Not much to report, except that our gear was stolen.
We lost our tent, our sleeping bags, Andy's goretex jacket, our camelback backpack and another waterproof drybag, and the drybag and lock we used to keep it all in on the back of the bike
Needless to say, we loved and needed all these items. The tent was awesome, Andy has spent a thousand dry nights in it, and me a couple of hundred. The down sleeping bags zipped together (one extra long, one medium), the jacket was a beauty from Canada, and again, it had kept Andy dry on many a day.
Here's a photo (given to the Police, who were very attentive, but didn't help us recover our gear) of the fence the bastard climbed over
and our bike without our gear.
We were stuck. We were in a small town in the middle of nowhere, minus our home.
We spent the next two days scouring the place for some replacements. They don't go in for good quality gear in this part of the world, and we soon found there was only one decent tent for sale in the whole town.
Insult was added to injury by the fact that the owner demanded a price well over what it was worth. He knew he had us over a barrel, and after some soul-searching, we took it along with two (very very ordinary) sleeping bags, and left feeling like we had been robbed two days in a row.
I would love to see his photos - you should have seen the scowl on Andy's face when he pulled out his camera to get a snap of us as we drove off!
We completed the kit with a canvas bag around a couple of garbage bags (it never rains here anyway) and a $7 plastic raincoat for Andy.
And we headed back out on the road ...
I can't believe it!!! While I've been sitting writing this, somebody stole my bag!!!!!!!!! It has my passport, my credit cards, my diary (my diary!!), my keys, my spanish study books ... probably more. I'm in shock.Thank thank thank goodness it didn't have the photos (safely in the computer being uploaded at the time).
So it looks like we'll be in Argentina for a bit longer yet ....
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