Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Traveling More
We have found that there are quite a few farms just outside of the city that have turkeys in our area. The kids love to see them! We also found a few people having what Heather called (for our kids sake) a cow party. This is our way of saying that they have killed the cow, taken off the hide, and are curing the meat.
Recently we took a few short little day trips near where we live in San Salvador de Jujuy. First we traveled the provincial route 35 (like a state road) to Ocloyas. We had found a little pamphlet in the tourist center that made the road sound intriguing. It was a short route that made a circle back to our town via another provincial route (29). Well... we certainly found the road less traveled! 
Ocloyas was a very cute little town - only 2 blocks by 2 blocks (plus farms). It is at the end of a road, similar to the roads that dead end into the mountains back in Washington State. 
When we left town, we wanted to finish the other half of the road. We found 3 gates that needed to opened/closed for livestock. Near where we turned around, there had been a landslide, and part of the road could not be traveled on at all - we are not sure how long the road had been closed, but there were no warning signs. God was faithful (as always) and we had to stop well before we would have been stuck (or possibly sliding off the cliff). He even gave us a great place to turn around! We loved every minute of it - what an adventure!
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Our second trip was to the provincial route 20 and 20A which goes to Las Capillas, but we never quite made it there. We crossed a dry river bed 4 times before the river started to have water in it. We crossed one last time a little nervously before reaching where these pictures and video were taken. We got out and checked the river throughly and felt like the Holy Spirit said not to cross. So we played, turned around and headed back for home.
It was a great drive, until our tire gave out. We had a flat (not too unusual) - and happened to be in the middle of no where. But God had a plan.... there were some workers that were logging in the area who were just leaving. We asked them if they could help us because our jack was broken and could not lift our car far enough & our spare tire was flat. They said they could not, but there was a second truck coming behind them. So we waited... and prayed. The second truck had a jack (which by the way is called a gato - or cat here in argentina) and an air compressor. They lifted our car and filled our tire with air. Praise God !!
Recently we took a few short little day trips near where we live in San Salvador de Jujuy. First we traveled the provincial route 35 (like a state road) to Ocloyas. We had found a little pamphlet in the tourist center that made the road sound intriguing. It was a short route that made a circle back to our town via another provincial route (29). Well... we certainly found the road less traveled! 
Ocloyas was a very cute little town - only 2 blocks by 2 blocks (plus farms). It is at the end of a road, similar to the roads that dead end into the mountains back in Washington State. 
When we left town, we wanted to finish the other half of the road. We found 3 gates that needed to opened/closed for livestock. Near where we turned around, there had been a landslide, and part of the road could not be traveled on at all - we are not sure how long the road had been closed, but there were no warning signs. God was faithful (as always) and we had to stop well before we would have been stuck (or possibly sliding off the cliff). He even gave us a great place to turn around! We loved every minute of it - what an adventure!
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Our second trip was to the provincial route 20 and 20A which goes to Las Capillas, but we never quite made it there. We crossed a dry river bed 4 times before the river started to have water in it. We crossed one last time a little nervously before reaching where these pictures and video were taken. We got out and checked the river throughly and felt like the Holy Spirit said not to cross. So we played, turned around and headed back for home.
It was a great drive, until our tire gave out. We had a flat (not too unusual) - and happened to be in the middle of no where. But God had a plan.... there were some workers that were logging in the area who were just leaving. We asked them if they could help us because our jack was broken and could not lift our car far enough & our spare tire was flat. They said they could not, but there was a second truck coming behind them. So we waited... and prayed. The second truck had a jack (which by the way is called a gato - or cat here in argentina) and an air compressor. They lifted our car and filled our tire with air. Praise God !!
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Trip to La Quiaca
So the other day, we decided to drive up the 5 hours to the Bolivian border to the town of La Quiaca, Argentina. Here are some pictures from our trip.
About an hour from San Salvador de Jujuy (the capital of the province of Jujuy), we found a little bridge that goes across the river to a farm/orchard. The kids LOVED the bridge even though the wind was blowing pretty hard down through the canyon. They also really enjoyed getting down on the bank of the river and throwing rocks into the river.
The little town of La Quiaca was very cute. We also saw the Bolivian border and had quite a nice chat with a few of the border guards about whether we could actually cross without having to pay anything... needless to say, we did not cross. We did take some pictures though. :-) But the guards there had never heard of the Assemblies of God church (remember this is all in Spanish...).
We crossed the line for the Tropic of Capricorn.
We also reached (on the plains) the heighest point of 3780 meters (which is 12,401.5 feet) above sea level and the Andes mountains were still in the background! The trip back down took 4 hours (instead of 5) since it was all downhill!
Monday, March 7, 2011
Traveling in NW Argentina
Before deciding where we would live for the next 3 years, we drove around in the NW of Argentina. While driving along the road to Cafayete from Tucuman, we found that the road was built so that water run off, creeks, and small rivers could cross the road. It was to be expected especially during the rainy season. We decided to video a few different ones just for fun! Enjoy these two videos.
Here is one example of goats on the road...
And some pictures from driving the back road between Salta and San Salvador de Jujuy.
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