Ah yes...we have an address! A difficult week long search led us to our Buenos Aires home, in a neighborhood called Palermo. So far we love it. Our studio apartment has complete kitchen, all dishes, utensils, Tupperware, coffeemaker, juice maker and more come with the apartment. The bathroom has a nice shower, great pressure and temperature, a stock of fresh towels are in the closet. There is an expandable table, a love seat sofa, a divider curtain, wood floor, closet space, a dresser, bed with sheets, TV with shows in English, cd player and balcony with a very green view. Our [View Full Entry]

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At the tail end of our 2-Week-Patagonian-Backpacking-Adventure, we finish in El Calafáte. The hostel we stayed at was up a hill away from the center of town and difficult to find in the dark. Dain and I are discovering that if the Argentinians don´t know the answer to a question, they just make-up something. After a series of bad directions, we found our hostel just in time for everything to close and went to bed hungry. The next morning we spent booking a tour to the Glaciers on a boat and just strolling around town. El Calafáte is much more modern, [View Full Entry]

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Now as Dain and I trekked into town against a very powerful windstorm, we were fully prepared to board our bus to El Calafate. In fact, we were completly comfortable on the bus with books in hand and the ticket taker came to tell us that our tickets are for tomorrow. With much confusion we exited the bus and just admitted that we were a day ahead and had to stay another night in El Chaltén. k Pitching the tent did not work in the wind, we luckily found a room last minute at El Rancho Grande. We cooked dinner and [View Full Entry]

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After finishing our frantically windy hike from Glacier Torre, we set out for 3 nights 4 days of camping around in Glacier National Park. The pack was a much lighter load on my back because we did not have to carry water in, all water in the Park is drinkable, (a very sweet feature.) After an hour´s incline the rest of the hiking for this trip we rated as easy. Kind of a nice break, but we found ourselves making destinations in half the reccommeded time and found maybe a bit too much down time, (the opposite of Nahuel Huapi trails.) [View Full Entry]

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Without much rest, Dain and I woke before sunrise to meet a group of people hiking to Glacier Torre. Our guide moved us quickly to meet Matis and Luis, who would be taking us on the Glacier for ice trekking. Now that the sun was up the snow stopped falling and the scenery was just beautiful. We crossed a fast moving, glacier fed river onto some steep terrain then over a small waterfall and back down. With the speed that Dain and I had developed from our Nalhua Huapi hiking, this group was frustrating and slow for us. We managed to [View Full Entry]

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What luck we had on this bus ride. Dain completely jinxed the entire operation. As soon as he sat down on the bus he sarcastically crossed himself, by the time we were in El Bolson the bus had broke down. The passengers waited together and here we met our actuary friends from England, Chloe and Phil. As well as some students, not unlike ourselves, from California, Tasha and Morgan. While the bus was getting a belt replaced we all went out to lunch to a restaurant that serves trout ravioli and Argentinian famous ice cream! Another 6-8 hours of an unpaved [View Full Entry]

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Dain lives to be 25....barely! On this day we attempted to declare ourselves a tourist day of just exploring town and relaxing, maybe go for a picnic by the lake. What it turned into was a wild goose hunt to get things booked and running errands. We were both quite tired from our day and went back to the hosteria for card games and wine. Later, when I was packing and Dain was showering, the electricity suddenly snapped off and a single, very loud swear word came from Dain. Apparently the poorly designed bathroom in this room had a metal box [View Full Entry]

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By far this was the most challenging and most rewarding hike I have accomplished in my very immature trekking experience. From Lake Ilon we descened quickly back to the trail head, Pampa Linda, and took a recovery break to refill water bottles, snack on granola and get out of the sun. Before long we were heading up to the 'Cloud Pass' hike. It was more popular than the very steep Lake Ilon. At the first stopping point Dain and I were easily distracted by a nearby waterfall, (cascada.) We dropped our packs and shimmied on up to see this site. It [View Full Entry]

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We caught a bus from Bariloche to Pampa Linda in Nahuel Huapi National Park, where we would stay for a short 2 nights and 3 days. The kind lady at the information desk helped Dain and I pick out and narrow down the hiking options. Naturally, Dain refused to believe that all the hiking in the park could not be accomplished in 3 days. Eventually, the park people convinced him it wasn´t a good idea. Already, we wished we had budgeted more time for this portion of our trip. The two hikes we completed are called Laguna Ilon and Passe de [View Full Entry]

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A long and bumpy bus ride, that started out 3 hours late, finally dropped us off in the town of Bariloche. Both green in the face with bus sickness, Dain and I found our way to the Centro Civico of the town. In this plaza my favorite feature of the town exsits. Usually, there are several great, fluffy St. Bernard dogs sitting pretty with their puppies. Of course, the owners charge a great amount of pesos for pictures with the adorable couple and the vast Lake Nauhuel Huapi set as the background. With much resistance I did not succumb to a [View Full Entry]

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