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Lesson learned: Tap water in Buenos Aires

13 March 2010

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Lesson learned: Tap water in Buenos Aires

You can drink the tap water in Buenos Aires. Yay, first world plumbing. Lesson learned.

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Questions that need answering: When stranded overnight without your bags, what do you use for hair gel?

11 March 2010

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Jen did some swat web research on this and it turns out that lotion and shaving gel are both good substitutes that will get the job done if all you have to work with is hotel amenities. So far, the lotion in my hair is working quite well, maybe I’ll switch…

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Yesterday would have been a bad day to live vicariously through us

11 March 2010

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No response from United yet… We did manage to wash some of our clothes using hotel shampoo and they may even be mostly dry by the time we have to put them back on, so things are definitely looking up.

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Dear friendly United Airlines rep from Seattle… (we just sent this, will see what happens)

11 March 2010

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Dear friendly United Airlines rep from Seattle… (we just sent this, will see what happens)

Hi xxx, I’m hoping you remember me and my wife from this morning when we checked in for our flight to Buenos Aires from Seattle at ~5:30am–we are the newlyweds (Jen and Ryan) that quit our consulting jobs recently, got married and are/were headed to Buenos Aires for the next 6 months.  You were very [...]

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