Bariloche to El Bolson

I made it to El Bolson yesterday afternoon, in the heat of one of the hottest days in a while around here. I rolled in to to center of town, ate a tub of ice cream, and then walked some ten minutes to a popular camping area just away from the center of town. While I am still camping in El Bolson, it is different from the previous two nights in that I am paying for land, electricity, and shower services, and there is a large town in which to use internet and buy beer and food.

I rode three days from Bariloche, a distance of 125km or something, in legs of 20km, 20km and 85km. I will be here in El Bolson a second night, and tomorow I will head south towards Esquel, and the Paso Futaleufu into Chile. Along the way yesterday and the day before, I met two couples, one from Germany and the other from Switzerland, who are also traveling by bicycle on much the same route as I am going to take. It was certainly nice to have the encouragement that I am not alone in wanting to do this. As Aeolius, Zephyrus and Euroclydon were all conspiring to drive at my face and chest, food, water and company all seemed to arrive just when they were needed.

There was a fair today, as there is here every other day, and on the advice of my cousin Cali I went out and took a bunch of photos. I think I got some good ones. I am setting up a flickr account, and will post here the link to that when I get it set up.