BA Dias 3

Buenos Aires day 3

so i've taken a shine to Buenos aires, Arvid and his hostel is a great place to base out of, simply the best location i could think of for exploring the city. The downside to all of this is that i could really get used to big city living, not that i want to...i keep getting drawn back to jackson for a reason, but, i liked new york, and BA is just as hospitable, not as fake as LA, if only my spanish were better, things might be a heck of a lot different.

Today was a relaxing day, lounging around, a couple walks to just simply get lost, my map reading skills are improving, not that they were bad before, but i'm getting all those skills i learned in scouting back, and thats a good thing, hopefully the cry of the eagle scout "where the hell am I" will no longer be my mantra when looking at a map. this city is easy to get lost in, just take a couple turns and you'll find yourself someplace new, duck into a couple shops take a look around and bada bing your wherever the day takes you. I did find myself today walking in circles, which i'm not exactly fond of, i likke to see new things and passing the sme place over and over again just isn't my kind of way to explore. So after that walk i came back to the hostel, finished off the rest of my steak with the bread i had bought, and took a nap to re-energize and go out and do it again.

The second time around always seems to have better success. i found my self almost to the pier which isn't that far of a walk, considering i'm tempted to take the ferry to Uraguay tomorrow and that is a good place to know how to find as that is where the ferry's leave from...go figure.

i had a bit of an experience attempting to order coffee, but the girl behind the counter was quite helpful, i should become the national charades champion after all the travelling i've done so far. here when you order a coffee, expresso style they give you a small glass of soda water to accompany it. Apparently this is to allow the coffee to not be so strong in your "blood". Not sure i get this, as i drink way too much coffee as it stands and maybe drinking a little more soda water would be a good thing. Although i think i make up for it based on the amount of soda water i drink when i go to the bars.

its coming down to decision time, i have 9 days left in this excursion, do i drop a shit load of money into flights to see all the countries i haven't been to to get the 13 i wanted, or do i say fuck it and hang out in bueno's aires for a couple mroe days, go up to the falls at the paraguay, argentine, brazil border and see one of the great wonders of the world and then fly to cuzco to see machu pichu and then spend the last two days in quito before coming home.

decisions, decions...who knows whats gonna happen till tomorrow, which i'm usre is gonna be the ferry over to uraguay for a short afternoon then back again...of course this is what i wanted to do today, but with the beef overload from dinner last night i'm gonna take it easy today which is what i ended up doing.