We love this town!  Maybe it's the high concentration of negative ions like they say, or maybe it's the exquisite climate--purported in all the marketing hype to be one of three micro climates in the world, or maybe it's just because it's warm and sunny and rains only at night.But it's a favorite, right in there with Junin de los Andes and Salta.If you google this place you'll learn that it had an 85% increase in population in the last 1...

I'd known there were people living in wild places like this, but I'd never had them cook me lunch.Bob and I took a 4x4 tour into the Sierras de los Comechingones, the mountains outside of Merlo that form a natural border between the provinces of Cordoba and San Luis. We drove to the top-- 2200 meters, or 7,217 feet, and hiked to a beautiful waterfall from there.The top stretches out forever. This sucker is w i d e, none of this pointy top business here, t...

We hadn't done anything fun for days and were sick of ourselves. So when the taxi came we asked him what any stupid foreigner would: Is there a golf course around here?What's the guy gonna say? Yea, there's one just around the corner? Not when he can take us to one waaaaaay out in the boonies. It was beautiful--Nicklaus designed--but after driving 50 miles it's-- what else?--closed. So now what do we do?  We already owe this guy an arm and a l...

Don't eat at the restaurant Ambrogioff in Carlos Paz. It's beautiful with a lovely view, but it's overpriced and has lousy food. My grilled chicken was not edible--dry and stringy on a bed of mushy overcooked vegetables. It was just before quiting for siesta and this was obviously something left warming in the oven a couple hours too long. So they carried it away and asked if I wanted to order something else.OK. I ordered raviolis with four cheese sa...

So far, my favorite and certainly the cleanest town we've visited in all of Argentina. Beautiful, well manicured plazas and an attractive downtown business area are just a small part of it's charm.The hills above offer great para-gliding and beautiful scenery from below. Today was a cloudy, grey day, but we decided to play golf at La Cumbre Golf Club.The home course of Angel Cabrerra and for you non-golfers, he's the Tiger Woods of Argentina and won t...