The Road to Patagonia
Apr 7th, 2007 by Dale Baskin
EL CALEFATE, ARGENTINA – I have been moving pretty fast lately and haven’t had time to write.  I shall attempt to summarize the last few weeks in just four sentences.
OK, excessively long run-on sentences without punctuation.Â
(try not to take a breath as you read…)
After leaving Bolivia I headed south through the Atacama Desert in Chile and met with my pisco-sour-crazed Austrailian friend Nina then crossed the Andes to Mendoza in the heart of Argentina’s wine country where I met Roscoe and Rose from South Africa and we rented bikes and rode around to wineries then ate at a tenedor libre restaurant which is an Argentinian restaurant where they keep bringing you wine and meat until you physically restrain them from bringing more and yes the wine and beef in Argentina are as good as they say.
(quick breath…)
Rose and Roscoe and I had so much fun that we decided to keep going and took a 28-hour bus ride to Bariloche at the heart of Argentina’s lake district which is full of crystal clear blue lakes surrounded by snowcapped mountains and also happens to be the chocolate capital of South America because of all the Swiss heritage and we did a three day trek around the local peaks and it was funny because we had to walk across snow and they don’t have snow in South Africa.
(quick breath…)
I don’t have any photos to show you because I backed them up to DVD and like a complete imbecile accidentally mailed the disk home before I uploaded the photos drat drat and tripple drat I can’t believe I did that.
(I’m about to pass out here…)
Now I’m deep in Patagonia which is kind of a mysterious place but I’m not going to tell you where it is right now so maybe you will need to get out a map but if you’re too lazy I’ll clue you in on the next post.
(whew!)