Back on the truck

We were up at 5.30am to get our tents down before a 6am breakfast and a 7am departure. We still had around 1400 kilometres to go to reach Buenos Aires. The aim for today was to cover as much ground as possible and then bush camp before the final push tomorrow.

I took some photos of the waterfront properties as we were leaving Puerto Madryn. As we left the town behind us, we were back to the relentless monotony of the flat featureless Patagonian landscape!

We stopped for a truck lunch behind a service station. Nikki had prepared rice noodles, coleslaw, and leftover chicken from last night. It was very good.

After lunch, we drove on for several hours, trying to get as many miles under our belts as possible. We finally found a bush campsite by a lake at around 7pm. We managed to get our tents up before the heavens opened. We ate our truck dinner of sausage and vegetable pasta on the truck. As it got dark, the storm raged with a spectacular lightning show and deafening claps of thunder.

Most of us went to bed straight after dinner. The rain was of biblical proportions by this stage and the noise of it beating down on the tent was horrendous. We managed to get to sleep eventually only to wake up a couple of hours later to incredibly strong winds whipping around the tent! Luckily, our tent held up to the onslaughts overnight. We woke up to dry conditions, but a very soggy tent! We had no choice but to put it away wet!Read more