to set up.
Cheers, and see you Thursday
--John http://www.idlewords.com/2006/04/argentina_on_two_steaks_a_day.htm
Cheers, and see you Thursday
--John http://www.idlewords.com/2006/04/argentina_on_two_steaks_a_day.htm
We arrived early Friday morning and headed over to our hotel, the Los Patios de Montserrat, a charming 19th century B&B in one of the oldest and best districts of Buenos Aires. Fifteen foot ceilings with wrought iron skylight. Hung out for a bit and then went on a guided walking tour of the inner city for four or five hours, ending with dinner at 8:00 with our guide, Marta . Extremely interesting city, warm people. The city is huge: two or three million plus about ten million more in the sprawling suburbs. Gritty but great architecture with a certain sense of tired hope. The last seventy five years have been hard on them. Steak for lunch, btw, just in case. Tomorrow is a fairly gentle day. We'll head down towards the famous Buenos Aires cemetery with its spectacular tombs and we'll end with dinner out at Marta's home, where she has planned an exciting evening for us.
