When you don't know where you're heading, every path will take you there.

In the last few days i've made a decision, one of those life changing decisions i guess, but i think it had to be made. I have been in Bariloche since December looking for work and trying to start on a new life, living on borrowed money and borrowed time - wasting borrowed money and wasting borrowed time. It became clear to me that in the UK one is rewarded by doing hard work, and even if you have a shit job you can still be the best in your workplace by working hard and being efficient, as i lined up for an hour long supermarket queue, i realised that here, for some strange reason, things are a little different, people don't seem to ever work at full speed. People working as slow as some people do here would get them fired in a first world system, but i guess the bosses don't care as they were the same when they were employees. For this reason, and for the obvious time of year issue which means that the zone is now going into low season - no tourists, less money, less jobs - i have decided that i'm going to keep on traveling for the next four months. I have an airfare to London on the 20th of September and i am going to use this to go back to England. I will look for and get a job and resume the life i had before leaving in October. I have realised that even if i did find a job here, the situation i'd be in would be great for seeing the surroundings, but the wages and currency exchange would make it extremely difficult to travel to save up for any other projects - i'd be stuck here. I prefer to work in a not so naturally beautiful place but have enough money to be able to make some of my dreams come true and get to know a bit more of the world. Today i sold my car and the money will go straight back to my parents, where it came from. I will be hitch hiking south to see a part from Argentina i have never before seen; the great glaciers. After probably suffering a bit of cold weather down there i will head back up to El Bolson, grab a few things and head up to Buenos Aires, leave a couple of things with my grandmother there and hitch north, i'm thinking Cafayate to pass the winter in a nice warm place. So they're my plans for now, i'd like to thank everyone here that has helped me these past few months including my Granma in Bariloche, because i couldn't have stayed here as long as i did and given it a shot without them. I am now free of responsabilities and "irksome obligations" again, ready to enjoy another four months of traveling before heading back to the UK. I am happy that i got to see, as an adult, what life here in Bariloche is like, and that i have come to a solid conclusion as to what i want to do.

I hope all is good back home, see ya in a few!

PS: will update this in a few days.
Thank for reading!
Santiago.