no driving for 3 months now

Here are some pictures at a club called JET. Did not like it tom much, but when going out with my Porteno buddies, I tend to get in for free with them. So it was a good time. Another nice thing about it was that it was right on the the Rio de La Plata, as you can see.

A little taste of what I saw the whole time in Cordoba during Oktuberfest. It was a ton of fun. There were people from all over the world there. Lots of tourists, but at the same time I think I meet someone from a different continent while I was there.

Here is our little cabana view, kinda looks like Hawaii right? The picture next to it is all of us and our neighbors who were kind enough to take me with them in their car the first day of the festival. I asked nicely in castalleno if I could go with them, since the cabs here for some reason would not allow for one extra person to squeeze into the car. So I nominated myself the odd-man out of our group and went to our neighbors for a ride. And as you can see by the next day we were all buds.

So that next day I was talking about, this is what we ate with our neighbors. I know that looks like a baby seal in the back of the burner, but that is just one slab of meat. The asados (or in the US BBQ) are the best. It takes a while granted because, we use wood here, but with the time waiting for the food you begin to make new friendships around the mutual idea of stuffing you face with just about every piece of the cow. It also took a while to eat even between 15 people.

Here's my buddy Mike at he entrance of the fiesta de cervezas. It was extremely hot this day around 30 Celsius. But, later that it poured on us which added its own fun to the event as well. We managed to meet people there and make a party at our little domicile as the rain continued, it was a very good time there, I must say.

Here is the sunsetting on our to the city of Cordoba. I have to take pictures of the sunsets, because the lack of them I see.

This is the job I want here. I would to do this, walk dogs for a living. This is also a little below average on the number of dogs. The most I've seen around one person is 14, but there is a rumor around school that someone counted 18.

View form our balcony with the moon. I went and saw that band Onda Vaga who I have been talking so much about, And they were super good live. They played in a tiny place which made it even better. The house music that was playing before they went on was Devendra Banhart, pretty cool. These guys love Devendra as I would later find out, as i got the chance to hangout with them one night and a few times since. Mainly, because like I said, the dudes who are my buds here kinda know a lot of people.

The next place I'm going to will be the bottom of the world, or also known as Tierra del Fuego with my friend Mara who is coming down from Newport. I also must mention I had contact with a fellow Riversidian by the name of David. Super sweet to see a familiar face on the other side of the equator.I also do have one confesion to make... I am staring to like soccer, I don't know go figure right? But, there are certain aspects that I do like now about the game.

feliz primavera

Well the computer is doing better and I have another blog up quickly. This particular blog will tell and show the story of a nice little town known as Bariloche. It sits southwest of Argentina, the border defined by the Andes mountains connecting it with Chile. This is one of the prettiest places I've been so far. Reminds me a little bit of Canada in a way: the people mellow, lots of lakes, mountains with snow, and just the whole mountain town type feeling going with it. The place supposedly is world renowned for its chocolate. Me, not being the biggest chocolate connoisseur, but will be able to tell you gladly that the chocolate was a very good. The picture above was at our hostel where I do believe I only lost 3 games in 3 days while averaging about 10-12 games a night. They do play a little different down here. If you scratch the other player gets 2 chances, and to sink the 8 ball you must put it in the pocket your last ball went into. Still a good game, and I seemed to get better with the addition of beer as the night continued.

Here we are on our way to some waterfalls and a black glacier in one of the national forests. It was a great walk and I noted a good observation about the birds. They made me realize that I was not just in the Sierra Mountains, but in a completely different Continent. I wish I could describe to you what they look like, but all you will get is size, color, and "well they kinda look like this..." Pictures are impossible as well (but, I do try). While at the glacier we could hear avalanches in different valleys it was amazing. Everyone (the group of 20 I went with) got real silent up there. It felt really nice listening to nothing, and yet it was the coolest thing you ever heard. The top of the mountain is the exact divide between Chile and Argentina.

I tried to get some live action shots of us snowboarding (I went with my friend Mallory, oddly enough shes originally from Corona), but I have seen bad things happen to ones camera in doing that particular process. The snow wasn't all the great, but yet again it was the Andes "genial." The mountain was called Cerro Caterdal, pretty big too, I say close to Mammoth. The boots, boards, and clothes we rented were... admirable?

This is the view from our hostel. I never really got tired of looking at it at all.

So for our 40 hour round trip bus ride this is the view you get the whole time. During night, I compare the star observation quality, equal to Joshua Tree. Las Pampas, lakes, rivers, cows, and mountains. Buenisimo!

Dale todos, hablamos tarde. Chau, mi proxima ciudad de Cordoba.