{"id":826,"date":"2010-11-15T21:32:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T05:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/?p=826"},"modified":"2010-11-15T21:39:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T05:39:55","slug":"a-trip-to-cordoba-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/2010\/11\/a-trip-to-cordoba-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"A Trip to Cordoba, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spent the entirety of last week in the air and in Cordoba, Argentina. Right off the bat, I knew it would be my favorite of traveled places thus far. Everywhere else I’ve been going had been, generally speaking, similar to each other. Cordoba, however, was a lot more unique. I definitely enjoyed the experience.<\/p>\n

The people there were nice, although it can be a little tricky communicating to some of the locals who don’t speak English. My fault for taking French in High School.<\/p>\n

The way people drive there is superb. People in the States are used to others being reasonably deliberate: signalling, keeping in your lane, etc. But then this leads to ineptitude, and drivers freaking out thinking you’re going to hit them when you get a little close… That’s not the case in Cordoba. Lane changes happened constantly, and cars would be bumper to bumper. If there was any open space in the road, a car would try to fill it. There were many intersections that had no lights or stop signs, just open.<\/p>\n

I brought my S95 with me on this trip, and got good use out of it. I love the portability of this camera, I just walked around, pulled it out of my pocket, pushed the shutter, and moved on. I would’ve felt foolish toting around a giant DSLR. Due to the amount of pictures, I’m going to break this post up into 2 parts.<\/p>\n

One of the flight connections was in Santiago, Chile.<\/p>\n

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Flew over the Andes on the way to Argentina.<\/p>\n

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Eventually, I was in the city.<\/p>\n

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Due to how much history Cordoba has, there were a number of churches and other relics scattered around.<\/p>\n

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One thing I loved was how most of the sodas came in GLASS bottles rather than cheap aluminum cans.<\/p>\n

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On the subject of beverages, one of the traditional drinks in Argentina is called Mate<\/a>, which is similar to tea.<\/p>\n

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While at the work site, I heard what sounded like drums down the street, and then fireworks. It turned out to be a strike from the bus drivers or of that nature.<\/p>\n

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The work I was doing in Cordoba finished in 2 days, so I ended up having all of Friday completely free. I spent the day walking around and exploring. Eventually found my way into the outskirts and neighborhoods of town, and back.<\/p>\n

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More later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spent the entirety of last week in the air and in Cordoba, Argentina. Right off the bat, I knew it would be my favorite of traveled places thus far. Everywhere else I’ve been going had been, generally speaking, similar to each other. Cordoba, however, was a lot more unique. I definitely enjoyed the experience. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}