Dec 19
Wow an extremely long bus ride. The bus trip from Ouros, Bolivia to Iqueque Chile was 12 hours and 8 of those hours were on a extremely rough dirty road. I got to Iqueque around 10:30pm. The bus driver initially stopped in the middle of the small oceanfront city an everybody got off, but I insisted on being taken to the bus terminal since I need to get a immediate connection south. The bus driver was not happy about this but took me anyway. So I am now at the bus terminal trying to get a bus connection and it’s not going anywhere because once again there is a small language barrier, god I wish I knew Spanish. But then steps in my main man Donnie. Donnie speaks excellent English and Spanish and was headed to Satiago but something happened. Any way he arranges for me to catch a half hour long bus ride to some other bus station and then catch a immediate bus to anafogasta. OK, so I went. A half hour bus ride then a 10 hour bus ride to Anfogasta. I then had two hours to walk around Anafogasta then I caught a bus to Santiago that was supposed to arrive a 7:50 PM, sweet just 8 more hours to Santiago. Well 8:00 pm came and went then I realized our arrival time was 7:50 AM, a 20 hour bus ride.