La Casa Rosada

February 12th 2006
Buenos Aires was huge! We stayed for four days and faced death many times aka. traveling by taxi and bus. We learned on our last day there that Buenos Aires has the highest death rate due to automobile accidents in the world. While there we saw La Casa Rosada (like our White House, only pink), La Boca (the old Italian neighborhood), a tango show, and we had an asada in our honor (an Argentine BBQ ... read more

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more

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Kim Schmidt and Cari Holliday

Kim and Cari

Hey all! We are leaving Kansas on February 3rd and flying to Buenos Aires. We are going to stay with a family friend of Cari's, Eunice and we don't know how long we will stay. As soon as we have had our share of tango, asadas, and smog, we will head to Montevideo, Uruguay. Montevideo is a cute town but not too interesting. There we will visit Miriam (Cari's cousin) and drink mate. Our goal is then to head up the coast and put some color on our pasty, North American bodies. We will somehow find our way back to Buenos Aires by the 18th of February to fly to Santa Cruz, Bolivia. M... full info

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