4 months, 6 countries and 14 plane rides later and we land in NYC in an unbelievable wave of good luck: customs line takes 2 minutes, when we get to the luggage spinner, our luggage is there.  though it’s 5pm, we get home with no traffic.  and not on side-streets… on the VAN WYCK.
my bed’s more comfortable than ever.  huge …

leaving argentina tonight. 4 months later, i’ve missed the winter and whatever else my home has gotten itself into. it will be strange to leave this bed, and strange to sleep in my own bed again. it’ll be strange to speak english all day, every day. i’ve got a mountain of work to finish on this …

today’s the 3 week mark. about this time, 3 wednesdays from now, we’ll be landing in NYC and paying an argentine week’s cost of living for a cab to my house.
what’ll we eat first? i’m guessing indian food.

my new favorite activity is to guess the names of american movies and tv shows i find here in argentina, by looking at the names they’ve decided to give them. lacking appropriate name recognition or context for certain things, they rename their imported pop culture in hopes of helping their prospective audience to better understand the plot of the …

a little over a week now. it’s raining today, for the first time… although it’s so hot that it stopped a few minutes back and already the street in front of me is dry. last night we went to some little nameless neighborhood, beat-up and gorgeous, that risso says was abandoned for the last 10 years and has …

everyone has extremely loud and obnoxious ringtone songs on their cellphones, even by NY standards.
peanut butter does not exist here.

it’s sunday… everything opens late. i’ve become instantly addicted to the coffee at a local spot here… and they weren’t there when i needed them, so i went back to sleep.
i was apparently a lot more tired than i thought i was. if it’s not jetlag i’m working out, i’m calling it jetlag anyway.
thanks to the excellent eduardo risso, we …

at 1am on the 5th, i was standing in front of what used to the world trade center. 6 hours from liftoff, my accounts mostly in order, give or take. my bags about halfway packed…. i’ll only forget what’s important.
spent about 11 hours in jfk international, some of it in a hotel after our airline changed their flight …