{"id":1856,"date":"2012-03-31T17:32:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T06:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seawind-network.com\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2012-03-31T17:32:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T06:32:26","slug":"the-south-american-adventure-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/20120331\/the-south-american-adventure-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"The South American Adventure Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"
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31-March-2012 3:30 AM AEST<\/p>\n

After almost a year since it was planned, we are finally embarking in a journey we\u2019ve only learnt in the classroom of our Spanish classes in college. There are 20 people in our group and we have arranged a \u2018hatid\u2019 service to the airport. Jeanne and I are the first to be picked up and we were ready by 04:30 am AEST. I did the last minute items to pack \u2013 my CPAP. Everything else was packed and ready to go the week before.<\/p>\n

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Jeanne in Chile - Santiago Airport<\/p><\/div>There is a reason why Australia is synonymous to \u2018Far-far Away\u2019. After 2 \u00bd hours in a plane, we landed in Auckland, New Zealand for a few hours wait, then took a 10 \u00bd hours flight to Santiago, Chile where we have another 4 hour wait before we could hop on another 2 \u00bd hour flight to our first destination \u2013 Buenos Aires, Argentina.<\/p>\n

We were greeted by Carla, the travel representative, at the airport with a tourist bus. There was a new street race being prepared in the city and road blocks are already in place. As a result, our 28km journey from the airport will be stopped short several blocks from the hotel where we dragged our luggage in the back street of Buenos Aires \u2013 Welcome to your South American Adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Checking in at Forcadel Apartments, Tucuman St., Buenos Aires – Argentina.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

We have been on the road\/air for over 30 hours without much of a sleep but by the time we\u2019ve checked in to our hotel it\u2019s only the 31-March 07:00pm ART in Buenos Aires. A dinner for our group has been prepared by the hotel starting at 8:30pm. Some took the chance to freshen up \u2013 some used it to have a quick sneak out and check out the surrounding streets for some supplies like bottled water. For me, my first order was to login to a wi-fi and send an iMessage with a photo to our daughters.<\/p>\n

At dinner, we joked about Vivien R. having a great and extended birthday. She crossed 4 countries today and arrived still in time to celebrate her birthday. But with all the airline and airport food we had \u2013 and the 3 course meal that has just been served \u2013 we begged to forego with the birthday cake for another day. After dinner, we were all but buggered \u2013 jumped into bed and crashed. But by 4:00am Jeanne\u2019s playing music on her iPhone and I\u2019m here writing my first entry on my blog. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After almost a year since it was planned, we finally embarked in a journey we\u2019ve only learnt in the classroom of our Spanish classes in college. These are a series of blogs I’ve written on this special trip I was reluctant to go but very glad that Jeanne did not gave up on me. We travelled with a group of 20 to Buenos Aires and Iguazu – Argentina, Rio de Janiero – Brazil, Cusco and Puno – Peru, and finally La Paz – Bolivia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal-entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}