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Monetary clusterf… coming out of South America

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

After the boys left, I had two and a half weeks to get myself to Sao Paulo for my flight to Africa. There wasn’t much more that I wanted to see (or that I really had time to see), and I was kind of getting antsy. I stayed for another week and a half in Buenos Aires, and I can’t really account for much of what I did…I spent a lonely day in the apartment we had rented, mostly cleaning, picking cigarette butts out of the plants, scraping gum off the floorf and undoing the problem I created myself of stripping all the wax off the wood floors (which entailed some towels under my feet, loud music, and a lot of dancing). I searched my camera and the interent for pictures of the place in order to return the plants, statues and vases to their proper position. I did a drop off of all the extra beer and liquor in front of the local internet cafe, where I had become friendly with the owners. When the lady came to get the keys for the apartment, she asked me if we broke anything…oh no, no, no. And that was it…I got the deposit back and ran with my things down the street, out of sight. [read on]

Bucleros’ Bash in Buenos Aires

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

I had two days in Buenos Aires before the boys arrived. I spent most of my time wandering around, finalizing the last details for when they arrived and avoiding all the dog crap on the sidewalks. They say Buenos Aires is a very European city, and it is; the dog doo clinches the comparison for them. Even in cities where all the dogs are homeless and run around in little gangs there is not as much crap on the walkways. Those undomesticated dogs seem to have a little more respect for public areas than all the dog walkers (running around with sometimes 10 dogs) in Buenos Aires… [read on]

A lovely bouquet of Argentinian beef and red wine

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

I can’t say all that much about Santiago.  I liked the city.  It’s definitely more cosmopolitan than what I had seen for a while.  I stayed in Barrio Brasil, the little bohemian neighborhood, which was cute, and spent the three days I was there walking around the city.  Almost the whole downtown seemed like a pedestrian walkway, lined with all sorts of shops, with music playing over speakers.  The only thing I lamented was not being able to see the Andes in the background because it was mostly cloudy the whole time I was there. [read on]