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Monterrey, Man on Horse. Every major Spanish city seems to have one. His information is two pictures below. |
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Monument of Commerce. It was unmarked but that's what the locals called it. At night it shoots a powerful red laser beam across the mountains. |
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Monterrey Central Park area. |
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Monterrey Central Park area. |
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Info for Man on Horse, above. |
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Monterrey, Central Park area, called "Fountain of Life". |
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Entrance to Horse Tail Falls. |
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Taken from the road above Horse Tail falls. You can see the falls to the lower right. |
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Little falls above the big falls. Also a small swimming hole. |
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From the top of the falls looking down. It's not that great of a picture but I went out on a limb for it, literally, so here it is. |
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Horse Tail falls. About 40 minutes south of Monterrey, turn right just as you are leaving Villa de Santiago. 4-5 miles up a winding road. |
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Horse Tail falls, longer exposure. |
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Side view of the rock that was on the bottom of the previous 2 pictures. |
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Does anybody else see a "man-bear-pig" creature in the falls? I guess it was better to name it Horse Tail falls than man-bear-pig falls. |
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Linares. Geeky guy at town entrance. Linares is not important enough to get a man on a horse. The frames to his glasses are broken. |
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Big ears. |
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Beginning the mountain pass from Linares to Entronque San Roberto. No surprise that it rained. The road got up to about 7,300 feet elevation. |
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It stopped raining for a bit so I took this. |
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School was out today. |
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More in the pass from Linares |
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Matehuala has an arch on each end of town. God's supposed to grab them and carry the town to heaven like a hammock. Civil engineers have their doubts. |
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Distinct mountain peaks overlooking Matehuala. |
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Matehuala gets a less geeky statue, but it's no man on a horse. |
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This beautiful bird was kept for sale at one of the many road side snake skin places. I guess their animal laws are a bit different than ours |
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On Rt 57 between Matehuala and San Luis Potosi there is about a one mile stretch of road where every 100 yards or so is one of these. |
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Each of these snake-product posts belongs to a different family. If you stop at one, people from the others run toward you and try to sell their stuff |
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Snake-skins, and the jars above are filled with snake scales, to keep you healthy, and snake oil, to cure anything of course |
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My mediocre hotel in San Loius Potosi. |