Winds Of Change...

Note: First of all, excuse me: I have to say that I´m trying to write this blog in English so you can read it, but I recognize that my English is poor...

Soon there will be great changes in my life ...

Music: Wind of Change - Scorpions   -  Fuente: ( You Tube - Scorpions - Oficial)

"Changing the river  of  lion´s color for the blue lake,
changing the color of the concrete for the green forests,
changing the broad 9 de Julio avenue  for the colorful Los Notros Avenue ,
changing the hurry of the city for the tranquility of a village,
changing the skyline of the city for the silhouettes of the mountains,
changing the gray of the asphalt for the leaden gray sky before the rain,
changing people for solitude, madness for peace  , city for nature ...  

I change Buenos Aires for Patagonia! "

 

 The months pass, at first very slowly, but less than two months of our move, the time seems speeded up. There is so much to prepare, organize, fix, buy ... The main concerns were the house and moving and both of them are resolved.

We rent the house to a member of the place where my husband works, and who lived her whole life he lived in Lago Puelo. We called her a real NIC (born and raised), and who lives a few feet of what will be our home. We will live in an area called The Island, between the stream called Golondrinas (Swallows) and the Azul river (Blue river), a few blocks from downtown (if you can call them blocks ...). There is a small forest and greenery around.

The other major issue was the moving, we decided to recruit a company of Bariloche after having seen several companies and asking for prices. Fortunately the people of the company packed the furniture; I shall have to pack dishes, clothes and books, the small things but the worst!!. Luckily our apartment in Buenos Aires is small, but in these 7 years of marriage we have accumulated a lot of stuff (and crap too!)

Between what needs to be prepared are the curtains. I bought the fabric and I shall make them myself to cut costs. I was told that in Lago Puelo it costs a lot more expensive, because they come to town to buy the fabric ...

Next month, December, and I shall begin to pack our winter clothes to go forward a little work. The rest will be prepared together with my husband who returns home to spend the Christmas and New Year in family. Today I realized that I still have a month and a half to leave the job that I have for 16 years!. On January 8, the truck will be loading "our home" and if all goes well, on January 11 will be receiving it in Lago Puelo and we will begin to decorate our new home...

NEW YEAR, NEW LIFE!!  (really...)

Patagonia: my place in the world - Why?

Distant, wild, cold, windy, barren, remote, chaotic...

Beautiful, majestic, mystical, magnificent, mysterious, superb, unique, picturesque, magic...

There are so many words to describe this place of  the world, but I think that the best definition is that Patagonia is the place where nature, adventure and legends come together at the end of the world...

Note: First of all, excuse me: I have to say that I´m trying to write this blog in English so you can read it, but I recognize that my English is poor...

Here is my story:

I live in Buenos Aires, the most popular city of Argentina. But I love Patagonia since I know it...

When I was twelve years old, my parents took me to Bariloche during the summer holidays. It was love at first sight! The lake so blue, the clear sky, the silhouettes of the mountains... We returned in winter: the cold and white snow, the landscapes as B&W photos... I remember thinking to myself how nice it would be one day to live in a place like that.

I returned to Patagonia several times:

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  Puerto Madryn with the Valdez Peninsula and its orcas, sea lions, sea elephants, penguins in summer and the southern right whales in winter;
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  Calafate with the famous and pristine Perito Moreno Glacier,
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  Comodoro Rivadavia with its blue sea, the Petroleum Museum, and the Chenque Hill
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  Río Gallegos, Punta Loyola, with the flag trees and the cormorants.
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  Esquel and its ski resort "La Hoya" (The hole), where I skied for the first time in my life.
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  San Martín de los Andes and the wonderful ski resort called Chapelco, between the forest of "lengas" (beech).
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  Villa La Angostura, a beautiful place between lakes, forests, mountains
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  Copahue, close to the volcano of the same name and with its extraordinary thermal water, mud, vapors and algaes.
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  Caviahue, at the feet of the Copahue volcano, with a lake and the monkey-puzzle (araucarias or pehuenes) forests.
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  Villa Pehuenia, a little village by the lake Aluminé and near an old volcano called Batea Mahuida.
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  Bariloche with the mount Catedral, Nahuel Huapi lake, Challuaco valley, Campanario Hill, mount Tronador, and the chocolates!!!
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  Ushuaia, at the end of the world, on the Beagle Channel, the Tierra del Fuego National Park, Fagnano lake and the subantartic forests.

Tired of the life and the insecurity of the city, my husband and I decided to live in another place, preferably to our beloved south... He found a job in a very little village called Lago Puelo, surrounded by hills and near the Puelo lake, at the border Argentina-Chile. A place where Mother Nature is mistress of all, a little village where people live and work in peace...

Now we are in the process of change, happy and hopeful to have found our place in the world in PATAGONIA.

My dream is coming true!!!  And yours?...