2 weeks: where have I been?

I am all too aware that I failed to live up to the promise in my last post to post more regularly. Instead of doing that, I've been in radio silence for the past 2 weeks. Sorry!

I haven't posted lately because after my last post my arm (injured at Iguazu) became unbearably painful, even with my self-medicated Vicodin. For a while I was scared to the point where I saw two different doctors and called my cardiologist in LA. I've had X-rays done and there's no fracture and the doctors all tell me there wasn't any indication of infection, so I'm guessing my pain can and should be blamed mainly on me for using my arm too much the day I last posted. Between shooting pool with fellow hostelmates and using the computer, I intensively "used" my arm that day for about 6 hours, way more than I should have.

Since my last post, I've been to Mar del Plata which is on the Atlantic coast and from there I went on to the Lake District in western Argentina, staying in San Carlos de Bariloche and San Martin de Los Andes. I am currently in Mendoza, which is the center of Argentina's prolific wine industry and a very nice, livable city to boot.

I've posted more pictures at picasaweb.google.com/26weeks for your enjoyment (or perhaps mockery). Be sure to tell me what you think.

I don't think I'll be making any more promises as to posting frequency for this blog, but I will certainly try by best to keep everyone up to date on my travels much more so than I have to date. If I have the time, I also hope to go back in time a bit and write a little bit about the places I've been to in the past three weeks. Wow ... three weeks. I can't believe about 10% of my trip is already over. Crazy.