Traveling Can Be Tiring

  Travel is starting to drag.  After initially being on a bus in Africa for 8 hours every day, I thought that the rest of the trip would flow by, but alas, the last six days have been just too much travel. First, we spent 5 hours traveling to Buenos Aires from Patagonia, then slept the night to go back to the Buenos Aires airport (a one hour taxi ride away), flew to Iguazu Falls and had to wait to see the falls until the next day before flying on the fourth day back to Buenos Aires. But, our flight was rescheduled for 8 hours later (we waited in the airport all day) which landed us in Buenos Aires at 9 p.m. When we picked up our bags, they were soaking wet all the way to our clothes in the middle of the bags. Apparently, our bags were in the rain storm that knocked out the power while we waited for the day in the Iguazu airport (it hailed as well). One hour later we arrived at our Buenos Aires hotel, spent 2 hours setting our clothes to dry and using the hair dryer on them. Three more hours to sleep and back to the Buenos Aires airport at 4 a.m. A 5 hour flight landed us in the Lima airport for a 13 hour layover. We arrived in La Paz, Bolivia at 1 a.m in time to catch a transfer for 1 hour to our hotel so that we could leave on a bus at 8:45 a.m. 5 hours on a smelly Bolivian bus with a closed bathroom, then 7 hours on a train   with just enough leg room between us and the passengers who faced us to have to stagger our fit (mine went between the Bolivian lady's in front of me). 
   While at least there were movies playing on the train, they were playing on a TV that would have required me to turn my seat in the reverse direction of the train motion and then read English subtitles...my stomach would not handle that.  So, for at least 30%  of the train trip, Michelle and my only form of entertainment was trying to look preoccupied with the very flat and boring scenery out of our window to try and avoid looking at the women in the seat 1.5 ft in front of us who was attempting to breastfeed her baby for what seemed like an eternity. 
Whew. Glad that's over!