here at last
well i certainly never want to see another airplane again. i flew into buenos aires friday morning in order to spend a night there before heading down to bariloche. i met up with this awesome guy who worked in the bay area for 3 years and then decided that he wanted to travel so he loaded up his open top jeep and drove from san fran all the way to tierra del fuego. it took him three years. that was about about four years ago and he hasn´t stopped traveling around latin america since. we had a loooong dinner together and he gave me recommendations on where to go, etc. a wealth of information. he also told me about about this re-forestation type project that he started in some islands off the coast of panama. i´m planning on making that my last stop on the trip in order to help out with what´s going on there.
saturday morning i once again boarded a plane and headed 2 hours south to bariloche at the most north western area of the argentine patagonia. it´s gorgeous albeit touristy. i´m living with the most adorable older couple imaginable named julia and jose. their home is in an incredible neighborhood wedged between mountains and the huge nauel haupi lake. dirt roads, cute wood houses, lots of dogs and horses wandering by, lots of trees. just plain rad. bariloche is actually within nauel haupi national park so there is tons of hiking to be done. i wanted to take pics today to post but it´s pretty cloudy so i´m going to wait until it clears up a bit. i´ll try to post some tomorrow.
this morning i planned a hike up one of the nearby mountains. it rained all last night so i was kinda hesitant to start my trek but at breakfast julia and jose said that i would totally definitely without a doubt clear up and be beautifully sunny. so, trusting their weather knowledge seeing as they have lived in bariloche their entire lives, i decided to head out. from the minute i hit the trail head it started raining. i hung in there for about a half hour but seeing no end in sight and only dark menacing clouds i decided to head back and never again trust my hosts´ weather sense. well that´s about it for now. i hope to get some pics up pronto.
saturday morning i once again boarded a plane and headed 2 hours south to bariloche at the most north western area of the argentine patagonia. it´s gorgeous albeit touristy. i´m living with the most adorable older couple imaginable named julia and jose. their home is in an incredible neighborhood wedged between mountains and the huge nauel haupi lake. dirt roads, cute wood houses, lots of dogs and horses wandering by, lots of trees. just plain rad. bariloche is actually within nauel haupi national park so there is tons of hiking to be done. i wanted to take pics today to post but it´s pretty cloudy so i´m going to wait until it clears up a bit. i´ll try to post some tomorrow.
this morning i planned a hike up one of the nearby mountains. it rained all last night so i was kinda hesitant to start my trek but at breakfast julia and jose said that i would totally definitely without a doubt clear up and be beautifully sunny. so, trusting their weather knowledge seeing as they have lived in bariloche their entire lives, i decided to head out. from the minute i hit the trail head it started raining. i hung in there for about a half hour but seeing no end in sight and only dark menacing clouds i decided to head back and never again trust my hosts´ weather sense. well that´s about it for now. i hope to get some pics up pronto.
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