Hotel Patagonia Rio Gallegos

... with him in Brazil. Told him I would need pictures before I commit, but what a nice gesture, I offered a couple of cigarettes in return for good measure.

Kat was pretty ****** that I had a couple more cocktails, as we had to run couple miles to the bus station at 2:30 AM in freezing temps to get there in time...but I thought it was worth it. She was just jealous.

Got on the bus ...

Not very many things run on time...buses included. So my overnight bus coming in was late, so I missed my bus going out. So I spent the day in Rio Gallegos, not a very exciting town as a tourist, but a nice place with fast internet and an interesting ...

So on the morning of the 14th, I hit the road out of Ushuaia. The skies are cloudy with intermittent sun, but not as cold as it had been. I hit serious fog riding through the mountains that line the southern coast, and then back onto the Patagonian steppe. Then it got me, at last - the wind. It started out as a brisk crosswind out of the west (of course). Then it got briskier. Soon it was the briskest freaking wind I can ever remember. Tolhuin is the ...

January 23rd. As we left Comodor this morning the winds began to howl off of the Atlantic Ocean, the temperature dropping noticeably. We had a cold, hard ride with occasional rain fall as the legendary winds of Patagonia blow us around. The Guanaco´s and sheep staring at us from their pasture, pink flamingos picking away for food in shallow ponds.We arrive in Rio Gallegos late in the evening and both of us are ...

... yes. Great, but I don't have tickets and the ticket counter is closed! I told him I don't have tickets, the just took my backpack, and threw it into the luggage storage space, and asked me to board and pay for my tickets on board. That's good news to me, although I believe he pocketed the AR$30 for himself. The bus journey was smooth, as the weather sort of cleared up, and I arrived at El Calafate at 8.30pm.

... only for the day!). Promise to post some photos tomorrow - will head to my other brother in law´s shop to use his fast internet connection tomorrow afternoon (afternoon because he owns the local night club which has just opened its doors and doesn´t close till 6am!!). We pan to go next weekend, once Belle has a better sleeping pattern and I have once again rediscovered the lost art of sleeping the siesta - alive and well here in Patagonia! Love to all, Nissa

We are still in recovery mode after the trek of pain, conditions are improving though and we were only going to be sitting on the bus putting our feet up for hours and hours and hours....... On our last day in Puerto Natales waiting for a bus out we decided to try to be like true blue travel on a shoestring backpackers and carry our own snacks and attempt to cook in the utensil-less land of communal hostel kitchens. We cooked roast vegetables. Also, i´m now the proud ...

Day 194: February 25, 2008 Puerto San Julián to Río Gallegos After a good breakfast, we checked out of the hotel, gassed up, and headed south with Liz at the wheel. The road to Río Gallegos is in good shape the whole way and within three hours, we were being pulled over by the Gendarmería at Güer Aike to show our passports, for the last time. Those poor guys who have to do that; I would go nuts in a ...

... I have seen two, both just 3 storeys and both hotels). There also seems to be a real shortage of tourist accomodations (hotels, hostels etcetera), but I suppose they cannot be there if they are not in use can they? Anyway, tomorrow it is off to El Calafate (on the same bus line as the epic journey above, so fingers crossed!), and from there I will probably start making my way down to Punta Arenas (Chile) or up to El Chalten, haven{t actually decided that yet! Adios, Daniel