It felt like my head had just hit the last night, but the alarm was ringing so presumably I'd slept a little bit. I rolled out of my bed into my clothes and backpack and headed out into the early morning to the nearby bus station. Somebody told me that I needed to take bus 45, and I confirmed that online. What I didn't know is that there are two bus 45s, A and B. One goes to the airport which is where I want to go, the other goes to the Retiro neighbourhood, which is not the place to be at 5 in the morning. Once the bus driver convinced me that I was on the wrong bus, I got off and decided that a taxi might be better.
I made it to the airport all good after that little screw up and I caught the flight. The thing is, the cheapest flight that wasn't at an ungodly hour was to Ushuaia first, layover, then El Calafate. This looks quite crazy on a map because I fly farther south only to take a connection back northwards to my final destination. My layover was already quite long, but the plane was delayed as well which added another hour and a half to the layover. Finally I ended up in El Calafate, a little later than I expected, but what can you do. I checked into the hostel and then I scrambled into town to explore a bit and to get groceries before the grocery store closed.
I picked up a ticket for a glacier tour tomorrow and I ended up staying up cooking till about midnight. The kitchen was busy till about 11:30, because the hostel has 100 backpackers trying to cook in one room with only 8 burners to cook on, yikes. Although I did end up meeting this cool kiwi named Chris and we had a midnight dinner together. After a quick cleanup, it was high time to sleep, seeing as I was up at about 5:00 AM this morning.
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