Day 162: January 24, 2008 Comodoro Rivadavia
Trip Start
Aug 15, 2007
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Trip End
Mar 01, 2008
Comodoro Rivadavia,
Argentina
Thursday, January 24, 2008
The sound of running water awoke me a couple of times during the night. I had strange dreams of rainstorms and pipe bursts. Will is supposed to arrive tomorrow so I sent him a text message telling him where to find me. After breakfast, I wrote yesterday's blog entry in the hotel dining room while the hotel repaired the toilet. All was copasetic when I returned to my room. Even though I had two cups of coffee in me, I fell asleep for a couple of hours to make up for last night's deficit.
The sky was overcast and cool with a threat of rain. I used that as an excuse to stay in and watch a movie. The sky finally cleared around 5:00 and soon after I went down to the locutorio only to find it locked up. The woman at the hotel desk told me there was another internet café farther up the same street so I walked a few more blocks until I found it. It was much bigger but just as stifling inside. For some reason, the computer I was on would not read my pen drive so my attempt to upload my blog entry was thwarted. I played on the internet for a couple of hours before deciding to try to upload my blog at the other place. On the way down, I found a kiosk that sold Buenos Aires newspapers so I bought one to have something to read. When I got to my regular locutorio, it was still locked... no uploads today. Words on a piece of tape that crossed the door indicated that it was closed by the city for some transgression. I walked back a block to the Zio Angelo pizzaría , on Alvear, and bought six roquefort and onion for dinner and a couple of Heinekens. I am a familiar face there by now.
Back at the hotel, I read my paper and watched some more TV while eating empanadas. They are really good. A text message from Will confirmed that he would arrive tomorrow. I stayed up way too late watching cop shows on AXN. I had no trouble falling asleep.
