Hard to believe that it has been almost two weeks since we were in Mendoza. Since then, we’ve explored the furthest south point we’ve visited, Ushuaia, and then caught a flight back to Buenos Aires were we took a ferry across the river to visit Colonia de Sacramento in Uruguay. A Sunday afternoon bus ride…
Month: April 2022
Mendoza Wine Country
Catching up a little bit on parts of the trip past. We’re sitting in the sun on a patio in the backyard of our hotel in Ushuaia waiting for our flight to Buenos Aires later this afternoon. We’ve been lucky to have amazingly sunny weather this late in the season and this far south. Though…
El Final del Camino
We finally reached it . . . And then some.
Beagle Channel
Hello from Del Fin Del Mundo! We are in Ushuaia at the end of the world. It is an amazing little town nestled against some amazing mountains down here at the bottom of South America at about -54% latitude. You can read more about the town, but the gist is that it was originally a…
Route 40 From Bariloche to Mendoza
In one of our previous posts, we mentioned that we were going to rent a car for a couple of weeks and drive from the lake district in Northern Patagonia near San Carlos de Bariloche to the Cuyo region in Mendoza Province, Argentina’s wine country. We previously posted pictures of the drive through the Monkey…
Avast, Ye Mateys!
We’re at el Fin Del Mundo! -54 degrees latitude with a view of the Beagle Channel from our hotel. More to come . . .
Mirror, Mirror . . .
We’ve spent the better part of two weeks touring the Patagonia Lake District in rental cars, starting in San Carlos de Bariloche, then moving on to San Martin de los Andes, and completing the journey to the northern edge of the lake district in Villa Pehuenia some 380ish kilometers (6 hours) from our starting point….
Puzzled by the Landscape
Hello again from Argentina! We’re currently sitting in an apartment on the shores of the of Lago Aluminé on a rainy afternoon listening to the Avs playing the Penguins . . . when the internet is working. Tweeted Conor McGahey and got a mention on Avalanche radio!! I should also mention that we’ve had a…