Pledgin´My Time

When you read the statistic that something like 30 to 40 percent of Argentines live in Buenos Aires it seems a bit hard to believe. Then you hop on a bus to the northern stretch of Patagonia and it sinks in.

This place is desolate.  I'm talking desolate like a Tuesday matinee showing of the Love Guru at Billy Joes Pitcher Show.  And it goes on for incomprehensible stretches of rolling mountains broken up with gigantic glacial lakes.

Desolate like a Tuesday matinee showing of the Love Guru at Billy Joes Pitcher Show

The bus ride was longgg..  I have been on some long ones on this trip, sure.  But it is a little bit more bearable if the driver is at least cookin´up some hot grease* on the interstate.  But this driver was going slow; it was like he was concerned about the safety of himself, his passengers and other people on the road.  Pretty odd.

*I am not sure where that metaphor came from.