Writography by JoeySee: Mid-February in El Bolson

I´m convinced they filmed "The Sound of Music" in El Bolson. I´ve never seen " The Sound of Music", but I´m pretty sure that doesn´t matter. There´s nothing but beautiful mountains all around, and when you get out to hike on them, you see lakes bluer than the sky, as well as the famous Rio Azul - The Blue River, which absolutely lives up to its name.

We´ve been here for about 10 days now. We came in from Buenos Aires after a 24 hour bus ride to Bariloche, followed by another 2 hours to El Bolson. The latter drive was fantastic. It was like we were driving thru Mordor... but a much prettier version of Mordor. All around us were gigantic snowcapped peaks and ominous low hanging clouds that brought to mind all the possible wizard dens that surely nest somewhere up in those peaks, hidden from the view of us humans.

The drive from BA to Bariloche was long, and mostly thru the Pampas - flat arid land that covers most of the middle of the coutry where we were. The one true highlight of the bus ride was a blinding lightning show at about 10 pm. You couldn´t see anything outside the windows of the double decker bus, but every 10 seconds there would be a HUGE bolt of lightning hitting some distant destination, and the nite became day for a few seconds at a time.

The meal on the bus was unexpectedly delicious, both Andrew and I agreed.

The movies on the bus:

All About Steve - in English with Spanish subtitles
Some RomCom with Gerard Butler - English with Spanish subtitles.
The Bucket List - Spanish with Spanish subtitles
Transformers 2 - Spanish with Spanish subtitles

Ok, I totally understand that I´m in a Spanish speaking country (Castellano, more accurately). But of all the people to overdub, you choose to over dub MORGAN FREEMAN??? Completely unacceptable. The man´s voice is beyond iconic. IT´S MORGAN FREEMAN FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!

And really? You´re going to overdub Optimus Prime? The producers specifically went out of their way for the movie to get the original Optimus Prime voiceover guy from the tv show. How do you just over dub him so carelessly??

Side note, after trying to not pay attention to Transformers 2 on the bus, I´ve come to 2 conclusions:

1- Transformers 2 is the longest movie in the history of ever
2- The audio track of Transformers 2 consists of 12 minutes of dialogue, and the remaining 298 minutes consist of sound effects of whirling gadgets, machines transforming, and bullets ricocheting off of metal. That´s it.

I woke up just in time to catch the sunrise. It was beautiful.

We´ve been working on different projects that have to do with constucting houses and other structures with all natural materials (plus the use of chainsaws, hammers and nails, etc.) Our other project has been lending a helping hand in the home made mass production of wind chimes.

Forreal.

It´s been interesting for sure.

We spent 5 days at a farm right on the Rio Azul, in the middle of nowhere and met some great people there.

We have this week off, but we are trying to make our way to Mendoza (the wine capitol of Argentina) by early March.

There´s so much more, but so little time to type it all. I hope the pictures below will suffice...