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I recently learned that you can google anything and anyplace for images, and get  to ooodles of photos that are in the public domain.  In fact, we found some of our own photos there. It just about makes taking and sharing one’s own photos obsolete, except for the personal touch.  So here, for your reading and viewing pleasure,  is another post, this one about our visit to the Buenos Aires neighborhood of La Boca.  I’ve included some personally taken pictures. (more…)

On  12/4/08 Steve sent out an email:  “Just pulled in to our apartment in BA. very tired & hungry, the apartment is great, BA looks like a cross between Madrid and Casablanca, so far. Very shabby and dusty, i.e., delightful. “  Follow the following command to “click here” to read more, and also to see the photos. (more…)

Rebecca has written about our time in Esquel, on the edge of the Patagonian Andes. In her post she included a bunch of pictures of he jineteada, that we attended. Her pictures were all of the first day, because her camera battery died the second day. So I’m sending along my jineteada pictures with a few comments and, hopefully, captions (Rebecca hasn’t told you that each of her posts has taken her close to all day because the software, Word Press, is extremely hard to use. It doesn’t always do what you want it to, like put the pictures where you want them in the text, or put the caption you want with the picture you want it with.)

Jineteada is a gaucho word, and is the “Southern Cone” version of the American “rodeo.” I “googled” the word, and the article related it to rodeos, a Mexican version of the same thing with another name that I forget, and a Spanish sport that was practiced even before the Spaniards came to America. I suppose it must go back to the Arabs of Al Andalus, and some day I’ll look it up again, because it’s just fascinating. (Don’t  forget to click to read more and see the pictures.) (more…)

Included among the “must-sees” in our Patagonia guide book are the Reservas Provinciales Península Valdés and Punta Tombo. Both are along the Altantic coast of Chubut Province. Going by way of the coast seemed to be an interesting route by which to return to Buenos Aires. We’d seen the mountains and the steppe, but had not yet seen the ocean.   

We relied on maps a lot. Does this help orient you?

 Click on “read more” to learn about our wildlife adventure. (more…)

Esquel, south of El Bolson and in the province of Chubut, is just about as far south as we got into Patagonia. It is the transition between the mountains of the Andes and the steppe of Patagonia.  While Patagonia does not really have a defined border, most seem to accept that it begins in Chubut. We were in Esquel from Feb 18 – Feb 22, 2009. This unremarkable town ended up offering us some of the highlights of our entire trip. (more…)

 Still catching up on the past while passing our next to last day in Argentina, before our flight home leaves Buenos Aires tomorrow night, Tuesday 3/3.

This post is about what we did after we returned to Argentina from the lake district of Chile. In that previous post, I mention our plan to go to El Bolson, the hippie capital of Argentina, if not of all of South America. Whoever said “You can’t go home again” never visited El Bolson.  (more…)

 It is March 1, 2009. We are now actually back in Buenos Aires, getting ready for our flight home Tuesday night, March 3. We arrive in Philadelphia on Wednesday morning, March 4^th. I realize that I am way overdue on my posting. But we have not recently had good access to wi-fi. And I haven’t had the energy to write posts when we did have access. Some time ago I promised you a post about Santiago, Chile and our Chilean friends, the Guzmans. I am finally sending that post. (more…)