tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55826378415792846522011-04-21T17:15:55.633-07:00One Borden's adventure in ArgentinaJeremynoreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582637841579284652.post-62848031580247286482008-11-30T19:49:00.000-08:002008-11-30T20:02:24.597-08:00

This from a New York Time's Op-Ed piece:But the best answer to the terrorists is to dream bigger, make even more money, and visit Mumbai more than ever. Dream of making a good home for all Mumbaikars, not just the denizens of $500-a-night hotel rooms. Dream not just of Bollywood stars like Aishwarya Rai or Shah Rukh Khan, but of clean running water, humane mass transit, better toilets, a

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As the depression settles in and Argentineans question whether dulce de leche really tastes that good (no, that will never happen) no doubt they will find solace in futbol (soccer) and try to pretend tennis doesn't exist anymore. I also find that denial is an effective way of solving problems. I helped tennis.com with their coverage, which was good fun but being in the press certainly didn't

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Travel isn't all glamour and high living, great food and warm beds. I currently have bug bites all over my body from a bad bed. My camera was recently taken and so my picture taking days are over, though obviously I'll find some way to take pictures. I won't dwell on this point because it is deeply upsetting. I was luckily able to upload at least most of my pictures to my computer and online.And

Jeremynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582637841579284652.post-55728571747089780602008-11-01T17:34:00.000-07:002008-11-01T18:15:21.279-07:00

Chiloe is a small island in southern patagonia, considered the beginning of the end of the world, a rugged island filled with a hard and certain people who have lived there lives surrounded by seafood and its trade.I´m flying blind -- without a guidebook, which other experienced travellers find absolutely insane -- because I came here after seeing one sentence on a map. So the power of words have

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It´s been bothering me that I run into few Americans in my travels here. There simply is no acceptable social construct for traveling abroad, unstructured. I read about 15 percent of Americans have a passport and the ones who do travel do so for structured reasons. Finding out about other cultures, having fun, exploring the world simply isn`t in our blood despite having the means to find out all

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I leave tonight for the Iguazu falls, on the far northwest corner of Argentina and home to some of the most spectular waterfalls in the world. The price? A 17-hour bus ride. Wish me luck. --J

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Far left: the most put together 16-year-old I've ever met, a German named Tobi. My mom was still making me lunch at 16, and I was certainly not at night clubs halfway around the world smoking Cuban cigars and drinking Japanese beer. Some of the truly fascinating and interesting moments have come, of course, in conversation with people like Tobi. While the themes have varied -- commentary on the

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http://picasaweb.google.com/borden.jeremy/BuenosAiresI#http://picasaweb.google.com/borden.jeremy/BuenosAiresIIAndUruguayColoniaPuntaDelEsteAndMontevideo#Two new albums for your viewing pleasure.

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At a casino in Puerto Madera, where Natasha's (pictured) grandmother explained to me they knocked down all the old buildings and put in a glitzy strip of restaurants surrounded by boats. It's illegal to gamble in BA, so the casinos are on boats. But the casinos have recently been nationalized and are run by the federal government. Politics aside, the government decided its a bad idea to fork

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My teacher at the Spanish school in Buenos Aires where I’ve been taking classes the last couple weeks describes himself as “animal de cuidad” which means what it looks like. We say “city creature,” but it’s become clear after not much time at all here that tapping into one’s animalistic instincts to get around this chokingly crowded but intensely exciting place takes some animalistic instinct.

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