jemena (the hurricane)

Well...We wanted to stop in Mulege but the hurricane went trough it very badly and this little nice village was practicly destroyed...very sad...all the belonging of this poor people were scattered in the street and still wet and muddy... very very sad... people wandering around working hard to save what they could and trying to rebuild their lifes after the disaster...we saw an chopter and few trucks full of militaries hopefully bringing some relief to the area...

we didn't feel like staying and we left pretty quickly.

That shocking tragedy can't be even faynltly certainly compared to our first problems but I 'd like to report them too...

Karl lost again the right case and sligthly damaged the board. This time it happened on a detour, due to the road damage, were wee had to ride on rocks and pebbles... we migth have to use locktite on the clamps...

Then we stopped in Loreto were we stayed on an hotel right in front of the cathedral..very nice and picturesque and so the booths for the fiesta of the loreto's vergin...except...the fiesta was happening that evening...and that night...infact we had the fiesta right in front of our window! Local talent concert, speeches, tower bell playing ,country mex, pop star and firewors included...

fun but long and well attended , thousands...

anyway they were thanking the virgin that spared miraculously the city ( no kidding) and so the hurricane hit badly south and north of it...

but today we made it to La Paz!

to learn (while profiuosly dripping sweat in our gears) that contrary of what Lonely Planet says the ferry leaves on Thursday...so we will have to wait here an other day ( not a bad place really..)...and we'll have to get used to it but we will trash the book most likely. The other two things I looked up ( room prices) were also wrong!

Still struggling with my (new) netbook(pc)and how to resize pics so you'll have to wait for images...