The biggest surprise for me in South America, at least Chile, Argentina and Uruguay was the lack of spicy food. They have good meats and other tasty dishes but very little to top them with. No steak sauce, hot sauce, or salsa. Often, we’d get french fries and have to [...]

While in Argentina, a friend suggested that we look at a Brazilian airline called GOL for flying within (and to) Brazil. Finding that we could fly Curitiba to Brasilia for around $100, we splurged and decided to fly, skipping the 12+ hour bus ride.
The capital of Brazil, Brasilia is known as a undesirable place [...]

Many of the most popular beaches in South America can be found on Uruguay’s Eastern Coast. From    to Punta del Diablo, there are seemingly endless kilometers of white sandy beaches and beautiful sunsets. While in Uruguay, we rented a car and drove through as many of the quaint beach towns [...]

While in Uruguay, we decided to rent a car. We had 3 days and a long stretch of beach to visit. I was the only one who could drive because we rented a low-end car with manual transmission, no air, and windshield wipers that seemed to turn on whenever they pleased.
From Montevideo we [...]

  While in Buenos Aires, we were able to get in touch with my good friend Andres who rented a house with his friends in the countryside North of the city. He invited us over for a good old-fashioned asado.
An asado is.. lots and LOTS of meat! There were 19 of us, and they bought [...]

We went to a play tonight at the Teatro Broadway (in Buenos Aires) called Mister “New York”… Apparently the English version is known as Darling Mr. London. While we didn’t understand everything, it was cute and funny. One thing we noticed, though, was that each time a new character came out on the stage the [...]