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ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country - jfk i was reading franks sugar and spice blog about how his company is helping/donating to make a reading corner (actually dont know what that is but it sounds helpful) in a poor section of town. it reminded me...

if i had the money id have a lake front house in bariloche myself. but i dont. but, the stuff about volcanoes, seismic activity is true. i sure hope none of them go off, and 99.9 chances of 100 not in our lifetime (although those are just odds i made up). but see that pretty little snow...

and those who move here for sex, drugs and rock & roll...whoops i meant tango !

argentinian patagonia lies in the shadow of the extremely volcanic, earthquake prone, andes mountains. i believe one or two chilean volcanos of the 2000 or so potential volcanos are erupting at this very time. spewing tons of ash eastwards over some parts of patagonia. i imagine land around...

dont forget that a lot of patagonian land is almost barren wind swept, dry, treeless, EMPtY land. not all of it looks like the beauty around bariloche. it reminds me of easterners in the usa buying retirement plots in the barren streches of arizona or texas. you can still fly over many areas in...

to recoleta caroline - yes, thats being ripped off. i guess i was sort of thinking about what cloths make you blend in and street crime and because one was obviously a tourist since that was what the post started out with being about. but i dont think that the portero ripped me off specifically...

any city or town has some crime and often of the same type of scam. ba seems much safer then most places. the only one that so far has hit me in ba, was a taxi ride to the retiro train station. i gave the taxista two ten peso notes and he handed them back to me saying they were falso...

chlorine disappears from standing water or heated water rather quickly. think of swimming pools, sun and chlorine and basic chemistry and you can have un chlorinated water simply without a filter. it may not be chlorine one is tasting but taste is not my forte

with all the responses this seems to be a "warm" topic i have to interject with one of my first big mistakes language wise down here during my first hot summer, when i went around introducing myself and saying, hola, me llamo david, soy caliente. thinking with the heat it was a bland...

do the cloths really matter? the minute a yankee opens his mouth they will know you're not a porteno.

this is a little off topic, its from the bbc.com may 8th about another two tiered pricing system.....smile......airlines aren't the only ones.... Marks and Spencer has agreed to end its policy of charging more for larger bras after a campaign by customers. The store took out adverts in...

i've always wondered what organic meant. in the usa, there really isn't much of an official definition. when i was doing research in cuba, they had organic farms and their definition didn't mean they didn't use pesticides. in college i was told that organic, as opposed to inorganic, was anything...

hi Salvador welcome back im a designer but a horticultural designer and planner......a little different but when i travel i mainly look at buildings and city structure. i was also a loeb fellow in the grad school of architecture at harvard in 2000 but studied cuban cities rather than individual...

i dont have a dni and dont like paying the extra fare prices of a foreigner, but at the same time im happy that my argentine friends who make hardly anything get a break. even then its usually too much for them. most of my argentine friends havent seen half of the places in argentina the...

fly to madrid and then to london

if you dont care for heat you need to head further south mendoza and ba get very hot in the summer i spent last summer in ba and it was 104 for quite a while and its a very rare restaurant, store, atm, or anything that has a fan or ac.

the fastest way i find to get dollars to ba is to get online with western union and you can send them to yourself from your credit card or bank debit card immediately although you do pay a fee and you must go and pick it up but western unions are all over buenos aires

in defense of new york, customs isn't bad unless you haven't followed visa or entry requirements or have some illegal or now banned products in carry on or luggage.

strangely enuf the little store in the japanese botanical garden used to carry a fast package of curry they are in boxes about 3 by 8 inches i dont remember the brand maybe it was called golden curry in two strengths inside package little tubs of solid paste that you added to...

there probably arent too many people to look to for this experience and if there is, personally i would rather go to the embassy and find out and get it in writing or see it in writing.