September 26, Somewhere circa Salta

Walter and I tweaked his moto for about an hour this morning and then loaded the bikes with our traveling config to give them a workout and practice on the new tires. We set the GPS for a really twisty road north of the city in the mountains and headed out.
The city streets became rural roads, became rutted roads, became a well maintained dirt road, and ended as a kind-of fire road (aka bolivian highway).
We decided on a route even less traveled when we saw a narrow gauge train track - it was an immediate unanimous decision - we followed that for a few km. until we hit a tressel with planks spaced too far apart to allow our tires to pass. We headed back and found a river quarry access road and took that a few km to the end of the line - see photo.
Heading back into town after about 50 km of dirt and rocks we stopped in some wide spot in the road for some (truly) home cookin'.
After getting the dirt scraped off we headed out to the airport to pick up Gustavo - we are now a trio. Over dinner we'll finalize plans for the next stage into Bolivia.

Nick
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