Once we had found our Antarctic cruise, we started working out how to get from Buenos Aires (where we first would arrive in Argentina) to Ushuaia (where our cruise left from). We looked at a lot of options, and eventually found a cheap flight from rio gallegos to Ushuaia. So we booked some buses down the argentine Atlantic coast. We saw peninsula valdes in puerto madryn, and thought we might explore estancia visits in rio gallegos. Well, there isn’t much to do here (just like the guidebook said). In fact, the tourist brochure from the local tourist office says almost exactly that – after about 5 pages of information on the city, it dedicated two full-color pages to all of the OTHER places to visit in Patagonia and how to get there from here. We expected that, so we took a couple of rest and planning days, buying boots for stef and sandals for Matt, and getting caught up on sleep. About the only thing I can show you is the photo of the Patagonian landscape I made from the bus:
We rode along that for about 36 hours. Fun, eh? 
