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Travel cage match: Santiago, Chile vs. Buenos Aires, Argentina (part 2: Drink)

23 January 2011

If you're new here, you may want to start with Our Consulting Problem and maybe our FAQ and if you like what you see you should totally subscribe to receive new posts via RSS or email in the box on the top right. Thanks for visiting!2 cities enter. One city leaves. Will it be Santiago, [...]

Travel cage match: Santiago, Chile vs. Buenos Aires, Argentina (part 1: Food)

13 January 2011

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Travel cage match: Santiago, Chile vs. Buenos Aires, Argentina (part 1: Food)

2 cities enter. One city leaves. Will it be Santiago, Chile – the home of enormous mayo covered hot dogs and some of the most impressive mountain views anywhere in the world? or Will it be Buenos Aires, Argentina -where you can (and more or less have to) eat steak 5+ times a week? We spent [...]

CPTJMIY: Kevin Friedman on OfertaSimple and living life as a pirate

15 December 2010

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CPTJMIY: Kevin Friedman on OfertaSimple and living life as a pirate

It’s been awhile since our last installment of Crazy People That Just Might Inspire You, but if there’s one thing you can count on in life it’s that there are always more crazy people out there. We think you’ll agree that today’s Crazy Person, Kevin Friedman, is crazy in ways that sound pretty fun. We [...]

Warning: Buenos Aires apartment scam

5 November 2010

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A reader recently emailed us asking if we could help publicize the story of how he got scammed out of getting his deposit back when renting an apartment in Buenos Aires in an attempt to shut-down the scammer (which has been remarkably successful thus far–read on…) and to help other people avoid becoming victims. We [...]

Rehab phase 1 is almost complete; Phase 2 is coming

9 September 2010

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Today is our last day in Chile. Tomorrow we return to Argentina. Next week we return to the US. Phase 1 of rehab has been intense We have been unemployed and in South America for almost exactly 6 months now. For 6 months we have had no deadlines and no responsibilities. We’ve had neither cellphone [...]

Trip report: San Pedro de Atacama (part 2)

7 September 2010

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Trip report: San Pedro de Atacama (part 2)

Our vacation from a vacation from a vacation in San Pedro continues – here’s what we did days 3 and 4, as well as our thoughts on a few restaurants and hotels in San Pedro. (P.S. Day 4 includes the most incredible natural landscape we’ve ever seen . . . and we get around.) If [...]

Trip report: San Pedro de Atacama (part 1)

6 September 2010

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Trip report: San Pedro de Atacama (part 1)

We decided to take a trip to get out of the Santiago smog for a few days and quickly decided on San Pedro because (1) it’s the only major attraction that’s to the north, and it’s still too cold to go south and (2) it’s really neat. San Pedro is a small town in the [...]

Wine tasting at Concha y Toro

22 August 2010

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Ryan and I had a day free of networking meetings this past week, so we decided to get out of the city and visit Concha y Toro winery for the afternoon. We were psyched to find out we could get almost all the way there using public transit: hop the subway one block from our [...]

Meet, Plan, Go! September 14th in thirteen cities. Be there. Seriously.

17 August 2010

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Listen up. This is important. We want to tell you about an outstanding event that will be taking place on Sept. 14th in thirteen cities across the US and Canada called Meet, Plan, Go! Its entire purpose is to provide you with inspiration, contacts and resources to “plan the trip of a lifetime” – and [...]

We got featured on BudgetYourTrip.com

8 August 2010

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BudgetYourTrip.com is a very cool site. They would be cool even if they didn’t post an interview of us. That said, they did post an interview of us and you should check it out. If you aren’t familiar with the new site Budget Your Trip, there are at least three reasons why you should be: [...]