Around the world

Getting to Southern Patagonia is not really tricky, it just takes a fair amount of either time or money… you know what we have more no!? After the 18H from BA to Puerto Madryn we add 20 to Rio Gallego (for my Geography friends 52° S and just a couple of Hours from the Magellan strait), 5 of waiting for the next connection and 4 to El Calafate hour destination. We where supposed to get here in the afternoon but we got here past midnight.
Wednesday we just walk around the small town trying to figure out how our plan for the next day will look like. Well good news Perito Moreno and Chalten (Cerro Torre and Fitz Roy) are ok, bad news, the ruta 40 is not being offered anymore… too much snow and ice

One of my (and Sarah’s) dream trips has always been Patagonia… A remote place with beautiful rugged landscapes. We always hear from friends or fellow traveler that it’s an amazing place and we definitely should go once…

well, our plan was to head to Mendoza and region after our awesome week in BA… BUT, 2 days ago it changed! While discussing where and when to go we thought that we would love to go skiing one day or so, we checked when the ski resorts open and it turns out to be in 3 weeks… well what to do? by then we would be almost in Bolivia… And then the great idea: live our dream trip… despite the imminent winter we’re going south!

SOOOOO COOOOL! In a couple of hours we’ll take the 17 h bus to Puerto Madryn near the peninsula Valdez and then we’ll see! so, it’s definitely started now!

cheers, Marco

After almost a year leaving in small places, it is now time for some days in a big city… Buenos Aires is the starting point of our South American trip. We arrive on a Friday morning in a fairly destroyed status since the plane had a personal entertainment console with dozens of movies, series, documentaries and of course games to choose from… so bottom-line i slept 3 H and Sarah 30 minutes…
In BA we stay at a friend of Sarah’s place, Rüdiger (or as his Argentinian girlfriend Marilla calls him: Schüdi – to denote the special way to speak that Argentines have in respect of “R” at the beginning of a word or of “ll” in whichever position.
Schüdi is a great host, after having us walk 31 blocks (we still don’t know if he typed wrong or if Sarah copied wrong – we went to Juncal 310b and he lives at 3102b… a small 2 that means a lot!!!) he had prepared us his super confy couch left us some info and we finally met him the evening after work.
For dinner we HAD to go for meat, a lot of meat… it’s Argentina no!?
Saturday we had a slow morning, great brunch, nap a bit of work and… Futbol… yep we went to a Boca Juniors match! Very cool, foremost the prematch (see pic.) and when boca scored the 2-1 at the 96′!!!
The rest of the week was also really easy-going, walk around, visit museums, eat meat, a tango show, drink mate, learn about Argentina’s past and work a bit…
On Tuesday we met with our friend Lucas and had a great time discussing thousand of things while having mate and pastelitos!
Wednesday, on a gray morning, we where trying to figure out a plan on how to get to go skiing here in Argentina. Well, the thing is that the season starts on the 13th of June and by then we might already be in Bolivia if we stick to the original plan… who cares about the plan… Friday we leave for Patagonia!

not to say that having a cockroach in your pant is really, really disgusting! Well, that’s the joy of going to the bathroom here in Mexico. ( note to myself: never ever experience that again)