Jakey Jake

We were headed to Punta Del Este on the Uruguay coast. On the overnight bus we were pulled up at 4am because we didn’t have the stupid little pieces of paper saying we could leave Brazil …. Fools. We pulled into PDE at 7am and we looked for accommodation with AJ(another one) and Mark. We found a hotel about 6 blocks away which was to be home for 4 days. This place also had crappy beaches but it was pretty fun anyway. There wasn’t much to do except eat mcdonalds and go out at night. There was a little strip just near the marina where there were a bunch of bars next to each other. They weren’t clubs just a bunch of bars where you could chat, which was great. The first night out we ran into some Swedish guys that stayed in our hostel room in Foz. They were pretty kewl, but we had about 10 people and we wanted to go out clubbing. The club was MILES away but the cab meter was registering next to nothing. When we got there (over a funky bridge) the club was closed, so back to the bars we went. When we got back they pulled out a list and said that the charge was a LOT different to what was said on the meter. BASTARDS!!!! Still we had a good time. The next day adam and I hired scooters and cruised around the area. There were a lot of really nice places, we even saw a porsche that is really rare, the kind that james dean died in, lets just say they’re bloody expensive and rare as hens teeth. We hired mopeds and spent the day honing around punta del esta. We managed to clock the bikes a few times (100k’s was the speedos top speed), which doesn’t sound like much but if you got on one of these things and felt how bad their stopping ability or lack of brakes at all then you’d understand how much fun it was. Anyways we basically ran a muck running red lights, speeding past cops, cutting thru traffic and basically not really abiding by any road rules at all. Ahhhh being a gringo is sometimes fantastic. Since it was so expensive there we decided to head to the much famed Buenos Aires …. So we caught a bus to Montevideo and then a boat to BA The boat took 2 hours and the aircon was freezing cold. But we arrived by buquebus in the port of Buenos Aires