Day 8: more wind adventures

This morning I said goodbye to my new friends at the boarder and headed off to Rio Gallegos. It was really windy again, comparable to a few days ago with 90 kph winds. It was a nice clear day, not a cloud in the sky. However, the wind made for some scary moments. It was a side wind which pushed me all over the road. I normally stay to the side of the road on about a 1 foot strip, but I was having a tough time staying on the road. It would gust and push me off and I would end up off in the grass somewhere half the time. But when trucks came by that was the scariest. As I biked I would compensate for the wind by leaning into it...no other choice really. But then when a truck came by it would temporarilly block the wind and I would vear off into the road. Oncoming trucks were not bad, but with the wind I could barely hear trucks behind me until they were right on top of me. I had a few close calls.