Monday, December 1, 2008

The End of the World, or so they'd like you to think

Well, we made it, (sorry for excessive linking to gmaps, it's just they're so useful...) to the end of the world. Or Ushuaia, the capital of Tierra del Fuego, and the self-proclaimed southernmost outpost before reaching Antarctic tundress.

It's a cool place, home to the world's most southern lighthouse (el faro del fin del mundo), the world's most southern museum (el museo del fin del mundo) and the world's most southern Rastafarian (Max). Today we saw penguins and sea lions up close, and on Saturday we saw the Glacier Perito Moreno, all reinforcing the southern desolate theme of this trip in Patagonia.

Darn you google maps!!

Today, only three days before my imminent departure from Buenos Aires, Google decided to add street names layering on the Argentina map.

I mean, it's not like that would have been useful a few months ago!

Here's where I lived for 2 months.