Welcome to BA

As the bus started to roll into Buenos Aires I got that feeling in my stomach which means something good is coming. Excitement, curiousity, and a tiny bit of apprehension all rolled into one. Everyone I've talked to about this city is so excited about it. I have this hope that it can live up to the hype.

I started to pester Megan right away: Do you recognize where we are? Is that near where you lived? How long do you think it'll take us to find an apartment? A job? I know the best thing is just to sit back, relax, take it all in, but there's a lot of excitement at the same time.

A couple of days in it feels like I'm just starting to scratch the surface of life here, and I know it will take much longer to even begin to understand it all. We've wandered into amazing bookstores and film shops, full of that food for the mind. Down the street there's a bar serving craft beer- it does exist in Latin America! Our first night in town we hit a house party in a former hostel, with a couple of DJ's and a mostly extranjero crowd but a few Argies mixed in as well. We've started to work through the Guia T, the bus guide which theoretically can get you anywhere in the city anytime of day or night.

And so it begins.







PS: Mac is up and running again, so we're going to start catching up and adding photos to our past posts, starting with Bariloche (http://kevinandmeganinsa.blogspot.com/2009/02/bad-news-in-beautiful-world.html) and El Bolson (http://kevinandmeganinsa.blogspot.com/2009/02/hey-wanna-trek-through-patagonian-andes.html)