The room was nice, but checkout is at 10, so we can’t lay about much even though we’ve got a short day ahead of us. It’s odd though. In Central America the checkout times were as late as 1PM. In Peru they were either late, or early. After Peru it’s always been 10 AM. On the one hand that’s not bad because it means we can’t dally. On the other hand we don’t generally get out before 10 when there’s a breakfast included, and especially not when…

As usual, breakfast plus internet equals us scraping out right around the 10am check-out time, and getting a later start than intended. We knew we had around 100km of dirt today, plus two border crossings, and didn’t think we’d be able to make it far past Rio Grande, but I was secretly hoping to get there early enough to push on to Ushuaia and try to make it all the way. So I was slightly disappointed by the late start, but still secretly optimistic. I didn’t share these…

“Breadfast” was even worse than expected. We go to the restaurant but it’s closed, and we’re instructed to go acquire breadfast in the gas station seating area. So we go, and sit, and wonder how exactly this is supposed to work. How are they to tell the difference between people coming in to sit from the gas station and people wanting breakfast without… whatever else they’d buy?