From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > The author set himself the goal of traveling to Esquel,   
      
   Of all places! (Check my email address.)   
      
   >|  Borges thought a moment, then said: "There is nothing in Patagonia.   
   >|  It's not the Sahara, but it's as close as you can get to it in   
   >|  Argentina.  No, there is nothing in Patagonia."   
      
   The Patagonian steppe is indeed monotonous. I entered the bus in Río   
   Gallegos around eight the in evening and reached Trelew early afternoon   
   the next days, more then 1000 km further north. The landscape looked   
   more or less the same.   
      
   Still, it has sort of a spell on me. I sit on the bus, and I'm completely   
   fascinated by the most flat land with its short grass, and you see   
   very few buildings.   
      
   > So he took the Lagos del Sur (Lakes of the South) express, which   
   > goes from Buenos Aires to Bariloche,   
      
   I recall that my first guide book for Argeintia mentioned that there was a   
   railway to Barlioche, but like most other railways that had been privatised,   
   passenger traffic had been discontinued. Only the freight transport   
   was of commercial interest.   
      
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