Friends and family, I am waiting for some photos from the fishing trip on Monday and Tuesday, so I thought I would fill you in on driving herein Argentina. I feel safe in doing that now that we have returned the rental car without incident. First the roads, most of them are gravel. The major highways are paved and most of the streets in the middle of town. However everything else is gravel, from the secondary roads that connect towns to the neighborhood streets. Additionally, most of the bridges, except on the major routes, are one lane and often wooden. The rule about how you cross such bridges is similar to intersections, see below. It being summer, this is road construction season. Unlike the states with long waits for construction traffic as one lane creeps past, ... read more

Today we hit the road! After the explanation of the strange ways that the rental car system works here, I cannot explain it, it is all in Spanish, we loaded our bags into a two door Fiat and took off. But before leaving Bariloche, John wanted to visit Tehuelche. This is a small producer of travel gear and clothing. It was a great place, supporting a team of seamstresses and the family that owns the company. We found it after driving past it several times...it took yet another helpful Argentine to guide us to the place. John picked up a pair of pants and custom ordered another! We then left Bariloche headed for Villa Traful which you reach via 25 km of gravel road. when we got there we found it was significantly smaller than expected ... read more

Friends and family, So, we are back in Bariloche after three days of fishing in some of the most beautiful country I have ever seen. Sorry there will not be too many pictures this time, we don't have a way to load them from the camera to the ipad, but Mauro, our guide will be sending some soon. We began the trip about 30 kilometers outside of Bariloche where we launched Mauro's wooden drift boat into some of the biggest water I have ever fished. The Rio Limay at this point was a good 70 yards across and flowing at over 24,000 cfg! The water was gin clear, you could count the pebbles as we flew downstream. No sooner had w launched than the famous Patagonia winds kicked up. John was drifting a nymph and i ... read more

This is lunch...John had the steak. Also met yet another friend if his on the street, see photo.... read more

After 43 hours on the road, we have made it to Bariloche and the Hostel Patanuk. I have attached a photo to this post that is taken from the common/dining room of the hostel...you can see it was worth the journey. We landed at Buneos Aires around 7:15 this morning and, after it took a pretty easy hour to clear immigration and customs we were me by Maurio who was to drive us from the international airport to the domestic airport for our next flight. I can see why they recommed 4 hours for this transfer of airports as the road from one to the other goes right through the middle of this giant city of over 7 million. John kept up a friendly banter with Maurio IN SPANISH. Who knew? Maurio was very encouraging of ... read more