Rio Caliente and home

imagine this routine:

7am - wake up with the sunrise, scratch new spider bites
7:30-8:30 hike along the river caliente, listening to the birds chirping themselves good morning, sometimes with sis and Joni, a few times solo
8:30-9:30 breakfast in the communal dining hall, usually oatmeal w/flaxseeds, fresh papaya, pineapple and cantelope. some days huevos con chilekiles y tortillas
9:30-12pm the long group hike high up into the mountains. converse in espanol with my friend and guide - Lalo. Lalo says "pollo" (POY-oh) and I say it like this (POH-shoh) but we understand each other.
12-1:30 meditation and yoga class. first time since leaving sf. body is thanking me.
1:45-3pm lunch. biggest meal of the day. veggie burgers or barley casserole, tuna salad or bean tostadas and the like. papaya for dessert
3-6: lounge by the pool, nap, read, visit with the girls, email hugo hello, float in the hot mineral baths, study espanol.
6:30-7:30: dinner. always soup and ensalada. cooked fruit for dessert.
7:30-9:30: float in the pool or listen to one of the visiting doctors lectures. all alternative medicine types. mudra technology anyone? bioresonance? shiatsu pressure healing.
9:30-10ish: "read US weekly" (had 3 months worth to catch up on. now am completely up to date on all britney, lindsay and paris's goings on and i can continue my life without wondering what they are up to) whew!

Coming back to Argentina from Mexico was sweeter than I expected. I kept thinking "this is home". not until i got to return to it did it really dawn on me that i've got a new one. i still had to stand in the tourista line at the customs gate but with my passport stamped with a one year visa i felt a different sense of entitlement. dammit i want to stand in the permanent resident line. it's the middle of winter here now, no denying it. wore my wool coat all day. thank god i brought back all of my heavy sweaters. rachel smuggled in several jars of organic crunchy peanut butter, starbucks coffee, sheets, spanish verb books, wireless router, camera (for our friend fernanda) new running shoes and our quilts for the bed. other than that, we have everything we need here now. my ankle feels great. will attempt falcon like moves this week....