Damn, I`m getting to lazy to even update this thing anymore. I stayed in Buenos Aires till yesterday morning and forced myself out of town for the weekend by hopping a ferry over to Colonia, Uruguay. Colonia spent a hundred or so years acting as a thorn in the side of Spanish rule over the Southern Cone because, well, it was a renegade Porteguese dock where goods would be smuggled to so the Porteguese could have a foothold in Spain`s monopoly over that part of the new world. It`s got a ton of colonial architecture up and it`s all small and shit so I got done seeing most of it by late yesterday afternoon. This morning I slept through my damn alarm clock again and finally got on a bus for Montevideo, the Uruguayan capital, at 11:00. When I got to the center the place seemed dead and I thought it was because of the national holiday that my guidebook mentioned that so many places are closed but when I asked a storeclerk if that was the case he looked back at me with a puzzled face and said, "what national holiday?" Nah, it`s always like this on Sundays. So tomorrow is museum and walking around somemore day, then either tomorrow late or Tuesday early in the morning I take the 8 hour bus back to Buenos Aires in time for the Copa Libertadores huge ass soccer game between Boca Juniors from Buenos Aires and some team from Colombia. Boca`s gonna destroy them, poor Colombians. I`m set to fly south to Ushuaia at the bottom of Tierra del Fuego on the 23rd, that`ll have given me 10 days for Buenos Aires and Uruguay and not a second more. Buenos Aires is cool and all but personally it doesn`t have a thing on good old Santiago which I`ve come to realize is probably my favorite city in the world. I`ll be really happy to get back there, but in the meantime I`ll be traveling on the Southern Cone`s own version of the Gringo trail; the multitude of stops almost in a direct line between Ushuaia and Puerto Montt along the Chile/Argentine border. It`s gonna be tons of fun finally seeing places like Glaciers National Park and Bariloche and all those other places I`ve heard people talk about so much. Most of the places ought to be a lot cheaper too since I`ll be traveling so late in the year. let`s move.