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Buenos Aires, Argentina
34° 35' S 58° 40' W
Jan 13, 2006 18:17
Distance 1324km

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Buenos Aires not New York

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So we've averaged 12 mph over the past eight days, travelling for nearly a third of the total hours weve been alive for those days, and going 2,325 miles in total. Finally we made it to our goal: Buenos Aires.

Buenos Aires is a huge city, that on first impression looks a lot like New York city. Its huge complete with ragged old buildings, huge skyscrapers, and incredible traffic. Yet despite the fact that all big cities in the world look something alike, you are immediately reminded that you are in Buenos Aires and nowhere else. Lets start with the public buses, as we have experience on a lot of these all over latinamerica now. Here the routes are regularized with numbers like in the states, but the bus drivers are insane, weaving through traffic, pedestrian and motorized alike, without regaurd for traffic laws. We move onto to cabs, they are similarrly crazy, but more friendly, so friendly in fact that a driver last night gave us his cell phone number and promised that anytime we called him he would take us to the best strip shows and brothels in town. The cuisine is great, serving empanadas with beef in them, hamburgers, beef, beef, beef, and pastas with beef in them. These are only very cursory observations, so we only know very little of this place. But we will exeplore for the next 11 days and finally rest our bones from some instensive travelling.