"Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'" Quote from Morgan Freeman's character, Red, in The Shawshank Redemption. Great movie! And that's about what it's come to here in Montevideo. After a brief injection of life from a fun group of backpackers that came through a week or so ago, it got really slow again...almost dead. And if I want to see other parts of Uruguay, I have to get moving. So I'm going to "get busy livin'". This pretty much wraps up my 5 week stint in M...

Thanksgiving? How did that arrive so fast? I needed to read a post on a friend's web sight to even realize today is the day. They don't exactly have that down here and today was like any other. For the record, however, I ate chicken milanesa and mashed potatoes for dinner. I should have gone to the Subway restaurant I recently discovered and had a turkey sandwich. But the inherent danger with that is in true Thanksgiving tradition, I would have fallen immediately...

Finally... a long overdue update. I can't post photos though ... some jackass stole my camera in Buenos Aires and I'm waiting for the replacement to arrive from the US. I bought the exact same model I had before on E-Bay...they're getting quite cheap, which is nice! So I left Buenos Aires a while back to come to Montevideo, Uruguay...a country I think nobody knows anything about. If you imagine Uruguay to be a poor, dirty, run down, backwards kind of place, you'...