Mad Dawg

Salta Salta Salta!

Posted by Mad Dawg | 9th April 2007

Week four of the journey to Salta proved to be the most eventful: my bike frame snapped; we discovered the best humitas and empanadas in all of Argentina; we tangoed with a headwind; and we knocked out the last clicks of the ride like seasoned battlers, finding our second wind, and then our third, as we rolled into the lovely city of Salta, a couple of days ahead of schedule.

Recap:
We were only 15 km out of Tafi del Valle, when the unthinkable happened: the corner joint on the bike frame that holds the bike racks in place snapped like a twig. The first of the two (prions, I think they´re called) had broken off a couple of weeks before, pinged clean as though it had been sawed off. I heard it pop and I turned in the direction of the sound and saw my bike rack and my panniers akimbo, hanging like sad and dirty bags of laundry off a donkey. Dios mio! We brainstormed, Deputy Dawg and I, wondering how in the world we'd attach the rack to the bike. Luckily, the Dep carries wit

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