On the road again... bussing to Iguazu, Argentina

Talk about covering some serious territory in little time. We did it alright... By "little time" I'm talking 33 hours on various buses. At least I can say this might have been the most entertaining busing we've done yet.

2am-7am on a bus to arrive to Tucuman, Argentina and spend a few hours in the bus station waiting for another bus to Iguazu. We were to arrive there about 20 hours later. It started off fine, a heartwarming movie "Los Hijos de Francisco" about a poor Brazilian family that loves music and after sacrificing everything, finally makes it big. A million times better than any Chuck Norris or Jean Claude Van Damme flick :)

From there it was smooth sailing, until it was announced "The bathroom's closed because someone pooped." Great, only about 18 more bathroom less hours... Thankfully that got fixed, but the real kicker was when the bus stopped in a line of traffic and the attendant announced "We might be here for a few hours so we're gonna open the door and you can walk around... but don't go too far because in the trees there are big spiders and snakes." What the hell is going on!?

A few hours? What!? We get off the bus and someone explains that the local soy bean farmers are protesting, something with the government. The road should open up at 8pm... or maybe 10pm. It's 6:30pm... we'll just... you guessed it... wait :) We're good at this. "Let's take out the barbecue and go hunting!" was a funny joke until the hours passed and we thought we might actually have to do it. As the hours slowly rolled by and the conversation dulled to the topic of the weather, we pulled out our last trick and provided some entertainment with our music and dancing. Being that we're in more tropical climates, the show ended shortly after a bug zeroed in and landed in Lori's armpit while she was playing.

We retreated to our air conditioned bus, chatted with our neighbors and finally around 9:30ish we were rolling again. Our 22 hour trip now extended to 25.

The next hours passed quickly because of a long, hilarious game of bingo that Lori won. In her moment of bus fame, she was given the microphone and told to sing "Arroz con leche" (ummm... how exactly does that tune go?) Thankfully some other woman volunteered to sing it and the whole bus chimed in. Lori and I both thinking we would have never guessed the tune in a million years. The assistant kindly gave her her prize broom :) and then a bottle of wine. We'll be opening that right now thanks!

Iguazu is so close I can feel the splash!