Compromise

In any relationship, whether it be marriage, friendship, or family there are many times we have to compromise to fix a problem or difference in outlooks. For Luke and I that time is now. From my previous post you can likely tell that I have had a hard time being positive. I felt like everyday I was mentally drained. The weather down here is no joke. You can’t beat it, you just have to accept it. It doesn’t matter if you wake up early or try to wait it out…when biking north your going to have the wind against you. 

If I didn’t have a time frame, we could go as slow as we want to, and take as many rest days as needed. However, I do have a schedule. I have a plane to catch March 6, and I really don’t want to spend most of my time battling the monotony of open plains and wind. We keep hearing about how beautiful the Carretera Austral is, and my goal is to complete it. Because it takes 3 to 4 weeks to complete, Luke and I have decided to hitch to Puerto Natales. We are actually on a huge tour bus right now…Yeah ironically the same tour buses that were blowing us off the road yesterday. I don’t know if we will bike up from there to the Carretera Austral or if we will take a bus. Neither of us like to admit defeat, but I don’t think we are. I think we are making the most of our time. Luke can do whatever he wants and has no time frame, but it’s different for me. It’s a bad place when he feels responsible for me being unhappy…which I’m not unhappy. But I will say I do not enjoy battling the wind everyday. I kept praying that we’d get one day of decent riding weather and after ten days of struggle it’s demoralizing. I want to enjoy this trip and Luke does too. So concluding this post, I may not be “thru” biking patagonia but I’ll be damned if I don’t enjoy myself while I’m here. So grateful…