We walked to the edge of town in Rio Grande and had a ride in less than 3 minutes. Some oilmen dropped us off by their plant about 16 kilometers from our destination in San Sebastian. From there we continued along the highway in the middle of Patagonian windswept fields for an hour an a half before we were picked up again, by more oilmen who took us to San Sebastian. There we had to go through Argentine customs, who didn´t have much faith in our hitchhiking skills so we lied and told them we would walk to the Chilean border. Their doubts were misplaced because within 5 minutes of finishing there Daniel, an Argentine telecom worker, pulled over and we joined him on the road. Turned out he was going along a quicker route than we had hoped so we stuck with him for most of the day.Crossing into Chile was fairly painless and since we were Daniel we got a free ferry ride across the Straight of Magellan. The Straight is full of beauitul turquoise water and fierce winds. As we crossed we were followed by black and white dolphins and peguins that swam along the side of the boat.
We parted ways at an intersection and stuck our thumbs out once again hoping to make it to Punta Arenas. We had to wait a measly 10 minutes when a huge econoline van stopped for us. We were three people in a van that could fit twelve and we remained silent and enjoyed the landscape the rest of the way to Punta Arenas, arriving a day earlier than we had anticipated.
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