Day: 171 Holy Jesus, am I ever hungover… This evening Markus and Liz both had flights to seperate parts of the country, but they still had the entire day to kill before their flights. We decided to keep the car for another day and drive out to another part of Los Glaciers National Park; Lake [...]
Day: 170 So Markus arranged to rent us an extra small car today, for the four of us to head out to see the Perito Moreno Glacier and ice field. This mass is 60 meters high and grows at a rate of 2 meters a day, its a mammoth wall of ice that during the [...]
Day: 169 So I know all that talk that a photographer should always be able to get good photos as long as there is light. I agree with it too, but it is so much more fun when the sun and the sky comes out to play. As you’ve probably gathered by now, it was [...]
Day: 168 Popeye would say “Well, Blow me down” and since it did almost blow me down I thought it be perfect for the occasion. Today we (myself & the Germans Marcus and Amanda) hiked a 13 mile round trip up to another couple of glaciers above Laguna Tres. It was quite a climb, that [...]
Day: 167 Finally a day that doesn’t involve a bus. I know it won’t last but I am going to enjoy the next couple of days before I have reservations to get on another bus further south. I am currently in El Chalten, a tiny little town, dwarfed even more by the monstorous glacially formed [...]
Day: 164 With a 6am bus ride tomorrow, and the remnants of a wicked bender last night still throbbing in my head I decided to take it easy today. I walked by the lake, drank a couple cups of cafe con leche, cooked my own dinner. After dinner I sat around with a couple from [...]
Day: 163 So with my German friends hitting the bus station to head north, I was left alone for a couple more days in Bariloche. I had made an escape plan to head south along Route 40, the “worst road in South America” as Lonely Planet puts it, but the next bus isn’t [...]
Day: 162 So we took this crazy jeep trip with an insane driver who had us painfully bouncing all over Patagonia today. Of course it included meat, many great views, waterfalls (or wasserfalls in German, as I was taught) and an assortment of other things, but I am seriously sore and even bleeding a little [...]
Day: 161 So two of the German girls, Christina and Agatha, live here in Argentina. Camilla is Agatha’s cousin who is down for a month visiting and Chris is traveling alone before he starts his career in mechanical engineering next month in Germany. The reason I say all this is because now I have a [...]
Day: 160 Blinking awake to a flashlight being shined up and down the isle my first thought was “Damn, and I still on this bus.” I realized I was and that we had just crossed into a new Argentine province so the bus was being checked out for contraband/suspicious thing. I quickly lost interest, closed [...]
