Trip: South America
There are [36] stories from my trip: South America
USA | Thursday, 5 Feb 2009 | Views [465]
So… after a less than spectacular 19hour trip from Ft. Lauderdale to San Diego, I have spent the last two weeks doing, well, nothing. Ok, that’s a lie. I had a belated Christmas, got wicked sick, puppy sat a feisty yellow lab who had a taste for magnets, ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 15 Nov 2007 | Views [589]
Waking up at incoherently at 4am to blearily look around the room, I wonder, “Where the hell am I?” Wait, this is familiar, it’s coming back to me now… I’m home. Ahhhhh… It’s nice to be back. San Diego’s not too bad a place. I can ... Read more >
Tags: Family
ARGENTINA | Tuesday, 13 Nov 2007 | Views [1079]
Sleeping on planes seems to be something I am physically incapable of. At this point, seeing as I had only gotten 10 hours of sleep in the last 3 nights (thanks to a chorus of snoring and 3am poker) I would think I could have slept anywhere. But no, ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
ARGENTINA | Monday, 12 Nov 2007 | Photo Gallery
The Sunday Market
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ARGENTINA | Sunday, 11 Nov 2007 | Views [2806]
Headed to the San Telmo market this afternoon, while trying to avoid the prolific number of dog droppings, I noticed that all the side walks are different. It appears that each store owner/building owner is responsible for the side walk in front of ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
ARGENTINA | Saturday, 10 Nov 2007 | Views [1156]
I was modivatied... I was going to leave Buenos Aires for the first time in almost 2 weeks... visit a new place, see new sights, meet new people... For my day trip I chose San Antonio de Areco, apparently the town where all the best crafts people ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
ARGENTINA | Friday, 9 Nov 2007 | Photo Gallery
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ARGENTINA | Thursday, 8 Nov 2007 | Views [800]
Buenos Aires has trained me well. The vendors in Peru and Bolivia would at least, at times recieve eye contact and perhaps a harsh "no gracias" when accosting me with postcards, gourds, jewerly and a plethora of lama related trinkets. The ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
ARGENTINA | Sunday, 4 Nov 2007 | Views [638]
It is 9:20am and for some god aweful reason I am awake and up. It is the third day in a row that I have gone to bed at 6am or later and woken up at 9:20. This is not by my choice. After being thrilled about finishing my spanish course and having ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
ARGENTINA | Thursday, 1 Nov 2007 | Views [1170]
So, after 2 months of washing my hair with a combinaton campsoap and head n shoulders coupled with massive amounts of dust, it´s in pretty bad shape. Side-show bob shape. So, just like my break down with the jeans and the shirts, I broke down. I´ve ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
ARGENTINA | Thursday, 1 Nov 2007 | Views [1033]
Dinner at 11:30 at night? That sounds like a fantastic idea... So the schedule is a bit different here. Since I arrived in Buenos Aires sleep has not been a priority. It seems breakfast is 9 to 12, lunch… sometime around 2ish, at 5 or 6 a snack, ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
ARGENTINA | Wednesday, 31 Oct 2007 | Photo Gallery
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ARGENTINA | Tuesday, 30 Oct 2007 | Views [850]
So I´ve given up... broken down... it all started with the jeans, now I´m buying shirts. It´s just that now I´m in a city, Buenos Aires. It´s actually quite a nice city and people seem to care about what they look (and smell like) and I´ve found that ... Read more >
Tags: Shopping
BOLIVIA | Tuesday, 30 Oct 2007 | Photo Gallery
Salazar de Uyuni
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ARGENTINA | Wednesday, 24 Oct 2007 | Views [699]
A wine tour in Mendoza, it congers images of mountains, vineyards... little dusty country roads, maybe a villa or two. While there were dusty roads, it was due to the asphalt having been ripped up to be replaced. Not quite as quaint as I had ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
ARGENTINA | Monday, 22 Oct 2007 | Views [2002]
Supposedly Salta is breath taking... well, the natural rock and landscapes surrounding Salta. I had read this on multiple websites, and guide books, but due to the fact that I arrived in the dark and had only wandered around the city (whose square ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
ARGENTINA | Monday, 22 Oct 2007 | Views [1011]
I have come to the conclusion, that were you to generalize S. American cuisine, it would be fried, accompanied by potatoes, and then something ridiculously sweet. If it isn´t sprayed with sugar, served with jam, deep fried (all meat is ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
ARGENTINA | Thursday, 18 Oct 2007 | Views [3990]
Reaching the La Quiaca bus station I found it necessary to actually acquire Argentinean pesos (so as to be able to buy a bus ticket) Unfortunately, after asking quite a few people on the street where I could exchange bolivianos, I was actually laughed ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
ARGENTINA | Thursday, 18 Oct 2007 | Views [1254]
Ah, the border... But first we had to get there. After picking up his surfboard from the trains baggage car (yes, you might wonder... what do you do with a surfboard in Bolivia, a land locked country? you stand out, that´s what you do. James and ... Read more >
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BOLIVIA | Thursday, 18 Oct 2007 | Views [5574]
This is the beginning of the ordeal to get from Tupiza to Salta … Not really all that far, and I get to leave Bolivia and enter Argentina (hopefully not quite as dusty) So my options from Tupiza to the border town of Villazon ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
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