Patagonia!

[agentsteel53]

the start of a batch of photos from this part of the world...



https://www.aaroads.com/blog/2012/12/12/patagonia-part-0/

[Alps]

wind-powered VMS? now i've seen everything.

[kphoger]

Thank you for mentioning the highway number for 5(D) around the DF. 

[NE2]

5D: Mexico's I-99?

[kphoger]

No, it's a much needed all-freeway bypass of Mexico City's east side.  (At least, I assume it's the Circuito Exterior Mexiquense).  As far as numbering goes, it need not conform to the nationwide numbering scheme since it's a state route.

[NE2]

As far as numbering goes, it need not conform to the nationwide numbering scheme since it's a state route.

Ah. Nice of them to make the shield shapes different.

[kphoger]

As far as numbering goes, it need not conform to the nationwide numbering scheme since it's a state route.

Ah. Nice of them to make the shield shapes different.

I'm not sure if you were serious or joking, so....I'll err on the side of serious.  The shield shapes are different.  In the image I snipped from Jake's picture, the top shield is for a federal highway, whereas the bottom one is for a state highway.  Federal highway shields have scalloped sides and top, state highway shields have smooth sides and top.  Federal highway shields say MEXICO at the top, state highway shields say the state name or abbreviation at the top (in this case, the state name of México is abbreviated MEX.  Of course, the numbers sometimes end up on the wrong blank, just as they do in the US.

[NE2]

Yeah, they're different, but who's going to notice that and realize it's intentional?

[Alps]

Yeah, they're different, but who's going to notice that and realize it's intentional?

Could say the same about NY and US shields, or AL and MA shields.

[kphoger]

Yeah, they're different, but who's going to notice that and realize it's intentional?

1.  Routes with the same number rarely, if ever, end up in close proximity.

2.  Nobody in México actually navigates by route number anyway.

3.  I noticed.  Clear back to the first time I saw them (on a trip that wasn't even by car).

[agentsteel53]

2.  Nobody in México actually navigates by route number anyway.

God help you if you try.

in any case, here is the second day.  All Chile, except a tiny bit of Argentina.



www.aaroads.com/blog/2013/01/04/patagonia-part-i/

[agentsteel53]

here's the next batch - this is officially the second day, or the first full day in South America, or the third day of the trip. 



https://www.aaroads.com/blog/2013/01/18/patagonia-part-ii/

[agentsteel53]

the first half of the third day is up!  from Puerto Natales to the entrance of the Torres del Paine national park.



https://www.aaroads.com/blog/2013/02/05/patagonia-part-iiia/

[agentsteel53]

the second half of the third day.  puttering around Torres del Paine National Park.



https://www.aaroads.com/blog/2013/02/12/patagonia-part-iiib/

[agentsteel53]

and the first half of the fourth day



https://www.aaroads.com/blog/2013/02/19/patagonia-part-iva/

[Truvelo]

^^ mmm, all that tasty venison. You should have shot that picture with a gun not a camera

[DBrim]

^^ mmm, all that tasty venison. You should have shot that picture with a gun not a camera

I can't imagine that guanaco meat tastes very good.

[kphoger]

^^ mmm, all that tasty venison. You should have shot that picture with a gun not a camera

I can't imagine that guanaco meat tastes very good.

I believe the local indigenous people make jerky out of it.

[english si]

Doing some searching, the jerky is a strong-tasting, unappealing, delicacy.

Indigenous tribes in Chile changed there main source of meat from guanaco to horse when the Spanish brought them over.

As camelids, they should taste fairly reasonable, if a little rough around the edges compared to beef.

This is from an 1860 New York Times Correspondent:

On our passage through the first Narrows we saw a small herd of "guanacoes," or wild lamas grazing on the Tierra del Fuegan shore. At evening we anchored at Peckett's Harbor, on the Patagonian shore, marked on the chart as an excellent place for game. Here we remained till New Year's morning. Several hunting parties of the officers scoured the country about Peckett's Harbor for game, and succeeded in killing nearly a hundred wild geese and ducks, together with many snipe. But we found no "guanacoes" or deer. From a Chilian belonging to the settlement at Sandy Point, twenty-six miles below Peckett's Harbor, we obtained some "guanaco" meat. It closely resembles venison in taste [Truvelo will be glad to know], but is richer and more delicate. The verdict of all who tasted the "guanaco" meat was, that it is preferable to any other. One of our hunting parties "camped out" over night in Patagonia, and your correspondent accompanying them, had an opportunity of seeing something of Patagonia, as well as of shooting some of its game.

[agentsteel53]

more Patagonia photos!



https://www.aaroads.com/blog/2013/02/25/patagonia-part-ivb/

[Truvelo]

I'm surprised there's so much English posted on signs even though some of it is slightly incorrect such as DONT MAKE FIRES. I don't think we would say it exactly like that. In National Park areas over here the signs would say START NO FIRES.

[agentsteel53]

I don't think we would say it exactly like that. In National Park areas over here the signs would say START NO FIRES.

in the US, we'd say something different.  Probably just "NO FIRES" with a pictogram.

[kphoger]

I don't think we would say it exactly like that. In National Park areas over here the signs would say START NO FIRES.

in the US, we'd say something different.  Probably just "NO FIRES" with a pictogram.

Or something more cutesy, likely invoking Smokey the Bear (RIP, Rudolph Wendelin).

[agentsteel53]

more photos from Torres del Paine!



https://www.aaroads.com/blog/2013/03/14/patagonia-part-v/

[agentsteel53]

that took a while.  long enough that the thread resurrection warning popped up.

in any case, here is Patagonia, part VI.



https://www.aaroads.com/blog/2013/10/10/patagonia-part-vi/