day 50 of our journey ...

DAY 50 of our journey!!
unbelievable and we still don´t miss working! and we don´t miss "schnitzel" or "rote gruetze" ;-)
let´s summarize:

what we do:
- we use only about 4 differnt things of our luggage (1 t-shirt, pants, insect repellent and book) as those are the things which are easily accesible within our backpack.. all other things are deeper down and we got much too lazy to unpack our bags every time we would need something from deep within... considering this we could easily throw away all that stuff as well.
we even wash the socks overnight to put them on the next morning again, which seems easier than fishing for new within the backpack...
- we refuse to speak english in order to stand out against the ordenary tourist, which sometimes is a real battle of nations: the latinos proud to show off with their little english and we stubbornly answering in spanish (to show off with our little spanish of course :-) )
- we still don´t give up our hope of getting a good coffee sometimes, somewhere ... but at the moment we can only report one really good coffee wich nearly(!) tasted like one in Vienna in Bariloche (judge and jury: Renate as expert flown in from Vienna).
- we finally gave in to adopting some of the argentinian-spanish pronunciation (their "che") because we don´t want to say everything twice before they understand what we mean (calle, pollo, caballo, semilla, ella ;-) )
- we miss you all!
- we still marvle at the amount of differnt things and people, wonders of nature and hundred of new things we see everyday!

what we don´t:
- we no longer take any rooms next to shared bathrooms, kitchens, without windows, with bad mattrasses, without enough space to put both of our bags into the room and still being able to put a feet on the ground as well...
- we don´t get excited any more when crossing the border between chile, argentinia, uruguay, argentinia, chile, argentinia, chile....
- we don´t expect any shop, cafeteria, office, museum etc to be open before 10 am
- we don´t even think one second of: work, SAP or offices
- we don´t think we have had enough by now.....

Renate & Mirko