I am just back from a staggeringly boring 20 hour bus journey across the flat and rather straight roads of Argentina. Its a great country but couldn’t they have made their motorways a bit more interesting?
Anyway, to make the time pass a bit less painfully I came up with some games to try and stop my empty head from driving me mad. Let’s see if it can help you too.
First you need to think of 10 different uses for an indoor wood furnace. It sounds easy doesn’t it, but I bet you struggle once you get to 5, just as I did. I had a burst of inspiration around the Tucuman area and had managed to limp onto 8 as we reached Cordoba, which isn’t bad going. The alfajores from there are nice, by the way.
The next game is to consider who you would invite to a mad hatters tea party. I played this game at the same time as the first one so this one was kind of on the back burner. However, after polishing off another alfajor and loosening my belt a little I realised that you could invite genuine hat makers to the party. I am sure I read once that it was the mercury in the hat making process which left them unbalanced so you might want to check which ones still use the element which my mum probably calls quicksilver.
A crowded bus rolling over the Argentine countryside might not seem like the best place to carry out some agility training but it seemed like a good idea as we trundled past an endless plantation of oranges or some other hideous fruit. First of all I raised my heel and then, well, to be frank all I did was lower it again. I carried on with these pathetic exercises until I felt the will to live sap away from me.
Wouldn’t lazer tag rentals on long distance South American buses be a good idea? As long as you don’t shoot the driver I don’t see what could possibly go wrong. I thought about trying to get a game going but the old women who were sleeping in the row behind me would probably have complained so I went back to raising and lowering my heel again for another 5 hours.
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