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As we finish up what feels like a month of posts on Argentina, there are four last photos to share.

Above, AeroVip, an internal Argentinian airline. On our way back from Rafaela, we were supposed to fly AeroVip. Cintia, our local travel agent sent email to every address she had for us, saying "pls call". AeroVip went out of business or closed down or whatever.

As a result, instead of a leisurely 1 hr flight, we wound up driving for almsot six hours from Rafaela to Santa Fe (where we had rented the car) and then driving all the way to Buenos Aires. Most the the way was normal highway driving, but near Rosario, we entered another world. Where kids played football across the highway. Women walked with water jugs from the lake to their village. Shantytowns set up in the middle of the highway.

We also learned something about rental car companies in the small towns. When we had picked up the car, our very nice salesperson gave us the typical damage form. He indicated three areas of damage. I figured the car was a wrecker and was VERY surprised to see a beautiful small car. He then proceeded to point out three VERY small scratches and made me sign that I had seen them.

Anyway, he was very reluctant to let us take the car to BA. He made up for this reluctance by charging a lot of money for the priviledge. It was only when we dropped the car off that we realized the car belonged to him personally. Not the global rental car company, him personally. No wonder he cared so much.

Anyway, we eventually made it to the airport and dropped off the car.

On the way home, we were astonished to see that we had to walk through a mall to get to the gate. The thing went on forever. In fact, we had to double back to find our plane.

Buenos Aires from the air

Night sky on the way home.