DS Guy in Uruguay

So a mere 11 hour flight from NY to Buenos Aires and a 35 minute flight to Montevideo and - pow! - you are there! That wasn't so hard, was it? Arrived yesterday leaving tmo. Montevideo is a small city that looks like it is on the ocean (can't see across) but it is technically the Rio Plata across from Argentina. It is the evil depths of winter here so tho it feels to me like a NY early spring day, the locals are all huddled up in the heavy layers of stuff.
At the top, we see a close up of a pic of 2 of the local guys I was meeting with and we are all drinking coffee - except this one guy was drinking matte in this cup with a silver rim and a long silver straw. I had thought that was rural indian stuff but here it was in corporate life too! The routine is this - the cup is full of this chopped herb and he has that red thermos of super hot water with which he keeps refilling the cup, Then suck it up!! Yow, that's local.

So, a great little city with great little dark restaurants - not unlike Argentina with that semi-Italian feel to it all. And the last shot is a plaza (Plaza Independencia) with lunch strollers and tons of street vendors. They have casinos too tho the Snake doesn't really bet. Sure things only please. Got some sound from all this too - will try to put something together. . . off to Argentina tomorrow.