hey there! the day before yesterday was the hottest of the trip 42 degrees on floyds thermo. hot and dry desert just like home, in the summer of coarse, and today as we head further into patgonia the winds are increasing and for the net couple of days we expect the winds to get even stronger, Mark loves it, not! We stayed in a campground that included a free beer each with the site, which proved to be the crack in the dam as bottle after bottle toppled over after the free one was gone, and these are 950ml ones! needless to say the day had a slow start and i was barely able to fit my fattened head inside my helmet. We rode a shortish day 340k and are presently in Gobernator Costa (i think)
awhile back i posted a pic. of a family of four on bike at a gas station, well that would be the bike in station wagon mode, there is another mode you see lots of, truck mode, and in this case the truck is moving two people and a rather large ladder, no problem.
and just as easy is two riders, a large industrial weedeater and enuf gas for a week.
and when you need a trailer, get out the saw and cut the fork out of a couple of trees, nail-em together and you're good to go, just keep it away from open flames.
how about some people pictures, the first is one of one of the very many "Yoda's" we saw in Peru and in the case of this one in Bolivia, there sitting on the side of the road at around 15000ft staring off into the void, perhaps spinning wool, but just sitting there? perhaps watching over some goats/sheep/a cow. We would see lone people sitting on the side of the road all over the place. having lunch at over 12000ft
I asked this woman if it was ok to take her picture, before she said no I had taken it, oops sorry bout that.
this old boy looked waay too comfortable so i looped around and took this shot, looks like he's been laying there for eons and the ground has settled in around him.
each town it seems has it's own shtick, and in this town it's these huge hats, all adults wear them and most kids, sometimes until you see their face you can't tell the difference between kids or the very elderly as they all dress the same.
taking their cows for a walk.
this is my favorite pic. she covered her face and was giggling like crazy, i didn't see that she covered up until after i took the shot. I offered the two canadian flag lapel pins which they refused to accept, not sure why.
while it may look like these two are packing a heavy load, they are not, i would say that it is about an average sized load compared to the many people we see lugging stuff around.
all for now, as we are off to gas the bikes up, and to get food which is always an adventure.
next post will bring the Andes into view, and reveal the source of my WOW! of a couple of weeks ago.
l8tr Wayne and the boys.
