 | Updates
2007-11-15, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | I returned from Rosario to find myself floating like flotsam and jetsam in a new circumstance. Jacey stayed in Buenos Aires to care for Stanley and to host her Chilean Beau, who had come to woo her fo... |
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 | Confluence of Circumstances
2007-11-11, Rosario, Argentina. By: sauntering | | This weekend, some Couchsurfing friends ( www.couchsurfing.org ) and I hauled it to Rosario, a four hour bus ride (AR$ 70 round trip) about 300km Northwest of Buenos Aires. It is the birthing place o... |
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 | WOW!!!
2007-11-10, Iguazu Falls, Argentina. By: clair2amy | | Hello Mosquitoes and tropical storms... After bus ride to ourselves for last 3 hours we thought we would be a little social and head for abeer or 2 and a burger. sitting outside enjoying the nice warm... |
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| Tango y tombs....
2007-11-02, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: clair2amy | | What a city...Wow..huge!!! Excited about catching up with a friend of a friend. Marta picked us up and took us out for steak - which Amy loved!! Then had crazy drive out into the beautiful country to ... |
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| safe @ last
2007-10-31, cordoba, Argentina. By: clair2amy | | After our crazy bus ride, we braved a taxi to our hostel still unsure if we had a room (it was all good) after a quick nap we headed to check out downtown, it was windy and a bit overcast, so what el... |
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 | Sleeping Patterns
2007-11-09, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Though I still can’t sleep, now I at least have some company. (For those who didn’t read the previous entry, I don’t mean some hot Latin guy, I mean a furry animal I picked up off the street. Classy... |
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 | Deviations From Our Norms
2007-11-08, Tigre, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Jacey, the gallant Guillaume (product of Quebec) and I take a train to Tigre (Tiger). This is a small town an hour outside of the city, known for its waterways, cafes, and market place. Something ab... |
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 | An Argentine B-Day
2007-11-02, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | The celebration merrily began at 12:01am, in a convent. (Perhaps my mom, who once overlooked the slight fact that she was Jewish in her aspirations to be a nun, would be pleased. Hi Mom.) Once a mo... |
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| Sunshine and skirts...
2007-10-29, Mendoza, Argentina. By: clair2amy | | Goodbye rain hello sunshine! we were happy to check into our hostel after our 18 hour bus trip, hoping to fit in a quick nap before exploreing the beautiful wide tree lined steets of Mendoza...our nap... |
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 | Progessing Through The Years
2007-11-01, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Isn’t it difficult to gauge progress? Oftentimes the circumstances in life don’t offer like foundations for comparison, for there is always a variable that shifts one’s judgment. Perhaps Birthdays mi... |
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 | The Show Must Go On
2007-10-29, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | The benefit to having neighbors who want to sodomize you? There’s no better time to get out and about! Why hasn’t the USA’s dieting industry exploited this tactic yet?
I went to my first Argent... |
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| more chocolate...
2007-10-26, Bariloche, Argentina. By: clair2amy | | We were very pleased to find a great little Hostel with the best breakfast yet! across the road and down a bit from our spanish school. after our first lesson we were feeling alittle overwhelmed and b... |
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 | Call Me Paranoid
2007-10-26, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | But being asked out by one of the druggy, porn-producing neighbors, and then opening up my email to receive a naughty video-clip from him, is enough to make me want to move out. When his two roommate... |
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 | Porn And The City
2007-10-24, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Always thought our neighbors, tattooed Norwegian folk in “computers,” were a little off. When we were first acquainted, they were murmuring from the depths of their drugs trips. Want a postcard? Ev... |
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| .....and chocolate
2007-10-20, San Martin de los andes, Argentina. By: clair2amy | | Bienvenido (welcome) Argentina and chocolate!!!Excitement at arriving in flat and reasonably quite town and keen to try out some bike riding.We hired bikes for half a day despite no helmets and clairs... |
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| Border crossing!
2007-10-19, San Martin de los andes, Argentina. By: clair2amy | | We sadly left Chile and the rolling green hills through the mist (excited about our first international boarder crossing by bus). Almost as soon as we´d crossed out of Chile (through the snow capped m... |
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 | Small Comforts
2007-10-20, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | My sister peppered me with nicknames throughout our childhood, and I concede that “Wrong Way Ingber” could still be accurate. I am not particularly savvy with streets or maps of streets (and I actual... |
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 | Contagion
2007-10-18, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Back in Buenos Aires. The air feels warmer and the trees look fuller than when I left. The mosquitoes are soaring, but it is not because of them that I’ve got this sudden irritation. I’m calling it... |
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 | Preparations For A Side Trip
2007-10-10, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Well, Jacey and I are off to Chile in a few hours. No, no, we aren't moving again. My flimsy arms couldn’t take it. But we are trying to take advantage of the moment and relative proximity.
So ... |
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 | La Noche De Los Museos
2007-10-06, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Always was a life long learner. (Reading nonfiction books at the movie theater before the documentary started.) So when I was invited to museum hop on Saturday night, how could I say no?
Once a... |
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 | Interlude with God
2007-10-05, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Dear God,
It’s been some time since we last opened up a dialogue, since I lost Sweetie I think? I guess I can let that one slide.
Just wanted to say hey. I do appreciate my lack of lactose in... |
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 | Quantifying The Glamour
2007-10-03, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | I am brimming with information and passion, and I am going to bestow all of it in this terrific little ex-pat magazine (www.BAInsiderMag.com).
Eg, Did you ever notice all of the poetic, inspiring... |
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 | First Rainy Day
2007-10-01, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | This thunderstorm will not cease, and I refuse to acknowledge it from anywhere but my window.
I light some candles and put on some music. I take out my book and spend a few hours in a fictional ... |
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 | Exhanges in the Cemetery
2007-09-30, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | My social life is not exactly booming. I know I have only been here ten days, but to be entirely honest, I sometimes worry that my Castilian speaking self is not as likable as the English counterpart... |
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 | Apartment Search Part II
2007-09-28, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Through a Kevin Bacon-esque string of people, we were put in touch with BA Planet ([url]http://www.baplanet.com/english/[/url]), which in actuality is just two cute guys with laptops and a leggy, coff... |
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