On the end of me armies!

We´re in the Andes!

Sorry, terrible joke. I´ve just completed another phase of my plan to deplete Argentina´s cattle stocks by eating all their steak. So my brain is a little fuzzy at the moment.

So, the Andes. Very big. Lots of snow still. Miles and miles of nothing but rock, shrub and large birds of prey. We spent a day in the ski resort of Penitentes (means penitance, a very apt name for a place where you spend most of the time falling off your snowboard onto very hard ice). This was good because you can either a) go snowboarding (yay), or b) put your feet up in the sun and watch husband repeatedly fall over on the ice like a dutiful and attentive wife. I think we got about the last decent day´s boarding in the resort, so very please with that.

We are now in the town of Malargue, attempting to book some trekking and accomodation in the local national park. Very small and sleepy town (approximately 2 dogs to every person), with beautiful views of snow capped peaks everywhere. Apparently we are relatively close to the site of the plane crash that the film Alive was based on. Bizarrely this is now a tourist destination (though closed right now due to excess snow). One has to wander what the lunch options are.

I´m now going to spend the afternoon attempting to digest in time to go for a run before the sun goes down (and it gets very chilly).

With luck Kara will write the next blog post, so it will contain a little more in the way of actual information.