Why travel?
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 To notice different aspects of culture and wonder what other ways to live are out there
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For those not from the USA - everything is bigger in America. A stretched Ford Excursion in Long Beach, CA USA (Los Angeles area)

 Check out those gas station attendants!
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Huangshan (Yellow Mountains) -China
Those are heavy loads! Dozens of porters take supplies up to the
tourist areas the hard way when they could just as easily send it up via the tram.

The gray object on the right side of the bike path in between the bicycles is a men's urinal right out in the open. Yeah!  Amsterdam, Netherlands. And you thought Amsterdam was only about smoking pot and the Red Light District.

 

 ...to check out some of man's handiwork

Titan Missle Museum (Near Tucson, AZ, USA)
9 megaton nuclear warhead (600x power of bomb drop on Japan!)

Very Large Array - National Radio Astronomy Observatory
West of Socorro, New Mexico, USA

New Summer Palace artwork - (Near Beijing, China)

Public Waterworks building (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

 

...to admire nature's gifts.

Iguacu Falls (Wikipedia) - Brazilian side
Perhaps the world's most dramatic set of waterfalls

Perito Moreno Glacier (Wikipedia) - Southern Chile
(Yes, those are people on a sidewalk)

Big Sur coast (PBS) - California,USA

Kata-Tjuta - Near Ayers Rock, Australia. Looks like a painting. Just a photo.


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All photos copyright 2001, 2002, 2003 Wayne Chen