We left Alamos this morning (driving on the street still under construction if you remember) and headed south to Las Glorias.Any glory she had has faded considerably as the hotel/RV park is barely hanging on. But for anyone tired of glitz and noise, this is as restful as it gets. Ocean waves to lull you and a quiet sky crowded with stars, this is an easy one to love. We had the whole place to ourselves. No one in the hotel, no other campers, no diners at the re...

I´d be lying if I said I didn't have any trepidation about driving down here. Lots of it in fact. The roads are so unpredictable you can never relax--even the toll roads which are by far the best, are so full of chuckholes, abrupt drop-offs with no shoulders, bumpy pavement, errant animals, rusty motorbikes... We just passed horses wandering in the median. On a toll road median! Cows graze where the shoulder would be if there were a shoulder-- with or with...

It's a beautiful little town and since Bob and Donna knew a bunch of the rv-ers, we had no trouble making new friends. We went hiking through a  canyon one day and out for New Year's Eve dinner another. Great fun.

We've been to the San Telmo fair several times, but this time, feeling very smug that we were learning our way around, we took the bus. As nothing in Argentina turns out to be as easy as it sounds, it was quite an adventure just getting it.Our doorman gave us detailed instructions: go to the corner kiosk and buy the tarjeta (card) that you can then use on either the Subte (underground) or the bus. Then walk 5 blocks to the Subte station, go down the stairs an...

For two months I'd been begging Isabel for her empanada recipe. Si, I will do it, she told me. But translating a family recipe from spanish to english, from metric to our silly cups and teaspoons, from large family gathering to empanadas for two...it was all just too much.So while stopping for a couple of days on our trip from Salta to Buenos Aires, Osvaldo and Isabel had us over for a day in the kitchen.She cooked. I wrote. And while I'm pretty certain I...