Buenos Aires, "Good Airs"

I had a 3 day layover in NYC between Indonesia and South America, where I checked on my old travel partner Reza. He was, of course, on his phone.

After a couple days of R&R in NYC, I continued on to Buenos Aires to meet up with the one and only Arsalan "You're Awesome" Derakhshan. We coordinated to meet up at the Buenos Aires airport when we landed (different flights) but then realized we were flying into different airports. I cabbed to Milhouse Hostel and waited for him. (Side note: if you want a nice, quiet place to set up as your base in Buenos Aires, Milhouse is not it. If you want a place that will suck you into a bubble from the outside world where you go out all night and wake up at 6pm over and over, Milhouse will be your Mecca. After 6 days, we saw a chance to escape and we took it, booking a quaint airbnb in Palermo with no parties or cool people to distract us from our tourism.)

We checked into our room and met our roommates. A couple people you should meet:

Man-bun Series: Over the next 10 days in Buenos Aires, Taco became a good friend. We made fun of him for being the shortest Dutch guy we'd met on this trip (he's 6'2").

Man-bun Series: Ataif won our admiration for 2 reasons: his deep dish t-shirts, and the fact that for 4 days in a row, he was supposed to check out that day, and for 4 nights in a row, he extended his check out by 1 day when he got back from the clu… — Man-bun Series: Ataif won our admiration for 2 reasons: his deep dish t-shirts, and the fact that for 4 days in a row, he was supposed to check out that day, and for 4 nights in a row, he extended his check out by 1 day when he got back from the club at 6am. It was because of him that we finally realized we had to get out of Milhouse Hostel.

We walked around our immediate neighborhood (downtown) and then returned to our hostel to prepare for the night's festivities. Here are the highlights from our time in Buenos Aires.