Post by Grubb. The #20 bus travels the Av. Bustillo route that follows the road out of Bariloche up the coast of Nahuel Huapi. Yesterday, after searching for a Sube card and discovering the small kiosk that sold them on a backstreet in Bariloche, we caught #20 bus on another backstreet (still no dogs!). Being…
Month: April 2024
Quest for the gold
Post by Ella. Technically, it’s blue, but once you find it, it’s a treasure. The Holy Grail. The Sube card. Your ticket to ride the buses in Buenos Aires, Bariloche, Mendoza.. A transport card, purchase the card for 2000 ARS (US $2) and then top it up with credit. And for some reason, it is…
Moonlight over Lago Nahuel Huapi
Post by Ella I stepped out into the garden to take a peek at the stars, being the Southern hemisphere and all that. I shoulda studied up on these constellations. My iPhone camera wasn’t great with the stars but I did capture a bit of moonlight over the lake.
Blissful silence
Post by Ella. I haven’t said much about our accommodations. They’ve all been pretty good. In Buenos Aires, we had an apartment in Recoleta. Everything worked just fine. You really can’t get far from the noise but at least being on the 7th floor, the traffic sounds were muffled. But not the drunken singing in…
Los Desaparecidos
Post by Grubb. A black and white photograph of a smiling woman in her early-twenties. It is fifty years ago and she is a student attending a university in Córdoba, the same time I was in college back in the US. She studies and goes to political rallies, just as I did. We were part…
Back to Patagonia
Post by Ella We did a zig (Buenos Aires to El Calafate) then a zag (El Calafate to Còrdoba). Now we do another zig from Cordoba to Bariloche, which is back to Patagonia. See? That magical Calafate berry worked! This morning we had a fun ride to the airport with Pedro, our Uber driver. Again…
Rainy day walking
Post by Ella Amalfa, the beloved cartoon character. In Buenos Aires, there was a queue a block long just for the honor of a taking a pic of this 6 year old. Here in Córdoba, poor thing was alone in the rain. We stopped for coffee. This woman had been listening to a guy talking…
Our birth ring
Post by Grubb. In a section of Córdoba’s Bicentennial Park there is an array of large candy-colored rings where, if you go back up to a hundred years, you can find the ring acknowledging the year of your birth. By the date, there is a one line inscription calling attention to a significant development that…
Rainy day activities
Post by Ella. What else? Go walking in the rain. Which was non-stop all day. Good thing someone invented umbrellas and rain jackets. Oh but also, why not stop in a museum or two for a respite. We stopped at the Museo Superior de Belles Artes Evita and Museo Metropolitano de Urbano Arte. The collections…
100 year old Ferris wheel
From the viewpoint in Parque Sarmiento, Córdoba.
What the Sam Hill is this?
Post by Grubb Midway on our second walking tour of Córdoba our guide led us up steps and stopped here. What, our guide asked us, was the purpose of this steep sloping concrete park beneath a tall obelisk? I was about to say, “Skate park,” but noticed the angled array of low pipe like barriers….
Tommy Tour
Post by Ella We headed over to San Martin Plaza late in the morning to meet up with the guy holding a red umbrella, sporting a head set and top hat, and making bendy movements with his knees as if he were about to cha cha cha. This was Tommy Tour (aka who knows?) who…
Córdoba, and not the one in Spain
Post by Ella. Travel day. We flew from rustic Patagonia to the bustling city of Córdoba. A speedster taxi ride from the airport got us right back into city mode. The cab driver zipped along, cornering and darting like he was on a race track. We arrived in the city in record time. Our exuberant…
The dogs of Calafate
Post by Grubb Late in the morning yesterday we went to the Glacierium, a science oriented museum dedicated to educating visitors about the glaciers in the area. It explained how snows accumulate, then melt, then freeze into an ice that over time becomes more compact until the weight of the density pushes the growing mass…
Dodging icebergs
Post by Grubb. Yesterday we woke up before dawn to stand outside our AirBnB to wait for our short bus to Puerto Bandera. It was just above freezing so we hoped that we would be the first, not the last, passengers the bus would pick up. We were fortunate in that regard. The place we’re…