17 April 2018 – Before I left I took the Monarch Butterfly
outside and put it on a branch in one of the trees. Hopefully, he likes the
tree better than the hotel room. This hotel I found not to be user friendly. I
paid more money for less than the hotel a day earlier. I will leave Santa Rosa,
Corrienties, Argentina and drive to Jardin America, Misiones, Argentina. I’m
hoping to have good luck finding a hotel.
Once I arrived in town, I couldn’t find my hotel of choice
so I asked a couple of young lads if they knew where it was. One of the guys
jumped on his motorcycle and guided me over to it. It was on the opposite side
of the road. It wasn’t that visible to me. I pulled up and parked. I looked around
and it kind of looked closed. I rang the doorbell a couple of times and no one
answered. I walked over to the lumber business next door to the hotel. I asked
one of the guys about the hotel. He said it was closed. I really liked this
hotel and its layout.
I’m off to my second choice……..Hotel America. It wasn’t brand
new but you couldn’t beat the price and it was clean. It also had secure
parking which I wasn’t sure about when I was checking it out online. I carried
all my bags upstairs and then was oiling my chain. A couple of friendly guys
curious about motorcycle stopped by and started asking questions. I told them
about my motorcycle travels and whatever else they wanted to know about my
motorcycle. I gave them a card with my blog addresses on and showed them how to
look them up in Google. We took some pictures and they left. They told me that
they had to get going because their mothers or girlfriends were getting tired
of standing around. We talked for more than 30 minutes.
I continued oiling my chain and emptied the can of spray of
chain oil. It was brand new when I left Minnesota. I also washed my head light,
tail light and signal lights. They were still dirty from the rain and muddy wet
road down near Ushuaia, Argentina. I rode my motorcycle over to the secure
parking. It was maybe 100 Yards / 100 Meters away. I found a safe spot out of
the way of car parking and covered it up. The usual routine.
The secure parking area was inside a new addition they’re
putting on the hotel. There will be rooms with showers, beds etc. The inside
concrete work is maybe 1/8 to 1/4 completed. That’s not a big deal but how it
was being completed totally blew me away. The crew was working on the 3rd floor
and all concrete was mixed there. The bags of concrete were carried on their
backs up 6 flights of stairs. They did that about twice an hour. All the sand
was pulled up to the 3rd floor. They had a tripod built with a single pulley,
rope and a 5 gallon pail. The guy on the ground floor filled the 5 gallon
bucket, set the bucket under the pulley, took the slack out the rope, then took
a run and pulled the pail up about 5 yard / 5 meters and then hand over hand
pulled it to the 3rd floor. When it got to the 3rd floor the guy would grab it,
unhook it, dump the pail and send it down the empty. This went on till the pile
of sand was on the 3rd floor or they went home for the day. I believe they had
one cubic yard / one cubic meter of sand on the floor when I was watching. I’m
sure it was 2 cubic yards / 2 cubic meters of sand when they started. I had to
check and see how much that pail of sand weighed. I guessed it weighed between
35 and 45 pounds / 16 and 20 Kilograms. I saw the guy on the rope pull up over
10 buckets of sand. Is there anybody out there who wants to volunteer to hoist
sand for a day? That young guy on the rope was in pretty good shape.
I went back to the hotel. After 8:00 p.m. I came down stairs
and went to the restaurant. Mary told me it was a Brazilian Steak House. They
had a salad buffet and then they came around with steak, pork and chicken on a
skewer. They slice off any quantity of meat you desired. I will tell you I ate
my fill of salad and all three meats. That hands down was the best meal I had eaten
since I left the United States.
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