WanderingWhy…

Let me just start by saying this : I LOVE Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires is called the Paris of South America, and it does not disappoint. To me, Buenos Aires is like a mellow New York City. There are shows, dinner theaters, cafes, shopping, crazy traffic, all like NYC but on a much [...]

Yesterday we spent the afternoon walking around the city, ending at the government house of Buenos Aires called the Casa Rosada. Yes, it is pink. In front of Casa Rosada in the square, there was a ton of electrical equipment, barracades and trailers. We thought there had been a concert Saturday night, and [...]

Around the world in 80 days?
I guess we are 100 days late and no where near finished… that story was of a race around the world and I don’t think they saw all that much anyway. Yes, we are still in South America. We apologize if this “boring” some of you who have [...]

This post will be a bit of a rant so I apologize ahead of time. I think I have finally been to a place more painful than the DMV–the Brazilian consulate in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
We have been in BA for about a week in a beautiful apartment in Recoleta–one of the nicest areas of [...]

I think I can now draw the conclusion that buffet restaurants are almost always the same–everywhere.
We spent some time in Mendoza, before busing over to Buenos Aires–I say that like it was down the block. The bus trip from Salta to Mendoza was 18 hours, then 14 hours from Mendoza to BA. Let’s [...]

Throughout our trip, I have taken on the roll of a vegetarian for the most part. Everyone who knows me knows I will eat chicken and fish, and that is about it. And even those two items I am pretty picky about. I won’t eat chicken on the bone, I won’t eat [...]

Please stop. You have no idea what you are denying yourself–you may as well be celibate too. Come to Argentina and mend your irrational ways. Salad is good but it needs to be sitting next to an Argentinean steak and a glass of wine… trust me on this—there is nothing better you [...]

I recovered from my Peruvian Plague just in time for an eight hour trip into Chile. After a six hour bus trip and an ill-fated attempt to take a train, we ended up taking a two hour ride across the border in an old gas guzzling Oldsmobile “taxi”. I wish we had a [...]

As we bounced along on a crummy 7 hour bus ride to Lake Titicaca, WD started to feel more and more miserable. By the time we arrived in Puno she complained of a raging headache and couldn’t even shoulder her backpack. Looked like I would be wandering Puno alone as well.
I dropped [...]

WD insisted I book a tour into the Colca Canyon alone, and with her looking like she would be in no shape to do it with me anytime soon I relented. I figured I’d meet some other solo travelers and have some fun hiking over the next few days.
I laid out [...]