Author Archives: billybaba
SEPTEMBER 11, MONDAY
MY ARTIFICIAL CULTURAL BUBBLE After a month of living by myself in Montevideo and Buenos Aires and not being able to speak Spanish or to know how to do even simple things like how to catch and pay for a
SEPTEMBER 11, MONDAY
MY ARTIFICIAL CULTURAL BUBBLE After a month of living by myself in Montevideo and Buenos Aires and not being able to speak Spanish or to know how to do even simple things like how to catch and pay for a
SEPTEMBER 10, SUNDAY
MARRAKECH (really Saturday) The first thing I read this morning was that there was a large earthquake in Morocco at 11 p.m. last night which has killed 1000 people in and around Marrakech. The center of the quake was 50
SEPTEMBER 10, SUNDAY
MARRAKECH (really Saturday) The first thing I read this morning was that there was a large earthquake in Morocco at 11 p.m. last night which has killed 1000 people in and around Marrakech. The center of the quake was 50
SEPTEMBER 9, SATURDAY
TWO WAYS OF TOURING I came back from Montevideo on Thursday and while the experience traveling solo and clueless is still fresh in my mind I want to wonder about it a little more. I live in a tourist town,
SEPTEMBER 9, SATURDAY
TWO WAYS OF TOURING I came back from Montevideo on Thursday and while the experience traveling solo and clueless is still fresh in my mind I want to wonder about it a little more. I live in a tourist town,
SEPTEMBER 8, FRIDAY
ASHEVILLE My flight left Buenos Aires at 11:45 p.m.. Squeezed tightly together in a plane that was clear full I didn‘t sleep too well. My head kept flopping to one side, jolting me painfully awake. The two hour flight from
SEPTEMBER 8, FRIDAY
ASHEVILLE My flight left Buenos Aires at 11:45 p.m.. Squeezed tightly together in a plane that was clear full I didn‘t sleep too well. My head kept flopping to one side, jolting me painfully awake. The two hour flight from
SEPTEMBER 7, THURSDAY
FLORENCIA BLANCO I looked her up on the Internet but it was all in Spanish. But in the middle of this outlet mall was an exhibit of her photographs that struck me as being original and beautiful. They were mounted
SEPTEMBER 7, THURSDAY
FLORENCIA BLANCO I looked her up on the Internet but it was all in Spanish. But in the middle of this outlet mall was an exhibit of her photographs that struck me as being original and beautiful. They were mounted
SEPTEMBER 6, WEDNESDAY
DISTRITO ARCOS OUTLET MALL Susie told me there was a nearby Le Pain Quotidien, a French bakery chain where we had eaten in Paris. I walked under a train overpass and there hidden on the other side was Le Pain
SEPTEMBER 6, WEDNESDAY
DISTRITO ARCOS OUTLET MALL Susie told me there was a nearby Le Pain Quotidien, a French bakery chain where we had eaten in Paris. I walked under a train overpass and there hidden on the other side was Le Pain
SEPTEMBER 5, TUESDAY
GRAFFITI Graffiti, street art, is everywhere in Buenos Aires, on the pull down metal coverings of store windows in the elegant parts of town to the everywhere, and more and more political where the ordinary people life. I’ve already included
SEPTEMBER 5, TUESDAY
GRAFFITI Graffiti, street art, is everywhere in Buenos Aires, on the pull down metal coverings of store windows in the elegant parts of town to the everywhere, and more and more political where the ordinary people life. I’ve already included
SEPTEMBER 4, MONDAY
BIG BUS TOUR OF BUENOS AIRES In the last year I’ve taken the Big Bus, Hop Off, Hop On tour of San Francisco (twice) and the Big Bus tour of New Orleans (twice). I like riding instead of walking and
SEPTEMBER 4, MONDAY
BIG BUS TOUR OF BUENOS AIRES In the last year I’ve taken the Big Bus, Hop Off, Hop On tour of San Francisco (twice) and the Big Bus tour of New Orleans (twice). I like riding instead of walking and
FEBRUARY 3, SUNDAY
MERCADO DE LAS PULGAS My first day in Buenos Aires rain was predicted. I didn’t have an umbrella. I had also learned that the electrical plugs are different in Argentina than they are in Uruguay. All my devices were running
FEBRUARY 3, SUNDAY
MERCADO DE LAS PULGAS My first day in Buenos Aires rain was predicted. I didn’t have an umbrella. I had also learned that the electrical plugs are different in Argentina than they are in Uruguay. All my devices were running
SEPTEMBER 2, SATURDAY
BUENOS AIRES BY WAY OF COLONIA You can take a ferry from Montevideo to Buenos Aires or you can take the long bus ride to Colonia and then a short 40 minute ferry ride across the wide Plata to Buenos
SEPTEMBER 2, SATURDAY
BUENOS AIRES BY WAY OF COLONIA You can take a ferry from Montevideo to Buenos Aires or you can take the long bus ride to Colonia and then a short 40 minute ferry ride across the wide Plata to Buenos
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 