Thank you everybody for the warm replies, specially for those of you in the back-channel ! ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Lloyd <dlloyd_at_telus.net> >... I heard you guys are going > through an unusually cold winter with some resultant deaths.... Yes indeed, a few degrees below cero for thermal sensation, but water is not frozen and snows never show up in Buenos Aires, so I can keep on paddling. Unfortunatelly winter always take a few fellows .... , but this is life, isn´t it ? -------------------------- From: ralph diaz <rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com> > How do you term it in Argentine Spanish "Dia de La Amistad" or is it > "Dia del los Companeros" One of the most famous tango songs which I am > certain everyone has heard the tune for goes "Adios, muchachos, > companeros de mi vida...." Farewell, boys, companions of my life... I > always liked how the word _companeros_ sounds in that tango, a haunting > lingering effect. Actually, we say "Día del Amigo" wich would be translated as "Day of the Friend". I'm glad you like Tango, and its feeling for sure. As you perceived, for us COMPAÑERO is more related to a very close friend, "companion" of your life, someone you have lived deep growing maturing experiences, someone who is walking the way of life beside you. About Castro, well, that´s a another story, and another meaning, of course, even when his beloved CHE GUEVARA was argeninian. By the way, if you ever happen to wonder what this "CHE" means ..., well, there´s some indians from PATAGONIA named MAPUCHES, from MAPU (Land) and CHE (People), so "People from the Land". As frecuently happened in the "New World", conquerors incorporated native words and expressions, in this case the "CHE". Spaniards used the voice che! to call a native, in a despective way similar to americans usig "BOY" for black people. But time heals and now we use CHE the same you use "MAN", meaning confidence, friendship and good animosity. In the case of Guevara, its only a surname, same as friends call me "Pelado López" (Baldy López) -------------------------- From: Melissa <bonnyweeboaty_at_yahoo.com> > ...Please do tell us all about the paddling there. I would someday like very much to paddle in > Argentina (and about a thousand other places all over this planet). I live in Buenos Aires, and paddle most of the time in the "Rio de la Plata" and the "Delta del Paraná" (Paraná Delta). The Delta is a wonderful laberynth of islands and channels plenty of forest and wildlife. It joins the "Uruguay" river to form the río de la plata, the biggest estuary of the world. So big that it is 40 km wide in the beginning and 200 in th end, and amazingly is about 400 km long. When the first spaniards came they named it "The Sweet Sea", confusing it with a sea. With good weather is like a swimming pool and takes about 8 hs. paddling to cross it (non stop). But when the Southeastern Winds blow the story changes. This storm usually lasts 3 days of continuous and furious winds that block the normal flow of the river, causing the waters to rise 2 mts. or more, can you imagine the monster ???. It also gets choppy and confuing becomming a HELL of SUFFERING or a HELL of FUN, depending on how you see the life ! ------------------------------------- From: ralph diaz <rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com> > I often have thought of making that crossing, albeit I bet it would be > quite a long one as the ferry took five or six hours to cross. There > are shorter trips across the Rio de la Plata to Uruguay. Of course, > there are nicer paddling places south in Argentina but I am an urban > paddler. All you have to do is come ! That's what foldables are meant to, isn´t it ? As I said before the crossing is only 8 hs paddling, and I promise we won´t do it under bad weather, except Doug shows up too. The badest and more difficult part is getting the permits. You have to deal with the Coastguards of 2 countries, and as usual both will say NO!, but after insisting for a while ...... you get it. Best regards to all of you and thank you for your friendhip. I'm sure some day will find us paddling together somewhere in the world. Keep PaddleWising ! UNIÓN DE KAYAKISTAS DE TRAVESÍA Fernando López Arbarello uktkayak_at_uol.com.ar *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jul 25 2000 - 22:29:15 PDT
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