I want to be back in Buenos Aires

I walked too far today. I knew it as I was doing it, that I should hail a taxi at any moment. Just stop. But I kept going, and I am paying for it in poor decision making and weariness.
I am in Neuquen, the capital city of a western province of the same name that is known for it`s recent dinosaur finds (evidence of which is all 80km out of the city in three different directions and I don´t know how I´m going to get there), it`s oil and electricity output, and it´s lakes along the Andes. The city I am in is not, unfortunately, in the mountains, or even very near them, and so I will be taking another bus trip before I unpack my bicycle. I am jealous of my friends with stainless steel couplers on their bikes. These devices allow one to very easily take apart and put one`s bike in a box, because it is only the extensiveness of assembling my bike that is stopping me from having it in the cities. It actually appears to be quite easy to get the bike in a box from one place to another through the bus network, as they run a parallel cargo service that is very cheap.
So, after stressing out for much of the morning and afternoon about whether I was going to ride out of Neuquen, and being annoyed at the poor quality room I have to pass the night in, I was beginning to calm down when I realized that I didn´t have my camera anymore. So I ran back across town to the internet kiosk where I am now and asked around for a little blue box, retraced my footsteps, all to no avail. I realized that I might be insured for something like this, but not before I began to wear myself out again.
The last part of this is the crappy hotel. And it was this last part that was the first part of it all. Because I was heading over to check out another hostel when I realized that I was so distracted I didn´t know where my camera was. There is a hostel in town, and it appears to be quite nice, but I am staying in a cheap hotel because I didn´t do the appropriate research before agreeing to what seemed to be my only choice. Bah.
My impressions of Neuquen? I seem to have come across an inordinate amount of pregnant ladies in the shopping area that makes up the city center. The amount of 2-star hotels gives the place an almost seedy feel to it, even if the people who emerge from the hotels and those in the streets are quite normal seeming. It has a youthful vibe as well, and everybody I have talked to, usually asking for their help in something or other, has been more patient than they have had to be with me as I learn how to not talk like a three year old. Sorry there are no pictures, but that´s just the way it is right now.