Bariloche Piramide

We’re living in a mostly glass pyramid at the moment staring out at a big mountain. It is a small pyramid, maybe 16’X16’ at the base and includes a very small kitchen and very very small bathroom.

pyramid bed

view from pyramid

The area we are in is spectacular; everywhere you look there is a mountain peak or a clear lake. Yesterday we rented bikes and rode the Circuito Chico. Our first stop was this amazing section of coastline on the Nahul Huapi Lake. Imagine a beautiful section of Lake Tahoe with nobody in sight.

haley says: "not your best form"

clear lake nahuel huapi on clear day

Two years ago a volcano started erupting in Chile and sending ash toward Bariloche.  Mostly this sucks for Bariloche but the one positive is that the ash settles in the lakes and rivers and makes them all turn this Caribbean blue. Don’t get me wrong, they are all still crystal clear, just some beautiful colors underneath.

Well, that was a beautiful day and so was today, when we visited another beautiful lake and waterfall, but the prognostico (weather forecast) is calling for rain for the next few days which turns our little pyramid paradise into a very small room a long way from everything. So we’re hoping that the weather people are wrong and that the good life will continue.

Other notes:

Haley may have gotten bitten by some bed bugs at the Alaska hostel or maybe some mean and very hungry spider.

Everybody around here has at least one dog and usually more – and they bark like crazy whenever you walk by. We have 3 dogs and 2 kittens and some chickens.

Sometimes we go into town and buy locally made amazing chocolates that we slowly savor after dinner.

We cook a lot even though we only have 1 burner and a toaster oven. We even roasted a 1/2 chicken in our toaster oven and it was so good.

Our internet only works if the computer is on top of the toaster oven – and then only sometimes.  That’s an improvement though.  Until yesterday when the owner got a new router, we had to sit outside on a tree stump about 50 yards away from our pyramid.

I wrote most of this post 2 days ago, so I am pretending that it is still two days ago… really other things have happened, but I’ll say those things next time.