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Date: 12-27-2002
Subject: Punky, Lew & Achi 2 in Buenos Aires
Hi everyone: We had a 400 km ride on a good paved road from Mar del Plata to Buenos Aires (Bs. As.). Remember, I recently said we would soon be bitching about heat instead of wind and cold. Temps have risen to the 90s and we got cooked riding through downtown Buenos Aires stop and go rush hour traffic with heavy riding jackets and helmets. This is a BIG city. We got in touch with a rider here, Luis "Hueso (bone)" Jimenez, who rented us an apartment for $40 Pesos/day until Jan. 2. The bad news is the TV has 1 fuzzy channel and no antenna or cable, the portable fan has no adapter to plug it in and the water system in the bathroom defies explanation. Last night we went with Hueso and a few other riders to a biker bar, ate pizza and drank beer and shot the shit. One guy is from Cyprus, waiting for his Beemer to be shipped from Germany. He picked up the tab and welcomed us to Bs. As. Said he read about us on the Internet. Today we are touring the downtown area. We saw the most ornate and impressive church I have ever seen, which has the tomb of one of South America's liberators, San Martin. Took pix of the Casa Rosada (the pink presidential palace), inside the church, San Martin's tomb and Eva Peron's tomb, while roaming the streets of the dead in a cemetary of tombs for the rich and famous. I told Achi I was a little uncomfortable visiting the cemetary, but agreed to a round trip. I sweat my butt off and ate icecream and drank juice by the liter. We ride south to Azul Jan. 3 and join the party at a biker's rally. Expect to see Ricardo Rocco Paz there. People are banging pots and pans and on steel doors of bankrupt banks, scribbling their frustratins on the walls in the financial district, shouting and protesting, because they lost money. Many cops standing nearby, waiting for things to get out of hand. Achi is astounded at the civilized manner of things in general. Buses are well marked and routes numbered. They stop where they are supposed to according to the number and route system. In Lima, buses went willy nilly and stopped anywhere to pick up or let off passengers. They did their best to get ahead of other buses to pick up more passengers. Needless to say, this caused much grief and many accidents. Eric and Gail, if you are in the area of Azul for the rally, maybe we will see you there? Thanks to Greg Frazier for his shipping info. Mariola, if you can, tell me how you shipped from Brazil for about $500. Have to get back to the apartment. Poor Punky had to stay there all day alone.
Later, amigos & Amigas.
Punky, Lew & Achi 2
Americas Motopaseo
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