Picture Freedom

Biking vineyard to vineyard in Mendoza

View from the hostel in Bariloche

El Chalten (home to Fitz Roy)

After our whale watching tour

Rocking the 80 onzies on our Torres Del Paine trek

(surprisingly the most helpful piece of clothing we could have brought)

Streets of Mendoza (most beautiful city yet)

Drinking mate with one of my many bus flings

(j/k)

Simple pleasures

Typical landscape of Patagonia (minus the towering horizon of mountains)

Trying to take a pic but inhibited by the 55mph winds

Fruit foraging in a mulberry tree

Lalia disappointed yet again by the typical Argentine bus lunch of 3 ham and cheese sandwiches

(bus cama however is a very different story... wine, good beef, great flics)

Glacier Moreno (outside of El Calafate)

You would think she would remember by now

Wind, wind, and more wind

Now we find ourselves near the end of the world after...

1. an unbelievable amount of bus rides, including a 36 hour one (try that in a normal bus for a heck of a back ache)
2. ¨chocolate hopping¨ we like to call it from fine chocolate to fine chocolate shop in Bariloche, displaying false curiosity in hopes of free samples (as any self-respecting street child would do)
3. eating enough fruit in days to last us a month (Chilean fruit is cheap and insanely good, whereas Argentine fruit is expensive and minimal)
4. some more ¨loving¨ from bus drivers and attendants... it is so very odd
5. the most astounding scenery i have ever seen... hands down
6. yarn and thirft store shopping with our Chilean host mom for our newly acquired and short lived hobby of crocheting
7. biking vineyard to vineyard and fruit foraging along the way in Mendoza
8. appreciating the beauty with which Argentines live their lives. it is a country where the world shuts down from 1-5 and every sunday, people savor the fine things in life like chocolate, wine and steak, mate is drank and only shared of course, family is always first, and sundays seem to beckon the city to the park with grandparents sipping mate and snacking on their packed picnic as their grandchildren play
9. wishing we were losing weight like normal travelors, not gaining... too many empanadas i suppose
10. wishing Chilean Spanish was not impossible to understand, and therefore resolved to be confused until we are back in Argentina
11. thankful for beds we don´t fear for bed bugs in, but severly missing the ghettoness for the third world
12. being blessed by people´s generosity
13. getting blown about (the wind here is outrageous!)
14. learning alot about love and it being a choice
15. and, saddened by the idea of a turkeyless thanksgiving

Huanchaco at sunset

(typical fishing boats)

Dinner with the Risconi´s

(Argentine missionaries in Peru)

Spanish classes in Quito


Shoot...more to come, technical difficulties