La Rioja

Trip Start Oct 10, 2006
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Trip End Apr 03, 2007


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Thursday, December 21, 2006

I relax and enjoy the city. I have a large ice cream. This seems to be a cultural dynamic with parlors everywhere. 2 scoops of high quality ice cream in a waffle cone is $1. I am having at least 1 per day. Despite my eating I have still lost weight (but not in a bad way).

Another cultural dynamic is to drink at lunch. I find a good pizza place to hang during siesta. The only dark beer is sold in a 1 liter bottle for $2. This is almost 3 US beers. Generally this is shared but I am solo. This makes for a relaxed lunch.

I find an Internet place and get an email that my Subaru in Denver has been impounded and will be sold at auction if not claimed within 10 days. A friend of mine who was keeping watch on it apparently wasn't doing it very closely. I need to get a notarized authorization for someone in Denver to pick it up. How do I do that in Arg? Over 5 hours I go through various iterations. In Arg there is a specific kind of attorney, an escribania, that offers this. Much more formal than in the US. Several attempts to get to the right person. Then I am told that it will take a few days. I explain that I leave that night for Mendoza. They tell me it can be ready in an hour. I then scan it and email it. Thanks to Jen and Krista, I am able to get such complicated things done remotely.

I go for a nice dinner at a Argentinean grill, La Vieja Casona. At 12:30 AM I am off on a night bus to Mendoza. The buses are packed for the holidays. Marginally comfortable but I am beat so sleep reasonably well.
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