Day 4, 5, 6 & 7 - Argentina

It’s been a long drive trying to find ATMs that work with my debit cards - for  a country that compares itself to western Europe - the banking system sucks and so does every other system - they don’t start work till late and then break  for a 4 hour siesta!? And for the hungry traveler the restaurants do not open till 9 pm!

I did get my first ticket - for not slowing down at a check point - apparently in Argentina if a cop is present at a check point all traffic has to slow down to max 20 km - how was I supposed to know that!?

Now comes the funny bit - so the fine was 400 Argentine pesos (45 dollars) so I pay up and guess what she pushes the money back as she did not have the required tokens (in denominations of a 100 - needed 4 tokens) for 400 pesos!? In response to my surprised look - I got a ‘pay it at the next police station!’ Right!

BTW - the food sucks! And now I have a travel companion - not quite sure how it happened but the German girl I met in Bolivia decided to ride along to Patagonia - good to have some company (Pathfinder and I were running out of things to say to each other) - still too bloody young though