Sundance: What's your idea this time?
Butch: Bolivia.
Sundance: What's Bolivia?
Butch: Bolivia. That's a country, stupid! In Central or South America, one or the other.
Sundance: Why don't we just go to Mexico instead?
Butch: 'Cause all they got in Mexico is sweat and there's too much of that here. Look, if we'd been in business during the California Gold Rush, where would we have gone? California - right?
Sundance: Right.
Butch: So when I say Bolivia, you just think California. You wouldn't believe what they're finding in the ground down there. They're just fallin' into it. Silver mines, gold mines, tin mines, payrolls so heavy we'd strain ourselves stealin' 'em.
Sundance: (chuckling) You just keep thinkin', Butch. That's what you're good at.
Butch: Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Bolivia, Argentina...is there a difference? Guess I'll find out. Friday morning I fly to Argentina for two weeks vacation. I haven't really planned out every last detail, but I do plan to spend the first five days in Buenos Aires, the Paris of South America. From there I'll fly to the Brazilian border to visit Iguazu Falls, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the largest waterfalls in the world. After that I'll go to Salta, in the northwest, in the desert mountain country near...wait for it...Bolivia. The highlight there will be a day trip through the mountains on the Tren a las Nubes, an old train line that runs three times a week.
From Salta, where today it was 82 degrees, I'll head to San Carlos de Bariloche, where its curently 34. Bariloche, and other small towns, are in the Lake District, in the middle of the country near the Andes mountains. Then I'll head to El Calafate, where its presently snowing, to explore Los Glaciares National Park, also a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Finally, I'll visit Peninsula Valdez on the east coast, a unique spot from which one can observe whale migration, seals, and many other interesting wildlife species.
Argentina is one of the largest countries in the world, so I'm going to be doing a lot of internal traveling. Mainly flying since I'm such a high roller and all. I know about as much Spanish as it takes to order the #2 especial at Nuevo Leon, so this trip could be something of a challenge. Basically I'm just hoping not to freeze or starve to death, or be taken hostage. If I make it back alive, the trip will be a success.
I hope to blog each day, but that may be a little challenging once I leave Buenos Aires. Also I hope to take the usual thousands of pictures, which I'll post to flickr. Let me know if you have any specific suggestions.
Butch: Bolivia.
Sundance: What's Bolivia?
Butch: Bolivia. That's a country, stupid! In Central or South America, one or the other.
Sundance: Why don't we just go to Mexico instead?
Butch: 'Cause all they got in Mexico is sweat and there's too much of that here. Look, if we'd been in business during the California Gold Rush, where would we have gone? California - right?
Sundance: Right.
Butch: So when I say Bolivia, you just think California. You wouldn't believe what they're finding in the ground down there. They're just fallin' into it. Silver mines, gold mines, tin mines, payrolls so heavy we'd strain ourselves stealin' 'em.
Sundance: (chuckling) You just keep thinkin', Butch. That's what you're good at.
Butch: Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Bolivia, Argentina...is there a difference? Guess I'll find out. Friday morning I fly to Argentina for two weeks vacation. I haven't really planned out every last detail, but I do plan to spend the first five days in Buenos Aires, the Paris of South America. From there I'll fly to the Brazilian border to visit Iguazu Falls, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the largest waterfalls in the world. After that I'll go to Salta, in the northwest, in the desert mountain country near...wait for it...Bolivia. The highlight there will be a day trip through the mountains on the Tren a las Nubes, an old train line that runs three times a week.
From Salta, where today it was 82 degrees, I'll head to San Carlos de Bariloche, where its curently 34. Bariloche, and other small towns, are in the Lake District, in the middle of the country near the Andes mountains. Then I'll head to El Calafate, where its presently snowing, to explore Los Glaciares National Park, also a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Finally, I'll visit Peninsula Valdez on the east coast, a unique spot from which one can observe whale migration, seals, and many other interesting wildlife species.
Argentina is one of the largest countries in the world, so I'm going to be doing a lot of internal traveling. Mainly flying since I'm such a high roller and all. I know about as much Spanish as it takes to order the #2 especial at Nuevo Leon, so this trip could be something of a challenge. Basically I'm just hoping not to freeze or starve to death, or be taken hostage. If I make it back alive, the trip will be a success.
I hope to blog each day, but that may be a little challenging once I leave Buenos Aires. Also I hope to take the usual thousands of pictures, which I'll post to flickr. Let me know if you have any specific suggestions.
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