Movin' on out...

My time in Buenos Aires is coming to an end. It has been a wonderful two months here, really truly wonderful. Time to see the sights, meet people, eat, study, dance, play,...just live.

The rest of Argentina is now calling my name. I've mapped out a rough itinerary- basically a big loop around Argentina-beginning in the south and working my way up towards the north, swinging into Chile for a time .

Tomorrow I am heading towards the area that they call Patagonia: rugged mountains, ferocious rivers and looming glaciers. Well..ok this is what it is like in the best parts... the rest is just an expanse of nothingness. Trips between cities border on 15-25 hours on a bus. Nothingness. Nothingness. Nothingness and then incredibleness.

Destinations in March:

Mar del Plata (for some beach time)
San Carlos de Bariloche: (west side of Argentina in Andes: mountains, lakes, beautifulness)
El Calefate (more beautifulness and killer glaciers)
Ushuaia (the end of the earth- literally- remember Strait of Magellan from history class...yeah go past that! the southern most tip of the earth before you hit Antartica)
Puerto Natales (back up north on the Chilean side to this port)
*3 day boat ride from Puero Natales up the pacific coast to Puerto Montt in Chile

Then in April I will head north into Chile, eventually crossing over to Argentina to do the northern part of Argentina until returning to Buenos Aires on May 31.

Destinations in April:
Valdivia (meeting up with a friend here)
Santiago de Chile (capital- why not?)
Valparaiso (cool name, why not)
* crossing over to the Argentinian side
Mendoza (moutain town- incredible)
Cordoba ( in the middle of the country- college city, great people)

Destinations in May:

Salta (crazy terrain)
Jujuy (crazy terrain)
Corrientes (friend of friend who live here)
Iguagu Falls ( over in that little arm of Argentina bordering Brazil- makes Niagra Falls look like Brush Creek)
Rosario (on the way back to B.A.)

Definately hoping for at least one Sound of Music moment, twirling and belting out "The hills are alive...." in spanish of course.