April 22nd, 2019 Today, Brendan was working on school, so I explored on my own. At first it was difficult for me not to have a phone (Brendan’s phone only works on WiFi so it doesn’t do much good when you are out exploring). However, I started to get used to not having my phone…
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Day 77 – Santiago, Chile
April 21st, 2019 Happy Easter! We celebrated it by sleeping in! We had a leisurely morning and took our time getting ready for the day. We switched to a different apartment down the road today because the WiFi wasn’t very good at the one we were in. We got to our new apartment and it…
Day 76 – Santiago, Chile
April 20, 2019 Today, we had another free walking tour that took us through Santiago’s markets and ended in the cemetery. We have seen quite a few cemeteries in Latin America at this point, and this was definitely the largest one. You could fit 117 soccer stadiums in this cemetery and over two million people…
Day 75 – Santiago, Chile
April 19th, 2019 Today we woke up after napping in the Santiago airport and started our day taking the local bus from the airport to city center. Once there, we got on the subway until we reached Santa Lucia (an area of downtown Santiago). We were there very early in the morning, so I knew…
Day 74 – Buenos Aires, Argentina
April 18th, 2019 Today we parted ways with Taylor as she was going to Peru and Brendan and I were going to spend five days in Santiago, Chile. In the morning we said goodbye. Taylor had one more night in Buenos Aires and Brendan and I were flying out that night to Santiago. She headed…
Day 73 – Buenos Aires, Argentina
April 17th, 2019 Today Brendan had to work on more school studies for the first part of the day and Taylor was still on a shopping mission. I walked around with Taylor awhile before heading to the neighborhood of San Telmo. I went to the San Telmo market and wandered around that part of town. …
Day 72 – Buenos Aires, Argentina
April 16th, 2019 Brendan had school work to catch up and he stayed at the hostel to be on the computer today. Taylor and I went out to go to the Palermo neighborhood where we heard there were cute boutique shops. We took the subway to get there and walked around for a while. Taylor…
Day 71 – Buenos Aires, Argentina
April 15th, 2019 Today we got up and the three of us did a 10:30am walking tour. The tour took us through the nice aristocratic neighborhoods of BA and included a visit to Recoleta Cemetery. After our tour we went back and changed hostels. We rested for a bit in our new hostel and then…
Day 68 – 70 – El Calafate to Buenos Aires, Argentina
April 12-14, 2019 Happy Birthday to Nanny! Today we got up early to drive back to El Calfate, return the rental car and make it to the bus station for a 10:30am bus. We stopped at the store and picked up some food and snacks for our very long bus ride to Buenos Aires (it…
Day 67- El Chalten, Patagonia (Argentina)
April 11th, 2019 Today our plan was to rent a car and start making our way north to Buenos Aires. We were going to take a few days for a road trip to do this and stop in El Chalten to see the famous Fitz Roy. However, our plans went awry when there were no…