Another long Drive Day to San Julián
The road from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia is long which requires us to drive longer hours as we did during the last weeks. This also means getting up earlier which was 5:30am this morning since driving started at 6am. For some reason I had set my alarm to 6:30am instead of 5:30am but the noise of other people putting down their tents wakes me up anyhow. Since it was raining the whole evening my whole tent was wet and the ground muddy and slippery. This isn’t what you want to step into at an early morning start.
Breakfast was a “truck breakfast” again and today’s cooking group was even so kind to serve us breakfast in our seats. We had yoghurt, a banana and a croissant each. We spent the whole day driving along the beautiful Patagonian coastline. The colors of the rocks and the sea are truly amazing. Apart from this there is not much else to see since the landscape has turned into a steppe consisting of small grass bushels.
I killed the time by listen to music and watching the movie “Bobby Fisher against the World”. I started to watch this movie already a few days ago while being with Pedro* in Brasilia since he’s a passionate chess player. Bobby Fischer is considered the greatest chess player of all times and was especially popular in the 60ies. To be honest, I never heard the name Bobby Fischer before starting to watch the documentary but after I’ve seen it I find him kind of interesting. He was very obsessed with playing chess and from his early childhood on he didn’t do much else than playing chess. He has put in thousands of hours to master the game of chess and even to develop it further. This effort paid out as he beat the Russians who dominated the game for a long time and became the World Chess Champion. On this other side this obsession made him arrogant, he feared to be not able to defend his title, became crazy after a while and got lost in religion.
The movie reminded me a tiny bit of myself since I observed I can also be kind of obsessive when doing things and trying to reach a specific goal. I can work obsessive, study obsessive, love obsessive, have obsessive sex and travel obsessive what I’m doing right now. However, my obsession is distributed among many things and so I hope not to become crazy one day :-)
We arrived in San Julián at 5:30pm which was earlier than expected. We stayed at a campsite in town which was quite nice featuring hot showers and Wi-Fi. The town itself was very sleepy and even the “tourist information” was shut down. Today’s cooking group prepared a chicken noodles dish for us and afterwards our driver Ross made a nice campfire for us.
(* name changed)
