My Argentina Budget
by Danny-Danny

• $35.10: roundtrip ticket on Evil Airlines from San Diego to Buenos Aires(!), resulting from the Shameless Mileage Run detailed in the previous post.
  
• $0.00: travel insurance, because I'm not a Responsible Person
  
• $6.25: wine in HPDE nalgene bottles, for, uhhh, airports (Concha y Toro Frontera Merlot)
  
• ~$25 lunch, with beer, in San Diego, since Evil Airlines won't be feeding us for many hours, and the food at DFW, inarguably the Worst Airport In America, is about as good as the main beer in airports these days: Spam Adams, and Spam sLight, (I tried to deduce a direct link to their page for sLight, but their Flash webpage is as disgusting as their beer, and makes it impossible) allegedly the best tasting light beer in America (which is, really, a bit like a determination of "The Best Tasting Raw Sewage In America"). But I digress: since Spam Adams has sort of taken over the airport beer world, good beer is almost impossible to find in most airports, and DFW, the showcase airport for Big Shitty Chain Restaurants that it is, of course, is no exception.
  
• <$1: transport to the SAN airport (gas for Petunia!):
  
• $0.00: food at DFW, since it's all inedible.
  
• $5.00: approximate cost of peanuts and Clif Bars for the approximately 12 hour flight from Dallas to Buenos Aires, since Evil Airlines will surely screw me ont he non-dairy vegetarian meal I just requested.
  
• $7.00: return flight food, since it's less predictable what vegan food will cost in Argentina to come back.
  
• $100: eleven nights of lodging in and around Buenos Aires, and Montevideo. The Good Senator seems to think it'll be cheapest in a hostel, but since hostels have never yet been cheaper for two people anywhere else I've ever gone, I suspect we'll be looking for cheap hotels. I LOVES me some local wildlife in my room!
  
• $100: approximate food budget. Yeah, we're gonna eat well, but since restaurants in Latin america seem to think vegetarian shouldn't include any protein besdies beans, it doesn't cost too much.
  
• $150: miscellaneous expenses, including transportation and border "taxes" between Argentina and Uruguay, and the ~$28 exit tax from Argentina, which makes me want to cry for them.