San Martín de los Andes has a couple different miradors overlooking the city and Lago Lácar. Yesterday’s weather was spectacular, with a high of 75 and only a gentle wind. So we shed our jackets and made our way up the hill to Mirador Arrayán, where the photo above was taken. Arrayán is a Mapuche word, which apparently means “place where we see the last rays...

I take back what I said the other day about lack of growth. I am 100x more mellow than I used to be. I didn’t realize it, until I listened to my conversation on the Launch Yourself podcast with host Melissa Anzman about our leap year:     I’m also, apparently, now uninhibited enough to confess some of my darkest fears to strangers listening to...

These kayaks — they mock us. They stare at us as we pass by bundled up in our jackets; their bright cheerful colors reminiscent of summer. “Don’t you wish you could rent us?” they whisper. “Don’t you wish it wasn’t too cold?” Kayaks, you need to quit rubbing it in. What a cruel irony that we are just a couple blocks from a beautiful...

The sun is shining again! So we took the opportunity to get outside and get some fresh air. Not that the indoor time was bad — we got a lot of stuff done. But it was nice to feel the sun on our faces.     We found a place to stay in Buenos Aires, which was a bit of a challenge since it’s tough...

Brrr! It’s cooled down here, which means it’s the perfect time for some hot chocolate. In San Martín de los Andes (and in Bariloche too), you’ll find a chocolate store or cafe on every block. They’ve got it all: chocolate ice cream, chocolate fudge, chocolate liquor. Very delicious and very dangerous. So far our favorite place is Abolengo on San Martín and Drury, which is where...

It’s a bit of a gloomy day, but rain is good and makes things green. When I’m emailing with friends, many of them ask me things like, “What else is going on that’s not included on your blog?” So here’s some behind-the-scenes commentary. On the non-gloomy side, we had a fun dinner last night with our hosts, Harry and Ivana — and their cute...

This is the view from the hike we took the other day. It’s what Lago Lácar looks like once you get around the bend that makes it look small from San Martín de los Andes. Sometimes I think we take views like this for granted since we’ve seen a lot of beautiful landscapes in our travels. Which got us thinking about other random things...

We’re all settled in San Martín de los Andes. I’ve already had a tweet favorited by their head of tourism, so we’re off to a good start. SMA is small (less than 30k people) and situated on the eastern end of Lago Lácar, pictured above. The lake looks small, but it continues beyond the bend almost all the way to the Chilean border, which...