PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES

Yes, they have them in Argentina.  Do they work....well, not always.  So far on this trip:

1.  A PLANE delay, but the good news is they gave me a free lunch and a credit to my credit card.  The lunch was a very dried out beef milenesa.  Even with a real metal fork & knife (in the airport), I couldn’t cut through the dried out meat without shaking the beer out of my glass.  And the credit...well, still waiting for it to appear on my credit card.

2.  A TRAIN that caught on fire.  On the way home from a day trip to Tigre’, 30km N of Buenos Aires, the train caught on fire.  I kept wondering what that burning rubber smell was.

3.  A BUS that never arrived.  No wonder some people are out so late in the evening...the bus never comes, at least not the one you want.  Ok, ok, so I didn’t leave the bar until 1:30 or 2am, which is really early for Buenos Aires, but after 30 minutes of waiting the bus never came...and the metro stopped at 10:30pm.  I think I finally got home around 3am....again, still early for here!

4.  A TAXI that ran out of gas.  Decided to catch a taxi after the bus never came, and half-way to my B&B the driver said “finito”.  I’m thinking, no, we’re not there yet.  He puts the car in neutral and coasts to the curb.  Oh, I get it...no mas petrol.  So, that night, in order to get home, I took a bus that never came and a taxi with no gas.  Better to rely on my feet than on their transport system. 

BTW, pics of Puerto Iguazu (waterfalls) have been added to my photo site.

Ciao!