After Lollapalooza, the plan was to meet up at the bus station 15 minutes before it left. This involved each of us coming from different corners of Santiago (me, from a park with thousands and thousands of other people...) and the public transportation accommodating our needs. We had neither working cellphones nor a backup plan. In retrospect a lot of things could've gone wrong. But lo and behold, we made it to the bus right on time and headed East right around midnight.
I had essentially been standing for two days straight at that point and was rapidly losing faith in my knees to support me...
The bus company we took to Mendoza was called El Rápido, and it lived up to its name, because we arrived two hours early... 6am. Our next bus wasn't leaving for 12 hours. After sitting for a few minutes, dazed, in the bus terminal we decided we had to do something with ourselves, and called the hostel we'd stayed at previously, who agreed to let us split a twin bed for the day for $5 each. So we went there and slept til noon. Money. Well. Spent.
We spent the rest of the day wandering around Mendoza. It was a bit less of a ghost town than it had been during Semana Santa but still no Buenos Aires :]
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| Just so you're aware, this is what US$2.70 buys you in ice cream here... Noms. |
I made it back to my apartment in Buenos Aires around 10:30am on Tuesday, nearly 36 hours after leaving Santiago! I have never enjoyed a shower more. And Mimi made me steak for lunch--bless her heart. Real food!
We had to laugh, because we kept lamenting about having to end our adventures and come back to the "real world," but really... the real world for us is living in Buenos Aires, which really I guess isn't so bad... :]
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