Argentina Part 1
The flight to Buenos Aires was actually quite comfortable. I got an exit row with a lot of leg room on both flights. A quick connection through Lima Peru and I was in BA in about 13-14 hours. First time I’ve ever been south of the equator. Once I got there I was rather exhausted though, waiting for my bag 45 minutes and a nearly 2 hour car ride got me to the apartment near 18:00. The car driver seemed to take hundreds of turns, I’m not sure how we weren’t just going in circles the entire time. The streets seem to have many one way streets next to each other going the same way. So if you take a wrong turn you may have to go around several blocks to go back the right way. The driver’s English was only slightly better than my Spanish, so there was a bit of confusion on the destination. However, I finally made it.
The apartment we are staying at is quite nice. Its in a neighborhood called Recoleta. I noticed in the long car ride from the air port going through many poor neighborhoods. There is a huge separation between rich and poor here, almost no middle class. The people on the streets below me now in this neighbhorhood seem to be pretty affluent.
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I had to wait about 15 minutes for my friends to get back to the apartment but once I was there it was a big relief.
