Brilliant

Took the bus to El Chalten this morning, a 4 hour journey from El Calafate. The bus stopped twice along the way so that we could take pictures. I am typically impatient about that sort of nonsense, but not today. The panoramic view of the mountains was "brilliant" as the British like to describe (nearly) everything. After giving Kristine such a hard time yesterday about shooting through the film, I took 17 pictures of the mountain landscape in about 5 cumulative minutes. The bus driver was even taking pictures, though, so the impression is that the view we saw is relatively rare.

Hopefully the good weather continues. We are planning on heading into the national park just outside of town in the morning. We plan to spend 2 nights in the tent at two different campgrounds. We lightened our packs a bit and the daily distances are relatively small compared to our last adventure. So...expect no communication for a few days. Hopefully we don't run out of film!