Bus Blues

Bicycling through the mountains and across the steppe is a breeze. But, travel by bus with a bike and you enter a pythonesque world with a Spanish script. At the Buenos Aires bus terminal I played an hour long game of snakes and ladders as i followed directives from bus officials. Twice I took the fully-loaded bike down flights of stairs and once up a flight of stairs and once up an escalator. At San Julian they refused to take the dismantled bike, even though the rear of the bus is for freight.