So just as we were packing up for the bus station and heading for Buenos Aires, my new laptop fell out of my backpack and landed 4 feet later with a great thud... the screen has a huge crack through it and i was devastated. With glass chips all over the keyboard I tired to turn it on, and somehow it works fine. I have an Argentinean Angel it seems.
We boarded the bus, and our friends from Peru/Mexico boarded a bus 15 minutes after us. We headed 10 hours to Buenos Aires (from now on BA) and arrived at 7 am the next morning. We met back up with John and Sarai and headed to a hostel that was reccommended to us by a man in the station who called and booked us a room and walked us to the train station and gave us directions. We dropped off our packs, showered, and headed out on the town. We met up with our friend Naris who had left for BA a day before, but she had some Greek woman that had latched onto her earlier that morning at her hostel, and there was just no losing this woman... until we were at the modern art museum and we caught a break and ran like hell. We walked around all day, past all the sites, and to the graveyard of Eva Peron "Evita!" A grat time, tons of walking. This is an amazing city that bustles like Manhattan but the buildings don't reach as high.
We went out for a traditional meat dinner complete with steak, ribs, blood sausage, kidney, intestine, and stomach perhaps... then out for a drink before bed. I was exhausted having slept very little on the bus the night before so I slept until 11 this morning, did some laundry, then did about a 4 mile walk to meet up with the rest of the gang downtown.
Sun has gone down, time to hit the town and meet some new friends.
Chao,
Josh
