Gay Pride in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Today is Gay Pride Day in Buenos Aires, and our friends Marcelo and Pablo are coming back into town to share it with us. We walk to the meeting point, and the 4 of us head down into the craziness of Plaza de Mayo, the huge square...
Ushuaia: The Southernmost City in the World
S 54 W 068 These early morning flights out of Buenos Aires continue to kill me. Not only is the hour of departure desperately and outrageously early, but our decision to stay up all night and make a party of our trip to the...
Train to the End of the Earth
The alarm goes off way too early this morning. All I want is another 4 hours of sleep, but I drag myself into the shower and pretend to wake up. We are going to the end of the earth today (or at least the place...
Wednesday, November 24th, 2004: Buenos Aires [Argentina]
Today is a long day of doing not much. We check out of our room for 10:00 a.m., the standard checkout time here in Argentina. Our flight back to Buenos Aires doesn’t leave till 9:00 p.m. tonight. For some reason,...
Followsummer Friends Arriving in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Our friends Deirdre and Mark arrive from Chicago today for 10 days of followsummer travel with us in Argentina, including trips to Bariloche and Puerto Madryn. It is a grey day, the streets still wet from an early morning spring...
Friday, November 26th, 2004: Bariloche, Argentina
S 41 W 071 In true Buenos Aires fashion, our “welcome to Buenos Aires” revelries last night continued into the wee hours, and we are dragging as we head to the airport for our flight to Bariloche. The flight itself is...