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The road network in Argentina is difficult to maneuver because the standard of the roads are highly variable, even for the same road number. There is a famous RN40, which is supposedly going along the west side from south to north, but when we looked into it we had to choose differently or we would have likely ended up with car trouble. Leaving Bariloche, we drove the Camino de Los Siete Lagos, ending up driving RN40 on a good stretch and arriving in San Martín de los Andes

After a lot of talking with locals and learning about the strong wind causing road closures across all of Santa Cruz the following day, we drove the whole day to get to Comodoro Rivadavia. Arriving late Sunday afternoon, we found a nice hotel and decided to stay there to wait the weather out. The next day the city was closed down, meaning that all supermarkets were closed and any activities cancelled. The hotel didn't even have much to choose from food-wise, and it was a

We entered Argentina via the Paso Integración Austral border crossing, and it was a smooth process. On first sight it looked pretty much the same as the part of Chile we had just left, and not until we reached Rio Gallegos did we see the changes. The most obvious was the wind, it was so strong that the ferry we had taken to leave Tierra del Fuego was closed the following days. It turned out that Rio Gallegos is listed as one of the windiest cities on Earth, and when it is

We had one last stretch to cover in Chile, and we decided to do it via Tierra del Fuego which is widely talked about as the end of the world. We needed a ferry from Punta Arenas to Porvenir, the main settlement on the Chilean part of Tierra del Fuego, and we were so lucky that the weather was giving us good conditions for the 2-hour trip across. Porvenir met us with windy weather, and we learned that this part of Patagonia is always windy. The island is barren and dry, ther