The bikes arrive tomorrow and the weather finally warmed up today.  It was 7 celcious today and the skies were finally blue.  

We found ourselves surrounded by beautiful (depending upon your perspective) snow covered mountains.  The snow line on the hills retreated significantly.  Tomorrow should be dominated by arriving bikes, laundry, packing and putting bikes, accessories, clean clothes, and bodies onto the bikes.  If we are very fortunate we may attempt to make the mountain pass tomorrow afternoon/evening but I'm betting against that happening.

I collected the &quot;South end of South America&quot; rock for my backyard rock collection/pond today.  I got it from the furthest place south one can travel on roads in the Americas.  It's quite small for obvious reasons.  I plan on getting 3 more rocks.  One at each of the extremeties of the continents.

We did a little celebrating last night ... actually we did quite alot of celebrating last night   <!-- s:cry: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_cry.gif" alt="Crying or Very sad" title="Crying or Very sad" /><!-- s:cry: -->  and consequently we have taken to this Siesta concept with the enthusiasm of a local today.  All others sleep as I'm typing this post.  Perhaps one just has to acclimate adequately to accomodate to local customs.

We are all VERY anxious to get on the road!