Eva and I are headed to Carmela, Uruguay tomorrow since it’s a nice day trip and only costs US$20.
Today is probably the last of Buenos Aires, Argentina since we’ll be gone tomorrow and we connect to Iquique, Chile tomorrow through Santiago (after a minor eight hour layover). Everything is fairly inexpensive here compared to home: beer is about sixty cents a liter. Water costs more, actually.
Few people speak (or want to speak) English, so I’m scraping by with choppy two- and three-word sentences. Thank goodness Eva is great at Spanish!
Tonight we have tickets for “Tanguera”, a musical about the Tango. Should kick butt.
Email me, I’m checking it every now and then. I’m 5 hours ahead of Seattle time right now.
I will have a slide show when I return to the states, let me know if you’re interested. I promise lots of funny slides of strange uses of English words and phrases.
Eva and I are in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Today I learned how to say “Yo demando a ver un embajador de Estados Unidos.” Which of course means, “I demand to see an ambassador of the United States.”
We dropped by the United States Embassy. It was well-guarded and a bit scary from the outside. No photos were allowed–we had to leave cameras, cell phones, and electronic equipment behind. There was free Internet in the library, along with a handful of books on the U.S. government. I didn’t feel like saying my new phrase once I got inside.
Buenos Aires is a HUGE city, biggest I’ve ever visited, probably. I really like it. Pizza everywhere, and calzone-like items called “empanadas”. Both are delicious. Tonight is steak night, and I think Argentinean steak is supposed to be pretty good.
No sign of Carnival-like activities, which is quite fine by me. Just a normal, huge city, I guess.
Here are some touristy-type pictures of Santiago. Enjoy!
One side effect of heading to Buenos Aires right now is that we’ll arrive during Carnival. YIKES. Should be interesting! We head to the airport in about an hour.
Second day in Santiago, Chile. Beatiful, sunny! Travel time was about 24 hours total from Seattle to Santiago.
We decided to fly to Buenos Aires, Argentina and stay for six nights, then head to northern Chile and continue up into Peru. I’ll probably skip the language class since we’re learning so much just from interacting with the locals.
I will check email today and tomorrow, but possibly not too often after that.
Adam, got your message from Atlanta saying you got there. My phone crashed. Had to send it in for repair. Don’t have your phone pin.
Love, Dad and Geo
Tonight is the last night I will spend in North America for the next month. I’ll try to keep this blog updated, check here for the latest. Feel free to email me, I’ll reply whenever possible.
Any adventurous souls are welcome to come down to meet me! I’m not sure where I’ll be, but email and we can meet.
Adios, amigos. ¡Hasta pronto!
Tons of useful RPMs at DAG, ATrpms, NewRPMs, and of course FreshRPMs. I guess they’re all collaborating now, which is nice.
From DAG RPMs: “…together with ATrpms, FreshRPMS and Newrpms, we’re working to guarantee compatibility throughout this joint effort.”
I only linked to the Fedora Core I RPMs, but they may make RPMs for other GNU/Linux distros. Do we still have to say GNU/Linux? Sigh.
New photos!
First, the incredible Friday the 13th success: the Ball Deep in Middle Earth LOTR Ball. Here are Forest’s pictures, which he took a little earlier in the night.
Tonight Eva and I indulged in a sinful Valentine’s Day Surf and Turf.
Yes, Science. Ok, fun, too.
Poopy Pants. He he.
Heh, no more sending real poop in the mail: “All Ordering has been removed from our site as we have recently learned it is not legal.”
Idea to feature smellypoop.com courtesy Eva.