Memorable bus ride to Ecuador

Tuesday, March 10th


Wow, again I get ready to begin an even longer bus journey BACK north to Ecuador...I was not originally planning on traveling South to Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, but that´s whats so great about traveling with little plans (each day is a new adventure!).

Here, Ruby and I part ways...she decided to stay in Argentina for longer, but I was feeling anxious about getting more Spanish practice, and wanted to start language school in Ecuador...so...
Here begins the adventures of traveling solo across South America...which turned out to be a great experience! I made it to Cordoba, Argentina after an overnight bus ride from Montevideo Uruguay. Here I had to stay for the night because they didn´t have any open spaces in the direct bus, may I emphasize direct?! to LIMA! The next day I started my three night bus ride all the way BACK to Lima, Peru where we started. Although the bus ride was ridiculously long, and I wouldn´t chose to do it ever again, I do have some great memories from the trip. First of all, I was the only person in the whole bus who did not speak Spanish (well at least not very well), and not one other person spoke a word of English...so as you can imagine it was quite the ride. There were probably about twenty people in the bus (mostly Peruvians, and some Argentinians)...I knew this, because as you can imagine, after three nights in a bus with the same people, you get to know a little about everyone!
It was good practice for me to be with all Spanish speaking people, I made friends with some really nice guys who were sitting next to me, we had a great time trying to understand each other. I spent the whole bus ride not knowing exactly what was going on, because the bus attendent would make all of his many announcements in Spanish (so I never knew exactly where we were, when we were gonna stop, how long we were gonna stop for, and what the heck to do at all of the border crossings), but I just went along with it...and after three nights finally made it to Lima!
I ended up getting a plane from Lima to Guayaquil, Ecuador so I could make it in time to start classes on monday.