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Arrived in Argentina safe and sound, thanks in part to the safety pin that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
resourceress clipped to my IWW shirt before we left the house yesterday morning.
Thankfully, the trip was not quite the thirty-one hour monstrosity that it was last time. Thanks to plentiful numbers of collaborators arriving on the same place, we decided to rent some taxis to take us from Mendoza to Malargue. This shaved about three hours off of the time it would have taken on a bus, so the trip was only a twenty-eight hour monstrosity.
For the record, this trip entails many parts:
#1) Taxi from home to O'Hare International Airport (0.5 hours)
#2) Flight from O'Hare to Miami International Airport (3.5 hours)
#3) Flight from Miami to Buenos Aires International Airport (9.5 hours)
#4) Bus from B.A. Int'l Airport to B.A. Domestic Airport (1.5 hours)
#5) Flight from B.A. Domestic Airport to Mendoza (2 hours)
#6) Ride in Taxi 250 miles from Mendoza airport to Malargue (5 hours)
OR
#6a) Take local taxi from Mendoza airport to Mendoza bus terminal (0.5 hours)
#7a) Take bus 250 miles from Mendoza to Malargue (6.5 hours)
This doesn't quite add up to 28 (or 31) hours, but that's because it doesn't account for all of the waiting time that inevitably takes place between consecutive steps.
The best part of the trip was finding out that my old friend, Kai Martens, has come down for the week. I had no idea -- he didn't mention it to people -- but I ran into him at the Mendoza airport. Kai was like an older brother to me when I was a young graduate student at SK, and it is always great to see him. He is not an Auger collaborator (yet?) but is here to talk about a competing experiment, the Japanese Telescope Array, and plans for using those resources in conjunction with Auger North.
Anyway, I'm here and I'm hungry and I'm tired. Meetings start at 9AM tomorrow, less than ten hours away. So it is time for a quick dinner, then sleep.
Zzzzzzzzz....
resourceress clipped to my IWW shirt before we left the house yesterday morning. Thankfully, the trip was not quite the thirty-one hour monstrosity that it was last time. Thanks to plentiful numbers of collaborators arriving on the same place, we decided to rent some taxis to take us from Mendoza to Malargue. This shaved about three hours off of the time it would have taken on a bus, so the trip was only a twenty-eight hour monstrosity.
For the record, this trip entails many parts:
#1) Taxi from home to O'Hare International Airport (0.5 hours)
#2) Flight from O'Hare to Miami International Airport (3.5 hours)
#3) Flight from Miami to Buenos Aires International Airport (9.5 hours)
#4) Bus from B.A. Int'l Airport to B.A. Domestic Airport (1.5 hours)
#5) Flight from B.A. Domestic Airport to Mendoza (2 hours)
#6) Ride in Taxi 250 miles from Mendoza airport to Malargue (5 hours)
OR
#6a) Take local taxi from Mendoza airport to Mendoza bus terminal (0.5 hours)
#7a) Take bus 250 miles from Mendoza to Malargue (6.5 hours)
This doesn't quite add up to 28 (or 31) hours, but that's because it doesn't account for all of the waiting time that inevitably takes place between consecutive steps.
The best part of the trip was finding out that my old friend, Kai Martens, has come down for the week. I had no idea -- he didn't mention it to people -- but I ran into him at the Mendoza airport. Kai was like an older brother to me when I was a young graduate student at SK, and it is always great to see him. He is not an Auger collaborator (yet?) but is here to talk about a competing experiment, the Japanese Telescope Array, and plans for using those resources in conjunction with Auger North.
Anyway, I'm here and I'm hungry and I'm tired. Meetings start at 9AM tomorrow, less than ten hours away. So it is time for a quick dinner, then sleep.
Zzzzzzzzz....
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