I left for Buenos Aires right after the night of the blackout. After 3 months in Montevideo, I was longing for a big city, I needed to work there for a bit and ofcourse I had to pick up one of my best friend's from college, Jack, who decided to spend his only vacation in a year with me, here in the South Cone.
The trip with the cheap Buquebus was as painful as usual, but I arrived in Corina's house in one piece, woke her up and took her out to breakfast at our favorite little cafe in Boedo, Cafe Margot! Later that day, we participated in a protest, together with 50 thousand argentines who are asking for the release of a political prisoner, then a quick nap, and went out. Weekend passed by pretty fast and early monday morning I took a bus to the airport to get my dearest friend from the airport. It was a stressfull trip, it took me 2 hours to get there, but luckily as I entered the terminal, Jack was recently getting out of the customs, his face said: I need to smoke a cigarrette desperately!
We spend a couple of days in Buenos Aires, very casual days let's say. Jack is the kind of visitor that I dream of having, he is not the usual tourist, he enjoys just hanging out as if he lives there the whole time.
We took the morning Buquebus back to Montevideo: I recommend that trip during sunny summer days: boat has a deck, where everybody lays down and sun bathes, smokes, drinks, it was awesome! Jack loves smoking and he is good at it (approximately 2 packs a day!), he was so happy that we had the possibility of travelling without limitations!
He liked Montevideo, even more than Buenos Aires, he said, I guess because it is more of an easygoing city for people who like to relax during their vacations. Our days in Montevideo were usually quiet: I left for work early in the morning, he stayed home and read and rested. There were a couple of parties, like Herb's Thanksgiving event, we went there with Titi and of course my beau du moment, Juan (a.k.a. the hot owner of the restaurant) and we celebrated my 1st year at the cupula with an Asado at the roof of my building.
We decided over night to go to the coast of Uruguay, to my favorite balneario, La Pedrera, and took the first bus there one morning. We woke up and we were there. It was so empty and beautiful. I remembered last summer, and thought thank god so much has changed since then. I was grateful for all that led me to the present. I was full of hope with this new summer to begin with and it felt so good to have it all to my self, I did not have to share it with no one except Jack. I fell in love with the place even more during its off season, even though there was so little to do there, with Jack we managed to entertain ourselves, watching frogs, observing the preparations for the season, swiming in the cold water (he did not, I did) and talking (he did not, I did!)
Unfortunately I could not stay there as much as Jack, and left for Montevideo to prepare myself for the most important interview of 2006 (I managed to get an interview from Eduardo Galeano, it is worth writing about it in a seperate entry!)
After a day or two in Montevideo, we packed again for Buenos Aires. He was leaving and Orhan Abi was arriving for the season! We spend his last days partying and discovering the city a bit more, and high times were soon over. Saying good bye was really hard, even though I did not want to admit to my self, I was getting used to having a great friend with me, here in this foreign land. I had to walk away from his warm hug fast as I can, and he did the same thing. High times were over, three weeks passed by so fast. What they say is true, time goes by so fast when you are having fun!
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