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| 2013-10-15 |
Untitled by malcandmarjetpatterson at Garmin Connect - Details
15/10/2013
Stage 44 Huahuamaca – San Salvador the Jujuy
Today has been
a wardrobe experience as in the Lion the witch and the wardrobe.
Starting the day in one world and finishing in a completely different
one. It was hard to comprehend that a day of cycling downhill can
bring about such a change. No longer were we on the Alti Plano where
there are no trees and no birds, and it's freezing as soon as the sun
goes down and there is very little of anything. Suddenly we were in a
major city, houses looked like they could be in Europe there was
greenery and tons and tons of expensive shops and of course millions
of people. We couldn't cope too well with the overwhelming amount of
choice in anything. It suddenly made life quite complicated.
The other
change today was in the weather. For the first time we woke up to the
sound of rain so we delayed departure for a while. We did don our
rain gear but we didn't need it for long. In fact Malc put on his
trousers when we stopped for lunch under a tree but decided he didn't
need them when we set off because the rain had already stopped. As we
came over the summit the valley we were descending into what looked
like very stormy weather but we never got wet again and the lightning
finished quickly.
Today we
crossed the Tropico Capricornio. It did make us realise we have come
some considerable way since starting on the Equator.
We had decided
to stretch the day out by making for Juyuy and in fact got there
with time to spare which we then squandered by taking an hour and a
half to find a cheap hotel . That night we checked out the exchange
rate properly and realised we were getting 9.5 Argentinian pesos to
the pound instead of 6 and all of a sudden everything became cheaper again. Phewww!
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| Heading towards the storm |
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