tiffy giffy

Tiff flew out last night. Matt stays for another week.

We went to Buenos Aires for a few days and then Tiff flew home. Matt's off to Tigre for the week! Turns out we found a tiger after all.

clouds over Trinidad

Al Campo

Although Matthew didn't think it was all that important, I really wanted to see the village he stayed at when he was in Paraguay in 2001. I liked the idea of being in a rural farm town (el campo), of seeing a place that was familiar (at least to one of us) and the adventure of trying to find place and people who were off the map.

We hopped on a bus out of Encarnación to Yaguarón ('big dog' in Guaraní), the closest town to the turn off for Curupayty, see our map below:

TripAdvisor & Kiva

We made friends with the families who owned the hostel/hotel we stayed at in CdE, so we agreed to write them reviews on TripAdvisor. For some reason I had never thought to do this before, but I had a great time making a little TripAdvisor profile and writing up some short reviews. Then I got the coolest present ever: a $25 Kiva gift card to give to an entrepreneur in Paraguay. ¡Que fabuloso!

I chose Juan, who is using the funds for his poultry farm in Caaguazú, where we happened to have tried to get to today. We ended up in nearby San Pedro, but whatevs.

winter. whoda thought?