San Carlos de Bariloche

So we arrive at Bariloche again with no hostel reservation thinking that it would be easy being that is a bigger city. Well not so much. We eventually found a nice little room at grandma's house. At first we thought that it would do for the night and after looking at our options we decided that grandmas house was a wonderful place. Plus how could anyone say no to a cute old lady like herself. Well to describe this place, it's another pretty bigger city that doesn't need a lot of devoted time unless you can't handle the wilderness and it's not snow season. We chilled out and tried some famous chocolate "Mamuska" (very good but still isn't as good and Chris Elbows chocolate in Kansas City) there is an entire street dedicated to artisans chocolate shops. Dad you would love this place. And we got to watch hordes of people buying tons of boxed chocolates for Valentines Day. Kent and I both agreed that Valentine's Day is a little overrated now that we are married. Ha people keep telling us that changes after 10 years of marriage. I don't know the polls are still out, all you long time married folk will have to let us know on that one.

We went to a highly recommended restaurant that brought out our food literally, no kidding, 4 minutes after we ordered. That's fine dinning in Argentina. But they did a have a free Tango show going on and Kent got to strut his stuff with the lovely lady.

Also Bariloche is supposedly where the St Bernard's are popular and people stand around in the main square whoring there dogs and puppies out for pictures. They are beautiful dogs but Kent and I, being the dog lovers we are, decided not to support this type of behavior. So we reserved our puppy dog talk and faces as we walked by, that was very difficult for me to do.

This lovely place is also the crossroads for the final decision on how you will travel further south to Calafate. There is a lot of nothing after this for a long time. You have three options: 1) fly to Calafate being the most expensive but the fastest 2)Take a bus east across the country to the coast then down to Rio Gallegos and then back west across the country 26 hours to Calafate. This being cheap and the most common way 3)Take a bus straight down Route 40 which is supposidly famous but a gravel road and with no service almost 3/4 of the way but cheap. So which number feels lucky............ well we went with #3. So tune in later for the adventures of that one. Until then enjoy the 2 pictures we took in Bariloche. Chau for now.