Day 30: Transfer

Mood: Tired
Music: Moby - Best of

Today began with a 7:30am pick up from my hotel. As the hot water appeared not to be working this morning I am now quite beardy and a patch of my hair has been sticking sideways all day.

After dozing in the first minibus I was dropped off at the border just in time for the arrival of my coach. It had been raining non-stop since I arrived back from my hike yesterday and the roads were a little wet so I hopped straight onto the bus. About a half hour later we rolled forwards 50m and everyone hopped out to the Chilean border post. After sorting that and the Argentinian post the far side, we left for El Calafate.

My only memory of the journey will be the person in the seat in front of me attempting to sit in my lap by tilting his seat back as far as it could go. At this angle the seat head was only 20cm or so from my chin and my knees were squished at funny angles. Not too long after the Argentinian border we had a comfort break and the person in question hopped out. I took this opportunity to stick my knees as far into his seat as I possibly could and wedge them there. On his return he found his bed like chair had got rather lumpy and without saying anything, shifted himself a little more upright, allowing my to sit more comfortably. He did try to tilt back later in the journey but further kneeing managed to do the trick again. Looking up and down the bus, they were the only two people who had tilted their seats back more than 10 degrees from upright, so I don't feel too bad about attempting to not break my legs just because I'm tall and sat behind a <insert bad word here>.

On arrival in El Calafate I was met and driven to my hotel and then given the rest of the day to go wonder into town, get food etc.

I'm now back in the hotel and feel like sitting here for quite some time.