Something you will never see in the U.S. -- the opportunity to stick your arm a cage full of cougars at the local zoo. That is no problem in Mendoza, Argentina, where the zoo is really ingrated with nature, and where the liability lawyers are apparently scarce.

It is so refreshing to see that there are still some foreign places where the idiots are not completely insultated from the consequences of their actions. Ever wonder why George W. Bush, before becoming President, never traveled outside the United States? Now you know ;-)


The number of vistors at the Mendoza Zoo was extemely low, with almost no children. So the animals were unusually playful -- very unsually playful for a zoo. The Mendoza Zoo is tiered up the side of a hill at a gigantic park, which has a great population of wild birds. It was really cool. One of the lioness was roaring, appareantly at what was going on at a near by cage -- the world´s oldest rythm, at lion-level amplification. .






A barber in Mendoza left what Gary calls a rat´s tail on Rick´s hair. I am going to keep it as a souvenir of Arengtina!