We seem to be in the middle of earthquakes but we're fine. We had a 6.6 this morning north of Salta, but we're 62km south and felt only some shakes. Our world shook back and forth for a couple of minutes, but no one was hurt.We're in a cabana on a lake, a reservoir, so even if we got a big one and the dam broke, we're on high ground.I'm including some pictures of our place, it's gorgeous, but the devil to get to. The 2 hour horse and buggy...

The sound of rain drumming on rooftops was drowned out this afternoon by the drumming of the Trabajadores de Augustin Tosco--the workers of Augustin Tosco marching slowly down the grey street below us. Soggy banners drooped above the soaked crowd as they moved peacefully through the sloppy afternoon.Tucuman is a city built on sugarcane and sugar makes for fabulous wealth while exploiting the poor, so we weren't surprised to see the march, but sad to know ther...

At breakfast this morning we met six of Holland's best beer drinkers trying hard not to get drunk before 1pm. They're a funny group--a couple of them grew up in Poland and said that there, you can't buy alcohol until after 1pm, hence the whole not getting drunk before 1:00 part. We haven't seen any party-ers here at this quiet little hostel--they're a bit of a novelty. But the hysterical part was when they said they were going to Maipu to the ...

It's been so fun to have Myers here to hang with. We've done so much walking and looking we thought we'd do some driving and looking tomorrow. We have to pick up the car at 8pm, so we left the hostel early to have time for some wandering. With four of us taxis are as cheap as the bus, so we took one to Plaza Independencia trying to find the Carnaval drummers and dancers Bob and I had seen the night before Myers got here--the ONLY time I didn't ha...

Friends said there was nothing to it. You just run forward a few steps and whish! you're in the air. This sounds fun! And it was, but the wind had other plans for us. We were picked up at our hostel and took off on our para-gliding adventure climbing up the most awful road (they call this a road?). This goat trail required 4-wheel drive at about 2 miles an hour. At the top we met the rest of the crazies who jump off cliffs for fun.If you've never been pa...