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What was the dumbest thing you ever did while traveling?

Did not book a sleeper carriage on an over-night train from Paris to Munich.

  • From Massachusetts, United States
  • Currently in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Don't Cry for Me, Argentina!

This is the real world and reality bites. In this economy the modern woman, finding herself unemployed and with no savings left, is lucky to have her mother’s sofa to sleep on, her neighbors’ dogs to sit for to earn grocery money and friends to buy her drinks! So when everything you’ve worked for, and everything you thought you wanted, is pulled out from under you, where do you go? To Buenos Aires of course!

It’s fun and excitement and it’s the kind of adventure that can only happen when you give up what you thought was expected and embrace the unexpected!

Plastic or Aluminun?

Argentina Buenos Aires, Argentina  |  Jul 19, 2010
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 ...I have the daunting choice of microwaving plastic or using the aluminum pots on the stovetop. 

July 19, 2010:  This being a furnished apartment I was provided with limited cooking utensils and accessories, among them, a plastic measuring cup, a couple of aluminum pots and an aluminum tea kettle.  We’ve all received the chain e-mails warning us not to heat plastic in microwaves, thereby rendering most microwaveable containers carcinogenic.  We’ve also heard since about 1979 that it is not safe to use aluminum cookware as the metal leeches cancer causing toxins.  So, as I boil water for coffee or tea, I have the daunting choice of microwaving plastic or using the aluminum pots on the stovetop.  Either way, I guess I’m screwed.  I’m going for the convenience of microwaving plastic-it’s faster!
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