Monday Evening, May 7th, 2007
Downtown, Ushuaia

A sad, sad day.  After all the excitement and hustle &amp; bustle of earlier this morning, Osvaldo had some disheartening news for us when we visited him this afternoon.

Apparently the ship is unloading practically everything it's carrying, and we can't get at our stuff until everything has been unloaded.  Which will take all day and into the evening.  He assures us, though, that we will be able to start working on our motorcycles by 11am.

We're also at a new hotel.  We had rented a car earlier this week, and had planned to return it tonight when we got our bikes all together.  The hotel we have been staying at - while extremely nice and well-equipped, is a fair ways out of town.  

We located a different hotel (after much shopping around, which the other boys can tell you I am a huge fan of) just off the main tourist strip on San Martin street, just a few blocks from the docks.  Unfortunately, it's four beds a single hotel room.  One bed is located apart from the others, near the entrance to the room, and we've made dad promise to sleep there.  Otherwise he'd keep us up all night with his snoring.  Fortunately, I brought a couple boxes of earplugs (thanks, Natalie!) and should be just fine with that.

There is wireless interweb here, but we're located on the third floor, and apparently are too far away to pick it up.  I'm typing this on one of the lousiest keyboards i've ever had the misfortune to use.  Blech.

So we're not leaving tonight.  We WILL be on our way tomorrow afternoon.  One good thing about these delays is that each day delayed here in Ushuaia is another day shaved off the record once we hit Alaska.

This keyboard sucks too much.  Plus there's not really much news.  I'll post a much better one tomorrow.

Ryan Noble
Ushuaia, Argentina