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Venice Beach Views & The Doors

Because Ray Manzarek of The Doors died yesterday Monday, today I feel I want to post this photos I took in Venice Beach. One of the exiting feelings for me about going to visit Venice Beach was precisely to know that the members of The Doors lived there, this made me feel curious about the place. This is where all happened, the beginning.

Venice Beach, California

Venice Beach, California

Venice Beach, California

Venice Beach, California

Jim Morrison still lives there (on one wall) at Speedway Street

Venice Beach, California

Venice Beach, California

Strange House 1IMG_0208

Venice Beach: Grafitti

Hip Hop at Venice Beach

Venice Beach, California

Venice Beach, California

Venice Beach, California

Venice Beach, California

Venice Beach, California

Venice Beach, California

 

Magic Door

Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara, California

Art made by Matthew McAvene

TOMORROW

WILL BE A BETTER DAY

Griffith Observatory. Los Angeles, CaliforniaGriffith Observatory. Los Angeles, California

These days have been difficult for me, fortunately I have a really good friend. He is my best friend not only because we have fun or we do things together that we both enjoy, but because he always listens to me when I’m going through hard situations. In times like these, he gives me good advices, or maybe he only listens to me and gives me his points of view, and these situations always make me feel better. So yesterday, I called him to talk about the things that were upsetting me, and then I felt some relief. Today I feel hopeful, and I wanted to post a photo to reflect that feeling. Even when things don’t go well as we expected, and sometimes we find difficulties through a day or our life, we can be sure that tomorrow will always be a better day. For me, this foggy sunset represents the end of the day but also the incoming day that could be better. It also makes me remember that we can always see the bright side of our lives by focusing our interest in the amazing things that exists in our daily life, like the colorful sunsets and close relationships.

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Valladolid

Valladolid, Yucatán-Mexico

Valladolid, Yucatán-Mexico

The City of Valladolid is located at the State of Yucatan in Mexico, it is very near of the touristic City of Cancun (about one hour and a half by bus), so if you will travel to Cancun you can visit the place in a single day from early in the morning, like I did, or maybe more days. Valladolid was founded in 1543, and its colorful streets with Colonial architecture buildings and houses painted in a great variety of lively colors, the impressive architecture of the former Convent of San Bernardino de Siena constructed in the XVI century  (I will post photos later), and other interesting historical churches, as well as its regional cuisine, make this City an attractive place to visit.

Daydream

Pacific Palisades, California

Pacific Palisades, California

Basic needs

California

Santa Barbara, California

I found this attractive combo of telephone booth and drinker in a mall in Santa Barbara, California. I love the beautiful tiles combination. Nowadays is very difficult to find a telephone booth in US. In my City, Mexico, you can find one in every block or at least any two or three blocks away. Do you think a drinker and a telephone are basic needs nowadays?

If you want to share something interesting that you found during a walk, you can participate in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Walks Indoors or Outdoors

Pink House (Casa Rosada)

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Buenos Aires, Argentina

When I traveled to Argentina I decided I must visit the famous “Casa Rosada” (Pink House) which is the seat of executive power of the Republic of Argentina. The office of the President of Argentina is in there. This building is located on Calle Balcarce 50, in the City of Buenos Aires, facing the historic Plaza de Mayo (you can find a view of Plaza de Mayo in my post: http://mariannegv.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/plaza-de-mayo-in-buenos-aires-argentina/) The Pink House homes the Museum Government House, with objects related to the presidents of the country. 

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COATI

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We traveled to Foz do Iguaçu National Park to visit the amazing  waterfalls (I will add photos of the waterfalls in another post), and found these lovely creatures there. It seems that the coaties usually stroll around in groups. The group in the photo suddenly appeared from the vegetation, surrounded a tourist who was sitting, and took away his coke from his hands. The tourist became nervous so he stood up and moved away, then coaties sat down and began to preen each other.

Santa Barbara Harbor

California

Graffiti around the world: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Buenos Aires, Argentina

I found this graffiti at Barrio de San Telmo

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