Let's Get Started!

I failed you, loyal readers... I said I would have a vlog of the beginning of the trip, but I didnt get it done in real time; however, I kept a journal along the way... & planned on faking a vlog early on in the trip, but later decided against it...

Dont despair though... there are vlogs to come....in real time...

I'll start with a few highlights of the journey from Nashville to the Southern Hemisphere though:

• Forgot I had my cell phone in my pocket & got a full pat down right off the bat in the Nashville airport...dumb move, but I really had nothing to hide....


• Neat seeing the Nashville airport as it goes through renovation... it's looking much better


• Get on the plane to Miami... Janet Reno was sitting in First Class (Clinton Admin AG)


• Get to Miami for a several hour layover... That airport BLOWS.... at least the part we were in... I'll eventually come full circle with this on the way home to the US


• Get on the plane to Buenos Aires (BsAs from here on) & it was huge. Thanks to http://www.seatguru.com/, I picked out a seat with a laptop power port which allowed us to watch a movie on my computer (MeanGirls). I wasnt in the mood for the inflight entertainment.


• It was soooo hard to sleep even though it was over an 8 hour flight... there was quite a bit of turbulence over the Andes Mountains .... not to mention a crying toddler a few rows back


• If turbulence & a crying toddler werent enough, two Spanish speaking men several rows ahead got in a very heated argument that almost came to physical blows (requiring 5 flight attendants attention)... I couldnt understand, but Hal said one ended up saying something about the other's mama... (these were full grown men, mind you)... It was kinda funny.... although I would've been pissed if we had been diverted had they actually come to a physical fight

P.S... the photo wasnt taken on our first day, but I wanted to post something :)