Bored, bored, bored

Saturday 29th to Tuesday 4th
Not much to report really. This place is the pits. The Mavenas museum was closed for renovation, and the only other museum is a strange conbination of dinosaur bones and modern art. Odd. Bike turned up yeasterday which was a surprise and a relief and I managed to get a bus out of here to Ushuaia for Wednesday which is just great news. Buses last week were booked up for a week and I don´t think I could handle another 7 days here.

Nice people on the site though and my Spanish is improving as the locals insist on keeping me company as I´m on my own. Quite sweet, but a bit like hard work when you just want to chill. The other travellers passing through here have been great as well and I´ve had some good company.

Still - bored, bored, bored

To Rio Gallegos

Thursday 27th

Arrived at the bus terminal in good time to get the bike boxed up and sent on ahead, then had a mild panic when my bus was 20 minutes late arriving. I just assumed I had heard the stand number wrong and the bus had already left. Must get used to South American timings.

This is the view from the side of the bus 1 hour later......

........And this is the view 36 hours later

The road is like a knife arrowing off to a distant horizon never changing in 1600 miles and you just go off in to some sort of twilight zone to pass the time.

Friday 28th

Finally arrived in Rio Gallegos to a familiar story.

No Bike again! It made it as far as Comodoro Rivadavia (about half way) and apparently it's too big to get any further until Monday. This is not great news as Rio Gallegos is not exactly bouncing. A bit like Grimsby with the fun removed. The main attraction - a museum explaining why the Falklands do in fact rightfully belong to Argentina is mercifully closed for renovation. Merciful as I'm not sure how welcome a Brit would be anyway. So I'm just kicking my heels here till the bike turns up when I can get an onward ticket to Ushuaia. Unfortunately these tend to be fully booked up for a couple of days and I don't want to book ahead in case the bike doesn't make it. Could be here a few days. Bugger....

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