<\/a><\/center>After arriving, Julie and I tried to buy next weekend’s bus tickets to Santiago, only to be told that we needed to pay in cash. Cash. Really? We’re going to pay more than a thousand dollars in Argentine pesos when I can take out maybe $250 at a time with $10 in ATM fees? Try getting a POS system, Tas Choapa (that’s the bus provider we wanted to use). Julie and I decided to patch together a bus trip from two other companies that accept credit cards, perhaps with a stopover day in Valdavia.<\/p>\n
To stretch our legs, we decided to walk into Bariloche instead of taking a bus or taxi. Poor Claire came down with the fever bug during the night, but walked the 4km nonetheless. What troopers they are.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/center>Bariloche is great for epic background shots.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/center>Ingmar was pumped.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/center>We grabbed lunch at a restaurant, dropped the students off at their homestay family houses, and then crashed at our hostel.
\nTomorrow: Spanish classes begin bright and early at 8:15am!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Guess what hour 18 of a 22-hour bus ride feels like? Yup, you guessed it. Just like all the others. The students slept soundly in the wee hours. After arriving, Julie and I tried to buy next weekend’s bus tickets to Santiago, only to be told that we needed to pay in cash. Cash. Really? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}