This was a day of rest. I guess it’s appropriate since it’s
Sunday. We woke up when we wanted to
(8:00) and walked up for a relaxing breakfast of what seems to be typical of
Argentina – toast, cold cereal, and bad coffee.
By 11:00 we were showered up and ready for a short hike into the Fitzroy
hills. Noticed I said hills, and not
mountains. That’s because it was a
really short hike – more like a walk, but some it was quite vertical. I keep talking about this, but I just keep
thinking that someone from the old B&W western TV shows is going to come
from around one of the bends is the hills.
Oh well – it didn’t happen. We
did come across a group of young teen age girls that were out for a school
field trip. (I know – on a Sunday!) We gave them some space to pass us on a steep
hill while they were singing away, and we just looked at them like stupid
Americanos that didn’t understand a word of Spanish. (imagine that) Somehow or other, they realized this, and we told
them we were from USA. Well – now they
all had to show off their English. One
girl said she had an uncle in Kansas.
Before you knew it, we had a dialogue going on, and before you could say
“habla usted English”, we were taking pictures of each other. I have one great pic of Weez with a number of
the kids. If it’s not here, we’ll have
it on Kodak Gallery.
We got back to the
hotel, dropped our gear and headed out to lunch – the local micro-brewery. They only had 2 choices of home brew. A pilsner and a bock. Since I don’t care for real dark beers, I
chose the pilsner. It tasted like it had too much lemon in it. Lemon!
Beers aren’t supposed to have fruits in them. Oh well – the empanadas we had for lunch were
quite tasty. We wandered around town,
bought some stuff to help the local economy (and get some Christmas shopping
out of the way) and headed back. My
original intent was a quick nap, but I thought if I can get on the internet, I
can get my stuff posted. Not gonna
happen. Talk about frustrating! I don’t have a problem if you tell me there’s
no internet service, but when you tell me there is, and it takes 2 hours just
to get to the Facebook home page – well – I gave up and went back and took a
nap.
That’s about it. Weez and I walked to the front of town so I could
take her picture with the Rockwell sign in front of the El Chalten welcome
sign.
So this is done for the
day. I now have about 4 days worth of
blogging sitting in queue on MS Word to post,
and hopefully, El Calafate – tomorrows destination, will have better
internet service than here.
We’re off to dinner with the
group in about 20 minutes – always a good time.
Buenos noches!
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