The Argentine Post Gets A New Contributor II

John D Farr grew up in a small town – in Greeley, Colorado, USA. It just happens to be the same town that I (Taos Turner) grew up in. We had never met, as far as we know, until a few days ago, when we met via email thanks to a crazy coincidence of circumstances. It turns out that John just happened to be reading the Taos News, the local newspaper in Taos, New Mexico, where he once lived.

That day the paper ran a story about people named Taos. The story talked briefly about me and how I got my name. This got John’s attention. He had read The Argentine Post before but was totally unaware that he had any connection to its founder: me. Not only are we from the same small town, but it turns out that I used to play basketball every day at his dad’s basketball court, located just a block away from my childhood home. Funny how it took us three decades, 9,700 kilometers (6,000 miles) and the invention of the Internet to meet.

The world really is a small place, a veritable handkerchief, if you will.

Now retired, John lives in Junín de los Andes during the Argentine summers and in Encampment, Wyoming the rest of the year. Among other things, John was a newspaper columnist in Breckenridge, Colorado for 20 years.

Over the years he has gotten into the habit of writing to friends and family members to tell them about his adventures in Argentina and elsewhere. Here, in his first submission to The Argentine Post, he talks in vivid detail about a recent trip to see the whales at Península Valdés in Argentina’s Chubut Province.

The Argentine Post is pleased to welcome John aboard.