kickin it

yoooooooooo, well, i kinda dropped away there for a minute. but hey, how can you not when you show up to a little farm in the countryside. anyway, on the bus ride from lima to mendoza what happened was interesting. first we spent about an hour and a half in the middle of the first night pulled off at a truck stop while the bus drivers were assessing a situation with the suspension. well, they didn´t get it fixed then but we were able to go to the next big town along the way the next day and spent several hours at a mechanic trying to remedy the situation. after we got that all fixed up and were heading out of town to the border of chile we started to have engine troubles. so, back to town, and it was late enough at that point that we just had to wait till the next day to get a mechanic and work it out. so they put us up in a hotel for the night and in the morning the hotel manager comes in and tells me that i am to go to the bus at ten. when i get there i find out that i am one of three people on the bus who are going to mendoza rather than buenos aires and that through dumb luck that means that i get to get on a different bus that left about a half hour later. hell yeah, i don´t know what happened with the others, cause they were still working on the bus when we took off. then when we were about to get to the argentinian border a small landslide happened in the andes that had to be cleared before we could pass. but that ended up working out well because it put me in mendoza at six in the morning instead of three in the morning. anyhoo, tunuyan is awesome. its a nice little town with a great ice cream place and a fantastic view of the andes. the sunrises and sunsets are absolutely amazing. i´ll be uploading some great pictures when i get a bit more time. at the moment i am in san juan waiting out a bus layover to barreal. a little camping trip in the mountains with vida and her friend sarah. the other folks that are at the farm right now are wonderful, but by the time we get back almost the entire crew will have switched. it is very hot and the main work that we have been doing is plastering the walls in the house. everyday we go to the ditch to cool off and i can spend the entire day with no shoes......... yes. also exciting is that vida has decided that my mission while i am here is to design and implement an oven/hotwater heater combo for the house. excellent. more to come soon. right now i have to go check out what the guidebooks call ¨scenic butter¨. all my love...............................................