We spent a few days in Puerto Madryn. We got to seeing nesting Magellan Penguins and Right Whales with their calves right from the shore. It´s pretty amazing to be that up close to nature in their environment. You feel very much like an imposter at times. We found a pretty amazing overlook near the whales...beautiful water and a great view of the whales. We hope you enjoy the photo....it cost us a dusty, windy, miserable 4 hour bike ride to get it! We´re pretty sure we even saw Lance Armstrong walking his bike up the sandy hill too. It was [View Full Entry]

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Well, after five days in Buenos Aires, we have experienced solid rain, food poisoning, boring food, horrible traffic, and the loudest streets we have ever heard. We have also experienced helpful strangers, honest cabbies, plenty of American television, movies, and music, and a couple of very interesting folks to say the least. All in all, the begining of our trip has been difficult but we are making the best of it. It isn´t so much that the city that has been a bad experience as much as a string of bad luck. We visited La Recoleta where many of Argentina´s powerful [View Full Entry]

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Well, it doesn't seem real yet, but we are actually leaving for Buenos Aires, Argentina at 4 a.m. tomorrow morning. For many of you reading this, you may be hearing about our adventure for the first time. It all happened so fast once everything was set in motion, so we didn't have time to get in touch with everyone. After we finally achieved what we thought was so important to us...to have a house, money saved, financial stability, we realized all the stuff didn't bring us happiness. And all that time we spent working and saving and "getting ahead"...we missed out [View Full Entry]

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