New team member and toc tocs

So, here we are spending another day in civilisation, the charming town of Cafayate to be exact. The plan was to just stay one day to chill out a bit and give the horses some rest but then the problem with Arty came up. Since we had decided not to continue the trip with her, Yayo suggested another mule for us and came over with the trailer and an entourage of 4 gauchos (who we knew from Finca Vinaco) yesterday.... its funny to think that it took us 15 days to get here and they did the journey in 2 hours by car. ;o) anyway, they arrived with a new mule: she´s only 6 years old and slightly hyper, but alot stronger than Arty. We loaded Arty onto the trailer, the new mula into the paddock and off we went into town for some cerveza...it was great to see the guys again and especially Yayo. He has just been an incredible help all along the way and now once more showed how much he wants this cabalgata to be a success. Saying good-bye wasn´t easy and los tres decided to stay in town for another few drinks to dwell on the emotional tumult inside...a good idea really, but unfortunately, we hadnt eaten much, downed 3 tequila/vodkas and when the waiter made us try a ´toc-toc´ (a shot with sprite and vodka) the evening was over for caro. a torrential rain had started outside and she was walking in the street with water up to her ankles trying to sober up. by 1 am the rain had quietened down and we decided to walk ´home´, back to our tents, only to find mine refunctioned into a swimming pool. anyway, we all had a good night´s sleep and today was a very welcome day of rest to cure our hangovers...caro hasn´t moved more than 20m away from the tents, philippe and me went into town to look for a new tent for me, we had a hangover lunch, a siesta in the city park and are now on our final mission to pick up our freshly washed clothes (yippieh!), buy some food for the next few days and then get ready for an early departure tomorrow morning with our new mula.

i hope all is well up north and we´re sending besos and abrazos to everyone!!

Comments

[Heidilitititi]

Min dejligste Müsli! Tusind tak for dit kort!!! Hvor er jeg bare musundelig. Jeg drømte også om dig den anden nat...men der sad vi dog udenfor i vores fælles gård om sommeren og drak en dejlig kold øl! Det ser ud til at vi er husejere fra Januar næste år, så du kommer bare.... :o) Jeg glæder mig også til at se dig igen og høre alle historierne!!! KNUS OG KRAM fra Flensborg!!!

[Robert]

Dear Myrna,

happy belated birthday! We are watching with interest your agentina-trip. We are sitting here in office preparing our new cataloque, espacially Irland 09. It is snowing the hole morning. Wish you all a nice time in agentina.

Greetings from germany
Aktiv-Erlebnisreisen
und ein dickes "Bussel"

[Daddy]

Hi Myrna, hi all three!
Looking at your current weather, not as hot, some showers, but the forecast calls for warmer and sunnier weather. We had our first snow, still on the ground.
The photo with your route (17 Nov) was very helpful. I followed all along on Google Earth.
It is a wonderful landscape and I hope you found a new tent.
All the best and hang on...

[la marie]

vous inquietez pas on suit vos photos, vos periples mais on osait pas mettre de petit mot!voila c fait!bon alors les photos geniales ca donne vraiment envie de venir mais alors la tente ah ca NON!imaginez le nombre de betes vous galopant sur le visage pendant votre sommeil ca me donne froid dans le dos brigrrrrrrrde sentir le cheval toute la journee!! bon alors les fesses elles commencent a avoir de la corne ou pas?non parce qu en tant qu infirmiere je peux vous donner des conseils lol
bon j arrete avec mes betises et vous dire qu ici le froid commence a se faire sentir et que ca sent bon noel et ses cadeaux et les repas a plus en finir hummmmmm
bon ben voila des gros bisous a vous trois
marina

[Laura]

Thank you for writing a very funny post!!!!!!
Do you find enough ketchup for your meals???
Besitos Laura