JOURNAL ENTRIES—MAY 1O&14 and JUNE 3, 2007
       Story and Travel: Thoughts and Reflections Before the Journey*      
                                    Steven Jay Weinberg

TH. May 10, 2007
The Travels and...

Two Observations—Buenos Aires    Journal Entry: January 14, 2008—6:20 a.m.

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Sitting at a seat before a wall-size window oriented toward the corner, as many cafes are oriented to the corner, and two delightful events are performed before me. The first one involves an old grandma in a cotton dress,...

Lunatic in Sucre

I am sidling into the city here, not terribly motivated to tour churches, museums, and other highlighted attractions. As I walked through the central plaza this afternoon after dropping off laundry, a young boy attempting to sell me candy or gum from a cardboard box-top tray didn’t...

South American Journal Entries—Steven Jay Weinberg

                        Wednesday, April 2^nd to Thursday, May 7, 2008

I’ve written the following individual journal entries with the intention that each be able to stand alone. A journal always records the past and...

Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday—A Collage/Essay—for Valparaiso and James Henkel

             Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday/ Who could hang a name on you?/

             When you change with every new day/ Still I'm gonna miss you

Landing in Valparaiso was easy after a...

The story below is a subterranean record of ideas and atmospheres absorbed and transformed in the imagination during four months of South American travel. It includes references to recent historical events and incorporates bits from my explorations. See my essay about wall art in Argentina: The...

A Tale of Two Mendozas  

April 1, 2008—12:30 a.m Mendoza, Argentina/6:00p.m. Valparaiso, Chile/April 7--9:00p.m. Valparaiso/ April 8--10:34a.m. and 10:15 p.m. La Serena, Chile

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When I first arrived in Mendoza near the end of January, I discovered that I had booked into...

Row Your Boat
Rosario, Argentina—Semana Santa/March 24-25, 2008

Monday/March 24, 2008—12:52 p.m.
Rosario, Argentina
I am heading into my third night at the posada and will see Semana Santa all the way through from my perch in Rosario. My first three nights were at Che Pampas Hostel. Then I was lucky...

The Long Haul, The Writing on the Wall, and Sometimes a Bicycle is More than a Bicycle:

Three Months in Argentina

( 29-30 March 2008/Mendoza, Argentina)

Traveling for a weekend or a month or a day is qualitatively different than wandering in the world for several months. As...

Written 18 March 2008 in an email to George Evans, then edited:

Good to keep a glimmer of optimism in the midst of pessimistic inclinations: I ended up with a penthouse
(small, mind you) in an aging hotel where I stayed  when I first arrived in Montevideo before the beach
days. Then, after an initial...

Extraordinary Ears 

Travel is an act of imagination. I, we, indulge a desire to go somewhere, and then imagine it. We have ideas that we have gathered from few or many sources about that place, and we construct stories about what we will do there. We are here, and we wish to go there. There things...