Clouds are gathering, which looked harmless here, but turned out later on into a thunderstorm of biblical dimensions. - I was driving towards the the end of the daylight and had then a gigantic, deep dark cloud hanging over me and in my back, which send regularly lighting strikes to the earth. I could follow that spectacle in my rear view mirror, but by the same token I had to track the wet road, which reflected the light of the low standing sun, blaring my eyes....

Today people set up small, wood boxes with a couple of candles and red silk scarves, and others offer intricate, miniature houses (usually painted red) that are surrounded by used two-liter plastic bottles filled with water. Water is the one common factor in all of the altars and truck drivers are especially devout. Believers travel from afar to certain places, sometimes gathering to more than 200,000.

.Saint Difunta Correa Deolinda Correa’s husband had joined troops in the civil war of the 1840. But he became sick and was left in the deserts of northern Argentina for dead. Word made it back to Deolinda, now a new mother. She decided to take the child and attempt to find him. (Someone had to pay for the child). She wandered the desert following her husband’s brigade, only to run out of food and water and consequentially perished. (A clear result of poor p...