Buenos Aires Again

Back to Buenos Aires again and we are on the final leg of our adventure. We have had so much fun here again and really have fallen in love with this city. We saw a traditional tango show, explored Palermo again, went to more parks, ate and cooked more food and also met up with our new friend Erik who lives here. He showed us his new flat and all over San Telmo. We met him in Chile and he is probably the coolest person we have met on our trip. He was tight and we hope to see him sometime again in the future. He introduced us to Churripan, which is my new favorite sandwich, I am going to make Chimmichurri all the time when I get home. The tango show was beautiful, passionate and breathtaking. It was is the collest building and was accompanied by two awesome live bands, a 3 course dinner, a bottle of wine and a two hour show for a whopping 60 bucks. What a deal for the best dancing ever! We bought a DVD to share it with everyone. But like I said we are on the way home soon. We dont want to tell the exact date because we want to surprise the family. But I havent talked to either of my parents for awhile so I hope you are around this week. Let me know if you can on email. But keep an eye out for one more post with pictures soon. We have met south america and we dont want to leave, maybe we will not come back to the states, we will see?!?!?!?!

Dinner at La Ventana for the Tango experience of a lifetime!!!

The awesome stage, with our table, we had the best seats in the house.

Great organic wine, at a great organic restaurant. Have you heard of this wine?

The pink building that we found while we were lost!

Our last hostel, in a hundred year old building.

Our first subway ride. San Diego really needs to learn some lessons from this thing. It is way faster and cheaper!

Our day in the parks in Argentina were some of my favorite times. When do you get to spend hours lying on the grass reading and people watching?

Mendoza Argentina WE LOVE VINO

We are now in Mendoza, Argentina. The wine capital of Argentina. We spent our time here in the beautiful parks and on a entire day bike tour thorugh the major wineries. We learned so much about wine and enjoyed our first tasting ever in life. We cant wait to compare it to the states. We went on a bike ride around the countryside and visited about 3 wineries and one olive oil, chocolate and absinthe distillery. First time for absinthe as well it was crazy and burned a lot. It was also a blistering 100 degrees during the ride so we made sure to stay hydrated as well. We visited the oldest winery in the region from 1869 and learned so much about the process of wine making. The winery was so old that it's storage barrels were made from brick from France. We feel like we know so much more about wine and really visited some of the best Malbec producers in the world. It was a druken adventure on the bikes too with no helmets. But we made it drunk and alive. They need to invent something like this in the states. We had an awesome premade sack lunch with a cab-sav (as they called it) picnic in the back of the winery and just chilled. It was an awesome day. We are getting close to the end of this adventure, so the posts are far and few between because we are trying to really enjoy our time out and about here. I just finished The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara and he had an interesting quote about the end of an adventure that helps me cope with leaving south America he said, “An expedition has two points, the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of “finishing." That is to say, the means are endless." So the means of this travel experience are endless and no matter when I think this trip is ending the adventure has just begun. So we are back to Buenos Aires and then we will see where after that. Hopefully the pictures below are self explainitary.'Paz and Buen ondas!

Ritoque to Valparaiso Chile to Mendoza Argentina

So we made it back to Valpariso for a day after Ritoque and we got to travel for a bit with our friend Erik from Germany. We just killed some time eating before the bus ride over the Andes to Mendoza here are a couple of pics. I also had to add some more of my favorite pics from the beach from heaven, Ritoque. We loved it!!!!!!!!!!!  The bus ride was rough, but we saw some of the brightest stars we have ever seen. We had to include some pictures of that too so you get the feel. Goodbye Chile, we fell in love and will be back.

Local plant life on the beach, a lot of succlents!

What a beach!

Our new friend Erik and me in Valparaiso, we were sad to say goodbye. We are going to meet in his pad in Argentina.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Can you tell that we were at the beach for a week? Pisco Sours, the best drink in South America.

The local band that played during dinner on the streets of Valparaiso.

Chillin at a bus stop.

How did we get that shot?