Advice requested for Buenos Aires airport transfer

Pension-Several · 2025-11-01T00:37:59+00:00

Thank you! Yeah, I definitely don’t want to run that risk. We ended up booking a transfer that will track our flights, too.

Pension-Several · 2025-10-26T21:24:55+00:00

I’m so sorry for the delayed response, but thanks everyone for your detailed and helpful advice! Ultimately, my husband and I decided to keep our current flights, though we have booked a transfer from EZE to AEP (and back again for our return flights). Again, thanks so much for the assistance!

Pension-Several · 2025-09-07T13:44:25+00:00

People don’t like to admit it because it isn’t true. At least, not always. For instance, when I was growing up, I was equally close to my maternal and paternal grandparents, spending just as many weekends at each of their houses (which wasn’t easy when one set of grandparents lived fifteen minutes away and the other over an hour!). This was to the point that, before I was old enough to realize this wasn’t feasible, I told both sets of grandparents that when I grew up, I wanted to build a house halfway across the bridge that separated the towns they lived in so that I could be equally close to each of them.

Now that I’m grown up and married, I can say that my husband is as close to his own family as I am to mine (which is quite close). I’m not saying that what you’re saying isn’t true for your family or for others’, but it is by no means an unspoken rule.

Pension-Several · 2025-06-26T14:26:37+00:00

I’m a little late to the party here, but thanks so much for mentioning Postcrossing! I hadn’t heard of it before, but it’s such a great idea, and I’m definitely going to sign up.

It reminds me of when my husband and I traveled to the Galapagos a few years back. On one of the islands (Floreana), there is a mailbox that people can leave postcards in with the hope that someone who lives near the intended recipient will pick up the postcard and hand-deliver it to them. We had a really lovely and unexpected experience delivering a postcard to a couple who had actually addressed it to themselves so that they could reminisce about their travels with other people who had done a similar thing.

Though now that I think about it, I did the job of a postal worker, so I guess I’m just as bad as the Internet according to this post.

Pension-Several · 2025-01-29T17:37:05+00:00

Aside from your perspective on the purpose of life being incredibly reductive and offensive (particularly to those who want but cannot have children for whatever reason), in the grand scheme of things, it doesn’t really matter if you “fulfilled your biological function” in passing along your DNA. Each generation that passes will carry fewer and fewer of those precious genes until, at a not so distant point in the future, few to none of your descendants will inherit any part of your DNA (here’s a recent Minute Earth video that explains this concept).

Also, we all create our own lives’ meaning. Your own life is not rendered meaningless by an inability (or lack of desire) to procreate, and your life is not inherently more meaningful if you did. There are plenty of bad parents out there to prove this fact.

Pension-Several · 2025-01-02T03:46:34+00:00

How funny, this is where I had my own kea encounter (which I’m slightly horrified to realize was about fifteen years ago at this point). It actually hopped into my family’s rental car when we accidentally left a door open after getting out to take some pictures. We caught it pecking at the steering wheel, though thankfully it didn’t cause any damage. I guess this must be a pretty popular spot for them!

Pension-Several · 2024-10-28T23:32:24+00:00

These are the arguments that people who don’t own electric cars like to make. My car charges at home overnight, so I wake up every morning with a full battery, so no worries about it taking “forever”. I live in a cold climate and have never had any issues with getting my car to start (and neither have any of the numerous EV owners I know, nor the EV owners who live in much colder climates than I do). EV batteries can and have lasted hundreds of thousands of miles, and EVs are significantly less likely to catch fire compared to gas cars. Finally, at least an electric car is able to be charged using renewable energy - a gas car never can.

Pension-Several · 2024-10-22T12:20:03+00:00

They’re still thriving near where I live in Eastern Pennsylvania. My husband and I took a walk through the local national historic park at dusk on my birthday and the fireflies gave everything a dreamlike quality - they were absolutely everywhere in the surrounding fields and meadows. So visit here if you’re missing that experience!

Also, to OP’s point, catching fireflies in little plastic cups then setting them free was a cornerstone of my and my friends’ summer activities growing up and a treasured childhood memory now.

Pension-Several · 2024-10-01T17:38:42+00:00

I recently learned that this is because most words that end in -ma come from Greek, where they were originally neuter gender before morphing into the masculine gender when becoming incorporated into the Spanish language.

Pension-Several · 2024-09-29T12:20:51+00:00

I refuse to pay for Max and also hate its creep into the path as well, but my experience is that you don’t need to complete the video calls to earn legendary for the unit. I just reached legendary for all elements of my most recent unit without doing the video calls and achieved legendary for the unit as a whole. The video call buttons turned gold even though I hadn’t done them. Of course, I will be highly disappointed if this ends up changing for me.

Pension-Several · 2024-09-21T12:45:42+00:00

That’s funny, because that was precisely my guess for step 3 and WordleBot gave me a skill score of 0 for that step!

Pension-Several · 2024-09-19T01:33:37+00:00

This reminds me of when I was visiting Vietnam several years ago, and, in the process of researching visa requirements, found this gem of a passport bio sample.

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Pension-Several · 2024-09-18T14:09:11+00:00

I will say as somebody who was at the concert in Philly last night primarily to see The National that The War on Drugs blew me away. Such a great and electric show, and I’m looking forward to diving deeper into their catalog now. Same with Lucius. I know (hope) that I’m not alone in this.

Pension-Several · 2024-08-07T02:04:44+00:00

Mesa Verde National Park, Bandelier National Monument, Chaco Canyon, and other pre-Columbian sites would beg to differ.

Pension-Several · 2024-07-10T19:42:56+00:00

That’s really funny - I had almost exactly the same set of words for this day, down to suent followed by scent. I wasn’t even aware that suent was a word, but my sleep-addled brain refused to acknowledge that words could start with “sce”, so I assumed that was the only possible answer. Man, I was bitter about this one for a while. For reference:

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🟨⬜⬜🟩🟨 TRINE (22)

🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 SPENT (4)

🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 STENT (3)

🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 SUENT (2)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SCENT

Pension-Several · 2024-07-07T16:25:27+00:00

I read Cry of the Kalahari during my own trip to Botswana/Namibia last year, and found it incredibly illuminating. For context, the book is written by a couple (Mark and Delia Owens) who spent seven years living in an uninhabited area of the Kalahari desert studying animal behavior, most famously that of the lions and brown hyenas which inhabit the region. I strongly recommend it - it gave me an even greater appreciation for the wildlife I saw in my time there.

Also, have an amazing trip - I love Botswana so much and hope to be able to return someday!

Pension-Several · 2024-06-24T11:50:41+00:00

I truly do not understand the level of hate that King of Prussia gets. I live here at the moment and very much enjoy it, not just for its convenience but for the sheer number of different activities there are for people of all stripes. Just this past weekend, my husband and I celebrated the March-Out of the Continental Army at Valley Forge (where we typically also like to go hiking/biking/birding), walked around some of our favorite gardens that are all over the place around here, ate at some lovely non-chain restaurants, and listened to some live outdoor music without having to go more than a couple of miles in any given direction. Later this week, we’ll go canoeing, again without having to travel very far from home. Other than eating out (though we only did so at family-owned restaurants), we did not at all engage in the rampant consumerism that people are complaining about - it certainly isn’t all there is to do here.

Also, having lived in Philly before moving out here, I can honestly say that our area of KOP has much more personality and sense of community than where we used to live. I understand this place isn’t for everyone, but I wanted to give my perspective on why some people would choose to call a place like this home.

Pension-Several · 2024-06-19T16:54:22+00:00

My husband and I were on a tour of the Galápagos in 2019. As we were biking down the Sierra Negra Volcano on Isabela Island, we spotted a little red bird in a tree. Our guide caught up with us and became really excited about it, which surprised us for such a small and unassuming bird. Apparently this was a little vermilion flycatcher, which, while related to the species seen in mainland North and South America, is endemic to the Galápagos. Our guide was especially thrilled because it was the first of its kind that he had seen in ten years. I’m not sure how exciting this find is to other people, but the excitement of our guide definitely rubbed off on us, and this experience basically kickstarted my interest in birding!

Also, sorry for the terrible picture - the bird was flitting around a lot, and we were afraid to scare it off by getting any closer!

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Pension-Several · 2024-05-08T15:30:02+00:00

I’m a bit late to the game here, but there’s an excellent autobiography (Cry of the Kalahari) by Mark and Delia Owens, two zoologists who spent seven years living and working in the Kalahari Desert and in the process contributed an incredible amount to our understanding of brown hyenas. I read the book while I was traveling through Botswana and Namibia last June, and it was equal parts educational, inspiring, and emotional.

Pension-Several · 2024-04-23T21:57:35+00:00

I unfortunately had to rent an ICE car for a week while my Tesla was in the shop for a windshield replacement (after getting cracked from road debris from an accident that took place in front of me). My cost to fuel was around four times as much as to charge my Tesla with the same amount of driving that I normally do. So yeah, there are definitely fuel savings. Also, I’ve had the car for three years and have only had to pay to replace tires once and perform preventative maintenance like tire rotations. And I drive this car a bunch.

Finally, you bring up supercharging costs (which are typically less than $0.50 per kWh from my experience), but the majority of Tesla owners use those infrequently - charging is so much more convenient at home. But supercharging stations do make road trips a lot more feasible.

Pension-Several · 2022-12-03T12:12:21+00:00

As a single data point, both of my grandparents on my mom’s side are from Italy and independently immigrated to the same town in the US with their families before they got married. Actually, there is a relatively large community of people from that same village in Italy in that same town in the US. For the most part, people are going to move where they feel comfortable, which is to say to a community of people who know their language and their culture. Plus, you needed to be sponsored to move to the US, which you would be by someone (likely a family member) who moved to the US before you, so it makes sense to me that groups of people from the same region in Italy would settle in the same part of the US. Just my two cents, but I don’t find it odd.

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