A final ranch post

The gaucho culture is a dying thing. Just as there aren't anymore cowboys, the modern world spreads, blends, and mars cultures like this. It doesn't happen completely against their will either. No one wants to be a museum piece. I was able to see what must be near to the last remnants of this culture, drinking maté with old timers who spend eight months a year by themselves with no communication to the outside world. Some even avoid gringos like me, and I don't blame them. Yet people like me come. The world is closing in, and they themselves build more and more fences, the single thing which directly makes their work expendable, along with the lifestyle that revolved around their work. Hats off to these guys though, the ones who still carry on the old ways.