Gully and Elise's Travel Blog: I'll Never Stop Wining

We suffered through a long, hard winter (about 1 week long) but spring has finally come!!! In Mendoza, the flowers are blooming, the temperature is rising… and the wine is flowing!!
But let’s not kid ourselves, the wine always flows. In fact, that is the main reason we ended up in Mendoza – it is the biggest wine producing region of Argentina. Sure, there are mountains, but why climb a mountain when you can drink wine instead?

A popular thing to do in Mendoza is rent bikes to visit the wineries. Check out the logo of the company we rented our bikes from - so appropriate!! Unfortunately, we never found a chance to actually perform the wine tasting while on the bike…

The company was called 'Bikes and Wines'

So, we rented bikes and visited the wineries, and it was great fun. We would tell the vintners that we were Argentinean wine experts, due to the copious amounts of ten peso ($2.50) wine that we drank. And how we loved that you could purchase said wines at the grocery store. They didn’t think this was very funny. They were rather offended by our poor taste. But how can you argue with a $2.50 bottle of wine, people???
We will leave tomorrow, on an anti-adventure which may just kill us both. This trip will be epic, so epic that you may hear about it on CNN (Maybe in the 4 AM time slot when they’ve completely run out of real news to report).
Origin: Mendoza, Argentina.
Destination: Surftown, Chile.
Distance: 2370 km.
And we have to cross the Andes. To accomplish this, we will take a 6 hour bus ride followed directly by a 30 hour bus ride. We will start at 7 AM and finish at around midnight the next day. With nothing but sugar-coated dreams of the perfect wave to keep us (ok, maybe just Gully) going. Pray for us, friends!

-E