Back to Buenos Aires

Back to Buenos Aires

Back to Buenos Aires staying on the same street as our last apartment, but a few blocks away. We are actually 6 blocks away and now we are in the heart of strip joint central. We have at least 7-8 cabaret establishments within rocks throw away from our apartment. Our apartment isn’t the best, but it will work for the next 7 days, 3 of which we will be at the Iguazu Falls. We are also 100 yards from the Hard Rock Café. We were initially excited about this, however, after one quick dinner at the restaurant we soon realized that we will not be eating there anymore. Overpriced and under flavored. They don’t even have ranch dressing for their “ranck chicken salad.”. I thought Jen was going to lose it…

We took care of all of our car selling paperwork the following day in a matter of 3 hours. Not bad for a couple of non Spanish speaking Americans. We were told it would take us two to three days to complete the process. We called the buyer of our car that night and arranged to sell the car on Wednesday. In addition, we are trying to figure out how to bring the Thule back to the states or sell it. After finding out how much it was going to cost to send it back, 800 USD (more than we paid for the Thule) we decided to sell it and take a loss.

The best news so far, is that I was able to talk to an American Delta airlines customer service agent who sympathized with us regarding the huge misinformation we received when we purchased our tickets prior to coming to BsAs. Originally, we had been told that we were able to purchase a 90 day ticket and could stay longer in Argentina if we wanted to. All we would have to do is pay 100 USD for a change fee and pay the difference in the price of a ticket, which we were told was roughly 300-500 USD. That sounded good at the time so we booked the tickets. Well, when it became time to purchase our return tickets, since we no longer have a car and Payton is really searching for structure and stability, guess what, Delta wanted 4000 USD per person for the flight since we were beyond three months and a 1 year ticket was roughly 5000 USD. It was cheaper to purchase another round trip ticket for 1100 USD and only fly the one-way leg of the trip. I called the South American Delta call center and was on the phone for roughly 1 hour before being transferred to the States. After being on the phone for Payton’s entire nap (2 hours) we finally ended up paying only 300 USD, not per person, for all of us! Our experience with Delta was great from the US to Argentina and even though we had some problems with the details of our return ticket they definitely came through and straightened things out for us. We are happy with Delta.