I got home from Buenos Aires at 4:55 this AM, and made it through customs and got home on the city bus at 6:00 AM. I kept a journal of all my travels, from Montevideo, Uruguay, across by bus Uruguay to Salto, then across the Uruguay River to Concordia on a ferry, and again by bus to Corrientes, a city of maybe 1.5 million on the S. Bank of the Parana (which by the way, is about five times wider at where it joins the Rio Paraguay than the Mississippi is at New Orleans), and then on to Ituzaingó, where I did the official PR tour of the Yacyretá dam project which has boat locks as well as elevators for fish, and then to Posadas, in Misiones province, Argentina, a totally agreeable laid-back place, and then across the Paraná to Encarnació,, and another bus to Asunción, the capital of Paraguay, out across to Eastern Chaco to Pozo Colorado, and back to Concepcion. I stayed with the owner of a model farm, called El Roble, run by a very inventive and well educated East German who bears a resemblance to Crocodile Dundee who puts up tourists, grows nearly all his own food and sells it in his own store in Concepcion.
I kept a journal, which is about 90 handwritten double-spaced pages, took over 180 potos, and am planning to put it up in Spanish and English, including neat topics such as why coatimundis and toucans are not really great pets, but perhaps carpinchos (capybaras) are.
