MUNGO EATS Latin America

We left the beautiful mountains today…penguin bound!  I was sad to say goodbye to these wonderful peaks.  Within a short while we went from seeing these types of peaks,

rocky with lots of large trees, to seeing these types of peaks,

still rocky, but only forested in the distance.  Finally, we came across these little peaks.

These are likely just volcanic vents, there was a whole long row of them sticking up from the otherwise flat landscape. 

We had a great day of driving, went over 400km.  Now don’t laugh, that is great for a Westy with a killer crosswind and sometimes headwind.  There is not a whole lot to see as we cross the continent.  Towns are few and far between and the towns are small and offer very little to the traveller.  We are lucky to find a gas station sometimes.  However, the  Atlantic coast is only about 350km away right now, so if all goes well, we will be there tomorrow. 

Tonight we are camping near a river.  It was tough to find a spot off the highway to camp.  There is a barbwire fence that runs along either side of the highway, the entire length.  Only very occasionally is there a gap.  As it was, we had to cross through an open gate to get where we are.  We see no houses around, but it still doesn’t exactly feel “right”  to pass through a gate.  We saw a lake at least a hour before this spot that would have made a suitable camp spot, but we could not get to it through the fence, so we had to keep driving.  Oh well, where we are is quite fine and we are an hour closer to the destination.  We are in a bit of a coulee and there are some cool rocks around, that Sara wasted no time in exploring.

Spot Sara in the picture (it’s kind of like Where’s Waldo!).  She came down with a prize for her exploring too.  She found 3 chunks of petrified wood.  Here is the best of the bunch!

We’ll just add that to the growing collection of cool things.