https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Mon, 05 Sep 2022 06:39:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/now-argentinas-end-of-the-world/ Wed, 13 Feb 2019 17:22:28 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=30456   February 13th, 2019 We continued on the crappy gravel road in Argentina to the city of Rio Grande on the Atlantic Coast – last time we saw the Atlantic was back in July 2017 in northern Colombia.  It’s still very windy here as we are still in Patagonia but the temperature is in the […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/2nd-dip-into-argentina-arg/ Fri, 18 Jan 2019 14:21:56 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=30048   January 18th, 2019 Entering Argentina took about 20 minutes and we had no “inquiry” about what food we might have onboard.  One young officer did the paperwork by hand, stamped our passports, handed us our TIP and opened the gate. It had been suggested that a more scenic route to the Ruta 40 (the […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/finishing-our-dip-into-argentina/ Fri, 16 Nov 2018 20:55:22 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=29325   November 16th, 2018 We had a plan to stop enroute for a night but the place we had in mind did not pan out well (sucky internet) so we got to the hostel Christine had suggested and settled in.  Hostel Wineries is a small hostel into whose back parking area we just fit into […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/san-juan-province-arg/ Sun, 04 Nov 2018 20:20:30 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=29215   November 4th, 2018 On this beautiful Sunday, we made our way into the San Jan Province, north of Mendoza.  Our destination was El Leoncito National Park. El Leoncito is located on the western slopes of the Sierra Del Tontal 34km south of Barreal and 220 km northwest of Mendoza.  The lack of atmospheric pollution […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/mendoza-province-arg/ Sun, 28 Oct 2018 15:59:12 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=29056   October 28th, 2018 We arrived in Mendoza (the capital of the province), which is a fair sized city and found a Walmart to stock up before making our way to a recommended parking lot in the city that allows you to stay overnight in your vehicle and it’s pretty much right downtown. We got […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/first-dip-into-argentina-arg/ Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:07:31 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=28964   October 25th, 2018 Argentina – our sixth country in South America and the eighth largest country in the world.  It like, so many of this continent’s countries, has many different climates and landscapes; from hot and humid jungles in the northeast and bone dry Andean plateau in the northwest, through endless grasslands to the […]]]>