Why visit El Calafate? El Calafate provided me with an epiphany; I'm a mountain person! After a lifetime of putting myself in the "water person" category I was stunned by the joy of experiencing Patagonia's mountains. Clear, bright skies, raptors swooping overhead, glaciers and clean air converted me. El Calafate provided several of the experiences which changed me in terms … [Read more...]
6 things to do in Buenos Aires
Things to do in Buenos Aires There are so many things to do in Buenos Aires that Blonde and Alternate Brunette spent our first afternoon there frantically taking a cab to a restaurant that closed in our faces, eating somewhere mediocre where the electricity went out, going to a shoe store where Blonde started to buy ill-fitting boots and discovered her wallet was missing, went … [Read more...]
Swoop Patagonia finds us the perfect Patagonian cruise
If you had been scheduled to go on a cruise to Antarctica which was cancelled at the last minute, due to the ship hitting an iceberg, what would you choose as a replacement activity? A. another cruise in similar waters B. anything except another cruise in similar waters. C. calling a personal injury attorney (U.S. responders only) Precisely! As we suspected you … [Read more...]
Street Art in Buenos Aires
Street art in Buenos Aires is a visual way of conveying publicly what could not always be safely spoken publicly. On a tour of the northern part of the city with Graffitimundo Blonde was shocked (and vaguely disappointed) to actually learn some history. The hope had been for some pictures that would lend themselves to funny, snarky captions. But for … [Read more...]
Did I say Antarctica? I meant Patagonia!
A not all that funny thing happened on the way to Antarctica The night before Blonde and Alternative Brunette were scheduled to meet with Quark representatives in our Buenos Aires hotel lobby to have our luggage be weighed (second only in humiliation to being weighed ourselves) we got an email that the cruise to Antarctica had been cancelled. The ship had hit an iceberg at … [Read more...]