Day 163: January 25, 2008 Comodoro Rivadavia
Trip Start
Aug 15, 2007
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Trip End
Mar 01, 2008
Comodoro Rivadavia,
Argentina
Friday, January 25, 2008
Another day in Comodoro, this is getting old. It's not that it's a bad place; it's not but it is a long way from just about everything else. Maybe I should have stayed in Rada Tilly; I know that is more expensive but it does have the beach.
After breakfast, I had a nice conversation with the girl who has been my waitress every morning. I gave her one of my two remaining Chico Bags, Comodoro's first! I did my writing, saving my file to my regular pen drive and my old one, since the new may not be working. On the old one, I discovered copies of some of the fotos that Elena lost when her camera disappeared so I backed them up on my hard drive.
I hit the streets at about 11:45, taking my laundry to a lavandería a couple of blocks from the hotel
Will the Drilling Machine
. The door on the locutorio a couple of doors up was still sealed so I walked the four blocks to the other one. The attendant told me that they were closing in 15 minutes but would reopen at 5:00. Sigh... I bought a newspaper on the way back to the hotel and spent a couple of hours reading it. Most news in Argentina is economic or about traffic accidents, it seems. There is little coverage of world news and almost none about the US-unless it's economic or the election. Like most of the rest of the world, they are counting the minutes until the Bush regime, I mean administration, is over. With the turmoil in the markets and the impending recession, there was a fair amount of coverage on those themes. There were a couple of interesting and insightful editorials. All of them put little hope that the Bush Administration can climb out of the hole it has dug. Hillary and Obama receive a lot of favorable coverage and McCain appears to the Argentine favorite on the Republican side. I'm not surprised about Hillary, she and Cristina, the new Argentine president, have virtually identical backgrounds and they love Cristina. She does seem to be doing well so far. Little hope is given for Romney or Huckabee, saying that both have little following outside of their conservative religious supporters. I don't believe Giuliani was even mentioned.
I returned to the internet locutorio at about 6:00. My pen drive worked fine on the machine I used. There was an email from Will saying that both buses to Comodoro today were filled and he could not leave until 17:55 tomorrow, arriving here Sunday at 07:45 on Sunday. He was genuinely sorry. Sigh... I told him I would try to have everything ready for departure upon his arrival.
I swung by the pizzaría on my way back to the hotel and bought empanadas and beer for dinner. Then, I read some more of the paper and watched a couple of movies and the Discovery Channel before turning in.
