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Well, Its been a while since we´ve last updated everyone on our fantastic adventures in Argentina. I believe we left off with us still being in Buenos Aires. The rest of our time in the ´big city´was great. We wined and dined ourselves for a few more days before we caught a bus to Cordoba, a city in the very heart of Argentina. It was a 300 mile trip, and just as expected in South America, it took about 11 hours.
The thing about the buses here is that they stop in every town and serve as local transportation as well. Its actually kind of nice (accept for on your ass!) because you get to see all of the little towns along the way. We arrived in Cordoba at night and made the trek to our hostel where we met up with Niki and Andrew. For those of you who don´t know them, they´re friends from school who have been traveling around South America for months now. It was an awesome reunion!
Cordoba was great. The bar scene was fun and exausting. People usually go out around midnight and come home around 5 or 6 in the morning.
On our way home we had a small argument between the guys an girls about which direction to walk, needless to say, Niki and myself found ourselves drinking beer in the hostel while Mark and Andrew found themselves being followed by stray dogs, looking for lighters on their 30min detour back to the hostel!! We made it until 5 the first night, but then pretty much stuck to American hours after that. One afternoon we found ourselves walking about 3km down the highway median in order to get to a restaurante that we heard about in our travel book. They forgot to mention that it wasn´t a great idea to walk there.
After a few more days of city life, we made it to el campo.....the countryside. We got off the bus about 3 hours north of Cordoba, near a town called Capilla del Monte. We had to instruct the bus driver where to let us off, and when we finally got there, he gave us one of those ´are you sure?´ looks. Once the bus drove off we realized why. We were in the middle of no where....Excpet on small sign that said Yacu-Yura, then name of the
farm we were trying to find. After a half hour walk with our packs, we arrived to find about 4 people walking around doing nothing.
The farm is interesting. I actually wouldnt even call it a farm. Its more of a spiritual retreat. We hold hands and talk about our feeling way more then anyother place We´ve been. It took us a few days to get comfortable there, but now its getting to be normal to us. We realized that we dont really HAVE to be part of all the spirituality and new age stuff like that.
Every morning we decide who works where and what needs to get done (only after singing and dancing and holding hands and taking deep breaths and meditating and thanking the elements!!!hahahahaha). We usually do things like work in the garden, paint, maitanance and cooking. The people there are awesome though. Most are from the states and have been traveling for a bit around South America. Its great tot get to here their stories and ideas of where we shold travel to. On sunday we all participated in a sweat lodge ritual. Its where you all sit in a little tent-like thing
and sweat your balls off for around 4 hours. Mark didn´t make it too long, but stuck around and brought us water and lighters and things like that.
To get to town it takes about and hour of walking and waiting for buses and hitch-hiking attempts, so it might be a while until our next update. We hope you are all doing well, we miss you and love you and Hope you enjoy reading about this funny adventure we´re having!!!!! Marco and Halleyo
PS- Sorry weve kind of been slacking on pictures, but the computers take about 10 minutes to upload each one!!! More will come when we encounter a fast computer!
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sandy
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awesome
yo halley, you are a great writer! you are great