Los Toldos and beyond, Argentina

Enroute to Los Toldos, the home of JT and Betty, as well as the birthplace of Eva Perón, we made a number of stops along the 6-hour drive(180 miles) to explore local towns, tourist attractions, food and ice cream stops as well as gas stops. Almost every city has a town square serving as a […]

Buenos Aires 2022 Tango

We are off on another multi-month, multi-country adventure. We started this trip by visiting two friends, JT and Betty, who moved from Cuenca, Ecuador earlier this year. We met them in Buenos Aires, and spent a couple nights in this cosmopolitan city of 15 million, before driving the 6 hours to their home in Los […]

Argentina Gallery Added

We have finally completed editing the photos from our trip to Argentina a couple months ago, and have added them to our photo gallery.  You can access this, and other trip photos by pressing the “Travel” menu on the top of this screen, then choosing the “Argentina” tab on the screen that comes up. Or […]

Argentina Summary

Street murals found during our Argentina trip We are now back home in Cuenca, Ecuador after traveling through Northern Argentina for the past month. The last six blog entries have covered our time in Buenos Aires, Mendoza, Salta, Iguazu Falls, and finally the Estancia Don Joaquin.  I will close out the entries on this trip […]

Patricia and The Big Rat

We finished our month in Argentina with four days at the Estancia Don Joaquin (Estancia is what they call a working ranch in Argentina) in Esquina. Though fairly close to Iguazu Falls, the only way we could reach it was to fly to Buenos Aires, and then take an overnight luxury sleeper bus.  Though the […]

Poor Niagara!

We recently completed a three day visit to the Argentina side of Iguazu Falls.  The falls span an area of 1.7 miles wide, and sits on the border between Brazil and Argentina.  When First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt first saw the falls, she is reported to have said “Poor Niagra!”  There are actually approximately 275 waterfalls […]

Salta Landscapes

We have now completed our tour of the Salta area of Argentina, spending six days driving through both the “Northern loop” and “Southern loop.”  This is a large area, where we often feel we are driving through the Painted Desert of Arizona. Though we are high in the Andes, often topping 10,000 ft, this entire […]

Wineries and Cooking Class

We wrapped up a four day stay in Mendoza, Argentina today by taking a cooking class at the Familia Zuccardi winery in Maipu.  We started by making bread dough, then making stuffed bread after it has risen for awhile.  To be honest, our first bread was pretty dense and not very good… 🙁  We also […]

Walking and Tango in Buenos Aires

We were joined in Buenos Aires yesterday by Evelyn’s sister, Pauline and her friend, Amy (upper left image above). We spent much of their first day on a Free City Walk tour of the Recoleta neighborhood of Buenos Aires, starting at Teatro Colón and ending at the well known Recoleta Cemetery. We learned fun and […]

Manhattan in Buenos Aires?

Tango is a popular theme of painters in Buenos Aires. We bought this painting for a wall at home. We arrived in Buenos Aires yesterday. After a couple days of walking around, our biggest impression (and surprise) is how similar the town is to Manhattan (New York City), which we visited last November. The frequent […]

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