September 27th
Day 13

Today was our last whole day in Uruguay. Tomorrow morning we ferry to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Our last few days in the country were spent in a tiny horse ranch just outside of a town called Rocha, and in the picturesque town of Colonia del Sacramento.
I don't know how on both of our big trips I've had "interesting" expiriences with riding animals. In Laos, southeast asia, the elephant I was riding decided to take off through the jungle after being frighented by the noises of a car in the distance. And Although we had excellent hosts at the ranch we stayed at, and superbly trained animals, I still managed to almost get bucked off my horse after it was bitten by another one, during a ride up the mountainside. Other then that small, startling moment, everything was perfect. The people who owned the facility were two down to earth, dread lock wearing, vegetarian gaucho's.

We stayed in a beautiful little house with a grass roof and walls made of old car tires, mud and straw. The horses roamed around freely through the many acres of land, along with many dogs, skunks and lizards.

We spent all of today walking around the small 1700's looking town of Colonia del Sacramento. The architecture here looks as though it was taken from a picture book, with brightly colored houses and stone roads. I'll be a sad to leave Uruguay tomorrow, but I can't wait to see everything that Argentina will hold.