090105 Trip to Argentina (El Calafate, El Chaltén)

Misadventures in manual transmission, oh, and a big glacier

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taggedspace > Whereever we seemed to go LAN Argentina planes seemed to get the jetways, and our lowly Aerolineas Argentinas/Austral flights got the stairs. NOT that we were complaining. Here, an A320 sits at FTE's lone jetway // El Calafate, Argentina

taggedspace > Looking up at our Aerolineas Argentinas MD-80 reflected off of El Calafate's modern terminal // El Calafate, Argentina

taggedspace > I never complain when we deboard via stairs // El Calafate, Argentina

taggedspace > Comandante Armando Tola International Airport was built in 2000 to replace the obsolete Lago Argentino Airport, which apparently could only handle prop planes and not the bustling tourist traffic // El Calafate, Argentina

taggedspace > The most stress-inducing portion of this trip was poor little Clio, our rental car. None of us knew how to drive stick and that's all they rent in Argentina. Jamie saddled up and got the basics down, but still lost a few hairs over it during the 3 hours drive to El Chaltén // El Calafate, Argentina

taggedspace > Jamie successfully gets Clio into first gear, w00t // El Calafate, Argentina

taggedspace > The road into town. Patagonia is very desolate // El Calafate, Argentina

taggedspace > The road into El Calafate had a security guard post that we had to stop at on the way in and out, which is not a good thing when you just learned how to drive stick // El Calafate, Argentina

taggedspace > El Calafate reminded me of Lake Tahoe Lite // El Calafate, Argentina

Whereever we seemed to go LAN Argentina planes seemed to get the jetways, and our lowly Aerolineas Argentinas/Austral flights got the stairs. NOT that we were complaining. Here, an A320 sits at FTE's lone jetway // El Calafate, Argentina

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