because it's for getting pretty hot that was far more challenging than I ever expected

oh the stress the steaks are high oh because we need to rewire uh the first house the Chalet

we did have to cut some trees around the house so that the roofers would be able to replace

the new roof that's going in what are alfajores for the um I mean you could think of them

as Argentine cookies that's amazing this is my favorite one [Music] good morning good

morning everyone good morning everyone how are you doing today is going to be an adventure

it's already an adventure we're already off to a rough start so we have joined a trucking

Club we're going on an Excursion to the town of La cumbresita our local bus that we were

meant to take to get there did not show up today apparently it's not coming till 11 we

were meant to be on the 8 o'clock did it break down no we don't even know it's the holiday

we don't know there's just no bus so we're like messaging with the group on WhatsApp

can somebody pick us up because we've been trying to hitchhike but because it's a holiday

there's no one out on the road so we're meant to do a really cool truck today we have a

beautiful day it started off like overcast but um it's just the way when you're up here

in the mountains the weather can change on a dime you never know you never know so we're

pumped let's do it but anyways let's see if we got picked up soon yeah that'd be nice

[Music] hello please [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign

[Music] s we made it to town we made it to LA cumbresita we were thankfully rescued by

the bus that was bringing some of the Trekkers because some people arrived independently

they drove their vehicles but then there was also a bus and they had room for us since

our bus never showed up my gosh we waited like an hour and a half but anyway we made

it here it's a beautiful day at the end so you know this place like umbresita it's the

first pedestrian town in all of Argentina so you park your vehicle up top you walk in

on foot and yeah it's just all about enjoying nature and it's a lot more rugged super Scenic

beautiful

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yes how many meters for me to have climbed up this is that does that make me a wanker

Samuel I knew you were gonna go for that job I had to go for that guys oh my gosh I'm the

master of cheese okay anyways uh 17 seven why can't I speak 1715 meters above sea level

1715. how does it feel it feels great it was um I think we kind of came into this hike

thinking it would be like a cakewalk it was not like it's challenging but in a good way

it's just like we're still not used to the altitude we've been here for less than two

weeks yeah and so we're getting used to that right now yeah but as a reward reaching the

top we got a little snack

um it's kind of like a wafer cookie and Turan I don't even know how to describe it how would

you describe it in English

kind of like white nougat very chewy yeah that's a nice knock yes

oh what's happening I'm gonna find the shade [Music]

all right [Music]

looking for Sam nowhere to be found where could he have gone and where do I find him

a little spot seeking out shade it took me like 20 minutes to find this place this is

my special Siesta Zone great I'm just trying to keep cool because it's getting pretty hot

what do you think no it's not well the midday Sun's strong 17 degrees it's hot for me

[Music] thank you

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right here

well hello hello hey guys we are back from the hike as you noticed we did not finish

that video because that was far more challenging than I ever expected look to be completely

honest Weaver lured in by a delicious picada at the end yeah we were all ravenous and it

was so funny what did the what did the tour leaders say about the way we were eating oh

piranhas around the table yeah we were like piranhas around the table Yeah so basically

Sam and I were under the impression that this was gonna be a half day hike just because

I had read like going up to like the peak of serawank or vank as they say here is 45

minutes so I thought oh we're just gonna go up and down that's the end of the tour we're

all good no oh that was just the beginning so yeah not only we were struggling with a

bit of the altitude we've only been here a couple of weeks but um we ended up joining

basically a hardcore hiking group that does these hikes every week and yeah and so uh

yeah we were just frosting to like everyone had proper hiking gear you could see by the

way they dressed it's like the clothes they had the visors the SPF you know shirts and

pants so yeah we were outclassed for sure but we ended up finishing it and it was a

great experience because yes we were sore um bonus tip do stretch afterwards makes the

world of a difference it does we we felt okay you know the next day we thought we were going

to barely be able to walk because we had that experience hiking in until 10 in the past

you know we kind of over challenged ourselves and then we were like basically immobile the

next day but this ended up being a great experience and we're actually Keen to do more hiking

yeah so the hike we completed I'll mention it turned out to be 15 kilometers because

there was a lady in the hiking Club who had like her little watch you know tracking the

distance yeah so yeah way more than we thought we would yeah a little D Excursion and we

had to scramble across um some Boulders basically we did yeah it wasn't all just defying path

we had to go through a river and some people went into a Subterranean River that's something

very popular in the town of La cumbresita there's basically these little entrances that

you can crawl through and you enter the the Subterranean River with a guide of course

and like torches on your on your forehead and you have to like swim through we skipped

that part we took a siesta instead actually we weren't the only ones but um yeah that's

the part of Sam napping in the shade while when other people are going underground but

yeah you can do that and the reason we wanted to do this hike and we want to do other day

hikes is because we'd love to climb the highest peak here in the province of Cordova which

is Cerro champaki that's a 3D Excursion 40 kilometers over the course of three days two

nights spent in a mountain Refuge and yeah I feel like it requires a bit of training

some endurance indeed so we'll we'll be training but we also realize that we're heading into

summer and it would be too hot to do it now so we're gonna delay that for a few months

but uh yeah definitely looking forward to doing that in the fall in the late fall yeah

it's 36 degrees now so maybe you know 40 kilometers in the sun it may not be the best time yeah

that's true but overall great experience and uh really tremendous value was inexpensive

and we ended up having a great time really good Community Spirit awesome picada Feast

I mean if you're gonna run a tour if you're ever thinking of running a tour feeding people

a good meal at the end is a very good uh business idea so they leave you happy you can be grumpy

and tired but you're fed well and then you you have positive memories moving forward

exactly and that's what happened that's exactly what happened good morning good morning everyone

we survived our Trek yesterday feeling a little bit sore but not too too bad but anyways we're

up super early this almost super early it keeps up seven FIFA World Cup Argentina's

first game against the airplanes Saudi Arabia yes up one nil yeah as he scored so thank

you missy yeah yeah I think there's there's been a lot of people saying that Argentina

has a good chance to go all the way this year and wouldn't that be amazing especially being

here yeah I mean the country would just erupt that happened but we're gonna keep watching

as long as they continue to have games and uh it's exciting I mean this only happens

once every four years and it's the most competitive tournament in in the world I mean you never

know who's going to win right yeah

if you'd like to go watch it at a bar like a sports bar or somewhere that's streaming

um but the times have been really strange since they are playing in Qatar so 7am no

bar is going to be open yeah I think like if there's like even a remotely close time

zone I don't know if we have to go watch a game at midnight or something that'd be fine

or even like one one PM but the fact that these games are starting at like seven in

the morning it's gonna be a little bit trickier but we'll see what's available we'll definitely

go and and try to watch with the crowd because I mean it's even more exciting when you share

the experience right so go team origin

there's a respect obviously for Argentina but you don't see a fear there we can't believe

it Saudi Arabia just scored were 1-1 oh hi they'll get it back no we cannot believe it

what is happening Samuel this is the biggest free kick of this game messy with a struck

oh two times

coming in

another day at work and Sam is here along this massive rock wall clearing the lovely

sarsamora that's grows and grows and Dr is my Granny's house you've seen us working there

before how was your work day coming along my friend fantastic I got to a stone wall

creating tunnels reading tunnels creating sarsa tunnels so yeah that's what I've been

doing yeah it's really interesting to clear the bush and like see what you find because

you never know what's behind it'd be a beautiful rock wall it could be a shed we have found

two Wells we have found a wheelbarrow like it's just a surprise every single day and

today I met up with the electrician so I've been with him probably for the past hour or

so because we need to rewire uh the first house the Chalet the first house we're renovating

because it is an 80 year old house and I mean like the electric sockets that that house

has are no longer used like it's the one with the two little holes and now you've got like

the three prong diagonal socket so yeah we're trying to modernize so we did a very thorough

walk through in there and yes it's been a good day I feel like we're making progress

It's really good to be connecting with different contractors meeting people and it's also interesting

that hurts oh up on my leg I wore leggings and my ankles are exposed um yeah I was saying

it's interesting because since this is a small town it's like we're all interconnected and

my electrician used to be someone that my dad would drive to school when we lived here

so he's like are you Daniel's Daughter it's like yeah so very small world in this Village

so yeah I've got myself an electrician I'm going to be buying materials in the coming

days and we can get started so it feels good to be aligning everything up that is the update

hello hello happy Thursday how's it going happy Groundhog Day I look the same and I've

got the same set of scissors it's going great same thing it's going great the difference

between groundhog days that we're actually making progress and um yeah just snipping

away slipping away slipping away and the the Sheep are visiting hey they are they've become

used to us working here and they seem to like being here this time of day it's uh nice and

Shady over here yes we love it over here so I shall continue we shall continue get to

walk well it really does feel a bit like Groundhog Day because I also have the same outfit only

decision I'm regretting is putting on shorts it has been so so hot and humid like disgustingly

hot lately like mid-30s with humidity sticky you're just sweating all over so I thought

hey I'll just wear shorts and walk over to the property and on the way here I got eaten

alive by mosquitoes so not only am I hot I'm also really really itchy but anyway I wanted

to take you over to the Chalet and show you some of the work that's been done we did have

to cut some trees around the house so that the roofers would be able to replace the new

roof that's going in but yeah I'm just gonna take you over and give you a little update

show you what's been happening this week

[Applause] so here we are time for the little tour um so if you recall I don't even know

if I filmed this but if we Face the Chalet head-on to the right hand side there were

a whole bunch of trees they're called Alamos which we sadly did have to cut down because

the direction in which they were growing they were growing over the roof some of the branches

had already broken on the roof it's like if we're replacing the roof we can't have this

issue again so we did have to see Dubai to these trees I don't like cutting trees down

but in this case it was just the wrong place for them and they have caused a lot of damage

uh so I mean eventually along this rock wall uh I'd love to have some uh maybe bushes some

kind of Shrubbery to create some division between this house and the one just up above

uh so yeah but I mean this is what it looks like now it's a lot more open here are some

of the branches that came down most of them have actually already been piled and sorted

so I'll show you that this was a pretty big job and there's still a few a few trees to

go a few branches to go [Applause]

so here we have some of the the branches which we'll be able to use and the trunks uh sliced

into more manageable or cut into more manageable pieces and then if we continue down over here

we've got a Giant Mountain of like thinner leafy branches so we're gonna wait for this

to dry a little bit and then we can put it through the wood chipper uh to process it

then over here we have kind of like dead branches leaves that sort of thing and another additional