good morning well we were hoping to wake up here in nature and have a really beautiful
place to show you guys there's uh sea lion Rookery there's a penguin Colony over here
but it has turned out to be a bit of a nightmare oh thanks it's really early you can see by
how low the sun is there how early it is thanks for the car feeling but the wind is ridiculous
right now you can see it in the form of of dust storms just ripping by so if I peel back
this a bit maybe you can see over here and we were on the other side of that building
there there's a camping area over there and the wind is just coming in like right off
the hills so we decided to try that cover under this building here in the back past
Graham here that this other one camper who's here they also tried to hide from the wind
here but you could probably see their rig rocking around pretty crazy and then out there
on the ocean the ocean is Just Whipped up into a frenzy and the wind looks like it's
going a different direction over there we wouldn't have had a chance of sleeping if
it wasn't for the noise canceling headphones we got two sets now as of Christmas I bought
some for Emily for Christmas I already had some it's a bit maddening because I don't
think we should move right we shouldn't move um I think it I think we probably should there's
nowhere to move babe where would you move if you move anywhere you're exposed to the
wind and the van could knock over
well we could go over to the hike and see how it is over there good but we'd be brave
in the window
we have to look at that wind so it's kind of a scary situation uh I I can tell from
the way that this dust is moving there I think we're doing the best we can because we have
the protection of the building on this side and then some gusts of winter coming from
this side but that's exactly where we're pointing so when the wind comes at us we're doing the
best we can when the wind's coming over the hill the predominant Direction it's hitting
this building and it's just whipping right over the top of the building but imagine if
we were just a little bit that way or a little bit not being covered by this building it'd
be even worse so I feel like if we drove you know it wouldn't be safe
yeah and you could hear it last night like it was hard to go to sleep I couldn't fall
asleep until I put on the headphones because it's not just the wind it's the rocking and
yeah it's so intense and I just watched one of our old videos where I was talking about
the wind and how abusive it is and today is like the worst it's ever been this crazy yeah
I think we gotta hide here until it subsides which is not ideal because we're not even
supposed to be here technically because of the pets but we did register and we were gonna
just have them bunker down but we're hoping to leave early and do the hike and just get
out of here but now it's like I don't think we can move honestly man when I was like half
asleep trying to go back to sleep after we moved to the van I was thinking about what
I would do if the van starts toppling one time remember when we both like looked at
each other I jumped to the other side because that's the way the wind's coming the wind's
coming at us from the driver's side so I jumped onto the driver's side of the bed and I was
like sitting there like oh my God like like my weight was gonna keep us from oh yeah yeah
I put the weight on that side you think that would work yeah it's worth a shot
I think Graham's scared huh yeah he doesn't seem scared it seems like he's an attack mode
I met that guy over there he's from Germany
he said they've been going for four weeks and we've been going for four years you know
so um but you said yeah but he said oh I saw you guys move over here and we thought we'd
better do that too but yeah I walked around outside and we're definitely in the most protected
spot even though we're still getting pushed around like crazy and he and I uh were saying
like Okay if it dies down in an hour maybe we'll calm boy out of here together have a
little added security unprecedented for us this is really wild right now so maybe if
I go outside here I can show you guys how windy it is
over here
at that
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[Music] and would you look at that so much better no wind at all this is amazing if we
didn't record it I really don't think people would believe us that the wind was so bad
this morning even when we did record it it's hard to tell when wind you know it's hard
to tell because you can hear it but it's probably not as loud on the camera and you can't really
see it that much because it's not like we were rocking rocking rocking it was like just
like slight you know it takes a lot for things to rock though then a big gust would come
just yeah and it's hard to capture capture that but we met some Germans they were really
nice they invited us into their van they're going south from Montevideo they've been on
the road for four weeks nice they were asking us about the route stuff like that even though
we woke up at 6 30. so far it's been a great day it's insane that the winds died down like
that because we're able to go check this out obviously we're super spoiled at this point
from Antarctica so sea lions I not as exciting as there would have been before Antarctica
when we were walking by um babies everywhere yeah oh my gosh but this sounds pretty worth
it because here we got basically a 100 meter Boardwalk here I might as well check it out
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wind is crazy
so crazy oh so that was kind of unfortunate there were no sea lions which is making us
like rethink this whole trip like was it even worth it to go this far to withstand that
wind last night and this morning and there was no sea lion so now we're like what should
we do and also zambrita was pretty upset to be in the van um when we left and we were
only gone for like seven minutes so we're not sure we're gonna drive over to the penguin
place and we'll see we're gonna assess the situation there [Music]
alrighty so we've decided to skip it you're not allowed to have pets so that's one thing
but I'm just super tired it's super windy the dust is getting my eye and everything
and it's about a two hour hike so we've seen a lot of pigments lately as well I feel jaded
I want to go do it but uh yeah I just don't think it's gonna happen today doesn't want
to be alone because that we heard her crying whenever we went to go and see the sea lions
so whenever I heard her I was like yeah this is a bad idea and a two-hour hike if she's
gonna be alone for two hours also the wind is pretty bad and if the van gets knocked
over while we're not inside of it that's a hundred times worse we go Batman to the next
destination yeah we're going north we I've been fortunate enough to survive last night
with those stupid wind so uh yeah I'm gonna we're gonna try and go farther north maybe
there'll be less winds probably not though but hopefully it'll be at least warmer it's
just that the wind whips or whips around so much it's not that you're cold it's that like
your your ears start to hurt and your skin just starts to hurt because it's getting wrecked
by the wind so anyways yeah I'm excited to get out of this wind [Music]
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I
just checked the windy up and the wind got up to 52 knots where we were looking like
it should get better though as we go north all right we're at the shower we are waiting
to shower and I'm going to so far shower kind of a low score as it's pretty sure it's only
a men's room judging by me urinals I'm waiting we're waiting for someone to leave because
I I have a feeling that there are no curtains and it's not true but I don't think there's
a few in women's room because she also gave me a key which I think is to lock the door
which is very nice of her I'll give you the score once I turn on the shower and we'll
see how clean it is next lady though so that was good it was 300 pesos Which is less than
a dollar so that's also not bad
[Music] I'm gonna give that shower I think like a seven out of ten it was pretty clean
it was hot there's nowhere to put your stuff there well there was somewhere but it was
outside of the shower it was not fancy no no definitely had to work which I usually
do when we're not in a residence so now we started driving again making our way North
and along the way we found this this Vista this Vista yeah this is pretty cool this is
like the lowest spot it says in the hemispheres in the Western Hemisphere and in the South
hemisphere the lowest um 107 meters below sea level I remember there was one in Death
Valley that was really low too yeah okay so North and South America this is the lowest
spot it is a desert but there's like a town down there wow yeah some kind of a plant and
a lot of pollution probably just gets stuck down in there yeah it looks like a good bit
of smog it says it's about uh 3 000 square meters like 30 by 100 kilometers over six
kilometers squared yeah oh okay that's pretty big huge down there so yeah it has to be a
desert I guess there has to be full of water huh yeah yeah so it says it's full of fossils
and uh petrified wood so that's kind of cool too because we're not that far from the ocean
it's just right over this hill so kind of cool kind of cool little stop here on the
way this point is this lake is negative 344 feet oh so there is nice crazy cool foreign
[Music] spot for the night and just in time for dinner well you know when we were living
on that boat on that ship we were getting unlimited food they had a vegan menu for Henley
all the time that's another thing we're really missing in the van but check out this vegan
Feast Emily's got going for us quesadillas
not cheese first time trying it yeah oh my gosh it's so good not chicken strips Danny
found these avocados that were perfect so we had to make some fresh guac and some jalapenos
oh so that's the not cheddar look at this I want to try just a little piece so the nacho
cheese it seems like melts a lot better than other vegan cheeses that we've tried usually
I have to put some water in the pot to make it steam up I didn't put any water in the
pot and it's like super melted we've been drinking the not milk for a while and that
is like the best fake milk we've had um it's perfect consistency it has like the perfect
fattiness of regular milk it doesn't have the stuff I don't like which is nice like
farmy taste or whatever and I think these not chicken sticks are new too these are bomb
look how crunchy those are tomorrow we'll keep heading north if you have any tips for
crazy wind let us know in the comments I really don't think that'll be our final Patagonian
win if you'd like to help us continue our journey head over to our patreon for some
extra support see you soon [Music] oh
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