65: time to hit the road

We have arrived at the foot of the Andes, a town called San Martín:

Parked the vans on the street across from the supermercado - didn’t bother anybody except the guy who’d be there another week and was afraid we’d draw the attention of the authorities. Next AM we hiked up to Mirador Bandurrias:

“Glad that thing has udders and not horns”

“Oh.”

Lunch at the food trucks:

And off down the Road of Seven Lakes toward Bariloche:

Stopped for the night at Camping la Estacada, on Nahuel Huapi lake:

The silver Alemania truck is an extreme high-tech lightweight camper owned and driven by a German couple from Köln, whom we had drinks with. They have it shipped all over the world, and spend months at a time on the road. Colored countries on the side mark where they’ve been in the truck. Read about it by searching for ‘carbon world cruiser’.

it’s a day ahead of a harvest moon; super moon.