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This blog is my play area. I use it just to keep stuff sort of documented.

Villa Mansa

Villa Mansa

We thoroughly enjoyed our stay at Villa Mansa. I wish I could grow lavender this big. We taught them to serve a pepper grinder to people from Estados Unidos.

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Cooking class

Cooking class

We learned how to make enpanadas. And at this meal, we hit "max food." Personally, i felt full for 2 days.

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Laundry

Laundry

We had laundry sent out a few times, but Lisa always likes to stay caught up with clean clothes.

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Olive oil tasting

Olive oil tasting

While we were on our wine tasting tour, we asked if the trees we were seeing were olive trees. They are, and the tour leader was excited about our interest. She set up an olive oil tasting before our cooking class. It's an established oil-making farm with a new shop...

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Pan America motorcycles

Pan America motorcycles

I was locked out of my blog for a few frustrating days. It said it didn't trust someone trying to log in from Argentina, so it wanted me to log in and approve the log in. But it wouldn't let me log in to approve it... because I'm Argentina. When I get caught up in...

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Wine tasting tour

Wine tasting tour

We visited two wineries a few miles from our hotel. The conversation, lunch, and wines were outstanding. We also discovered Mendoza olive oil! This is Durigutti winery.

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Ushuaia

Ushuaia

We rented a car in Ushuaia to go in and out of the city twice. One of the rules on the rental car agreement was "cars going downhill or uphill always have the right of way for cars on the horizontal." That was very confusing to me, but it was always observed on the...

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Beavers

Beavers

Beavers were introduced to Tierro del Fuego in 1946 to attempt to start a fur industry. The effort failed for various reasons, but the beavers flourished. They are now creating massive destruction in the forrests, which can't recover like north american forrests,...

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Museum of marine mammals

Museum of marine mammals

On the Harberton ranch, there is a museum of marine mammals. It was founded by the mother of the current owner, Aby. Some of these skulls are not marine mammals.

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 The Fascinating History of this Site

This Foray in to WordPress started on or about 11/26/2017. It’s ramblings about running, computers, and sometimes food.