I spent a week in Mendoza with Rose and Steve and had a blast! Mendoza is in the largest wine growing region of Argentina and next to a lot of mountains (which you can see the snow capped peaks in the below pictures). We drank a lot of wine, went on a day long biking tour of vineyards, and ended up at a small beer garden. We were there the week before the massive wine festival, glad we missed that as prices for a place to stay doubled and looked like it was going to be crazy. Great running too, they have a fantastic huge park with trails in Mendoza.

It takes 14 to 16 hours on a bus to get to Mendoza from Argentina, basically going width wise across the entire country.

I’ve been in BA for about 3 weeks and it is an amazing city! I’ve been working a lot so when I’ve had free time just been wandering around a bit, so not too much to report. Mostly I have been enjoying the amazing food and wine :)

I love my apartment and a few pictures below, it is super funky and located in the San Telmo historic district. Huge 12 foot ceilings with huge windows, small deck, etc. Rose and Steve are staying with me for a few weeks before they head to Uruguay.

I’ve back to running as hoping to start doing some races in 3 to 4 months once I’m back to longer distances. The sidewalks around BA are not too bad, I twisted my ankle yesterday on a curb but I blame Argentina women for that as sometimes your eyes can’t believe they are wearing heels that tall. I’ve been running at the Buenos Aires Ecological Reserve which is only a mile from my place and amazing! Full of grass/dirt paths, quiet, tons of birds, and next to the ocean/river/marsh. I highly recommend running there if you are in BA. Check out pictures of it here.

A delicious Malbec that I really enjoyed! This one is located near Mendoza (Uco Valley) and hoping to visit it later this month maybe. Learn more about this one here.

Another Malbec, and yet another bottle where I can barely read who made it. What is with all the fancy writing people? Ya ya it’s cool. This wine was ok, but a bit acidic or something I couldn’t put my taste buds on. And not as smooth as the last one, maybe a bit too fruity and acidic. I think that was it.

That said, I drank it.

This was a delicious wine from a small vineyard, I don’t understand how people describe wines as it always seems odd. Basically it was really smooth, tasted great, and I drank it. There is some additional info here about them too.