Setting: Argentina

Setting is important in my fiction.  An interesting location often inspires me to set a story there--for example, a date farm in Indio, an untraveled alley in Venice, or the wave organ in San Francisco. 

Recently, I traveled to Argentina.  I visited Buenos Aires, Mendoza, and San Juan.  I took notes on many intriguing locations:  Recoleta Cemetery, a cattle estancia in a deluge, the empty plains at the feet of the Andes.  One of the most interesting locations for me, though, was a park in San Juan on a sunny holiday afternoon, where kids rode their bicycles and a brass band played in the distance.  I started imagining the people who lived there, who called their kids off when they tried dangerous climbs on war memorials, who ate helato next to a cement-lined lagoon. 

Will I ever publish  a story set in any of these places? Who knows?  But I definitely have some ideas churning.