For some reason, I have been a lot more tired on this trip than I have been on other trips. I think Dan’s tired too.

Dan sleeping on the boat ride over to Perrito Moreno

One problem is I am almost 4 years older than when I went to Europe. This is sad.

Another problem is that the run-up to this trip was utter mayhem (new job, Dreamforce, Christmas, a year of living in San Francisco) so I think I was sort of burned out before I even got here.

Finally, traveling in Argentina is just more difficult than Europe. There’s less information available online—and more places with slow/non-existent internet—fewer busses, longer distances. We’ve had bad luck with food and scheduling, and it’s been a little harder to adjust to the time change because of the late-night/early morning schedule throughout the country.

Since getting to Patagonia, we’ve cut 2 stops out of our trip—Puerto Natales and Cordoba—just because we’ve realized that every travel day increases the odds something will go wrong. Because everything is delayed, changed, or cancelled, and there is usually only 1-2 flights/busses every day, so anytime you are relying on external means of transportation, you introduce risk.

Plus, since arriving to Patagonia, we've realized that the scale of this place is just unreal. So while on paper, having 1 full day somewhere with a half day on either end, is “enough,” by the time you introduce the overhead of travel, you’re just sprinting through a place, and barely getting to understand it at all.

Because it’s so much harder, and there are so many more points of frustration, we’ve realized it’s better to take it slow, and try not to feel like you need to see everything. Hopefully, one day we'll be able to come back.