So my flight is booked. Into Santiago on the 6th. Out of Sao Paulo on the 24th. I'll probably have to take at least one internal flight. Maybe Mendoza to Buenos Aires. Maybe Buenos Aires to Iguazu. Maybe both. We'll see. I don't really have a fully thought out itinerary which is the best way‐more room for adventure that way. I used frequent flier miles and it only is going to cost me 50k. I saved 25k by flying out of Brazil so I'm off to the consulate to pay the extortionate rate for my visa. It's not 130 bucks plus the cost of a passport photo (14 and change) and the it has to be paid in a USPS money which costs a buck-oh-five (same as the price of freedom, oddly enough). If I'm lucky, I'll be in Brazil for 5 days. Fuck Ya!
I've never been to either Chile or Argentina before so this is really exciting. I also may head up from Buenos Aires to Uruguay. Again, we'll see. I had wanted to take my skis, boots and poles on my first trip down to Chile, but that will have to wait for another time.
Now the big decision is, suitcase or backpack...
As you are not unaware, I am much traveled. This fact allows me to corroborate the ascertion that a voyage is always more or less illusory, that there is nothing new under the sun, theat everything is one and the same, etcetera, but also, paradoxically enough, to assert that there is no foundation for the despairing of finding surprises and something new: in truth, the world is inexhaustible.-Jorge Luis Borges
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