Zee Alemanians

Buenas amigos - Hello everyone, I hope your loves and locations are passing you well. I am currently writing you from the middle to upper low middle-class barrio of villa crespo. I have been bouncing around my various friends various sleeping surfaces since last wednesday, and have eventually ended up in the spare room of my good friend Dr. Hromadka. (Actually it is his owner's spare room, to whom I have to pay rent (yes rent for 4 days, didn't see it coming but you know it is completely fair and to be expected, this isn't the states where your friends are the owners or full on renters of their living quarters, here in Argeland we are renting from owners directly, who generally live in the same apartment, so of course they would expect money from some pale skinned basketball shorts-in-winter-wearing yanqui) yep double parentheses)

Anyway I am moving around so much because I am making moves, tomorrow I am off to Cordoba. Click here to see a map and read about it - unless you want a poorly articulated and fairly fictional description in which case keep reading.

Cordoba, Argentina - The second largest city in Argentina, weighing in at about 1.3 million. Is in mas o menos the direct geographical center of the country (putting it in the heart of the Pampas...mini lesson on pampas? ----The Pampas are the bountiful plains in between the eastern banks of the atlantic and the sharp foothills of the Andes in the west. Here is the land of the Gaucho (Argentine Cowboy) where grand estancias (ranches) were built by the tippity-top of the Italian and Spanish aristocracy first arriving in the then Spanish port city of Buenos Aires. Wide, vast, part desert, part cultivated land. It's a big assed plain that was home to many native tribes before the "Desert Campaign" in the 1870's when an Argentine General "assisted in the moving of the natives." I'm sure that assistance was similar to that of our forefathers friendly frictionless foray into the native centers of North America --- Phew, so, Cordoba is in the middle of all that stuff. Built around the idea of education, housing the most important universities in the history of the country and producing many of it's top leaders in industry, government, and ..sociology....Just kidding we all know people only take those courses in college for an easy A. Today the city still stands as an educational hub, growing to a formidable size within the country.

I'm hoping that like any good old college town, though this city is a little bigger than Boulder, there will be plenty of good late night burrito shacks, a main strip of bars, and plenty of perusing intellectuals to quiz me on Bruce Willis movies. I am excited for the trip because traveling is fun, traveling with 7 of your good friends is fun, but taking the 10 hour bus and dominating your own hostel room with your 7 friends is ahh, well, fun. We were planning on renting a 8 person van and conduciendo alla (driving there(it's fun to learn while reading nonsense in a blog huh?)), but those bastards over at Hertz must not understand the effects that decades of greedy and single minded dictatorships have on the economy of a country, cause damn that Dodge Sprint 9 seater was expensive.

So yes tomorrow we go to Cordoba, then I'm back sleeping --ahh, somewhere--still need to work that one out (got a 10 hour bus ride sunday to send out some group texts) then flying to Miami Int. monday, sleeping there for a day then finally, if you can believe it, one of the Cloyd Srs. will be picking me up at the suffocatingly humid MPLS INTL airport at midnight wednesday. Then I'll blow all the pesos I've saved on one night at uptown roof tops. I'll upload some pics during my 27 hour hiateus at Miami airport. I may also vent some emotions, both positive and vexed, about the abundance of fast food at the airport.

Stay Safe, Stay Clean, Go Spain, Go green, If you have a couch to sleep on in the greater Buenos Aires area this coming Sunday, avisame porfa.

Alemania = Germany en espanol. Ze germans beat the argentines in the quarterfinals last Saturday. So darn efficient they are.

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