5 Feb 2018 (Villa La Angostura, Argentina): Today is a travel day, but we make it to Villa La Angostura (90 minute drive outside Bariloche) with plenty of sunlight remaining. This town has lots of fancy vacation homes and fancy boutique hotels, and here is the biggie hotel in our little corner (Punta Manzano) of […]
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Day 30
4 Feb 2018 (Buenos Aires, Argentina): A friend from NYC is unexpectedly in Montevideo for work (which is a short ferry ride from BA), and we meet up here at a sports bar for the Super Bowl. We eat ribs. He uses gloves like an Argentinian; I use my hands like an American. It’s great […]
Day 29
3 Feb 2018 (Buenos Aires, Argentina): Today was kind of a shitty day, truly the first of the whole trip. We were both feeling shlumpy from eating too much restaurant food and drinking too much wine (and feeling ridiculous about feeling bad from that), and we spent all morning walking in the hot sun to […]
Day 28
2 Feb 2018 (Buenos Aires, Argentina): It’s hot out there, and we duck into an ice cream shop for some afternoon helado. Leah gets pumpkin, which was surprising given how passionate she was in December about being happy we were solidly past peak-pumpkin (the absurd spike of pumpkin-flavored products that sweeps across America in September […]
Day 27
1 Feb 2018 (Buenos Aires, Argentina): I got my hair cut and beard trimmed today at this place (translation: The Black Troll). My barber didn’t speak any English but also kept asking me questions about life in New York and my luna de miel. It was definitely a stretch for my Spanish (I’ve never had […]
Day 26
31 Jan 2018 (Buenos Aires, Argentina): Leah and I go for a long walk today and discuss things like balconies. It seems like an enormous percentage of the apartments in this city have a lovely, small amount of outdoor space. There’s a good chance we’re only walking through the nice parts of town, but still […]