Getting the general idea...

Just to start, why do I travel at all?  I just have to.  If I am at home for a longer while, I just keep looking at the airport bus; why does it leave without me?
Maybe I do travel now because it was forbidden when I was young.  I grew up in communist Hungary.
Then, why alone? People stare at me and ask, You alone? Not scared? Well, my children grew up, my friends are either a lot more ambitious or not at all, and organized group travel isn't for me. I would feel like a square peg in a round hole.
I traveled a lot since I turned 60 and even my youngest moved away.

But I never blogged before and don't quite know what to write now. But my daughter now insisted that I blog, thus I do.  I'm also a bit cheating, as I left home a bit more than two weeks ago and I have less than two weeks to go.  Thus I will have to jump back and forth within the story and the geography.  

This link might help to follow me on the road:
http://www.freeworldmaps.net/southamerica/argentina/map.html
Thus far: Buenos Aires, Montevideo (that's a side-step to Uruguay), Cordoba, Salta, Cafayate.
Why Argentina? No rational explanation. I did Peru and Ecuador before, going further South was sort of a logical step. It was an added motivation that one of my friends decided to live in Buenos Aires for a while.
Why North of Argentina?  That has a logical reason. I couldn't fit the trip during the Argentinian summer into my schedule. It was too late then to go South, to Bariloche and Patagonia. After all the spring rains in Montreal (that's where I live, when I'm at home), I deeply wished to be out of it. The desert seemed like an excellent idea.
And as we are out of chronology, in the next segment let's get down to food and coffee...