This happy little team of travellers have now completed their Northern Tour of South America, for the time being!! having done some 8600k from Buenos Aeries, Uruguay - Brazil - Argentina - Paraguay and back into Argentina. We have now started our journey south through Patagonia to Tierra del Fuego and Ushuaia for Christmas
I will try and fill in a little from the Falls to Patagonia later. This retirement travel game gets very busy and someone said it was a holiday 
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When we have stopped in the evening, after our little social chit chat, I have to cook my tea and do all the little jobs that await me by which time I have to go to bed. then its up again at 6am next morning to get me and womble ready for another day. To all of you I have not emailed please bear with me I am trying :-)
S.O.S
From the borders of Patagonia Argentina: To Lancaster England
TB Turbo come to the rescue once again 
One of the jobs I failed to do before I left the UK because of the change in our sailing date was to have the immobilizer disarmed - because I KNEW that it would malfunction when I was in the middle of nowhere and isolated.
Well 07-11-05 it happened 
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We were in a national park on the Patagonia borders 300+k from the nearest town; we are all ready to start the days journey at 7.30am - the others had infact pulled away but my immobilizer had malfunctioned. We had no mobile phone coverage - the little reception office had no international phone coverage - They did however send us 1k down the road to a restaurant which they said did have international cover. They did have a phone and the owner was very helpful. I even stupidly put my credit card in the slot 
, then could not get it out!! panic!! Peter went to get some tweezers. I just pulled at the front of the phone which opened up; I removed my card but left the cash! phew that was a close one. After we all had a drink the guy sent us a further 36k down the road to a village which DID have international coverage. Boy this was a single horse town! but outside the garage a phone box. we have no change for a call to England and the garage only had small denomination phone cards, But they sent us across the road to a restaurant that had cabinios (little phone boxes on a meter - phones not boxes) nice restaurant, nice lady but NO phones, the lady sent us back across the road to the supermarket,
Hey presto not only working international phones but bread as well!! All this had taken 2.5hrs I then rang TB Turbo ( http://www.turboboost.co.uk/TB%20Turbo.html ) explained what had happened and that none of us knew about electronic gismo´s.
David gave Peter a very good list of instructions of how to disarm the thing and still be able to get the engine going!! this cost me less then 4GBpounds. Thanks David
By lunch time all was sorted, the immobilizer removed, engine started, all the girls did their washing!
A big thank you to Norman and Peter on the trip. Also a big thankyou to TB Turbo who when I am on the road are indeed "A girls best friend"
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