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| 2013-10-23 dustdevil |
23/10/2013
Stage 46 Mendoza – San Carlos
The last thing
we did last night was to change the Dollars that we had been carrying
since Peru and exchange them on the legal? black market whereby £300
becomes £550 .Wow! That has to make anyone feel good.
As always
leaving cities is never much fun. I'm not good with loads of traffic
it makes me nervous. Today was worse then usual because we had about
25km on the hard shoulder of a busy dual carriage way. And we weren't
even supposed to be there if you believe the sign although a
policeman who stood on the hard shoulder took no notice of us.
Luckily Malc found a quiet road witch took us past loads of Bodega's.
It was fun to recognise some of the names you see on the wines in
Sainsbury's. Wine is unbelievable cheap and tasty with Mendoza being
THE wine region of Argentina. Almost as soon as we left the town we
saw the snowcapped mountains of the Andes again. They stayed on our
right all day and it was comforting to see them again after the
digression to Iguazu. They might not have been quite as spectacular
as some of the mountain tops we have seen but they still helped to
make a nice ride. The immediate scenery in the morning could have
made you believe you were in France. All the vineyards and tree clad
roads. One thing that we didn't expect was the dust devils. Malc made
me stand in one while he took the pictures. Mind we both had to wipe
the sand of our teeth after that. We ended up in a friendly little
hostal where I'm worrying about the days ahead. Not much in the way
of food drink just lots of dirt road and possibly nasty spiders.
Yippee!
How cruel of Malcolm forcing you to eat sand while he taking pictures
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