On the Road...

December 7th, 2010

Bariloche, Argentina

It's truly great to be back on the road again. When I say back on the road, I don't mean on another business trip where I stay in a generic room for a night or two before moving onto the next city. I mean traveling with Marc, something we enjoy doing together.

The pure exhilaration that hits the moment we get off the plane, trying to navigate our way into a new town, or in this case, our transportation to Jorge Newberry airport from the International airport. It doesn't matter how many hours we've been traveling, how exhausted we might be, we have to pull it together until we get to our final destination.

After a grueling 28 hours of travel door-to-door we arrived in the beautiful lakeside town of Bariloche, Argentina.

Bariloche is one of the towns we visited in 2007 for a few days. We knew we wanted to come back and in August we decided to do just that. We found a little Casita on the lake for a reasonable price and booked it.

Today, we are looking out at the lake from a love seat in the Casita. There are bay windows that allow us to take in the view, instead of staring at a television. The weather is temperamental - sunny and clear one moment and windy, overcast with light showers the next - changing the streaks of color on the mountains, evolving the scenery.

An intriguing yellow flower borders the yard and is almost blinding in the direct sun. The various shades of green near us and across the lake on the snowcapped mountains are beautiful in contrast to the crystal blue lake.

As we hiked one of the mountains today,we enjoyed the lake views from a higher vantage point and getting a little exercise. It's days like this that make being on the road worth it. Plus, I can clear my mind and see...