For the sake of continuity I could really just lump all of the preceding weeks into this description but I don’t want to compromise my format. Worked, worked out, worked some more!
Category: Córdoba
Day 326 | April 17
Another thrilling one; woke, worked, worked out, worked until I fell asleep.
Day 325 | April 16
Another day of just waking up and working through the day. It was brought to my attention near the end, however, that today was Easter. Totally slipped my mind.
Day 324 | April 15
Another full day of working and doing nothing else.
Day 323 | April 14
Keeping the routine alive with a start at the crack of dawn and only one small break to work out midway through the day. By the end of the day I was getting a little tired of my marathon of work. There’s a cafe that’s supposedly pretty good right across the street from my place; Siamo. The food was surprisingly good but as I’d feared the pace of service was so slow that I almost just got up and left without paying. Considering that, I probably won’t be going back.
Day 322 | April 13
Woke, worked, worked out, worked, ate, slept. A lot going on right now!
Day 321 | April 12
Another day of focused work. Literally just woke up and set to it. Took one break to workout mid-day but otherwise powered through into the night.
Day 320 | April 11
Kind of a boring stretch here. Now back in Cordoba with another adventure behind me I’m having to settle into deep work focus. Woke up early, worked, worked out, worked some more. There’s no freaking place to eat in this town! Everyone only takes cash and the service is so slow it’s only practical to go out if you’re unemployed! …had a few empanadas. Worked more. Slept.
Day 319 | April 10
Early morning, cab to the airport and two flights back to Cordoba. Got home, unpacked and went to sleep early. Despite having a rather relaxing time in Patagonia I was still rather worn out.
Day 318 | April 9
Excursion to go riding today. This was an activity that took several attempts to get booked and in the end was lined up by one of my friends who didn’t make it so I literally had no idea what to expect other than some random guy would come collect me at my hotel and we’d go. He turned out to be a really interesting guy, used to be the president of a big Argentinian insurance company and then retired and bought a bunch of land in Patagonia. Now he splits his time between there and Buenos Aires and raises “sheeps.” His property runs all along the water of Lake Argentina outside El Calafete.
Out at his place I met up with my guide. My friends and I were the only people booked and so without them it was just me and her. This actually worked out really well as we basically just struck out and did whatever we wanted all day. Not sure if it was part of the original program but I think it was also good that it was just me as it was a fairly challenging ride at times, jumping, galloping, crossing rivers etc. One of my crazy cinematic memories for the year will definitely be galloping dead on toward Lake Argentina through a flock of flamingos as they took flight around us. Despite being a better rider than me the girl I was with was clearly amused at the fact that I was learning to play Polo and that my family had a ranch in Wyoming. So I demonstrated some of my mediocre polo skills for her and then we rounded up some cows to herd around as well. A couple of dogs from the ranch came out with us and they were great. Well, they periodically would try and play with the horses which the horses obviously didn’t care for and made things challenging. But they were really well trained. When I was giving my pretend demonstration on cattle herding they immediately spread out and started herding the cows along with us.
I was pretty sore by the end of things. We had lunch back at the ranch/hotel and then I went back to town. I rested for a bit and then had dinner at a neat place, Isabel.
Sadly, I was focused on riding most of the day so I didn’t really get many good pictures.
