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We stayed a few days at the perfect setting for a horror film, a field station in the middle of patagonia desert along the coast. We drove trecherous dirt roads for miles, getting stuck in the sand every now and then so that we had to get out and push. We completely ruined the rental cars, it costed 100 usd extra per car when we returned them. Tarantulas scurried accross the road and bones littered the landscape. We were the first group of students to utilize this facility. It was converted from an old sheep ranch 5 years ago. I seriously expected people to start disappearing one by one. We were a couple miles from the coast and the beach was incredible, just cliffs and flat rock, covered in fossils. A mother/calf pair of southern right whales hung out less than 15 meters from shore, making awesome roars and calls next to a rock full of sea lions. I´ve never been to such a deserted beach or experienced a landscape as dramatic. It felt positively prehistoric. The first night we stayed there we found a scorpian in the kitchen. This turned out to be a nightly occurance since they were living in the walls. Poisonous snakes were not hard to find either, not in the building, but chillin in the pathways. Apparently there were so many black widows in the area that there was a station set up nearby that specialized in catching them to aid in making the antivenom. These were like the only things we didn´t encounter, thankfully. I finished the book Geek Love, loved it! Now I´m reading the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its totally annoying but I still can´t put it down. I´m runnin low on fictions. I went on a whale watchin excursion and got super close to a bunch of whales, the guides were breaking every law in the book. I saw kelp gulls landing on the backs of whales, eating them alive. Gross. I hate kelp gulls. Dusky dolphins chased our boat and jumped out of the water, sometimes over eachother, like a dance. Surreal. Just like Iguazu felt like Neverneverland, this felt like Little Mermaid or something. We camped on the beach and it was my first time sleeping alone since I´ve been here. I´ve been on this 90s kick lately. A lot of ratm, pumpkins, cranberries, ect. Trying to recreate my childhood? Minus the angst. I just found out that Pete and Nessa are planning to come down here and want to kick it. So insanely excited! I realize I totally hate facebook. It doesn´t make me feel connected to people. Just the opposite, I feel totally apart. Its useful for what it is, but I don´t feel good about it. I had a nightmare about the postal system here. Impossibly long lines followed by rapidfire spanish while the lady shakes my package then hands it back. Rough translation: rattles to much? I turn to leave because there is nothing else I can do. Wait, that wasn´t a dream. I guess I won´t be sending my loves care packages any time soon. Its a challenge for me to complete the simplist tasks here. I will ask something in previously rehearsed spanish, get a confused look, then repeat myself a few times. Suddenly it clicks. They go, ahhhhh, then repeat exactly what I said back to me as if it was completly different. Then they laugh. Thats a good scenerio. Bad is when they get annoyed or bring me something completly different then what I asked for and I just accept it because I don´t want to bother repeating the situation.