Eeeeep! Hmm. Hitchhiking. Yes. Works pretty well here in south Argentina as well. We started in Ushuaia and did the whole way north to Puerto Madryn in 3,5 days with one guy, Edgardo. He is the coolest of all! 47, fought in the Falklands War in ’82, eight days ago divorced the second time and breeding Labradors. He went down to sell some dogs on the way and enjoyed the time with us heading back near Buenos Aires. He had bad luck in Ushuaia because someone stole his car papers and he had to fly back to Buenos Aires to get some new ones because without he was not able to cross the Chilean border. Then they phoned them, having found his papers somewhere. He headed back but had to return and go back again, I forgot the reason for all of this, but it was crazy. So he picked us up and we cruised through the Pampa, saw Guanacos, also many dead ones and enjoyed the fresh coffee at every gas station. Here you get good coffee again! The first night we had to hurry to get the ferry back from Tierra del Fuego to the main land, so we drove into the night. This is not recommended in whole Patagonia, at least on unpaved roads. So, this night we crushed the front of his old ’94 Mercedes Benz van as we approached and crossed a small hill. We were just going like 40 or 50 kilometres per hour and on top of this hill in the curve the unpaved road was a small lake. Funny, not? The hell knows why, but some new river decided to cross the road, though it had not rained for days. Just add some aquaplaning to this small formula and you get what we got. This spot approached so suddenly that there was no time to break and we funnily slipped around on this small water hole. Some force smashed us to the right, we nearly tilt over to the left, we already were on the two outer wheels and then stopped in the ditch. Some half wheel deep water around us, the front of the car buried in mud. Hihi. So, the whole front was for the fishes, but good old lady Benz still worked as it should. Luckily there came some other 4×4 cars to pull us on the main puddle and we continued. Next stops were Puerto San Julián, Trelew and we reached Puerto Madryn. For tomorrow we rent a car to take a ride to the Peninsula Valdés.
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