We have been in Mendoza for the last 3 days, eating beef and drinking malbec. It is hard to leave but it will be better for our health. Jeff tried to be like Che Guevara and drink yerba mate (a strong, unfiltered VERY bitter tea that the Argentines drink out of a hollowed out gourd type vessel and drink through a metal straw) but could only bear to put away one gourd full. We went to another soccer game, this time a second division game between Independiente and CAI in Mendoza...a safer scene for sure, although there was still a decent amount of razor wire. What I will miss most about Argentina though is the mullets. Everybody´s got one, and some are very creative. Jeff wants one but I said no. We are about to head on to Santiago, flying the same route that the stars of "Alive" were flying when they crashed in the Andes. Jeff just finished reading that book and informed me of that -- I felt like it was a poor choice in happy vacation reading!
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