On this grey and rainy day we finished up our 4 month stay in the city of Tango.
It’s been such a wonderful time as we met a few new friends, discovered many new restaurants and most of all danced a lot of tango!!!
So now we sit at the airport lounge, drink DV Catana Malbec, and wait for our flight to Miami.
We went to the security checkpoint pretty easily, but at immigrations we encountered an interesting situation.
Years ago, I applied for and received a temporary DNI in Argentina… and have used this to exit and enter the country. But this time, they discovered that my DNI had expired. So I had to pay the fine for overstaying my time here in Argentina.
This year, we neglected to go to Uruguay after 90 days of living in Buenos Aires, because I totally forgot that my DNI expired . I didn’t realize that we had to leave the country.
So at immigration I had to pay the fine of 12,000 pesos or $ 12 US.
OMG, it is cheaper to pay the fine than to pay the ferry fare to Uruguay, not only because you paying about $ 150 US dollars round trip and losing a day in your life in the ferry boats.
Makes an interesting dilemma.
But upon my return, I will renew my DNI.
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Published by Ruth Offen
I chose tango as my dance because I love the lifestyle, embrace, and, yes, dressing up.
In my tango series, I share images shot worldwide, in the places where I have danced: Spain, France, Germany Turkey,Canada,Italy Greece, and the USA, but mostly in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
With my written stories, I try to share some of the experiences that have stayed with me... An amazing embrace, a beautiful meal, a slightly uncomfortable life moment at a stay a train station or airport. These are the moments we remember.
As to my personal info, I was born in New Jersey eventually, after living in New York, Boston, and San Francisco, most recently on San Juan Island in Washington state, I moved to Buenos Aires in January 2020.
For 38 years, years I curated a contemporary art gallery, where I refined my skills and became a visual editor.
Always with a camera or some picture-capturing device in tow [including much heavy equipment], I started my travel at approximately the same time, was introduced to tango about 12 years ago.
VIsual storytelling begins with a moment. Some internal mechanism is triggered by a scene or event or movement and ...there's your photo.
Other times, it’s about a sliver of color or something else odd or ordinary that captures the eye.
As I am now fluent in Spanish, it is my desire that my stories and photos reach the broader tango community and other travelers.
Travelingtango offers translations into Spanish, Italian, and German.
Abrazo!!!
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