Today I have taken a bus trip to Bariloche, Argentina in order to extend my Chilean visa. It would probably have been slightly cheaper to have paid the immigration department their $100 rather than take this two day bus trip across the border, but then I would never have met Daniel, an altruistic US peace worker in an Irish pub here in Bariloche. And as Christophe said he would rather spend the money on a bus trip then on some bureaucrat applying a rubber stamp to one’s passport.

This is the first night I have been off Sylph since I cannot remember, but well over a year.

BC has been left to his own devices for 36 hours or so - plenty of food and water but no heater.

All is well.

Bob Cat:

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