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 ...

I keep putting off writing because I don't want to be unkind or short sighted, but it really is a disappointment. The town of Alumine kind of grows on you, but unless your Spanish is very good or you're incredibly insistent, it's almost impossible to get any information. To appreciate this area you have to have a car. It's too spread out to walk and services are limited. Without a car you're walking the dirt streets for three days. You're...

Pretty, neat and clean, that's Junin de los Andes. Perched on the edge of the Chimehuin River and within 60km of the volcano Lanin, Junin is a sportsman's paradise--much like Wisdom and Dillon, Montana.We loved it the minute we stepped off the bus. It couldn't be more different from El Bolson and Bariloche, both attractive in their own ways, but not like this. Bariloche's too chic and El Bolson's too ragged.  In Junin we feel at home and thi...

Fantastic, Fantastic, FANTASTIC!!It's what marketing copy is made of. Fish, fish and more fish until we gave up counting! What a BLAST!! It wasn't the number, Giselle Fontanazza, our fishing guide, said. It was the SIZE.She found me her biggest fish of the season! And not just one, but two lunkers that so totally made my day I was dancing Linda's fish dance all over the boat.The first one was 20" and that was dance-able---but the second was even bigge...

We rented a car and drove up into the mountains today. They're so close--this valley is narrow with towering mountains on two sides that we only just get to glimpse because of the low cloud cover. But with Claudio's help we found a river that joins Lago Epuyen and Lago Puelo and fished it, along with visiting Lago Epuyen as well.This is wild country. It's settled, but sparsely. Driving through it there are places you can entirely forget you're not...