Roadtrip
Friday, December 21. 2007
Santo Domingo, Venezuela (Dec 20, 2007)
It has been a full month since my last post. Work got into the way and for several reasons I couldn’t post or process photos for a long time. Now I am on vacation (even though I am still supposed to do some work with deadlines before the end of the year) and I will try to resume posting on a more frequent basis. At least I have a very good excuse: I am in Venezuela, visiting my in-laws.
We arrived two days ago in Caracas from Boston, which is to say from winter to summer. Here the weather is so nice that is difficult to believe that in some other parts of the world is still winter. Yesterday we drove from Caracas (which is in the center of Venezuela) to Merida in the Andes. It is about just 700 km but it took more than 12 hours because highways cover only part of the route and the last 3 hours require crossing the Andes (from about sea level to over 15,000 ft). The photo shows the dam in Santo Domingo, in between Merida (in the Andes) and Barinas (in the plains).
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