We showed up at Continental Cargo Terminal (122 Harborside Drive, East Boston) at around 8:15ish and showed them the air waybills we had from Buenos Aires. They charged us $35 per bike in some sort of processing fee, and gave us the actual air waybills with a sticker that we’d need to have customs sign off on our bike. Kicker is, customs in in South Boston. So we took a cab from the airport to 88 Black Falcon Drive, Suite 240 in South Boston - Customs and Border Security or something like…

Our swanky gay hotel included a breakfast buffet, but being Argentina, we were expecting a lame breadfast. We were quite pleased to find, when we went down to grab a quick meal, that it’s actually a huge spread, including many non-bread items - scrambled eggs, “bacon,” these weird sausage things, lunchmeat, fruit, cereal, yogurt and several types of bread. We enjoy our tasty non-breadfast, go back to the room, make sure we’ve got all the papers and I suit up.…

Most of the items we brought with us worked as expected. Some were outstanding and require special mention. Some items seriously disappointed us. Some items simply deserve some comments to help you when considering items for your next trip.