This is the enormity of my thoughts on day two in Argentina...
Buenos Aires, while in possession of a world-class subway system, beautiful parks (at least in Palermo) and the single widest avenue in the world (which is really not that wide, its all in the classification of "avenue"), is full of smelly, loud buses.
I expressed this little tidbit of eagle-eyed observation to my dear friend Sabina, who laughed (via facebook chat) and largely dismissed it. But really, Buenos Aires: why so many smelly buses? The pollution makes my eyes sting, and the entirety of Ave de Mayo was filled with smelly buses from Plaza de Mayo to Puerto Madero today!
All things considered, I really like Buenos Aires, but the smelly buses with their constant, insistent honking make the whole city seem less...seemly.
However, to make up for the smelly buses (in my opinion it about evens the playing field), Buenos Aires also seems to posses the highest per-block ratio of boot shops in the world. For anyone who knows me well, this is something akin to the old adage "kid in a candy shop." I love boots almost to distraction, and so to find a whole city positively brimming with boot shops makes me want to skip up and down with a big, goofy grin on my face. Thankfully, Patrick is around to pull me out of the path of an oncoming smelly bus...
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