2020: South America with Sheila & Nick

DAY-05: Headed to Iguazu Falls Day – 05: Saturday, February 22, 2020 Starting Location:  Hotel Emperador, Buenos Aires, AR Ending Location:  Hotel Melia, Iguazu Falls, AR Today was to be an "in-country" travel day. After breakfast we checked out and payed our bar tab, a mere $115, not bad for a serious number of drinks and a lunch or two. About forty of us gathered in the hotel lobby for our trip to Iguazu Falls. We all left luggage at the hotel for our return on Sunday as we were to carry minimal baggage for the overnight stay. While waiting for transportation, we sat with  a French Canadian couple, fortunately they were fluent in English as our French was somewhat deficient. Diego our Buenos Aires tour guide arrived and handed out airline tickets and gave us a pre-travel briefing. after which we b oarded a bus for the ten minute ride to Buenos Aires  downtown "domestic" airport. En-route you see some of the "not-so-pretty" parts of the ci...

DAY-04: Buenos Aires, Hot As Fire Day – 04: Friday, February 21, 2020 Starting Location:  Hotel Emperador, Buenos Aires, AR Ending Location:  Hotel Emperador, Buenos Aires, AR It's cooler today than yesterday, will have to consider a jacket if we go out walking. Breakfast was the same as yesterday, though I did have a couple of the buffet fried eggs, yes fried eggs but only the yolk! We again met up with fellow cruisers and Sheila had the opportunity to further the dialogue with the gentleman from Los Altos.  Today the topics of "gates & driveways" came up, who's got the bigger and badder security gate and if that is all equal who has the longest driveway. We hung out in the room until early afternoon but it was time to get out. Today's mission was to walk toward the National Museum of Art, various national monuments and parks and the Recoleta Cemetery. En-route we came upon a Hard Rock Cafe and a Starbucks so of course we stopped, not...