El Calafate, Argentina While other glaciers are shrinking the Perito Morino glacier is growing. This glacier was meant to be an attraction. Sitting around 80 km outside of El Calafate it’s easy to get to. From Buenos Aires it only involves a 41 hour bus ride covering 1,500 miles to Rio Gallegos. From there it’s [...]
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Puerto Madryn, Argentina Hmmm…Peninsula Valdes or Punta Tombo? I don´t like tours but don´t have many other options to avoid them in this part of Patagonia if I wanted to view the regional wildlife. The prices in Argentina make things that were once possible in Central America prohibitive. $150 for one dive?! $75 for a tour? Absurd. But, I´m here [...]
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Puerto Madryn, Argentina I’m not sure how people live in Buenos Aires. If I lived my entire life in B.A. I would surely be dead by now from partying too hard. No matter how hard you try you can’t help but go out at night and then wake up in the afternoon dehydrated and not [...]
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Buenos Aires, Argentina On Thursday I leave Buenos Aires for a trip to Patagonia. This city was amazing and I’ll be sorry to leave it. Each day here follows a similar routine. I begin my days reluctantly climbing out of bed at around noon. Groggy and hungover I would head to the San Telmo market [...]
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Buenos Aires, Argentina – It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon in Buenos Aires. Mid 80′s. Sunny blue sky. The street cafes were full and people were lying in the park sunbathing. I took a trip to Recoleta to visit the cemetery and stroll through the parks. I was thoroughly enjoying my day with a smile [...]
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Buenos Aires, Argentina I’m not sure why the Rio de la Plata is called the Rio de la Plata. There is nothing silver about it. The river is more of a milky-coffee brown in color. If I were naming the river I think ‘Rio Café con Leche’ would be more appropriate. I only bring this [...]
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Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay I’m not sure what I expected Uruguay to be like. I had no preconceived notions of the country before I arrived since it’s not a place you normally hear about. It’s easy to overlook the small country that’s nestled between two cultural powerhouses in South America; Argentina and Brazil. What I [...]
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Montevideo, Uruguay At 8:00 am Montevideo is calm and no one is on the street. The few people that have fallen out of bed cling to their wooden cups of maté like babies to their blankies; sucking them down hoping for that extra jolt of caffeine. Cars were few and far between. No makeshift huts [...]
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Panama City, Panama Buildings greater than five stories; lots of them. Massive shopping malls. Hooters. Casinos. Fashion boutiques and electronic stores. A truly western world city. Yet, at the same time there are loud, painted school buses with neon lights pouring out diesel exhaust. Street vendors. Walls and barbed wire protecting squat, concrete houses. A [...]
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