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Uruguay is not happening!
I am sorry to say that our trip to Uruguay is cancelled. We will try again in a few months. My fingers are crossed.
Uruguay on May 8!
We have our plane tickets! And, because we will be leaving at 8:05 in the morning, we have a room for the night before at a hotel next door to where we catch the bus for the airport so we can make it easily. We will get to Montevideo around 1:30 and then we have a room reserved at a place called Hotel California. Okay, I have to admit The Eagles influenced my choice. I just hope once we check in we can check out the next day - yikes. After that, we are playing it by ear. I hope we can visit all the beaches. It will be my first time seeing the Atlantic! Can't wait!
Next month: Montevideo, Uraguay!
Yes, that's right, next month I will (hopefully) go to Uraguay! I am so excited. I have wanted to visited the other countries in South America but somehow we never managed to go. Now that we are not buying property in Ecuador (the only lot I was interested in was not a winner with Jim: too low to the beach), we are free to travel. The local airlines offer super specials so in May we plan on going to Montevideo for 6 days and perhaps a few more days to explore the rest of the country. I asked my friend Jan to accompany us and she is thinking about it! How fun would that be? Super fun!
Searching for an US phone number
One of the problems of living outside the US is security at my US banks. They require a phone number but my cell number in Chile has one too many digits to fit into their forms (although they have international address forms, they lack international phone number forms). So last week I thought I had it solved, I purchased a phone number from Skype located in San Diego, CA, my home town. But, it didn't work. I tested it calling from Jim's cell but it was never forwarded to my cell, so I knew it didn't work. Three days ago I started trying to get someone at Skype to help me but all I got was a chat person who never answered. I had been on hold for three days! Today I had enough and decided to get a refund, but guess what, no refund button online! WTF? I had no choice but to go to my bank in San Diego and ask them to file a dispute with Visa. My bank is very responsive and got right on it, so I feel much better about it now that I know I won't get screwed. I felt so much
When Summer is over in Montanita, Ecuador
The weather is consistently warm, and the day after the earthquake people were still hanging out. And the next day was Monday and goodbye tourists! Such a beautiful place!