"Does anyone else smell something burning?"

So I locked my bedroom door for the next 3.5 months and headed off to La Guardia today. Got hit with a ridiculous bill for 2 check in bags :-( I miss the good old days when check in luggage was free. In Houston now for my flight to Buenos Aires. There was this obnoxious little blond girl with a thick Texan accent a row behind me who just would not stop talking to everyone the whole flight! Even better, as we were taxiing to the runway, she says out loud "Does anyone else smell something burning?" As soon as I heard that I thought it was an instant ticket back to the gate for a extra trip through security for the whole plane. She didn't talk to me the during the flight except to ask me who that Texas windmill guy was (T. Boone Pickens thank you very much). So I've got 2 more hours until my plane to BA takes off...plotting how can I take revenge on Continental Airlines for their bag fees.

Ready to go!

After months of planning I am finally ready to go. I fly out of New York City tomorrow bound for Buenos Aires. I'll spend 4 days there making final arrangements and visiting my family. From Buenos Aires I fly on to Ushuaia, the Southern most city in the world, to start my journey across Argentina by bike. The plan is to bike to a city called Jujuy, which is near the Bolivian boarder. From there I'll tour the rest of the country until August 18