So this is Bahia Blanca...

Bahia Blanca, Argentina

March 19, 2007
S 38°43.060
W 062°15.923

We woke up yesterday morning in a complete haze and tried to decipher the events from the night before—everything seemed a dream. It wasn’t a nightmare though since it did have a happy ending.

We finally managed to get out of our room around noon intent on finding some coffee. We only had one hour before siesta, and since it was Sunday we knew a lot of things would be closed. We found a café got our “fix” and started roaming the vacant streets of Bahia Blanca; a town of over 300,000. We wondered where the heck the 300,000 residents were on a Sunday afternoon. The streets were barren, occasionally a car would buzz past us, and only a few people (seemingly wandering around with no direction), including us, populated the main square of town. We figured everyone must either be at church or still in bed.

We wandered the streets for a few more hours to get the blood flowing in our legs after the bus ride. We grabbed a few lunch-snacks at a cute little deli that just happened to be open and headed back to our room. Since we have wireless access we were able to take care of several things: book an apartment in Buenos Aires, update our blog, book a car for New Zealand, manage our Fidelity accounts, review our home rental statements, and catch up on email.

Bahia Blanca was like a completely different town at 8:00 PM as compared to earlier in the day. The streets were buzzing with people, restaurants were open, tables were scattered across sidewalks, and soccer was on every TV. The craft-market was set up in the middle of the park and food vendors lined the streets selling everything from hamburgers to cotton candy to popcorn. We even found another microbrewery that called our names.

Good thing we didn’t give up on Bahia Blanca; especially since we decided to stay another night to recover prior to our next bus ride to Mar del Plata.