Crossing the border...

So where do I begin...back in tupiza which despite being only a couple days ago feels like months. we left on saying that we had booked in to go horseback riding and that we did. Wow, the scenery around tupiza is absolutely stunning. It is a landscape coavered by colorful red canyons, caves and magnificant rock formations dotted with cacti and thorn bushes. Our tour guide gave us fake little cowboy boots(A cover over our calves and shoes) as well as cowboy hats to enrich our experience. Its been a while since either of us have been on a horse but we quickly got the hang of it. Dennis´s horse was super lazy and would only gallop for a few seconds and then decide to start walking again. This was allright though as we enjoyed the scenery. We only wish we had some more time there to camp out in the canyons like real cowboys(girl).

We returned to the deserted town in search for some food with our 22 boliviano´s (just over $3.00)...not to much option! We did find a hamburger and fries for that price. Although we were very thirsty and had no more money for a drink...well the table over some tourists left half a bottle of Coke...so Dennis scammed it and we finished it off! Now why didn´we have any money? Well we didn´t calculate quite enough money to get us to the border, and in Tupiza we were not able to take any money out of the bank. So we ventured on as we had already bought bus tickets to the border hoping to get some money there. Loading the bus we discovered a bus terminal tax, and we gave the remainding change and she let us go on only paying one way. We arrived at the border town of Villazon, and we tried to exchange chilean money we had, but were unsuccessful and hoping we could exchange it on the other side. So we went through the procedures and were through quite easily....dennis started to have his bag searched and when he saw how packed it was he left it! Now we walked to the town on the argentina side and came across no way to exchange money! What a situation...so we went on to the bus station quite desperate and praying we would find a company that would except credit card. Luckily enough we found a bus and bought tickets although sure he scammed our credit card (we´ll have to wait and see). We didn´t care at this point and starving we sat and waited for the bus (a forced fast). Anywho the bus arrived and then they wanted money to put our baggage underneath....well dennis talked our way out of it when the guy realized we truly didn´t have any money! So due to this ordeal we had to skip a stop to Humahuca, which is a small town that was suppose to be very beautiful and traditional, but had no bank. So we headed on to Salta through the night and this bus stopped many, many times so we didn´t get much sleep. We also had to stop at a control station at midnight and have all the bags checked...again we got off easy when they took a look at our bags!

We arrived in Salta around 4am and ventured out to find a hostel. Walking of course as we don´t have any money for a cab. So loaded down we walked for over an hour looking for a hostel finding that many were full. Finally around 530 we found a hostel and went to sleep. We snoozed for quite some time and awake around 11 just starving...as it had been 24 hours since we had anything to eat! We were both quite groggy and very sore from carrying our bags we found a bank and thankfully we got money out!!! We found the first place to eat and not realizing it was pretty pricey for a very small amount of food...who knew empanadas were bite size! Anyways we ventured to the super market and bought a few things to fill our stomaches.

Now we are wandering around the city and everything is closed until late this afternoon. We go checking our email and find that we are an aunty and uncle again to little Jordy Austin, that was a shocker as were expecting news anyday from Lorraine and Christiaan who are expecting. So Wendy and John have been waiting to adopt for awhile, so we are excited and hopefully they will have him home soon!!