tolhuin to ushuaia...

after the last post in tolhuin we ambled back to the very famous panaderia where the head baker picked us out of the crowd and asked us if we needed a place to stay...we answered, tiredly, "yup". turns out he lets people stay above the bakery, enjoy tons of free coffee and pastries, gives them some food to cook dinner, makes them a lunch the next day and lets them walk through the bakery like it was their home. the bakery is also home to two tucan birds and some parrots. i have to say, this experience was fabulous...especially for cari who has a perpetual sweet tooth--it was a "sweet spot".

that night we performed surgery on my camp stove. apparently after three months of use it needed a little love. while we have a repair kit we didn´t have the cleaning kit so leah invented a little cleaning bristle from a bike cable for the stove. she works like a gem now.

after leaving tolhuin we decided to take it easy and find a sweet campspot for our last night on the road. we found a little spot just outside lago escondida alongside the road. we cooked our last meal, read from a book out loud (this is actually funny because leah and i are reading the same book and we keep cutting it into parts but we were at the same point in the book so we just read it aloud...awwww) and counted guanaco to fall asleep...the only problem for me was that in picturing/counting the guanaco i kept envisioning the guanaco getting caught in the fence, making silly faces, or skipping...yeah, getting to sleep was hard that night. and then...a horse galloped by so close to our tent we didn´t know if we were going to get pummeled! absolutely no worries, the horse galloped on.

and well, you know the rest of the story...we made it to ushuaia. crossing through the mountains were no problem...it just got a little cold is all. so, with most of our clothing on we prevailed through wind, snow and more wind to the sunny city and an ice cold beer in the southernmost city.

today, as i´ve mentioned we will ride to the end of the road...!!!!!!!!!!!! we´ll talk to you in a few days!

peace.
jude.