Mendoza and Cordoba, Argentina

So I'm in Argentina, and guess what? It's freezing cold. It turns out when sweating our asses off in summertime, the other side of the world has a thing we call "wintertime." Who'd of thought? Anyway, first impressions... Argentineans talk really funny. Nobody ever has change.... it turns out to make a 1 peso coin (about 33 cents USD), it costs 5 pesos (about $1.66 USD), and to make a 10 cent coin (about 3 cents USD) it costs 2 pesos (66 cents USD), 20 times what it's worth. So no one ever has any coins. Anyway, having said that, it actually is more organized than I thought it would be... and cheap. For about 3 dollars at the grocery, you can eat like a king... delicious beef. I still haven't experienced a real "asado" (roast/bbq).

People say that the Argentineans are loud and arrogant, and for that reason, most other Latin people make fun of them... I still haven't met the "porteños," people from Buenos Aires, so I'm not sure yet... so far, it's a mix of both... assholes and really nice people. Anyway, being that it's winter here and all, it's a bit dull, everyone is just working hard.

So it's official, I am coming back home to Nola, flying out of Buenos Aires. I bought my ticket for the 24th of June. Soon this trip will be over... *tear.


roasted baby pig

I know the picture sucks, but I was on a moving bus at night, but I promise that is a Wal Mart, in the middle of Argentina.

Chruch in Cordoba

Inside of church pictured below

Church in main square of Cordoba

"Prohibited to forget them, they're not negotiable." with a picture of the Falkland Islands.

Plaza in Cordoba

The farmers are on strike in Argentina right now, these people are protesting at the stoplight.

Lot of horse drawn carriages in Cordoba

This is a statue honoring the fallen soldiers in the fight against England for the Falkland Islands.

Independence Plaza

Wine tasting at the wine musuem

This is where they refrigerate the wine

This is where they store the wine

Grape fields

Trash in a stream not too far from the vineyard.

"There are snails." Market in Mendoza

Argentinean beef!

Meat!

"Friendship between Argentina and Chile"

Plaza in Mendoza

Snowy mountain... I was looking at snowy mountains for about an hour on the busride to Mendoza.

a view of the snow-capped mountains from the bus terminal in Santiago, Chile, getting ready to head off to Argentina.

"malabaristas"... jugglers... these people are all over latin america. they juggle at intersections during red lights.

young Maradonas.