For Mom, Love Steve

Me and my new invention, the tent light. Gonna make millions.

It’s a few days past and I don’t think that there was much going on that second day in Cordoba. I did do a decent bit of walking looking for the street with all the internet cafes. The walk took me around to a bunch of different plaza, thousands of stores, and a couple of Universities.
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The SUV I got to take instead of the bus.
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The bike. My first steel frame and I liked it. Much more rigid and the gears were smooth.
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One of the canyons you enter.
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The amphitheater. Check out the guy on the bottom right to get a feel for how big it was.
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Some valley pics. The colors are what made me come back to see it up close. Very stunning. Better in person if you can imagine it.
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Lunch.
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The frog, or possible the gopher, or big ass mutated rock.
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These are my ice cream shots as the colors reminded me of a neopolitan bucket of ice cream. Earth tones is another excellent description.
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The Pinnacle.
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The old west shot.
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Seeing this can really break your spirit.
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Just as depressing of a view when your knee is killing you, its hot, your tired, and you don?t want to peddle anymore.
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For some reasons there were sand dunes out there in the middle of nowhere. It was also where the killer wasps tried to kill me. Bad knee or not, I peddled then.
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A nice pic of one of the wineries where I had a flat.
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My guidebook gave a positive impression of Cordoba as having an attractive downtown, a labrynth of plazas and colonial architecture shaded by Jacaranda and Lapacho trees, and is easily explored by foot. It is a University town so it ... [Continue reading this entry]

It was insane that when I woke up at around 8am the music was still thumping. I thought that maybe it was just the Sunday morning picnickers getting a early start, but I still heard the same DJ voice and ... [Continue reading this entry]

Paying $24A for a hotel was a bit much, so it was on the road for the fourth straight day. I was up and out early again as I wanted to get there ... [Continue reading this entry]

After another long ass stupid wait at a bus station, I finally got on the road to Tucuman, my next stop in the north west. The ride was through a narrow canyon following the curvy path of a river. ... [Continue reading this entry]

I made a conserted effort to get up and going early in the morning so that I could get a early start on my next destination of Tafi del Valle. The name even ... [Continue reading this entry]

The plan was to get up at a casual time and make my way to the bus station where I would pick up a bus for Tafi de Valle. It was only about ... [Continue reading this entry]

The agency was supposed to open at 8:30a which would give me a half an hour before the bus left that would drop me off about 50km north of Cafayette. It was the ... [Continue reading this entry]

The Birch or Oaks or whatever white bark trees that lined the streets. View image The entry to my campground. Pretty snazzy. View image Lunch anyone? View image One of the twenty or so odd Bodegas ... [Continue reading this entry]