Dec 15, 2010

Argentina Gas Strike

December 14, 2010

Needless to say that after hearing the strike to south, my sleep was not the best. Michael and I discuss our options and choose to head south. We ride to Comodoro Rivadavia, getting gas as required. We arrive in Comodoro Rivadavia and find lineups at all the gas stations. After riding through town, we try 3 gas stations that are empty and then line up in a fuel line for 2 hours.
Gas station at the end of the street

Meanwhile, Michael is sent to check out a hotel nearby while I wait in the lineup. Comes back and tells me about the hotel. After fueling up, we check out the hotel and it doesn't have internet nor on site parking so we decide to check out Rada Tilly as we had talked to a person in Puerto Madryn, who gave us his card to his hotel in Rada Tilly, telling us it has our needs. It may have, but there was no address on the card and after 2 hours tiring to find it, we went back to town and checked out other GPS POIs hotels that were too expensive. We ended up back at the first hotel, Parking was a locked parking lot 1 block away and the best price in town. The total time wasted to get fuel and hotel was over 5 hours. I should like this town because it is quite current and clean, but we just can't wait to get out of town and on the road in the morning.

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