Category: Location
March 14 – June 10: Quito, Ecuador
by Mark Crosby | Mar 16, 2018 | Current Location, Location | 0 |
We booked four weeks at an Airbnb here in a fairly central location in Quito. The apartment has large rooms and big table we can set up our laptops on for work and school. Although our trip from Asuncion felt like it was primarily north, we moved two time zones west. That, combined with day light savings moved us three hours “closer” to Calgary. We are in the same time zone as the central time zone in North America.
Read MoreMarch 9-14: Asuncion, Paraguay
by Mark Crosby | Mar 10, 2018 | Location | 0 |
We are heading back towards Canada now. The bus ride from Buenos Aires to Puerto Iguazu was a big jump north. Asuncion is more of a lateral move on the map. We will spend a less than a week in Asuncion before we fly back to the equator. Getting to Asuncion was more of a hassle/adventure than we planned. We ended up back tracking quite a bit, but we made it. Sydney has said she wants to write about that. I might as well if I get a chance.
Read MoreMarch 8-9: Corrientes, Argentina
by Mark Crosby | Mar 10, 2018 | Location | 0 |
Well we had a pretty good run of relatively trouble free travel through Latin America. It came to an end on Thursday when we arrived at the Corrientes International Airport for our flight. It is not a large airport and the check-in line was empty. I figured it was because we were there almost 3 hours before departure. No, it was empty because almost nobody wants to fly to Asuncion, Paraguay from Corrientes, Argentina. Whether it was just the four of us, or perhaps a few more had purchased tickets. Whatever the number, it wasn’t enough for Amazonas Airlines to bother with the flight, so they cancelled it.
Read MoreMarch 7-8: Bus from Puerto Iguazu to Corrientes
by Mark Crosby | Mar 8, 2018 | Location | 0 |
This trip makes five consecutive bus trips for us. This was the fourth overnight bus. The ride was “only” nine hours, from 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM. If it was lights out after we departed and all quiet until we arrived, it might have been restful. It was not. They played a couple of movies, handed out a sandwich/snack at just after 10:00 PM. We stopped in Posadas at about 2:30 AM. People got on, people got off. A couple of military guys wanted to check bags. All that to say that when we got into Corrientes we were tired.
Read MoreMarch 4 – 7, Puerto Iguazú, Argentina
by Mark Crosby | Mar 4, 2018 | Location | 0 |
Puerto Iguazu is a small city of 66,000 or so people and is the Argentinian jumping off point for trips to see Iguazu Falls. We will be visiting them over the next couple of days. We’ve heard they are spectacular.
Read MoreMarch 3 – 4: Via Bariloche Bus from Buenos Aires to Puerto Iguazu
by Mark Crosby | Mar 3, 2018 | Location | 0 |
Last night we were once again on an overnight bus traveling across South America. This time it was a 1,000+ km trip north of Buenos Aires to a little place called Puerto Iguazú. Puerto Iguazú is the city on the Argentinian side of three boarders. The other countries it borders are Paraguay and Brazil.
Read MoreFebruary 7 – March 3: Balvanera, Buenos Aires
by Mark Crosby | Feb 14, 2018 | Location | 0 |
Yes, we are still in Buenos Aires. And I am sorry, I did it again. I forgot to post an update on our change of location. We didn’t move too far from the Airbnb in Monseratt. We are also only a few blocks away from La Barca Hotel, where we stayed the first week we were in Buenos Aires. This time we selected an old building.
Read MoreJanuary 31 – February 7: Monseratt, Buenos Aires
by Mark Crosby | Jan 31, 2018 | Location | 0 |
If you are going to live in a big city, you need to do it near the heart of the city. Monseratt is close enough to the action that you can walk to most points of interest. For the ones further away, there are special tour buses that have different routes. You can hop on and off them to see the sights you are interested in. The place we stayed in last month was OK, but the neighborhood was just so much urban filler.
Read MoreJanuary 3-31: Buenos Aires, Argentina
by Mark Crosby | Jan 10, 2018 | Location | 0 |
Sorry I am late getting this posted. It seems that no matter what your circumstances are, planned and unplanned events fill all the time in the day. We are not quite as central here as we were in the hotel, but that shouldn’t be too much of a problem. We’ve been planning on checking out the subway and buses.
Read MoreDecember 27-January 3: La Barca Hotel, Buenos Aires, Argentina
by Mark Crosby | Dec 27, 2017 | Location | 0 |
Well we made it to Buenos Aires! The marathon bus trip from San Carlos de Bariloche wasn’t too bad. The hotel is in an old building, probably 100+ years old. The doors are 3 meters high and the ceilings at least a meter above that. The high ceilings are supposed help keep things cooler when it is hot out. We will be putting that theory to the test is a couple of days. The temperature is supposed be in the mid-30s Saturday. I know friends and family dealing with -20 degrees currently might not have too much sympathy for us. 🙂
Read MoreDecember 26-27: Via Bariloche bus from Bariloche to Buenos Aires
by Mark Crosby | Dec 26, 2017 | Getting Around, Location | 0 |
Wish us luck! When this post publishes we will be on a 1,600 kilometer, 20 hour bus ride to Buenos Aires. The bus is going to be about as comfortable as a bus can be. The cama (bed) seats are wide and recline way back. There are curtains for privacy. USB ports to charge iPads. It’ll be be fine! 🙂
Read MoreDecember 22-26: San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
by Mark Crosby | Dec 24, 2017 | Location | 0 |
Well we’ve made it to another country! After a longer than scheduled bus ride from Valdivia, Chile, we arrived in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina on Friday evening. This place reminds us a lot of Banff back in Alberta. There are beautiful mountains all around, many of them with snow on top still even though it is summer here. The water in Nahuel Huapi Lake is too cold to swim in, but it looks clean and blue. There are steady winds driving waves across it so the surface is choppy. This area has some of Argentina’s best skiing and is the home of its craft beer industry.
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