After seeing the Perito Moreno Glacier yesterday, we had enough of the over-priced, over touristed, and just plain boring city of El Calafate. We decided we couldn't take anymore paying so much to get so little in return. The only reason to come here in the first place is to see the glacier, which was great, but we need to do something until Doug's plane leaves on Monday. So we cut our stay short, checked out, and hopped on a bus to Chalten at the last minute. It...

My friend Doug, who is visiting from home, only has a few more days left of his vacation before returning to The States. He has one of those job thingies and some other responsibilities that I didn't quite comprehend. Doug predicts I am going to be a total social misfit when I return home as things such as the day, month, and time have little meaning to me anymore. But, before I deal with all that, we have some time to check out El Calafate. We heard nice things ...

Renting a Car, Take 2: OK, let's try this car rental thing again. Lightning in the form of bad driving Israeli girls cannot strike twice, can it? This time, Doug drives. At our hostel yesterday, Doug and I recruited Caroline, Andrea, and Catalina to share the cost of a rental car so we could explore around Tierra del Fuego with the beautiful Cabo San Pablo being our final destination. Cabo San Pablo is a remote spot on the Atlantic coast that few tourists get t...

Ushuaia... The Southern Most City in the World!!!! But just getting here wasn't that easy. After leaving Puerto Madryn, the journey required three bus changes, two border crossings, and a ferry across the Straight of Magellan, all over the course of about 40 hours. Ushuaia and Tierra del Fuego National Park are actually on a large island shared by both Argentina and Chile and the highway to get here crosses the borders twice. It sure felt like a huge waste of tim...

Sometimes you have to go east to go south. In a few days, I will meet up with my friend Doug, from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania down in the southern most city in the world... Ushuaia. Doug is the second person to come visit me while I've been away and also to deliver a taste from home... Mom's Christmas cookies (although a little late). So after saying goodbye to my good friend Yngve from Norway, I left Bariloche and find myself at the Atlantic Ocean again in the cit...