After two days of traveling and 24 hours in Buenos Aires we have nearly arrived at our destination! And more importantly than that -so have our bags!  We arrived in Buenos Aires on Monday morning and after dealing with stingy ATM´s and some unexpected changes to our flight to Calafate - we were able to catch a snooze cruise at our fabulous hostel.  We stayed at America del Sur in the San Telmo district of B.A. and loved it.  Everyone was super friendly and they made the most delicious BBQ that night.  Our first South American steaks were AWESOME.  We can´t wait for more when we exit (hopefully alive) from Torres Del Paine.

Our hours in Buenos Aires were spent wandering the city center, gawking at the 16 lane street down the heart of the city.  I think we prefer the cobblestone streets of San Telmo to the bustling shopping crowds of the main drag.  We squeezed in a pretty good Tango Show at Complejo Tango last night.    We are both impressed at the legs that seem to flail with precision. 

The highlight of the trip so far was flying into Calafate this evening.  Despite the mix up with the bus company, we eventually made it to our hostel.  It´s another America Del Sur and the people here are just as great as they are in BA.  We had just under an hour from arriving at the hostel to seek out campstove fuel for our trip to TDP.  After striking out at 3 different stores, we finally found ¨solvente industriale¨ - white gas - at a machine tool store with 15 minutes to spare.  Without that find we would have been SOL and would have starved in TDP (or would have tested our multi-fuel stove with gasoline).

We´re not so good yet at remembering to take a few pictures in jpg format -- we would have loved to share with you a picture of Lago Argentino in desolate Patagonia that otherwise reminds Lee of Owyhee County (so far - we know Owyhee doesn´t have any glaciers....)  We´re pretty excited to come back here.

We leave EARLY tomorrow morning (midnight San Francisco time) to catch our bus to Laguna Amarga to start our 8 days of trekking in Torres Del Paine (TDP).   With any luck, you´ll hear from us again when we return to Calafate on the 12th.