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Ushuaia, Argentina

March 13, 2006

4:30 am, i´m in the domestic aeroport in buenos aires trying to get to ushuaia. aerolineas argentinas seems to have obliterated any record of my ticket, however, so i buy another one and fly standby after waiting at the airport for 5 hours.

finally arriving in ushuaia, my hostel is amazing. hands down the best hostel i`ve been in yet. huge chill out area upstairs, communal dining area downstairs, everything is clean and new...very impressed. ushuaia is cool too...geographically, it reminds me of vancouver, with mountains on one side and the ocean on the other. the city itself reminds me a lot of whitehorse...it has that "frontier town" feel to it. the temperature is GREAT. you can out out in a t-shirt and pants and be a shade too cold, or put on a sweatshirt and be a shade too warm. nice change from the stiffling heat of brazil.

so spent two days chillin in the hostel, chattin with people, generally relaxing. watched a HORRIBLE movie with three dutch guys in the movie room at night...duece bigalow european gigalow. absolutly wretched. not recommended.

March 15, 2006

went with alexi, marcus, and ed, a trio from eugene, oregon, to the end of the world. we drove their rental jeep to the last spot you could possibly get to without leaving in a boat. so now i´ve been to the end of the world, time to go back i guess. the coast guard stationed there invited us in for mate...then told us how the water hovers around 0 degrees...very cold. didn`t stop this crazy one tho:

ate some calafate berries, they stain your tongue purple, and apparently eating them means you will definitly return. i`m pretty much garanteed to come back anyways, but i `spose another garantee can´t hurt.

found a rather lame irish pub in the evening, ditched it and walked along the waterfront, passed out in the chill out room again. good way to get to see the sunrise (which was spectacular) is to fall asleep in a room with wall to wall, floor to ceiling windows on all four walls.

March 16, 2006

pretty calm day, se largo a llover in proper west coast fashion...none of this continental torrential downpour, just rain comin down all day long. laundry got done, finally got started updating this blog thingy...

i leave ushuaia for puerto natales tomorrow...will spend the whole day, from 5 am to 10 pm, in transit. woo hoo, can`t wait. good thing i carry a small bookstore in my backpack.

posted by sr @ 21:08