Well we were able to make it to warm weather once we got out of Ushuaia and started heading north on the map. We left Ushuaia on the 19th of December headed towards Rio Gallegos. We had to go to this city in order to transfer buses to get to Mendoza just in order to grab another bus to get to Santiago and from their one final bus to Valparaiso to spend Christmas with my cousin. So we arrived to Rio Gallegos well and went off to look for another bus that would take us to our next destination. Well Leighton came back a little rushed and worried because there was nothing that could take us until the 23rd of December, which was four days later. It was obviously too late because we were looking at about a three day bus ride from there in order to arrive to Valparaiso for Christmas. So I went off to look for a connecting bus line that would take us. I found one that left from there and stopped in Neuqen, and then I went to another bus line and asked for a connecting trip from Neuqen to Mendoza. So we bought the two tickets right then. I came back to give Leighton the news about the traveling plans. It worked out that we paid the same price for two tickets, as we would have for the direct one. So we got on the bus at 9:30 that night and traveled through the night until we got to our first stop, which was in Comodoro Rivadavia. Once we got here we had to wait for eight hours until 4 in the afternoon. At 4 we hopped on the next bus until the next morning. This trip was from Comodoro Rivadavia to Neuqen. We arrived at Neuqen at 8 in the morning, and we had to wait all day until our next bus left…. YIPEEEE! At 9:30p.m. We got a nice bus called Andesmar, and we traveled through the night once again. This bus was and is by far the nicest bus I have ever been on in my life. Leighton and I have been used to sleeping pretty uncomfortably on the buses until we got to this one. The seats were leather that reclined so far that I could not even touch the floor with my feet. We played bingo, watched a good movie ate a fantastic meal, and went to sleep. Well needless to say we slept very well that night and woke up the next morning to find ourselves in Mendoza and immediately started looking for another bus to take us to Santiago in Chile. Only two more buses to go! So we arrive to Santiago after traveling on a bus for approx. 56 hours over a 4-day period from Ushuaia. You can imagine how we smelled – fantastic! Great, so we arrive to Santiago and look for one final bus in this leg of the trip to take us to where my cousin is in a place called Quilpue. It is a little city or town in between Valparaiso and Vina Del Mar. Praise the Lord we made it safe and my cousin was glad to see us.
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