Adios, Argentina --- But We'll Be Back!!!

Tomorrow we leave BA, and after 4 months we feel a part of this city.  We have made friends who we plan to see again somewhere in the world and sadly, we have lost one too soon.  We have traveled to the Bariloche and the Lake Country, to Iguazu Falls, and to Salta and Jujuy provinces.  And there have been close-in excursions.

We shared in the nation's Bicentennial Celebration and now their participation in the World Cup.  These events tell us a lot about Argentina's people--- fierceness and pride, their heritage as well as their future, the large city versus the rest of this vast country.....but the land is what speaks to us.  It has won a very special place in our hearts.  And we plan to return early next year, not only to live again in BA, but to travel to those provinces we missed this time.  We still want to visit the far south, Calafate, and perhaps take a cruise to Antartica.

On our last night in Buenos Aires, good friends Jamye and Dave Smith hosted a going away party.  How best to end, but with pictures fo the wonderful friends from our short stay in Argentina.  We're signing off this blog and will begin again sometime soon. Hasta pronto, Argentina!!!