On the way back to the US, I made a 10 day stop in Mexico to spend a little more time with Tania. She did her best to show me even more of Mexico City and its surroundings. Judging by the obscene length of this post, I'd say she did a good job. Our first stop was a visit to Santa Fe, the ritziest and boringest part of the city if you ask me. Lots of soulless office buildings and none of the local charm and walkability that makes the rest of Mexico City so great. Frankly, i

I hadn't really planned to come to Montevideo on this trip. Frankly I knew basically nothing about the city...much less Uruguay. But, it's just an hour by ferry and two hours by bus from Buenos Aires, so what the heck, why not? I spent a week in the "Old City", which features the most beautiful buildings from the colonial era (although Montevideo is a relatively young city by South America standards, being founded in the early 1700s). More specifically, I was staying in "adu

On to the main course for Argentina now, you're gonna need your appetite for this one. Buenos Aires is known as the "Paris of South America", thanks to its omnipresent cafe culture (a culture that, to be sure, was on full display in Mendoza and Cordoba as well). The city abounds with beautiful architecture, expansive green parks, and tree-lined streets. It also features a local population of 17 million people, all of whom speak with an indecipherable accent which sounds lik