Chronicles of Suz

At the end of January our group traveled to Córdoba riding a Buenos Aires high. We had a bunch of new friends and newfound knowledge of pesos, asados, empanadas, very basic Spanish (dos cervezas por favor), and "Argentina time" (everything is so. so. slow. and late.). We felt confident, even cocky, equipped with our Remote Year posse and Argentinian cultural insights. We were simply moving to another Argentinian city, NBD. Buenos Aires was outstanding, now we knew a lot of Argentina things we didn't know before, which meant Córdoba was going to be even more awesome. I even gushed in my "Saying Goodbye to Buenos Aires" blog post that I felt like I was going to love Córdoba. Remote Year Month 2 challenged many of us in a variety of ways. From the moment we arrived in Córdoba, we dealt with broken elevators, broken refrigerators, daily temps of 100ºF plus (and some group members have no air conditioning), and all the ATMs in the city running out of cash (an...

#sidetrip número dos is in the books. Last week, I boarded a flybondi flight con trés of my Remote Year amigos to visit Argentina's wine country in Mendoza. Who cares about which airline I took, why did I mention that detail, right? As a very frequent flyer I was fascinated by this airline for several reasons:  Flybondi is a brand new Argentinian airline offering flights to locations like Mendoza at a much lower cost than other airlines, and it's obviously a  more convenient option than taking a bus. During our flights to and from Mendoza, many of the passengers were taking a million photos, to the point where we assumed it was most people's first time on a plane or something. Turns out, it was! Flybondi is the first ever budget airline in Argentina, so people who were previously unable to afford flying are now able to plan flights to new destinations. On our trip back, the Argentinian I was sitting next to explained that the whole country is so excited because flybond...