https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Wed, 31 Aug 2022 10:18:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/we-finally-say-adios-to-argentina/ Sun, 03 Nov 2019 20:21:24 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=33527   November 3rd, 2019 We crossed the border in the rain from Paraguay back into Argentina for one last time.  Border crossing took just over half an hour and that was only because for some reason the border patrol officers issuing the TIP in Argentina saw some “holes” in our border activity – like an […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/iguazu-falls-jesuit-ruins-arg/ Wed, 16 Oct 2019 21:46:12 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=33086   October 16th, 2019 The ferry from Paraguay took about fifteen minutes to get to Argentina.  We unloaded and then did the immigration/ customs entry stuff in Argentina. Here we had a bit of a kerfuffle:  we exited Paraguay with our Canadian passports and entered Argentina on our US ones; we did this as Fran […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/hasta-luego-argentina/ Wed, 10 Jul 2019 18:41:28 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=32216   July 10, 2019 This fine Wednesday morning, we drove further north towards the city of Cafayate, another wine growing mecca in Argentina, and passed right through (but we’ll go back) on our way to the Ruta 68 – described as one of the most scenic roads in the country. We did the approximately sixty […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/north-to-quilmes-arg/ Wed, 03 Jul 2019 21:28:58 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=32021   July 3rd,  2019 After an exciting Tuesday afternoon watching the total eclipse of the sun and another quiet desert night, we set off northward early in the morning.  Now early these days means around 9 am as the sun doesn’t come up before 8:30 (no daylight savings down here) and we have that rule […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/cordoba-westward-to-the-eclipse-arg/ Mon, 17 Jun 2019 07:57:01 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=31805   June 17th, 2019 Córdoba is Argentina’s second largest city and is situated almost in the middle of the country between the arid north and the pampas (grasslands).  It is known for its colonial buildings and nightlife and currently has a population of 1.4 million. It was founded in 1573 and was named after Córdoba, […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/dougs-in-ba-frans-in-to/ Sun, 26 May 2019 13:14:33 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=31683     May 26th, 2019 This is the beginning of our fifth week in the city of Buenos Aires.  The city has surprised us in many ways and we are glad to have this time.  We had actually considered completely bypassing the city for a few reasons: (1) finding a place to camp in Tigger […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/next-2-weeks-in-ba-arg/ Sat, 11 May 2019 14:49:16 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=31512     May 11, 2019 We are grateful for this downtime and well settled in the apartment but do miss much about being on the road:  (1) our couch in Tigger is more comfortable than the one in here   🙁   and (2) the ability to move on if the weather sucks is a big plus […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/first-2-weeks-in-buenos-aires-arg/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 11:08:53 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=31373 April 28, 2019 We arrived in the capital city before 9 am to check out the two possible secure parking lots for Tigger recommended by the owner of the AirBNB we were interested in.  She had told us which was the closer to her place (without, of course, actually saying where her place was as […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/hoping-for-beach-time-arg/ Sat, 30 Mar 2019 21:24:47 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=31309   March 30, 2019 Our first stop eastward was the little town of El Chocón which is famous for some dinosaur footprints and the world largest carnivorous dinosaur was found near here.  The footprints are protected by a fence and there’s a walkway you go across to see the prints from above. (They were not […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/the-lakes-district-arg/ Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:31:57 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=31096   March 21, 2019 The Ruta 25 heading west from the Atlantic coast began to flatten out again to typical Patagonian landscape but no wildlife presented itself and then as we approached the Ruta 40 on the west side of the country, we began to see mountains.  We spent a night at the old standby: […]]]>