From Buenos Aires

2.21.2015

Today we are in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  Great architecture.  Wide streets.  (Dog poop on the streets and sidewalks though.)  A great pedestrian shopping road, closed to cars.  Lots of US companies.  McDonalds, Burger King, etc.  There are some stunning churches, we always like those.

Yesterday we had warnings from the port speaker as well as a letter from the captain warning us of several scams ashore.  One was about cabs shortchanging.  One was about money changers on the street and there were lots of those, but everyone took US dollars so that wasn't a problem.

One warning was to beware of people on the street offering to wipe stuff off our clothes.  That they would spray something on and offer to clean it up.  Happened to us outside of a church.  Both of our shirts have streaks of white on them, but not chunky like bird droppings.  We refused his offer to help, but the stuff doesn't come off easily.  Dries hard like a paint.  He tried to convince us that birds pooped on us, we believed him at first, but now question it.  It is like cement, it doesn't come off easily.  Co has it in her hair, on her hat, backpack and shirt.  John has it on his shirt and shorts.

The weather is getting noticeably cooler the further south we go.  It has been a very comfortable last three days in the 70's, rather than the 90's to 100's we had in Brazil.  We did walk 6.5 miles today.  Juan is muy cansado.  Very tired.

John & Colleen