http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Pathways Argentina/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Pathways Argentina en-us Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:38:53 BST Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:38:53 BST It's been a beautiful Fall here in Mendoza. The days have been warm and sunny and the nights cool. Justin and Connor joined us from the Chicago area earlier this month. Both Connor and Justin got busy right away learning the ropes in the music studio. Justin plays guitar and writes songs while Connor's focus is drums drum programming and electronic music. It's great to have them with us. A week a http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-279745.html It has been a busy and creative fall for us here. So much that we've gotten a bit behind with publishing our blogs. In early April Ed Will Nicole and Rich traveled to the Chilean Coast for 3 days of exploring Valparaiso Vina del Mar Renaca and Con Con. We all loved the seaport city of Valparaiso with its multicolored houses and the maze of alleys winding up the steep hills. It has a very b http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-279460.html Mendoza In March is a beautiful place. The hot temperatures have moderated and the summer rains have caused the surrounding desert to become surprisingly green. The Vindemia festival celebrated in Mendoza during the second week of March signaled the begining of the harvest season and our progression into autumn. We have been spending more time at Casa Cuna an orphanage in Godoy Cruz while we wo http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-255888.html Our travel writer friend Charlie published a short article announcing the arrival of summer in Mendoza. He wrote Spring is three or four hours on a Tuesday afternoon and summer is suddenly here with the streets and vineyards abruptly full of color. In Mendoza everything is green as the trees that line the streets are filled with leaves and flowers the jacaranda trees turn suddenly http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-216228.html Spring is upon us at least for the past few weeks. By the end of this month we should be experiencing temperatures in the 80's and 90's. This month we have had visits from Evan's parents Mauri and Jeff as well as Evan's friend Pat from Davis California. Evan and his parents and Pat traveled to Buenos Aires and then on to Puenta del Este in Uruguay. Evan and Jeff then headed south for a few day http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/blog-211199.html These past weeks have been about endings and beginnings. Doug James and Scott have returned to the states and Ian Jaime David and Derek have recently arrrived. Doug's final weeks were a filled with social gettogethers with his many Argentine friends and a mind numbing blitz in the studio to finish up his various projects. We had a fun asado in our new house on Calle Roca which was attended by http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-203075.html It's been a busy and eventful past few weeks. We weren't able to get out a new blog until now since the blog crashed and took down our first three entries. We managed to recover the last two and are working on getting the first one back.Picking up where we left offWe spent a lot of time at Carlos Gonzales School working on the playgroundsoccer field which is called la cancha We started at the http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/blog-194277.html Itrsquos been a busy and fun couple of weeks. The weather has been remarkably warm considering that these past two weeks coincide with the Christmas Holiday period in the Northern Hemisphere. Scott arrived from Massachusetts on the 15th bringing his guitar an electric drum set and our new piano synthesizer. The men at customs had never seen one person bring in so much equipment. They were in http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/blog-175988.html This is an early blog we lost when the website crashed a while ago. At last we were able to recover some of our photos but not the text. We're happy to get these back however. Enjoy http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Argentina/Mendoza/Mendoza/blog-173048.html