Category: Travel Blog
Granada, Nicaragua (May 2009)
The city of Granada, rich in history and culture, is situated on the northwestern shore of Lake Cocibolca is Nicaragua’s fourth largest city and historically one of Nicaragua’s most important places both economically and politically.
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Parque Nacional Volcan Masaya (May 2009)
After checking out the sites in and around Managua, we ventured off to some of the recommended areas outside of the city since we still had amble time left before our equipment would be released.
South of the City of Managua is the Parque Nacional Volcan Masaya, the countries largest Masaya sulfur dioxide gasNational Park and one of several protected areas of Nicaragua.
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More site seeing in Managua, Nicaragua (May 2009)
So our tour continued around the city of Managua stopping at various historic and modern sites including places like the water front, the Dennis Martínez National Stadium, El Huembes Market and local restaurants. And like always a few laughs …
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Site seeing in Managua, Nicaragua (May 2009)
So unlike most of my jobs that I normally get sent on, this particular one has provided me with an abundant amount of free time due to some security / customs issues involved with our survey gear (fortunate for me, not so fortunate for our company), so I have had amble time to explore the city and it’s culture. Some of the things that I explored were …
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Nicaragua Trip (May – June 2009)
After visiting every province of Canada and almost every state in the United States during the past three years, I have finaly embarked upon my first international trip (not including USA travel …), to the country of Nicaragua, the largest Location Map of Managua, Nicaraguastate in Central America bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south.
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the White House & the National Mall – Washington, DC
Currently we have been finishing up another super long cross country Titan road trip and are on our way back to Ottawa, however due to various issues with customs and border crossing, we have had to delay our trip home until the paper work for the survey equipment has been fully processed (witch apparently takes a full day or two ??). Therefore we gained a day-off of two while traveling and conveniently it happened while we were near Washington, DC.
Therefore it was a opportunity to take a few hours for ourselves and check out some of the sites located around the American Capital City (& home of the President of the United States). It also turned out to be the same day as the Smithsonian Kite Festival, which is an annual event that takes place at the National Mall.
The Lincoln & Jefferson Memorials and the United States Pentagon – Washington, DC
This post is part 2 of my day at the National Mall in Washington, DC, where we gained a day-off of two while traveling back to Ottawa, and conveniently it happened while we were near Washington, DC.
Grand Canyon National Park (Nov 2008)
One of our non work related stops on the 2008 TITAN road trip was at the famous Grand Canyon National Park in the state of Arizona. The Grand Canyon National Park is unlike any others in the world, although it is not the deepest canyon in the world it highly recognized for its overwhelming size and colorful landscape.
Geologically it is significant (especially to people like myself with a Geology education) because of the thick sequence of ancient rocks that are beautifully preserved and exposed in the walls of the canyon. These rock layers record much of the early geologic history of the North American continent.
