Travel - Mexican Riviera
This was a fun 8-day getaway for J. and me, a pre-cursor to our longer cruise later this year. I am getting better at this cruising mode of travel, though I haven’t got the right amount of clothes packing down - yet. I guess I just need more practice ;-)
The gallery above shows the ever-changing video display in the center of the atrium bar on our Carnival Cruise ship, The Panorama. This was a unique feature of the ship. Our previous cruise ships had dramatic atriums but did not have the Las Vegas-like video displays like The Panorama.
The cruise left from the Long Beach terminal which is close to the historic Queen Mary, now a hotel. The image below shows the view from our stateroom balcony where the Queen Mary is to the right of the geodesic dome-shaped cruise terminal.
The purpose of the trip was to get away and celebrate J’s birthday, not so much for architecture touring, though I did take some photos here and there.
Below, some breeze block captures in Puerto Vallarta.
In Mazatlan a curvy concrete sidewalk canopy on the perimeter of a hospital caught my eye.
In La Paz I photographed a building which had an interesting group of organic rooftop structures. Afterwards I shared the photos with a fellow architect and he let me know that he had taken photos of the very same building some years back!
The best views of the trip were in Cabo San Lucas where we saw the distinctive granite rock formations at the southern tip which is the southern end of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula. As traveled around the tip back to Long Beach we were able to view the arch where the Pacific Ocean becomes the Gulf of California.