We arrived to Rio gallegos with the plan of leaving the city on the following morning. Actually, our driver intended to continue his long drive south towards Tierra del Fuego after staying overnight at the YPF petrol station where he dropped us off. Indeed the driver was planning to camp! So we took a bus to downtown and knocked at the dor of our Couchsurfing hosts: Luciana and Alejandro. However, we ended up staying four nights. We were spelled by their energy. They arrived to Rio Gallegos as aprt of what they thought was a hitch-hiking trip arund the Latin America. hey had left their native Buenos Aires with overloaded backacks, nule thumbing experience and a lot of hope. When they got here they took the chance and sstarted working. Now their plan is to buy a small ground, as a little investment, before hitting he road again. As to remind themselves their main porpouse is to travel, they bought a 1983 VW bus, an old ambulance from Pico Truncado.
An image of tidy Comandante Luis Piedrabuena, a Patagonian town where, if grass doesn'r grow, the town hall paints it green so the image you carry in your eyes and camera is still joyful...
Derelict ship from YCF (Yacimientos Carboníferos Fiscales), the old national coal company, privatized in 1994. Al across Patagonia we find remains of economic models that no longer rule. They stay for the postcard, as an aesthetic survivor...
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