Okay so this bus ride. Around 24 hours was our trip, including stops for dinner and breakfast. The bus was semi-comfortable however. It was a two-story bus, enough to hold our group of 40 or so Americans plus other travelers. I ended up on the bottom, which was quite a lovely place. It was smaller, only five rows filled its space, with two seats on each side. The seat could almost turn into a bed… almost… at least it was more comfortable than my night on the plane ride over here. I was in the back, we watched a few movies, ate some snacks, and slept a lot. We arrived around 1:30 in the afternoon, lunch time, after leaving around 12:30 p.m. the day before. We were served pasta, a delicious meal it was, a foreshadow to the rest of the meals, for they all were very tasty. We had all free time that day to get unpacked and settled in. The rooms were nice but it’s not worth talking about now. A group of us, 6 or 7 of us guys, left right away to find the nearby river, more like a creek but it’s a bigger than a small creek (we weren’t exactly allowed to leave the hotel campground without a “tour guide” but, well, that’s unimportant). We found the creek, took our clothes off (not all the way of course), like we used to do as boys when we would go exploring in the woods and find a small creek after a lot of rain, and went for a swim. The water, wow, was cold. A different kind of cold I have ever experienced. It hurt all the way to the bones as first touch. But we were in the Andes, we had to get in. So after a few hours there we returned for dinner (again, like lunch, was amazing. Every night had a different theme, for example we had Italian night and even Argentina night) and went back to our cabin. We stayed, as I said, in a cabin, which was pretty sweet and tranquilo. And, to our surprise, the girls and guys were in the same cabin, same hallway, which, if you know Word of Life Argentina, you know that’s crazy talk. But we were like a family. It was a great first day and we still had more to come.
I have part 2 already written, ill post it later.
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