Street Tango with Brazilians and Wine Shopping Before a Night at the Museum where a Pretty Girl Asks for Permission to Dance with Leroy and our Cabbie Needs a Trache

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires
February 28th 2007

Published: March 5th 2007

La Boca OG is up early and chilling in front of the TV with Buenos Aires guidebook in hand. He’s been reading about La Boca and suggests we check it out today. I went to La Boca in 2000 with my friend Andrea (Dre). I met her through Athena, who was working in BA as a journalist. Dre and I took a bus to La Boca, an area known for its multicolored houses and its place in BA history as an Itali... Read Full Entry

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melee

No more boards. No more rotations. No more pagers. We are done with med school, and we're out to see the world. Six continents. 15 countries. 10 languages. 54,417 air miles. 2 travelers. One! We are keeping this travel blog mainly as a travel diary for ourselves, but we also want to share our trip with family and friends. It's better than an interminable slide show at the end of the trip, right? We hope the travel blog becomes a great way for you guys to keep in touch with us (and to procrastinate)! 02/13-02/21 - Salvador, Brasil 02/22-03/02 - Buenos Aires, Argentina 03/02-03/09... full info

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Smile and don't fall in

Wait 'til you see what's below.

Barrio Bonito

Cool mural

Below

The harbor was marred by lots of trash

Yuck Harbor

Shots of La Boca

Plaza San Martin

Heading to another wine store

Plaza San Martin

Bettina, the leather tailor

I had no idea Bett

Look before crossing

Why you muggin, baby?

Nice top tho!

Sushi dinner with locals

At a restaurant that didn't have miso soup. Wasabi was weak too. Good company though. l-r: Belen, Cecelia, Victoria.

Party Time

OG gets trigger happy

Latenite BA

Obelisco

Museo

Manuel slips thru the dresscode crack, thanks to help from Victoria. He's a suave Argentine and didn't really need her help tho.

Museo

OG still at it

Museo

OG, are you flirting?

Museo

Thinking about our next move

6th March 2007

bett
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leroy's dancing..
i don't know why but that story made me laugh heartily...first he hits you then he hits that girl.

6th March 2007

bett
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oh and i LOVE those fotos..
i want to go there!

10th March 2007

Athena
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HA!!
I love it that esta chica portenya en Museo told you how lucky you were to be with such a great dancer. Too funny. This is pure entertainment and you guys are prolific! Keep it up!

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