Cabo Polonio

So, I haven't posted in a while because nothing interesting has happened in my life. I have not left the house in the last few days. I have had a cold since thursday night and am fighting a nasty cough right now. I blame it on the lack of fruits and vegetables in my diet. I swear to god that Argentines live on pizza, empanadas, steak, sausage, mate, and cigarettes. I don't know how they do it and stay as thin as they do. Either way I have modified my diet to include at least 3-4 litres (thats right, almost a gallon) of water, at least one glass of fresh squeezed orange juice, and a few cups of green tea a day. I just need to get over this cough before heading to Cabo Polonio this weekend.

Which brings me to the trip. This week is Semana Santa and as all of South America is extremely religious we have thursday-sunday off to travel. So, a couple of friends and I have booked tickets for wednesday morning to take a boat across Rio de la Plata to Colonia, Uruguay, catch a bus from Colonia to Montevideo, spend the day and evening in Montevideo raising hell, or just doing touristy stuff, whatever, and then catching a 1 AM bus up the coast past Costa del Este to a little known hippy town called Cabo Polonio.

Coincidentally, where we are going looked vaguely familiar to me and I discovered today that I had seen it somewhere. Of course, I remembered, Anthony Bourdain went there. So, I checked the episodes, and sure enough he went to Cabo Polonio. Here is the clip. Check it out.

Anyways, we take a bus up the coast to a small town where we get off, pay for a 4x4 truck to take us almost an hour through the sand dunes to Cabo Polonio. Once there, we have rented a room in a "hostel" so to speak. It is a wind swept shack on the beach with a working kitchen. Most of the houses here have no running water or electricity, so it can be pretty sparse, however our hostel has solar panels to run lights and a fridge and water tanks on the roof to provide gravity fed running water.

I plan on renting a surf fishing rod, pitching a chair on the beach, and bringing along a couple of litres of beer and a cooler and relaxing as much as is humanly possible. I have talked up my cooking skills to the guys so I have to be a good cook now. I am not worried, however, I will be cooking for 7 so it might get a little stressful at times seeing what everybody wants. Oh well, should be an overall amazing time, assuming I don't have this horrible cough still when I get there. My severe water intake and absolute lack of activity should render me 100% in no time. I hope.

More to come soon.