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Panagea Ranch
We went to an estancia called Panagea Ranch. It only had electricity between 7:45 and 10:00 PM but that made it even better because it was darker. There were 11 people there. Here is a list of people at the ranch: Camilla, Stuart, Brian, Sara, Susie, Tarek, and Lorenzo. And us! Jaun, Bilinga, Darma, and…
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Adelomelon brasilianum
A few weeks ago we went to the beach to look at the Tavvishi. The Tavvishi is the ship that our car was on. Our car was on the ship because we were shipping it to South America. We saw something way more interesting though. They were snail eggs. They belong to a sea snail…
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Estancia Panagea
A few days ago we went to Panagea ranch. Panagea is a ranch in the north west of Uruguay where you can get the full Gaucho experience. We were there for three nights and two full days of riding horses. The evening we got there was nothing big, we just went over some house rules…
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Lobos in Cabo Polonio
About a week ago, we camped in Parque Nacional Cabo Polonio. It is a national park on the east coast of Uruguay with a town called Cabo Polonio inside of it, hence the name. Cabo Polonio is a very small, cute town, with very cozy tiny houses. This doesn’t mean that the houses are tiny…
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The Unboxing Post
I had devolved into stalking a ship. We were pretty desperate to get the car, not because we were in any hurry to do anything in particular, but because the steady drips of delays were making any planning difficult. On Monday the vessel tracker showed her sailing past the point at Punta del Este, so…
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Uruguay 1: Colonia, Montevideo, And A German Battleship
We left Buenos Aires for Uruguay two weeks ago. From BA, there is a ferry across the River Platte to Colonia del Sacramento. Established by the Portuguese in 1680 to firm up Brazil’s southern border, it bounced between Spanish and Portuguese control before ending up as part of Brazil and finally became Uruguayan at their…
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Shopping In Buenos Aires. Also, The Opera
Buenos Aires was really fun and I hope we go back sometime. There were a lot of museums, parks, and other places where you could learn about the history of the city, as well as the history of the country. The first full day we were there we went to the Sunday street market to…
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Update On The Car, Stoic Philosophy Edition
We’re spening the week in Montevideo. We had hoped to be using this week to get our car into Uruguay, and the ship was scheduled to arrive over the past weekend. Alas, the ship is sitting off the port of Navegentes, Brazil. That is the last stop before Montevideo, but she hasn’t put in there…
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Buenos Aires
We’ve just spent a week in Buenos Aires and have now sailed across the mouth of the Rio de la Platta to Colonia, Uruguay. The plan is to spend a few days here and explore before taking a bus down the coast to Montevideo where we hope for a speedy reunion with our car. We’ll…
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Florianopolis And The End of The Brazilian Adventure
We ended up in Florianoplois (or Floripa as the locals call it) for a couple of reasons. First, it was about halfway between where we were (Foz do Iguacu) and where we wanted to end up (Buenos Aires). We also wanted to travel by long-distance bus and it was a convenient distance (15 hours by…
