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…after a night of way too much partying, way too little sleep, and a full day of travel and driving, we entered the mountains, at night, along the hairpin curves of an unknown mountain pass under construction, hanging to the edge of a straight drop hundreds of meters to the river valley below, in the pitch black of a cloud covered night, driver blinded by the reflection of headlights off the snowfall, precipitation freezing on the road, and endured said conditions for several hours. It was intense, to put it mildly. My nerves and Dad's were fried, as I think were Mark's. We rolled into Ushuaia well after dark, found a room, rested…, | |
…and headed to dinner, for some long anticipated centolla, King Crab or Spider Crab, depending on who you ask, and some vino. | |
A person from Tierra del Fuego is known as a Fueguino, at times also known to play Bingo. | |
Ushuaia is capital of the province and the city farthest south in the world at 54º 46' S, a datum which its residents do not go out of their way to hide. The city is quite picturesque, in its own end-of-the-world kind of way, composed of weathered wooden homes and churches with pitched metal sheet roofs to avoid snow accumulation…, | |
…steep streets, and snow covered mountains. | |
In 1930 a tourism steamship ran aground in the Channel with 1,500 passengers on board. In 1953 the Saint Christopher tug came to Ushuaia to help with its re-floating, itself ultimately sinking in the attempt. The owner of the St. Christopher left the ship in Ushuaia. It makes a good photo, don't ya think? | |
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