MUNGO EATS Latin America

Last night was spent in the middle of nowhere, along a creek somewhere.  We were still an  hour from the nearest town and were feeling like we were done driving for the day.  We found a small river that we could camp beside and called it a night. 

Mungo was happy, because he got to run amok for the second night in a row.  He’s not terribly unhappy being leashed, but man, does he enjoy his freedom.

Apparently, I have  to practice taking more action shots!

He was having so much fun, that he didn’t even stop when he tore a small bit off one of his pads.  At the end of the night, we saw him licking at his foot and ripping at his feet with his teeth.  I then found a small piece of pad sitting next to him and finally put it all together, being the great vet that I am, and realized he had torn his pad.  We were in a pretty sandy part of the world and the tear was nice and fresh, so we had to dig out the booties, to keep his wound from getting packed with sand.  Then he was NOT happy.  I will never understand how a dog can run around with a huge gash in their foot and not even be lame, but put a simple boot on their foot and they are PETRIFIED to put it down at all!!!  The kids got a big kick out of watching him try to walk and pee with only 3 legs on the ground!! 

We seem to be in the land of fossils.  Kevin found a great fossil just walking form the river to the van.  Kevin was walking, not the fossil!  Check this out!!

Then I found this geode, while I was squatting (won’t tell you why!).  Just sitting there!  (the geode, not me).

Tonight, we are in San Martin de los Andes.  It is a very nice little mountain town that you could mistaken for Canmore without trying real hard.  There are tons of ethnic restaurants, gear stores and cafes, which we have not seen for many, many miles.  Also, there is something else that we have not seen for many miles…forest!!!  We went from the desert scrub that most of my latest pictures show you, to “planted forests”, where all the trees grow in perfectly straight rows, to mountains with honest to goodness, REAL trees.  There is a mixture of pine and spruce and a few other deciduous trees.  We honestly have not seen spruce trees since the US.  I am REALLY enjoying this part of the world.  By the way…we are officially in Patagonia.  We plan to spend tomorrow wandering the town, maybe trying out a restaurant.  We will leave San Martin in two days, and head down the road known as the “circuit of the 7 lakes”.  It is supposed to be beautiful.