43 hours later...we have finally arrived...

That was by far the longest bus ride in the world, and it had all to do with the volcanoe that erupted in Chile. Last night was too dangerous to travel so we held up in a tiny town along Route 40, luckily there was enough beer to go around!
Thanks to my cousin Al, he sent me a news update on what was going on, luckily we got through all the volcanic ash this evening that covered a huge section of the route up to Bariloche. The bus had to travel at a snails pace during daylight today and there were times that the ash completely blinded the way making it all the more treacherous. I took some great video of the erie, grey colored sky heavy with ash and fully covering 2-3 centimeters of the already barren landscapes. Honestly it felt like the aftermath of a nuclear war with the sillouette of the sun trying to pierce the dense, opaque sky and at times disappearing like a solar eclipse but really due to snowflake sized ash...pretty cool, really.
Okay guys, we have wifi from here so we will be definitely be doing some good updating of pics and I promise this time to have video!!
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