Just across the water from Termas de Puyuhuapi (a 10-minute speed boat ride and a 15 minute bus ride) is the Parque Nacional Quelat, a beautiful park full of humongous nalca plants and large tepa trees and some nice hiking. The park is generally very difficult to access, as it’s somewhere in the middle of […]
Archive for December, 2005
Our second morning at the Termas de Puyuhuapi, we arose at 6am to board a catamaran down to Laguna San Rafael — a day-long boat ride among the fjords down to see one of Chile’s most spectacular glaciers. The boat itself was pretty darn classy — it felt like flying business-class, what with the constant […]
Coyhaique is home to 37,000 people, and is the capital of Patagonia. It’s a cute enough town, but one that few people have much reason to visit, especially considering that it is isolated from the rest of Chile — reachable only by a plane flight to Balmaceda or a 1,000 km drive on a dirt […]
Kenny and I had the amazing opportunity of attending Marcelo and Laura’s wedding in Buenos Aires. It was a fabulous affair, and in true BA style, the partying continued until 6:15 AM (unfortunately we had to leave just after 2AM to catch a flight to Santiago).
Here’s most of the Avalon crew at the reception with […]
Buenos Aires has a decent zoo; and like everything in BA, admission was cheap!
The strange thing about the zoo though, was that some of the animals were just running around freely. For example, these little rodents were out and about, and we even saw people purchasing rodent food and feeding them from their hands:
But the […]
After 2 days in Buenos Aires, we are now in Iguazu Falls. Check out a pretty awesome shot from our first day here…
We found a fabulous restaurant in Buenos Aires called La Farmacia (thanks Lonely Planet). If you ever find yourself in San Telmo, I recommend it.
This restaurant was the site of Kenny’s first Argentinian steak:
I even tried a bite (it was good, but I still maintain my status as a non-mammal-eater). I enjoyed my salmon ravioli […]
One of the top 5 things you are supposed to do in Buenos Aires (according to Lonely Planet, but also like everyone else in the world) is eat steak. Argentinian steak is supposed to be amazing, according to people who know steak. I’m sure it’s been at least eight years since I’ve had a steak. […]
Kenny and I depart on our South American adventure tomorrow night. It’s going to be a trip with many parts (and something like 11 flight segments in total). Here’s the basic breakdown:
Thurs 12/15-Fri 12/16. Redeye from Seattle–>Miami. Sleep a lot. Hang out in Miami with Kenny’s mom, and likely go somewhere nice for an […]
Ashish has some very informative recent posts about resource loading in WPF.
This stuff is important to just about anyone writing a WPF application, and I don’t think it’s hit MSDN yet. It’s a pretty nice model — you can just use URIs for everything, and there are abstractions that enable you to be agnostic […]
