At breakfast this morning we met six of Holland's best beer drinkers trying hard not to get drunk before 1pm. They're a funny group--a couple of them grew up in Poland and said that there, you can't buy alcohol until after 1pm, hence the whole not getting drunk before 1:00 part. We haven't seen any party-ers here at this quiet little hostel--they're a bit of a novelty. But the hysterical part was when they said they were going to Maipu to the ...

It's been so fun to have Myers here to hang with. We've done so much walking and looking we thought we'd do some driving and looking tomorrow. We have to pick up the car at 8pm, so we left the hostel early to have time for some wandering. With four of us taxis are as cheap as the bus, so we took one to Plaza Independencia trying to find the Carnaval drummers and dancers Bob and I had seen the night before Myers got here--the ONLY time I didn't ha...

Friends said there was nothing to it. You just run forward a few steps and whish! you're in the air. This sounds fun! And it was, but the wind had other plans for us. We were picked up at our hostel and took off on our para-gliding adventure climbing up the most awful road (they call this a road?). This goat trail required 4-wheel drive at about 2 miles an hour. At the top we met the rest of the crazies who jump off cliffs for fun.If you've never been pa...

Meyers got here at Chimbas this morning. Isn't that bizarre? We only just met them last summer at a 100 year celebration at Glacier, they moved into Village Greens in the fall and seven months later we're together in Argentina.  So we showed them a little of the town. First it was how to buy a bus card, then onto the city bus for a ride downtown to Plaza Independencia and lunch on the city's only pedestrian street.  Then in the afternoon we did a ...