From the other side of the world....

Dear Distant Traveler,

I hope we get the opportunity to come to the other side of the world together. In Buenos Aires, Argentina. We'll add that to our list, shall we?

This was a photo I took while walking through the San Telmo neighborhood. Going to other countries, you get such a rich view into how other people live.

Here, for the first time in a very long time, I have heard men whistling. People riding in elevators will suddenly start singing along unselfconsciously to the song being played. What other city has so many different places where a national DANCE is performed? Guys kiss each other on the cheek on the street.

Perhaps the word "unaffected" is the best word to describe the approach here. (If you're the person someone is pushing past, it can (at times) seem "pushy".)

I could write so much about what I saw in so few days (the blue economy where money is exchanged outside of banks; a political history that is still rich with deaths that are remembered within the last thirty years.)

It will be good to get home to your mother (and you!)  but it is always good to get a view of other places and remember both how luck we are -- and how there are ways of living a rich life that others are engaged in as well.

Ah, Dios.