Walking Tour

Today I went on a six hour walking tour of the city of Buenos Aires. To my surprise, I was the only person who requested the 6 hour tour and I got a private tour with an English speaking history professor!! It was incredible and we got along great. Buenos Aires is huge. The biggest city in the United States is NYC and it has 8 million people. Buenos Aires has 14 million. Literally gigantic.

Its the anniversary of the independence of Argentina today, and as a holiday treat the presidents house was open to tours....all in Spanish. But it was still very pretty and I'm lucky to have seen it.

After that I went to the neighborhood of Palermo, which is the hipster neighborhood. There I found acai bowls, craft beer, and raw juice restaurants. I had a a couple beers at a beer garden and decided to walk back to my hostel, about 1 hour, through this huge park.

This park is incredible. It's full of families walking together or playing soccer, young couples canoodling on benches, old people strolling. I think about how in America we're always trying to find ways to separate, but here in Buenos Aires there's this huge coming together of people to exercise and enjoy each other on a holiday.

I realize that walking here in this park is the closest I will ever come to being invisible. I look Argentinian enough to escape notice and no one is walking with me. It's actually really neat to walk past all these people and watch them go about their day and know they aren't looking at me at all. I am just part of the crowd. It's like I have superpowers!

I walk past this incredible path around this lake, then I see another beer garden!

Wait. It's the same beer garden.

I am way more drunk than I realized, and spent 45 min walking in a circle imagining I had superpowers.

Fuck.

I eventually made it back to my hostel.Read more