Today we traveled back to Buenos Aires after a weekend at Punta del Diablo on the Uruguayan coast.Punta del Diablo is a little coastal town between Montevideo and the Brazilian border.Fishing is the community's primary economic driver but the warm summer days lure many Uruguayans to cabanas along the beach.However, sunbathers still have to share the beach with the fishing boats pulled up on shore. The gradual rise from the beach is speckled with little more than ...

Last Thursday we flew to Iguazu Falls, which rests on the border between Brazil and Argentina in the most northeastern corner of Argentina.The falls were absolutely spectacular, easily one of the most (if not THE most) impressive natural wonder that Todd and I have ever seen.The Iguazu Falls are actually a series of waterfalls.Unlike Victoria Falls (the only other waterfall in the world similar in size and grandeur) Iguazu Falls is actually 275 separate falls alo...

We have had a very full week since we last wrote. Early last week we spent a day in the Buenos Aires suburb of Tigre, a city entirely connected by canals and rivers.Tigre is a bit like Venice (without the history and old architecture) and is primarily a summer-home destination, filled with people from Buenos Aires eager to escape the oppressive city heat and enjoy the cool water of the river.We took a ferry out to one of the islands where we ate lunch and then s...

After a week and a half in Buenos Aires we have found our groove. Our little apartment and neighborhood feels a little more like home, we have adjusted to the Argentine accent and our Spanish lessons are going well. Agostina, our Spanish instructor, is fantastic and fantastically affordable as well. Agostina has given us the opportunity to discuss the economic and social changes taking place in Argentina. As a young woman from a very poor, hard background, she ha...

On March 15th we arrived in Buenos Aires after 29 hours of flying from Tucson to LAX to Mexico City and finally to Buenos Aires. We are still getting used to being 5 hours later in Buenos Aires. Falling asleep even at 2 AM is a struggle - fortunately our unadjusted sleep schedule coincides nicely with the typical late nights in Argentina. The restaurants will not even seat you before 9PM. Thankfully, Todd has fully recovered from his health scary and is bravely ...