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I arrived in Pozadas at 10am. I went to get my backpack and it wasn’t in the bus. Neither the one from a German friend that came from Salta with me. They told us that our luggage was sent (by mistake) to Glorinda, a city in the border with Assuncion (Paraguay). We had changed the bus at 5am, they told us to not worry with the bags that they would move from one bus to another. They just forgot to tell us that they usually forget some.
We complained at Nueva Estrella Office. They told us this happens a lot, and we would have to wait until 1am when a bus from Glorinda arrives. It was a cold and rainy day. There was not to do in town, we would have to wait the whole day in the bus station.
Since my parents live near the Argentinean border, they had gone to meet me in Pozadas. When they got there to get me, they found out that they would have to wait 16 hours. If we had driven to Glorinda, the way and back, it would take the same amount of time. The bus company didn’t take responsibility to anything. They didn’t want to pay our expenses and there was no closed “warm” room in the bus station. It was a long wait.
We went to a café spend the time. We talked a lot and there was still a long time to wait. The backpacks arrived at 2am. My German friend got a bus to Puerto Iguazu and I drove back to the Brazilian border.
I remember when younger, there was a ferry boat that connected the two countries. Today there is a bridge and the Brazilian and Argentinean Customs and Immigration office work 24h. I stamped my passport. The last exit stamp from this trip. I got happy for being back home. I was already tired and a familiar place makes me feel good. After all I had traveled 4 months, I had seen and lived so many different things, met so many people and nothing bad happen to me. I felt really lucky and happy…
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