When I got to San Martin de los Andes it was REALLY windy and the dust was flying around like crazy!It was like taking a dust bath! Yuck!The town was beautiful though, very Swiss looking w/ beautiful trees w/ red berries.I also had a great ice cream called San Martin de los Andes (chocolate w/ berries - mmm).I met some cool people at the hostel & even got to interview some of them to use w/ my students later on.It was also the first & only night I actuall...

Well my solo trip started pretty well when I won Bingo on the night bus to Mendoza and they gave me a bottle of wine!Of course I don't have a corkscrew or anyone to drink it with, but that is OK!I met some Columbians on the bus on my way through the huge San Martin park & decided to visit the zoo w/ them. It was so sad to see the animals so caged up and not in great shape.I then walked up the short Cerro de la Gloria hill which had a bunch of plaques dedicate...

Diana made her trip w/ me coincide w/ the NJ Firehouse Tango group Buenos Aires trip so I got to meet them and take my first Tango lesson and dance at 2 milongas!(Tango dances)It was very difficult at first but then I felt very excited when I was actually able to dance it.Of course it was w/ sympathetic leads (teachers) but it was still great!I was even able to dance a Tango in the street in San Telmo w/ some old man a few days later! During my second trip to ...

We took a morning tour of Montevideo for only $18 and it was excellent!- I would say one of the best tours I've been on.We stopped at Independence Plaza, the Constitution plaza (signed July 18, 1830).We saw a beautiful church by the main plaza across from a government building which they explained were the 3 things that were a Spanish requirement for every city.We saw the huge mansions of the colonial days which now below to private institutions like the military...

We took the one hour ferry from Buenos Aires over to Colonia de Sacramento, Uruguay.When we got to Colonia it was actually a little chilly/breezy - a big difference from the heat of Iguazu!We rented bicycles & rode them along the beach to the end of the peninsula where we saw the ruins of the last bull fighting ring in S. America.We also ended up at a little beach by the Sheraton where we saw some birds and got eaten my mosquitoes!!We saw another great sunset...