Day Sixty-Two: A Rainy Day in Bariloche
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 
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 painting
What I was attempting to paint