Day Sixty-Two: A Rainy Day in Bariloche

In townI took the hotel van into town this morning.  I want to go paragliding today but my hotel doesn’t organize it because of insurance.  I am looking for a place in town that organizes paragliding.  The town feels like it belongs in Swiss Alps.  I go to two different excursion offices and learn, to my dismay, that I can’t go paragliding today or tomorrow because of the winds.  Friday is the earliest I might be able to go, but I’ll be gone.

As an alternative, I decide to head to the chocolate museum.  Bariloche is known for it’s chocolate.  The museum is disappointing.

Chocolate factory

I start to walk into town and I see a chairlift and advertisement for a toboggan, so I ride up and toboggan down before heading back to the hotel.

At the top of the chairliftI am catching up with emails over lunch and I receive an email from Tom.  He asks when I will be back in the city so we can reconnect.  I’m really excited to meet again when I get back.

It starts to rain.  So much for hiking, biking and kayaking today.  One of the activities at the hotel is painting.  A good rainy day activity.  So I go and paint for an hour before some spa time, vino and early bed.

My paintingWhat I was attempting to paint