Category — Travel

Visiting the Air and Space Museum in Washington, and day dreaming watching the aircrafts, rockets, satellites, space stations and other incredible devices hanging from the roof. It may sound cheesy, but it is something incredible for mankind to try and achieve flight and space travel. One of the best TV channels in the US is NASA TV, because they have LIVE retransmission of what is going on in the International Space Station! You can’t beat Space Walk with any Loft, American Idol … !!!

Aircrafts in the Air and Space Museum

As Burt Rutan (between other things, creator of the first privately funded spaceship) mentions it in the following TED video, we have been stagnating in the last decades, it’s time to really move forward on space exploration!

The Capitol is an impressive monument in Washington, the visit is coded, but looking here and there, endless corridors, small doors and strange stairs makes it a mysterious place, full of conspiracies and secret meetings…

Capitol dome

This is a composite image of the Capitol Dome in Washington, so big I am missing parts of it with more than 10 pictures. More details on its rich history here ou ici. More pictures are coming from our week end in Washington, the perfect place for museum and monuments freaks. (and we saw Obama’s helicopter going to the White House!)

Second try with one more picture:

Capitol Dome Composite 2

Beatles in NYC

Beatles are not dead (even the secret one), they cross Park Avenue during the worst winter snow storm.

Get under cover

This photo was taken during a trekking on the Perito Moreno. This is a small introduction of the next post…

When the wind brings dust from the moraine (grey or black) on the ice, it attracts sun rays and slowly melts the ice around it. With time, it creates these incredible abstract sculptures.

I am slowly going through all the pictures taken during our 2 weeks trip in Argentina. Do you prefere a “day by day story” or some “random posts”, like the last 2 ones?

We crossed Argentina from North to South this morning by plane. As our Lonely Planet says, this is supposedly the same kind of flight that brought to St Exupery the idea for “Le Petit Prince”… I will trust them…

The arrival to El Calafate is probably one of the most incredible landing we have done so far. On the right side: the andes, lagos of incredible blue and green and endless pampa!!

Great!?

(in the back, 3 pikes, our next destination: Fitz Roy range)

We spent the end of the day walking in Protected Area for birds close to El Calafate:

The view on Lago Argentina

And the birds

Tomorrow, we are going to El Chalten to see the Fitz Roy. Photos will be coming later.

Barbara and Yann