Today we rent a car and leave Salta for our 4-5 day road trip around the surrounding countryside.

My travel companions include Miles, Laura, and Cody (the three on the left below).

and of course... your truly.

yeah, yeah... I still think Im a little bad ass rock star.

We plan on hitting the salt flats, mountains, cloudforests, and some multi-colored valleys that are supposed to be gorgeous. Mostly I´m just looking forward to doing some driving and getting outta the damn city. Although Salta is a bit smaller than Mendoza and definately has more of a South American feel to it architecturally and with all the churches and stuff. I can´t wait to get out to the really small mountain villages. And I love to drive.

Internet will be spotty at best, so it might be goodbye for a while.

Tickets to Tierra del Fuigo are quite expensive so my plan B currently is to small village hop (skipping the major cities) up through Chili perhaps into Peru, down to Santiago... then across to Buenos Aires for my flight out. But of course, that is subject to change at any moment.

Congratulations to Matt and Diana... all my best.

And Happy Birthday to Josh.

I´m hittin the Road!