Rosario, Argentina 2008

Best Wishes and Good Fortunes to you All,

 

We have now arrived in Rosario, Argentina.  We arrived yesterday in the afternoon after a 6.5 hour bus ride to cover only 230 miles of flat and semi-arid farmland.  The roads are just two lane highways.  Since there were multiple slow moving trucks on the road and since we were on a double decker tour bus, passing the slower trucks was often not possible.  We also stopped four or five times at intermediary towns for pick ups and drop offs of passengers.  It was pretty slow going.  At least we did get to see some of the countryside. 

 

It is HOT in Rosario.  We made it to the lower 90's during the last couple days in Cordoba, and we are not suppose to be less that the mid 90's during our week stay here in Rosario.  We felt it sleeping in the hostel last night and walking around the town today.  Ozell has been desiring warmer temperatures, but I think even he wouldn't mind if it was a little bit cooler here.  I'm fine with the lower or mid 80's.  Buenos Aires is supposed to be just as hot.  Rosario so far has a much better appeal at street level than Cordoba.  The buildings are more aesthetically pleasing and the streets are wider and cleaner.  There are some public monuments and fountains.  And... the men are better looking and often shirtless.  Being shirtless was unheard of in each of the previous places we have visited.  Ozell and I have not figured it out yet.  Cordoba was just as hot and only 230 miles to the west (slightly north, but mainly west).  Here it seems that on each block there is a shirtless guy- at least today.  Maybe it is the temperature today,  We will see.  

 

A brief note on guys...  Well when it rains; it pours.   Just as I wrote my posting about sexual frustrations, the next four and final days in Cordoba brought me at least one new lay a day- a couple days, I had two.  Not only were the guys hot and the sex great, I actually managed to meet two guys who I had great dates with also.  So I can add two more to the "great dates" column.  Two of the guys not only had great bodies, they had fantastic faces.  The best I have seen on this continent.  I am happy and content again.  Lol

 

Rosario is the town where Ernesto "Che" Guevara was born.  He has become a cult figure to the youth around the western world, but it an anathama to the conservatives in America since he was a socialist revolutionary and facilitated Castro's ascension in Cuba.  The pic attached to this e-mail is of a bronze statue comemorated in 2008 in a grassy and modest plaza in a non descript section of Rosario.  

 

Cheers for now,

 

Sean