It May Happen?

Once again, when you talk to Customer Service it's all about when you call and who you talk to. Yesterday morning, Plotnik tried calling United Airlines Frequent Flier Information and was told "Thank You for calling United Air Lines. Current Wait Time is...Sixty Minutes."

When wait times are that long no one can take the time to work with you. So Plottie hung up and called back at 5pm and got someone who was willing to take nearly an hour to work the complicated United system to find flights that corresponded to the Plotniks' meager miles. If Air Canada and Continental agree, the agent might have just done that.

Fly into Lima and out of Buenos Aires. What happens in between is still a mystery. But Cousin Two has been to Argentina and Nguyen Michael Jackson Goldstein has been all through South America and maybe some of you have been there too? Plottie has been sending e-mails and can use any info he can get.

Better like beef. The Greats PD and 5-H traveled to Iguazu Falls the year that Plot, Duck and BZWZ went to Poland, and they report that a sample meal in Argentina is beef, beef and beef with a side of beef. 5-H ate a lot of cheese that trip.

Plot's first choice would still be Brazil, but that will come later. Right now The Great Ducknik wants to be in a Spanish-speaking environment and this will be true until they get to Argentina. In Argentina the Spanish they speak doesn't sound anything like the Spanish they speak in the rest of Latin America. The little Argentinian Spanish that Plotnik has heard sounds more like a combination of Spanish with Portuguese, that is the Portuguese they speak in Brazil, not the Portuguese they speak in Portugal, which actually sounds German, but not the German they speak in Germany but the German they speak in Paraguay, where German is apparently the third language, and probably it's Nazi-era German.

Go figure.

Argentina is said to be primarily Italian and Spanish. Go figure.

They say they don't use much chile in Chile. Go figure.

If the Plotniks actually go in February, it will be July there. Go figure.

Can't leave until after Brother Shmeckl's Birthday with the 0 on the end of it, and have to get back before Ira's wedding. We'll all just have to wait and see.