27 July 2012

our short stay in santiago / crossing over into argentina

we had a pitcher of a drink consisting of white wine, pisco (grape liquor, popular in chile and peru), and something like tangerine sorbet.  i liked it.  michael didn't.

there was live music there, but we sat in the back and missed most of the show anyways.

i realized leaving santiago that i didn't take any pictures of santiago.  so i took this one, unspectacular as it was.  i didn't get the typical smoggy/mountain-y postcard shot.

when we arrived to the argentina border, it was closed for the night.  another night of car sleeping in the snowy mountains followed.




finally out of the mountains, into wine country



















upon arrival in argentina we had a lovely steak / horrible pasta lunch at a place with a giant fire & grill featuring various organs strewn over coals.  i am not in my food element here.  but there is wine.  so that will be my nutrition for the next week or so.  we are in mendoza now, and my alpaca sweater is still shrunken.  it gets very cold here when the wine wears off.  tomorrow we are going on a 40-km bike ride touring wineries in the countryside, then heading east which will hopefully be warmer.
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