December 1-3
After driving back to Calafate and returning the rental car, all four of us flew to Bariloche. Patagonia is even incredible from the sky:
Here, Michael and I got off the plane and Mom and Dad B continued on their travels back Buenos Aires and then home. Thank you for coming and sharing this part of the adventure with us!
Michael and I now have six days in Bariloche, so we spent some time familiarizing ourselves with the city and grocery shopping! We got a nice AirBNB with a kitchen. So no more eating out three times a day! We bought some bread, butter, granola and milk.
Milk:
That’s right. Bags of milk. It took us ten minutes to find this, with help from store employees. Bags. Who knew? The bigger issue was once I opened it, what to do with the rest until I’m ready to use. So…
Bariloche also has a few breweries in addition to all that bagged milk. So we have checked out a few of those. Wesley, Manush and Berlina. Mad props to Berlina for having the best music to date on the trip. Really great 90’s rock and solid beers. Manush was pretty good and Wesley had great pizza. I’m sure Michael has more to say about the beer, but they were all fine for the most part.
On Saturday, we ran a few errands and relaxed. For dinner, we took a taxi to the outskirts of town to have dinner at a place called Butterfly Patagonia. It had an incredible tasting menu paired with fantastic Argentinian wines.
But the real show stopper for the night was the sunset. Note: I don’t adjust or filter any of my pictures. Ain’t nobody got time for that. This is legitimately what the sunset looked like. The one with us in it is less dramatic than real life because a dude also taking picture shone his flashlight on our faces to improve the picture.
Today, Sunday, we have another low key day. Mass this morning and another grocery store stop. Michael is cooking braised beef ribs for dinner and I’m getting caught up on the blog (sorry for the massive overload of posting today). Bariloche has less English speaking movies, so that hasn’t been as successful as our Sunday in Bueños Aires, but a great day in general.
Tomorrow we’re planning on fly fishing (wish us luck) and out to vineyards on Tuesday and Wednesday before heading off to Cusco.
I’m cracking up at your attempt to explain #nofilter as a person who doesn’t use filters or hashtags. So rich.