Rosah-ree-uhhs!!!

Welcome to the river beach city of Rosario, Argentina. It’s the laid-back city of casual times. My kind of town.

Buenos días


Buenas tardes


Buenas noches



La Casa de Artistas



You never know what's going to happen when you step out of the box and into the house of artists. Not sure if there is somewhere more casual than this place to couch surf. Palmer, Santi, Caro, Paris, & Fatima opened up their home to us and showed us the real Rosario. This spot, in the heart of the city, was pretty much headquarters for the entire Rosario crew. Under this roof and outside on the balcony, you can be a part of it all: TEACHING, cooking, dancing, eating, singing, chatting, drinking, sleeping, partying, drawing, exercising, reading, studying, dreaming, grooving, SHARING, writing, stretching, loungn’, painting, real/air guitaring, fluting, rapping, laughing, celebrating, joking, napping, you tubing, LEARNING. It was a blessing to have the coolest people in Rosario host us. We lived in this 2 bedroom apt. casually for 3 weeks and it was Dope!





Our couchsurfing hosts: Palmer, Santi, Caro, & Eva. They baked the house special - Pizza de la Risa on our first night here.



You wouldn't think that a death metal type of guy could bust out mad tunes on the flute. But Santi can rock the flute like no other.His real flute was in the shop but he would randomly pick up this wooden one and play a casual solid 8 note riff and then put it back down - Mr. Casual himself.






Begoña de España working on the kitchen wall.


Halloween Rocks!






-The view from the DJ booth (laptop on desk)
Everyone takes turns playing music from itunes or youtube. And when you mix in all these couchsurfers from Ireland, Spain, California, Denmark, & Germany you get a huge crazy melting pot of music. Muy interesante. One of my favorite bands from Argentina is Miranda.
Oh yeah, and you can dance solo right there on the living room floor or in the kitchen if you like. CASUAL.




Still a fan of couches and I still get my casual naps in.
Siesta, Siesta. Looks like the IrishMan Kieran knows what's up.



Muzz sharing Art as well. This was his best attempt at the "heisman trophy."


Adobosilog 101 (chicken)

They've never tasted Filipino food so we had to represent. No rice cooker here so we did it up old school. We served up a monster meal for 10 people. Mapex said, "You know what we forgot?....bread." I guess they ain't used to eating meals with rice. But they absolutely ate it up like Beasts. It was pretty cool when they gave us a standing 'O'. j/k , but they did give the chefs a round of applause.



We don't watch TV here, but we do huddle around Palmer's laptop to watch youtube videos.
Their choice for the night: America's Funniest Home Videos.
- as random and casual as it gets.



-Studying up on my Latin Spanish with Paris and Fatima
But nothing is cooler than learning the local slang:
"che" = dude
"boludo" = jerk (but in the cool friendly way)
"con carpa" = with tent (sneaky style)
"maca" = duh




Buddy status: Muzz & Fatima
Allergy Sneeze-boy



Not even a blackout can stop us.
This is Lulu sporting my headlamp to go and use the bathroom. And for dinner in the dark, just grab a fork and dig in for some tuna, peas, corn, and beans. Casual eats.






Adria & Begoña are excellent cooks from Spain. They whipped up this scrumptious chocolate-banana creamish dessert for my bday.
I have thirty years.





We play Tetris sleeps every night. No two nights of sleeping arrangements are ever the same. There are 3 mattresses, 2 couch seats, blankets, sleeping bags, and the floor to work with.
This night we were 5 couchsurfing + 3 residents + bonus friends and the 2 cats that randomly run around throughout the night. FULL HOUSE.

On warmer nights the mattresses can be found outside for that casual sleep on the balcony.






It's just a crazy couchsurfing world out there...