The Golden Van: Chile Chico

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We made a concerted effort to stand up early on Monday and left the campground at Perito Moreno in Argentina by 8:30. The workers within the workplace had been as surly as ever when Layne went in to pay our seven {dollars} for our fourth evening on the town. I used to be trying ahead to crossing the border thirty miles to the west. Southern Argentina has been a disappointment with not terribly pleasant individuals and astronomically excessive costs and the sense of a rustic stalled out economically. Sant Cruz province is without doubt one of the poorest within the nation and it exhibits. 

Regardless of the drawbacks we preferred Perito Moreno and had been glad we had stayed a bit and explored what it needed to supply. I’ve excessive hopes that had been one to return in a 12 months Argentina could be getting correctly again on its ft to supply some optimism to individuals who have been struggling a number of cuts. 

The US is getting into a interval of uncertainty that appears weird to me because the financial system at dwelling appeared to be doing nicely and if a interval of austerity is to be inaugurated to provide the US the identical therapy as Argentina is getting I’ll be glad to not be there. I don’t assume Individuals are within the temper to be in the reduction of economically however we will see. I hope issues will get higher for everybody within the years forward however I’ll miss the peace and quiet of the Biden years. 

I used to be glad to be forsaking the huge desert steppes, the sweeping winds and the communities in decrepitude. The hope is Chile’s Southern Freeway might be as scenic as promised because it winds by the fjords and mountains forward. 

By ten o’clock we had joined the road in the back of the casual parking zone to exit Argentina. We parked, gathered our paperwork for us, GANNET2 and Rusty walked to the border publish. The officers had been cheerful and exchanged banter about engaged on a Monday morning and I made a play of being retired.  I suppose should you nonetheless have a job in Argentina you may nonetheless flash the lighthearted humor they’re well-known for and the exit was a pleasure. 

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