NARRATIVE REPORT PART ONE
NARRATIVE REPORT PART TWO
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Nicolas and Allison await the first of many empanadas.
Casa Rosada, important Buenos Aires political locale that featured prominently in the Eva Peron story.
Lobby of Hotel Cesar Park in Recoleta barrio of Buenos Aires, where we stayed.
Shopping expedition in La Recoleta.
Dad said "No."
Massive public art; the flower is about 60 feet tall and closes at night.
Carp explosion at the Japanese Gardens.
Most excellent samurai. Notice the rhino/elephant feet.
Pablo, El Perfecto Insecto. Found walking a major roadway, totally in charge of things. I helped him back to the trees where (I think) he belonged.
Katelin and Kenna in the park.
Dinner at El Sanjuanino. Self portrait to prove I was there, since as the family photographer, I often don't appear to be part of our vacations.
Food is a highlight of the Argentine experience, an amazing collage of Latin American and European culinary traditions.
Porto Maduro, a reclaimed waterfront area, now bustling.
Statuary reflected in stained glass in El Cemetario de Recoleta, Buenos Aires' most expensive neighborhood, if a Necropolis qualifies.
Family mausoleums can be used to stack many generations. Literally.
Eva Peron is buried in the Duarte family mausoleum.
Amazing statuary, also in El Cemetario.
La Boca barrio in Buenos Aires.
More La Boca.
Katelin discovers tango.
Marcia too.
Then everybody wanted some of that.
Until La Hormiguita (Little Ant Man) of Buenos Aires appeared on the scene.
In Mendoza, Nicolas and Allison help San Martin figure out which way to go. Or find his lunch. We are not quite sure.
Nicolas' cousin is a dentist, so when we went to wait for him in his office one day, we figured we would help drum up business by power chugging highly sweet sodas. My teeth still hurt.
Bodega Salentein, in the wine country southwest of Mendoza.
Kenna the Conqueror, at San Martin's bridge.
Guanaco-proof fence.
Katelin con Andes.
Small roadside museum tries to capture to train crowd.
Puerto de Inca, a natural bridge and mineral hot spring.
Aconcagua, the highest, largest mountain in the Western Hemisphere.
Nicolas and Allison with Aconcagua.
Me and Marcia too.
It is very windy at the Aconcagua Provincial Park.
View from Christo Redemptor de los Andes, a statue on the Argentine-Chilean border, at about 12,500 feet above sea level.
Christo Redemptor guards the border, providing assurance that Chile and Argentina will never again go to war. Did I mention he is at 12,500 foot above sea level? And the only way to get to him is through the most mind-crushingly scary series of switchbacks carved into a mountainside than anyone in our company had ever seen?
Katelin and Kenna walk into Chile. At 12,500 feet above sea level.
Allison tries to avoid being blown deeper into Chili.
I figure if I let the wind blow me into the sign, I will be safe.
Restaurant in Penitentes, where we ate after the harrowing descent from Christo Redemptor.
Another view of the same location. It was truly beautiful.