Mar 19, 2013 - Canning

Arrived at the hotel at 11:30 then the motorhome company came and picked up the motorhome. Great hotel to end the trip. News flash, called AA airlines this afternoon and they said if we would fly today we would be upgraded to business class for the flight home. What a no brainer and we are now at the airport in Buenos Aires awaiting our flight back home. The trip has been great, but there is no place like3 the good ole USA. Back in Arizona tomorrow.

Feb 23, 2013 - Buenos Aries, Argentina

Feb. 23, 2013 Buenos Aries, Argentina NOTE: I WON’T POST THESE ENTRIES IN THE JOURNAL FOR A FEW DAYS BECAUSE THE HOTEL WANTS $18 ( NOT PESOS) FOR 24 HOUR ACCESS TO THE INTERNET. After leaving the house on Friday at 8:30 am and with a 3 hour layover in Houston we arrived in Buenos Aires about 10:30 am Saturday. We spent an hour in a very crowded customs line. But the worst was after going through customs, waiting at the airport 1 hour, 45 minutes for other people to arrive before boarding the bus to take us to the hotel. They are going on...

Feb 1, 2013 - Las Grutas

2/1/2013 Another long day today. Yesterday and today we covered 550 K each day. We wanted to get away from the cities, and did we succeed. Today as we left Sierra De La Ventana we went up and over a small mountain range with the “window” to be seen from the road. Then on to Bahia Blanca en-route to our destination of Las Grutas, located in the Provence of Rio Negro. When crossing into the Rio Negro, just like Mexico, an agricultural check point, plus a meat check point. We are now onto kilometer after kilometer of nothing. Unfortunately we...

Jan 31, 2013 - Sierra De La Ventana

1/31/2013 Camping El Paraiso in Sierra De La Ventana was our destination today. Traveled Highway 3 for a good part of the day, much traffic and somewhat stressful. After departing Highway 3 onto Highway 76, the trip through the farm land was fantastic. Driving through this area you could imagine the Sacramento Valley under crop with maybe a few hundred people in the whole valley. Really quite amazing. The camp had electric and decent shower rooms although we don’t use them. The motorhome bathroom is small but has a great shower.

Jun 9, 2012 - San Antonio de Areco

Pour changer un peu de la ville et voir des gauchos, nous avons décidé d'aller un samedi à San Antonio de Areco, une petite ville dans la pampa à deux heures de Buenos Aires. Nous avons eu de la chance, car nous sommes arrivés pendant la fête du village et avons eu droit à un défilé de gauchos des campagnes voisines. Le défilé devait commencer à 17h, mais les organisateurs avaient oublié d'avertir la police de bloquer la route, alors cela a commencé un peu plus tard :-) ah l'organisation argentine ! On a retrouvé nos amis les chiens...

May 21, 2012 - Argentina - Buenos Aires

Stayed in small apartmemt in Recoleta district - very chic and expensive. The cemetry nearby is awesome, saw Evitas tomb. Fascinating to see how much exstravagance - marbel statues all sizes so close together - for when you are not about to appreciate it. An hour north is a town called Tigre on the Rio Panama delta. Very chilled and very much about boat life and living on islands. San Telmo is great. Lots of street artists - very entertaining. Flea market was not to miss. See youtube clip of skeleton puppeteer in BA -the best yet.

Apr 7, 2012 - Camping à Tigre

Après un jour de repos à Buenos Aires chez Aurélie, nous voilà partis en week-end pour faire du camping au bord du delta vers Tigre à env. 1h de Buenos Aires avec Aurélie et Mauricio. Le camping au bord du delta est très joli malgré les moustiques et quelques grosses bêtes sur notre tente :-) Le soir, nous avons testé notre premier asado argentin, Nicolas est fan de la viande. Pour aller à Tigre, nous avons fait un voyage d'une heure en train à 1.10 pesos, cela change de chez nous. Par contre, il ne faut pas avoir peur car cela tremble dans...

Aug 10, 2011 - Horsey! Horsey!... eww what did I just step into....

Last Friday we took an organised trip to a village outside of Buenos Aires. It is a ranch which is suposed to demonstrate the traditions of the Argentine people...... First of all I had to get up early get dressed and walk to the bus a WHOLE 15 min... Ok it was a grumpy grumpy morning. Once I steped my foot on the ranch I remebered it was winter here: the grass was yellow and ground almost frozen, naked trees and smell of cold mixed with... well farm smells. In true Argentine manner there was not much organization during the course of...

Dec 18, 2010 - BA and Mar del Plata

After a few days getting settled in our apartment in BA, and exploring the city, our new friend Marta invited us to go to the beach with her. So, off we went on Monday. Marta drove to Mar del Plata; about 4.5 hours southeast from BA, on the Atlantic coast. One of Marta´s friends was gracious and extended to us the use of her apartment in the downtown. Nice clean city with large beaches and access to many others north & south along the coast. We drove to a couple of them and Pinamar is very similar to the Carolina/Georgia coastline,...

Jan 9, 2010 - Trip to South America- Argentina (Santiago Del Estero, Cordoba and Mendoza)

On Jan 10th, we made the trip Lillian had been waiting for. Our flight to Santiago Del Estero, a city in North Argentia, took us two hours. We were greeted at the airport by Natalia, Oscar and Leandro (the apple of Lillian's eyes). We had met them during our trip to Spain & Portugal in 2008. And Leandro had stuck to Lillian the whole time, refusing to go back to his parents!! - Santiago Del Estero is in the pampas.Oscar & Natalia have a huge house there, and apparenlty a couple of large houses that they are renting out. We went for a drive...

Jan 6, 2010 - Trip to South America-Argentina (Buenos Aires)

On 6th January, we took our flight to Buenos Aires, best known as "The Paris of South America". Upon arrival our travel representative met us and escorted us to our hotel. That evening we had a fabulous steak and wine dinner, and admired all the trim Argentinians. It was going to be a very beefy (eating wise)trip, but we didn't know it yet. My Hindu ancestors probably rolled in their cremation yards a few times (or their reborn forms did, wherever they are right now). - The next day morning at breakfast we had our first taste of yerba mate...

Nov 1, 2009 - Mar del Plata - the freezing beach resort...

Today we are making our way to the beach resort of Mar del Plata. We felt like we can do with a relaxing mini beach holiday as we haven’t actually had one so far in this trip. The only beaches we have been are the ones in West coast US and Lima - all have been too cold and too dirty for a swim. Lonely Planet makes this place sound reasonably attractive … Founded in 1874, this most popular of Argentine beach destinations is 400km south of Buenos Aires. First a commercial and industrial centre then a resort for upper class families. Mardel...