Pictures of San Salvador, capital of El Salvador

I went up to the volcano on one side of San Salvador to hike, "el boqueron," the big mouth in english. I walked a long time through coffee cultivations and finally interesected with the main road. It started raining heavily and of course my shoes got soaked which is the worst part of rain. On the way down i discovered a garden around an electrical transfer tower and took the nature shots.

When I returned to downtown San Salvador I walked around and took the urban shots. The downtown area is packed with street stalls and has a bustling character. The surrounding suburbs are more upscale and packed with modern malls. Presumably, the downtown area is the most dangerous.

Art Deco Edificio Victoria de Calle Lopez, D.F.

Edifico Victoria is one of the most attracive art deco apartment houses along Calle Lopez, which seems to me to have the greatest concentration of that style in downtown Mexico City.

Museo Nacional de Arte, D.F.

Museo Soumaya, Polanco, Mexico City

Just opened to the public, no admission fee, Carlos Slim's new museum adjacent to the high end Polanco district in Mexico City. I heard it's the biggest private museum in Latin America. It's part of a Slim project which includes headquarters of Telcel, a luxury condo tower and Plaza Carso, anchored by Saks Fifth Avenue. The Slim project seems to have detonated an upscale building boom on its periphery. Note the new tower being finished behind the musuem. Many more new condo towers are going up to the immediate east of Plaza Carso.

Mission Dolores Park and Downtown San Francisco

Tulyehualco (náhuatl: lugar alrededor de los tules ).

Long Beach at Dusk, looking north towards San Pedro

Downtown Los Angeles at sunset from Boyle Heights neighborhood.

Bungalow in court. Boyle Heights, Downtown Los Angeles

Boyle Heights is a charming historic neighborhood east of downtown Los Angeles whose enchantment has been damaged by the massive freeways carved through it.

Colonia at the western edge of Santa Fe (D.F.)

Grassy night, Uptown Phoenix

Phoenix Desert Modernism

Bus stop, Central and Indian School, Phoenix AZ

Sunnyslope, 7th Street south of Dunlap, Phoenix, AZ

Steele Park at Indian School Road, Phoenix, AZ

Interstate 10 near 7th Street offramp, Phoenix, AZ

Mexico City Girl, downtown on Isabel la Catolica

Poor man's New York, La Torre Latinoamericana, Mexico City

Couple, Calzada de Guadalupe near the Basilica

Periferico, looking south from Calle Sullivan