2150 From Chile into Argentina through border controls 270 kilometers apart >>>>>and over a 4,600-meter-high pass.
2151 Still in the huge Inca empire.
2152 Mountain brooks fringed with ice, with salt.
2154 Indescribable road down the Andes.
2155 First contact with Paraguayan folkloric music, by radio.
2156 Pastel-colored slopes as nowhere else.
2157 Fragance of vegetation, a forgotten marvel.
2157 Rediscovering leaves rustling, birds chirping.
2157 Newscast on national radio, unimaginably terrible.
2158 A monetary system in transition, not to be believed.
2159 Shape of provinces describes course of European invasion.
(In Vespuccia, too.)
2161 Garbage collecting - fitness-workout on the run.
2163 Inappreciation of things colonial.
2164 Another rediscovery: something wet falling from the sky.
2165 Are rupestrian paintings with horses necessarily post-contact?
2166 Tilcara, archaeological site.
2168 Speed limits, totally irrational.
2168 Highway-police stations, to serve, not to harass.
2168 Automobile Club, more solid and conspicuous than its homologues.
2169 Interview on radio, declined; reason: creeping narrowmindedness.
2170 Telephone call, an adventure (the bad kind).
2170 Post office, an adventure (the bad kind).
2171 Lordliness in farm-people.
2171 Guachipas, rupestrian paintings.
2176 Cara Huasi, rupestrian paintings.
2179 Pedigreed stupidities in archaeology and museography.
2180 El Mollar, menhirs.
2182 The game of crossroad-signs placed after the crossroads.
2182 The game of distance-signs in recurrent disagreement among themselves.
2184 Motel: fireproof, soundproof masonry.
2185 National radio: uniquely eclectic.
2186 Newsstand, from pornography to Nietzche and Aristotle.
2188 Real strawberries, real cream, etc.
2190 Real dendrites and real fern fossils.
2192 Talampaya, petroglyphs; unordinarily unprimitive.
2193 "Kilohertz" pronounced by Hispanophone with a snobbish Anglo twist rather >>>>>than with the German (and Spanish) correct clarity.
2196 With a real flesh-and-blood Tahuantinsuyuan.
2196 Highest archaeological sites on Earth (6,000 meters and higher).
2198 Mummies, as if fresh from a beauty parlor.
2201 We have a collection of Argentinian banknotes from a one-peso note to a >>>>>one-million-peso note.
2201 Unique craziness:
70-centimeter-deep ditches between sidewalk and pavement.
2202 The historic message of the railway-station restrooms in Mendoza.
2202 First health-food store since leaving Vespuccia.
2202 A grandiose sculptural flowering (Cerro de la Gloria).
2203 A most astounding myth: San Martín.
2206 A society interested in the world, ignoring and belittling itself.
2207 Making life pedantically difficult.
2208 The Andes, now a ghost behind pollution.