The Good, The Bad, and The Wild

Big rain in Buenos Aires

Suzie is wrapped up and ready to go.

While travelling you can learn many things from people from all over the world

The Good:
Yeh, we´ve got Suzie off to the U.S.A. As a matter of fact she left last night on American Airlines, exactly 24 hours before us on the exact same flight. Shipping out of Buenos Aires was a breeze thanks to Sandra and Javier at Dakar Motos. Javier let us store Suzie at the the shop the whole time we were in B.A., which saved us a whole lot of money on parking fees down town, so we didn´t have to worry about her (a big relief). Sandra helped us out with getting the crate and all the paperwork done without a hitch, which is a major thing down here when you can´t really speak the language. We just showed up at the airport, Ken took off the windshield, mirrors and topcase, the airport guy zapstrapped Suzie to the crate and wrapped her up nice and tight with shrinkwrap. Off we went with big smiles on our faces and a big weight off our shoulders. I have to say we are more than a little sad to see this part of our trip come to an end, we will both miss South America a lot (maybe not the drivers). In the end our bill in B.A. came to $1217 US for Suzie´s flight to Miami there may be charges at the other end but nothing too drastic (we hope).

The Bad:
Sunday we are walking down the street when all of a sudden we are covered with mustard! Two people who were walking behind us pointed to an open window above us and said someone had sprayed us from there. Luckily, they had napkins and helped us clean up the mess on our clothes and we were able to return to our hotel (which was close by) to change our clothes. What nice people here in B.A.! Well, as Ken was changing he noticed his wallet was gone, with Visa card, debit card and drivers licence! As it turned out these nice people were cleaning us out not cleaning us up! Shit!!! We reported the Visa stolen immediately and found out "our nice people" had already tried to use the cards but had been refused, this couple was slick. The rest of the day was spent at the police station where they said this was a classic case, boy did we feel stupid. Oh well, a new card is on the way and it should be here before we leave for the States, Ken has an international drivers licence, and I still have my Visa and debit card. The school of hard knocks teaches us a lesson....

The Wild:
Tuesday April 17th, 6:00 pm. Nasty, nasty storm for about 1 hour maybe 1 1/2. 4 inches of rain. Water was running down the streets like a river. The subway was closed in B.A. for the first time in 23 years. A lighting show better than any we have ever seen. Half of the city looses power. Alas, ever more excitement for the Gassmans in the big city.....