Perito Moreno

We are stuck in Perito Moreno right now. When you look up Perito Moreno,

Argentina on the internet, this is one of the many astounding images

you find of this amazing glacier, which is very high on our list of things to see in Patagonia.

I say IS and not WAS, on our list to see, because unfortunately, we are not stuck in THAT Perito Moreno and have yet to see it. We are stuck in THIS Perito Moreno which is slightly less appealing and about 500 km north of the glacier. 

Why, you might ask? No, its not car problems, and has nothing to do with our little stowaway... It seems there is an extreme shortage of gasoline in this area of the country and this town, along with any other town we can reach with our remaining fuel. We have been here 2 days now waiting for the gas truck to arrive, and its interesting what you see while you are patiently waiting for the truck to come to help get you on your way. One of the first things I noticed, was that the gas station is not in fact totally out of fuel. This I know because I saw many friends of the gas station attendants come up to the station with jerry cans, hand over the cans, the attendant disappears for a few moments, returns with full cans, an exchange of money for the cans are made, and the friends go happily on their way. When I inquired about this, I was simply told the boss decides who gets the gas, and apparently, we do not. 

This is the gas station that is supposed to get gas. We have been parked here since 11am waiting for the truck that should be arriving at 4pm today, and only now realized that we should have been in the line up of cars around the corner waiting. I just went and parked the car in the line which now has 104 vehicles ahead of us. COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of all the things I expected to hold us up on this journey this was the last thing........

We can only hope that this truck will in fact show up today......

Ok..... so to pass the time and cool my mind, I thought I would include some shots of the great parts of Patagonia that we have encountered so far.

On our way south from Coyhaique, the road happened to be closed and they ushered us onto this ferry without a word. We could only assume it would take us where we wanted to go, so we went on without any questions. 

It turned out to be a cool ride and even saw a pod of dolphins - but missed the photo op. 

Further south along the 7 in Chile, Shona was lovin' the big leaves. I don't know what it is that she loves about 'em, but they are pretty big.

It's almost like west coast Canada. 

We were super stoked to get back up above the snow line. The mountains are amazing here!

If we ever get out of this town, the next blog should be pretty sweet!!!!!!