This past weekend, one of my friends came to visit and we went up to see Iguazu falls in Northern Argentina. It was kind of a tourist trap, and they were definitely onto gouging foreigners (entry to the park: 20 ARS for Argentinians, 60 ARS for others) but it was still absolutely spectacular and certainly […]
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Perito Moreno
April 26th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Argentina, Photos, Travel
Sorry for the delay, the internet was down all across El Calafate yesterday. I finally have a lot of photos to share from the glacier hiking trip. I almost didn’t go. I woke up on Thursday morning with a really awful headache; then the medicine I took for my head upset my stomach without fixing […]
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Buses FTL
May 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Argentina, Travel
Argentina is very large. This seemingly obvious fact has been vividly demonstrated to me over the last few days. I’m heading north, planning to visit Bariloche, before crossing into Chile and heading for Santiago to resume the urban/hacker part of my trip. In order to avoid a 400 USD flight from Ushuaia to Bariloche, I […]
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Hiatus
June 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Chile, Travel
Well, apologies for the long silence. I ran into kind of a series of things that seemed to interfere with blogging or take precedence over it including my third quarter report to the Watson Foundation and an application for an internship at Fermilab. For a week or so after my last post, the weather was […]
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Can’t Touch This
June 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Chile, Travel
In Puerto Varas, we (Turk, Canook, Swiss, and I) decided to rent a car to drive north. We were all sort of tired of buses, and figured having the car would give us the chance to stop off and see a few things along the way. The Hertz rental office was like this tiny little […]
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