After some discussion we decided not to waste another day
awaiting for Monday to get the windscreen fixed here at Comodoro
Rivadavia, we’ll get it fixed in Chile.
So we headed off.
The roads were very bad in places and had to cross a small but very
muddy river. John was driving so my turn to get muddy feet. First one
very easy the second one easy for truck but my feet were well glued
up. The mud was only a couple of inches deep but very sticky. EC just
rolled across. We did the 80km’s in 2 hours. Once on the main
road we made good progress but had to deal with strong winds and
trucks….
At Sarmiento we
again tried for internet and money, neither was successful. We
continued East.
At a tiny town Dr
Ricados Rojas we managed to get money, so I got two lots out 4000
peso about A$250.
Since our turn off
to the petrified forest we were on a good gravel road. We were hoping
on making camp beside the river in daylight however another flat back
right delayed us half an hour. We assume something to do with the
patch and tube. I had driven on it a little way thinking the strange behavior was the amount of loose gravel on the road.
After a few false
starts, in the dark, we found a camp by the river between to lazy
bends. Pork chops for dinner.
We are 4/5 of the
way across Argentina. Border tomorrow
498km