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Can You Go Home Again?

August 7, 2009
Can You Go Home Again? New York taxi drivers seem to have different answers to this question. For Vinod Dogra, the taxi astrologer from New Delhi who will “always be hyphenated,” and Ilyas Chaudary, the Pakistani cabbie itching to return to Gujrat to grow vegetables, the answer is a resounding yes. But Leslie Destine, who’s been in the U.S. for nearly

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Taxi Adventures in 2009

December 25, 2008
Thank you for visiting my blog! I’m currently traveling in rural northern California, where cabs are few and far between. I’ll be back in Buenos Aires to resume the taxi adventures in mid-January. In the meantime, happy holidays and happy eating!

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The Dark Side of the Adventure

September 23, 2008
Last week, a 21 year old English girl was raped and robbed by a taxi driver in the middle of the night. When the cabbie realized she didn’t speak Spanish and somehow intuited that she was carrying a large amount of cash, he drove to a deserted side street, threw a hood over her

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Taxi Adventures to be Continued…

May 30, 2008
Thanks for visiting my blog! I’m currently traveling in suburban southern California and will restart the Buenos Aires taxi adventures in July. I hope you have some fabulous food quests of your own in the meantime.

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Holy Week – A Metropolitan Pause

March 21, 2008
It’s Semana Santa, and Buenos Aires is throwing itself into holy week with characteristic gusto. Seafood shops have been mobbed for the past several days; empanadas de vigilia (seafood empanadas) are everywhere. Those with means have fled the city for the Atlantic coast (in the midst of roads blocked by protesting farmers and highway drivers

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