Honoring Life, Giving Care, and Bringing Comfort
Imágenes por / images by Maureen & Ed Rogers
We spent almost three weeks in South America. In one trip e saw two worlds, a visit to the beautiful cosmopolitan city of Buenos Aires, then a tour of the wild Patagonia region.
We walked the streets and wide avenues of Buenos Aires, its many parks including one with a metallic flower that is solar powered and opens and closes; the walking street Florida, and the very wide and crowded roadway 9 de Julio. We also spent a day bicycling through the city, which has well marked bike paths.
Patagonia is an arid, dry, rugged, low populated land with weather that can change in five minutes: rain, snow, sun and winds up to
60 mph.
Calafate is named for the calafate berry, that once eaten guarantees one’s return to Patagonia. We visited the Perito Moreno Glacier in the Los Glaciares National Park. This is the only glacier in the world still expanding. How nice to hear, when so many are shrinking.
We sailed to the “uttermost end of the world” the city of Ushuaia, navigating the legendary Strait of Magellan, Cape Horn and the remote island of Tierra del Fuego. The scenery was breathtaking.