Today we celebrate our first month of being in Buenos Aires. And what better way to do so than going to an operaaa and sitting in one of these seats in the Teatro Colon-- http://hotelcarlosprimero.com.ar/eng/index.php?teatro-col%F3n,39 (Sarge kept begging me to go to the Justin Beiber concert, but I had to put my foot down and say no...). Even though we've been here for a month, we can still say we are very, very American. (Is this a good thing? Meh.) We...

Our first viaje come and gone. We left the city and headed to Tigre, a little city located in the midst of the Parana delta and a mere 50-minute train ride away. We found our bright orange hostel right away and ended up spending the night in a room with a gaucho (Argentina cowboy), a Mexican girl who we never saw, an Aussie, and a Cuban man. The only real contact we made with any of these people (besides me dreaming up conversations with the gaucho that ended ...