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all right we are living the city life here in Mara de Plata it is a little bit south
of Buenos Aires and it's a Beach town that all of the Buenos airesies go for the weekend
to let off some steam and go to the beautiful sun and the water the surfing here is amazing
also there's these other two cool things we found online actually we asked the AI last
night yeah yeah and the first idea was this Tower which I love that kind of thing you
know after I climbed that abandoned windmill I'm all about climbing a thing for a good
time so I think we're gonna check that out today as well as like a really nice art museum
called the mar yeah it's a contemporary art museum and that's going to be really fun to
check out here in Mar de Plata another thing that we're doing today is a little bit long-winded
so Dan has run out of spots in his passport I think we've mentioned it a couple times
but it has gone kind of out of hand after we were going in and out of Chile and Argentina
so many times luckily Argentina does not stamp your passport which has been a lifesaver because
he would have been done months ago if they did but we didn't realize that on the cruise
they were gonna stamp our passports for the Falkland Islands and South Georgia Island
so now Danny has two less spots and he only had like four spots to begin with the Bolivia
Visa is a sticker so we were planning on taking the sticker out so that he had four extra
legit spots but we're both feeling kind of uneasy about that so Danny made an appointment
with the embassy we're hoping that Danny can get an emergency passport he's going to be
able to do that in Buenos Aires the emergency passport should not take as long for them
to make it should be less time than a regular renewal that's what we would ask for normally
if we were in the U.S we would ask for a renewal if you run out of spots in your passport we're
just really really hoping that this emergency passport only takes a couple days to get back
we did meet a friend who did get an emergency passport and she was able to get it back like
super fast but they also answered all of her emails whenever she emailed them and we have
not had that type of luck and that was in Chile yeah that was in Chile yeah well I guess
there must be some right way to email an embassy because I think she's even got a reply from
the Buenos Aires Embassy I tried sending them an email saying you know I need to know like
what my options are they didn't reply then I tried saying I need a emergency passport
and this is why and they didn't reply I tried to send another just saying emergency passport
requests just trying to keep it to a minimum and they didn't reply so I guess she got lucky
I tried it in English I tried it in Spanish yeah I got an appointment we've been waiting
like a month so that's why we've been taking our time if we can get it quick then we'll
probably head up to a few other countries before we ship back to the States yeah and
if it takes them a while then maybe we'll explore uh Cordova a little more of Argentina
come back pick it up and then go do those countries before we ship back but it all depends
on yeah you got to be comfortable with a bit of uncertainty yeah the style of travel so
yeah it has been a lot of uncertainty the last couple of months and I'm kind of excited
to go to go back to the US to visit my friends and family and the uncertainty of this passport
situation has made me kind of upset because I want to go back and I want to tell people
when I'm coming back but like we can't tell people oh we're gonna be back at this time
and then oh we're still in Argentina and we still haven't gone to Paraguay Uruguay or
Brazil Danny just got a transport back so that's been a little weird I'm just really
hoping that we make it back for a couple of big things that my family tosses but on the
bright side like I think this month we spent less money than any month ever yeah we spent
I think it was 1 100 over an entire month you know and last month was like a free Antarctica
trip but we still spent more money and just tips for yeah the crew the tips were kind
of expensive but but it was like totally worth it but oh for sure it's really nice to not
be spending much money living out here exploring new places and like Emily said we've been
getting a lot of work done I'm super motivated right now my apps and trying to come up with
my next big thing and if you guys have any app ideas for Danny send me his way
make something new AI stuff coming out the chat GPT GPT 4 API Danny has been obsessed
with Chad gbt he's doing non-stop on chat gbt it's nice for a program and I can be like
I'm trying to write something that does this boom there it is you know and of course it
has problems sometimes but it's uh really interesting new technology we were talking
to them question mark last night asking what we should do in Marta Plato So I guess we'll
head into town here
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hey oh check it out oh look at that handsome devil yeah I mean in and out like 900 pesos
900 pesos that's like three dollars five minutes yeah as a genius wow that is so cheap so fast
and even somebody to love someone yeah just a nice old man he said that business for five
years he said he had like a 4.8 star on Google Maps I thought try it out it's nice to close
and just turn it out at first I said oh I need passport photos and he was like which
but I think he just met like which passport because like as I said us and he was like
oh they need to be five by five and I looked it up on my phone anyway like it has to be
um you know five centimeters by five centimeters or like two point something inches by 2.7
inches yeah and then your face has to be like 50 of the image at least and you can't have
sunglasses glasses or a hat so yeah and I think and for us we can smile whereas other
places we I think they can't smile so wow but I mean this picture is pretty good but
it's kind of funny uh considering this is my last passport oh my gosh these aren't the
same people I love your passport photo babe but I am a little bit excited for people not
to question us every time we go through a border is this really you
alrighty let's head over to the Tour de Tanki that that chat gbt suggested we go to
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[Music] well that was nice get these yeah that's a water tower it's from 1943 it's about
80 meters tall whatever that is and uh it's still used to supply the water no way wow
it's pretty sweet going up there for free yeah
how are you come here
chica so go to Center that we haven't brought you guys along in for a while because we haven't
been sending too much money but we're going to head to a Western Union and this is a perfect
time to tell you guys the inflation of the since the first time we've done Western Union
look at this you though this is so good first time we went to go and get money out at Western
Union our price per dollar was 303 pesos and today the price per dollar is 399 pesos yeah
over the last six months when we first entered that's a 33 inflation increase that's insane
I mean it's just so crazy to me that people can afford to work you're not getting a 30.
who's ever heard of a 30 raise so we I did talk to our friends about it and they said
that they get paid not in dollars but at the dollar so they get still good wages with that
but they're also working for a U.S company so I don't know how people in Argentina do
it honestly I feel really bad to see the inflation go up so much only in six months so we gotta
have 500 here but our friends did mention too that the inflation right now is actually
artificially lower because there's an election coming up so because they want to get reelected
they're trying to that down a bit right now so now super Senate is kind of lower than
it would be normally another really funny thing about Argentina is that the entire time
we've been here so yeah like the last six months there has not been one U.S fast food
place like not one Papa John's Burger King Taco Bell McDonald's nothing and it was kind
of refreshing because you know like it's not like we want to eat it at those places and
also it's like nice to see that the US hasn't taken over every corner of the world with
their Starbucks and everything but um but here in Marlo Plata it's the first time we
actually did see a U.S fast food place we've seen a Burger King and McDonald's all right
I'll see you see ya have a good time
all right well while Danny goes off to the skate park I'm going to hang out here take
the doggy on a walk and Marta Plata is very very hard to park around so Danny had to take
the bike like about a mile away to get to the skate park which isn't bad I'm glad that
we're kind of in a more relaxed area anyways so that somebody then I can go for a nice
walk and since the mar art museum opens at four we're gonna head over there after this
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so here in Marla Plata we have a friend she came down from California down to ushwaya
and she's also heading up but not going to the U.S she's going to travel around South
America a bunch more yeah she sleeps in a SUV but honestly the bed is bigger than our
bed that's so funny yeah it looks comfy but she's got a really great dog pistachio and
he gets along really well with sombrita so it's nice hanging out with her um last night
we had a fire fun whoa exciting times so instead of talking about what broke this week we're
going to talk about what broke a long time ago and we're gonna go get it fixed they're
called bump stops for some reason our bumps stop one of them we just looked under the
van and it just wasn't there anymore so that was super weird Danny got new bump stops shipped
down to us that was the stuff that took a really long time to get down there and it
was kind of frustrating to get it but we've got it and now we're gonna finally install
it here in marja Plata [Music] so this side we have it still yeah he's got to take off
the base of it so it's kind of like attached up in there and he seems to really know how
to take it off well [Music]
yeah we got something done on the van today
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the van is less it's less Tippy by far honestly no big don't you realize we've been missing
that bump stop for four months and the van has been rolling around which could eventually
contribute to problems in the shocks and other things and other suspension problems but the
thing about it is there were Oh Google's trying to send me the wrong way in a one way I didn't
want the van to be up higher after putting these things in and you were able to kind
of decide how tall it should be and the way we had to put it it did raise the van up just
a tiny little bit and you know so now it's resting on this permanently but it's really
squishy really high quality stuff and it doesn't seem like uh it'll be too tall to fit in a
container after this there's other parts I want like the engine mounts and stuff we're
kind of worried about but I think it can wait so it's nice we got one more little upgrade
in the van before heading back to the States well when it comes to price the cost to put
that on it probably took him what are you think an hour I think it just took him in
under an hour and he charged me 8 000 pesos which hit today's rate 20 bucks twenty dollars
to put that on heard about that because I met this other guy uh when we were going back
to the van from the skate park and there was a guy there looking at the van and it turned
out he had the same van you know the the version they sell down here though and he was converting
it and uh ended up allowing me to shower at his place was really nice but I asked him
do you know any good mechanics like last question I was like oh I might as well ask about Organics
over suspension related is that this is the best suspension guy in Mar del Plata and maybe
if you're watching this and you got a similar van you're wondering how much that spare part
costs well if you get the stock ones they could be like about 160 dollars for those
bump stops these Sumo spring upgrade is about 330 dollars and then to get it down here for
us added another 150 dollars with taxes and shipping now we're gonna head out of Mardel
Plata but before we leave there are some homies we have to say goodbye to
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