Bussing to Rio Gallegos....40 Hours....

This is what you would look like too, if you made it on the bus! and made it off...

Have you ever driven through Yakima for 40 hours? Maybe in the twilight zone.....but definately in Argentina. So it all started with tickets in hand in a taxi ride to the bus station that should have taken 10 minutes, but rather it took 45minutes. Good thing we have learned to leave ourselves plenty of time. Friday night at the Buenos Aires bus station is...well....a complete nightmare. Pushing through people, we finally made it to the general docking area where hundreds of people were listening to three conflicting intercoms calling out dock numbers and destinations. All in Spanish of course. So there began a stressful hour of listening to every annoucement trying to find out which dock our bus would leave from. An hour after schedule, our bus finally arrived and we were the happiest people alive to get on and going.....and now the happiest people alive to be off!!!

This is the bu station in BA. This picture is generous!

The bus stopped in virtually every city and small town possible along the way to drop off and pick up passengers.....as we sat there....and slept there two nights. Thrilling. The prettiest part of the bus ride was the salt flats, the wildlife, and the nighttime sky, and the rest looked about like Yakima. Nothing to report. Don´t do it. Needless to say we saved ourselved quite a few pesos.

Pretty Rainbow though...

We made it Rio Gallegos this afternoon, thinking we might be able to catch another bus to Punta Arenas (4 hours) where we will hopefully station ourselves for a while. Unfortunatley the bus to Arenas was pulling out as we were driving in. We booked a hotel where we had a great conversation with the host there who is studying pysocology in B.A. We were very thankful for our lunch out today and now sitting at the internet cafe. More to come from Punta Arenas (hopefully more pics of scenery to share).

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