Uruguay

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I took the Buquebus (it´s a large boat) from Buenos Aires to a rather sleepy little UNESCO world heritage city called Colonia del Sacramento. Uruguay, at least initially, intrigues me as a country because it is little known, seems to get along with everyone, minds its own business, and has a relatively good economy. I did hear a rumor that Uruguay has one of the world´s largest aquifers, not entirely sure what that means in technical terms, but the bottom line seems to be they are set when it comes to the ¨new oil¨, clean water. Also read somewhere that George W. and family recently bought large tracts of land here, on or near the H2O, having sent the recently wed Jenna down here a while back to sign documents while ostensibly on one of her UNICEF tours... Google that one.

My wanderlust is waning and I don´t know how much of the country I will see. At present I am tied down somewhat with job interviews and need to have a reliable phone number. Montevideo is nice to say, but to date I cannot identify a good reason to hop a bus and check it out. At present I´m enjoying the contrast between the silence here and the nonstop rumblings of Buenos Aires.

Had a really nice evening with a 70 year old woman from San Diego. We had tea and talked about a wide range of subjects, including her current advocacy work for a neglected and oppressed tribe in northern Uganda.

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