10th December 2011
Today we have been away for 2 months and it really does feel a lot longer than that.
We rose early had a very picturesque breakfast, of porridge and coffee this has become the chosen start to our days. After this we packed and were soon on our way and the start of the ride was pretty much all down hill, so we cover the miles very quickly, stopping for a break at Pituil. It was after this break that we started to feel the wind. The winds over here generally start to build around midday and get stronger as the day progresses. If its a tail wind then great as your generally getting tired at this point, headwinds thought are not welcome! Especially when the road starts to take you up. As usual we didn´t let this get us down or slow us to much and before we knew it the signs suddenly notified us we only had 10km to go until we reached Chilecito. HURRAY! Our first stop was to a store for a celebratory ice cream (this is the usual case on hot days, well any day really). Whilst we sat enjoying our cold drink and ice cream one of the four who we had met in Cafayate came over and was quite surprised to see us as they had reckoned we´d arrive late evening. (little did they know). It is here I will confess and I´m sure Sarah will say the same, but there may have been just a smidge of competitiveness about the last couple of days. Only a smidge ;-).