another long day of driving…this time over 1200km from rio gallegos to trelew. there’s nothing very interesting to see on the way….so we figured it might be better to get the driving out of the way. this morning i started off by getting the exhaust pipe welded back together again (~$12). the guys did a good job, but raised the pipe so its touching the sentra body: good for clearance, but bad for vibrations (the pipe resonates around 45mph). then, we were off.

i felt a bit like a captain of a plane today, while driving the sentra up patagonia. the car is pretty noisy at high speeds, so i’d only talk to my passenger (gabriel, the swiss traveler) to point out interesting scenery or provide an update of our scheduled arrival time. At other times, he was free to nap, eat or watch one of our in-flight movies (free, if you provide your own earphones), courtesy of Roberto from Santiago. This month, on our journeys northbound from ushuaia (…i guess all trips would be northbound from the southernmost city on earth), we’re featuring bruno, you don’t mess with the zohan, blades of glory, good will hunting and king lines.

we finally made it to trelew around 11pm. tomorrow, i get to enjoy peninsula valdez.