After much anticipation the Grandma has landed in Buenos Aires!
Really the plan to meet up with Barbara and Giles was drafted more than a year ago when we found out that Giles had the opportunity to speak at a conference in BA - we have all tentatively planned on meeting up in the city, and...
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Lions and Tigers and Bears…
The Buenos Aires Zoo, or Jardin Zoológico is located in the Palermo district of Buenos Aires. For us it is only a hop, skip, and a jump from our apartment in Palermo Viejo or about 10 blocks. In fact, we walk by the zoo most days looking to catch...
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Imagine what you would pack if you were preparing to travel for a year or more. All of the pants, shirts, shoes, jackets, toiletries, books, electronics, and various knick knacks…now throw it all away and start again!
This time pack it all into a single carry-on suitcase!
What sort of climate you ask? Well, you need to...
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I think Iguazu Falls is one of the 7 Natural Wonders of the World…but I am not sure about that. When I was a kid I simply remember the 7 wonders of the world but now there is a list for everything that it has gotten much to complicated for my brain to handle.
Maybe ALL...
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We arrived in Buenos Aires on Sunday Morning! We are staying at a friends flat in an area known as Palermo Soho in the South West part of the city. We have not seen much of the city yet, but 2 things we know for certain…
1) It is winter in Argentina
2)We look so out of...
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Drum roll please….
Gina and I made the decision that we will return with the kids to the U.S. sometime in September!
What this means is not exactly clear…the decision was really more of a “what next” moment than a long thought out plan of our next steps.
Gina’s mother and step father are visiting us in Buenos...
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Amazing how quickly time can slip by…it has been weeks since our last post, and we have not been very prolific writers for the month of June.
We are reminded that it has been a while when Gina & I start receiving emails on our personal email accounts asking what is going on.
The answer is usually...
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I have started more fires in the past 3 weeks than I have my entire life previously!
I am pretty certain that I did not get my Boy Scout merit badge for Fire Starting or whatever it was called. By the looks of things if I did in fact get one I somehow cheated on the...
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A quick update…
When last we spoke the Lannin’s had made a last minute detour from Mendoza to a little town called Obera in N. Eastern Argentina.
We came here for the purpose of investigating a house sit, or an opportunity to care for someone’s house while they are away. Think of babysitting, except this a...
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We threw our bags into the room and headed out to find a bite to eat. We had just crossed the border from Bolivia to Argentina after standing in line for 2 hours and before that a 10 hour train ride. We were all hungry!
We found a small place around the corner from the hostel,...
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