2/27  We were woken up this morning at 7:30am by a border police yelling for our passports. Guess this is normal near the border towns. Everyone must have been legal since no one was dragged off the bus.  Breakfast was pretty basic.. coffee, 3 small crackers and  a chocolate cookie. As we were finishing our breakfast, we pulled into a bus terminal. People got off and new ones got on. We switched drivers. They had a cafeteria, but everything was made to order a d would take too long. We only had 10 minutes. So the 4 of us settled for some yogurt and a juice box. That is enough, since all we are doing is sitting for the next 4 hours.
On the way we saw very little wildlife. A few rheas, some sheeo, cattle and horses. That's it. There really isn't much. Every so often, there would be what looked like rock mountains. The rest is very deserty.
Given the fact that this road is the only paved one down here, it is in horrendous condition. Potholes everywhere. Every so often a cattle gate in the road. We think these separate the ranches. The bus driver goes no faster than 80km per hour. No wonder it takes 26 hours to get there.
Late yesterdy afternoon, we passed through an area that had hundreds of oil wells. Terry was very interested and took pictures for his dad. We will have to get out our big map to see where exactly that was.
The day actually went pretty quickly, although I am ready to get off now.  We read, blogged, played cards, watched a couple of movies, talked and repeated those things.
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It's 11:30 now and still as far as you can see there is nothing, but the dirt mountains and deserty brush. ( picture below).Every so often there is a green spot, a couple of trees, where you will see the ranch house off in the distance. How solitary.

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