Hoping the gearbox will be back together during the week. Meanwhile we wait and it’s not exciting especially as I think I’ve seen enough of Arequipa.
Layne is in California for another couple of weeks so I would be here anyway, this stop was planned, but not having a working van is annoying. Renzzo is reassembling it but the pace is not rapid.
The Swiss van stayed another day, the occupants off in town somewhere. A nice couple of Germans showed up in an elderly Russian van, a UAZ. He was surprised when I recognized it.
Their plan was to go to Central Asia, the former Soviet Union where these machines are quite common so when the war broke out in Ukraine they scrapped that plan.
Thus they came to South America and have got this far from Colombia but they aren’t fond of mountains. At 10,000 feet this old van barely rolls so they’re looking for lower altitudes on their way south. However they plan to go through Bolivia as their van has a gasoline engine which they think will make finding fuel easier in that unhappy country.
Rusty is enjoying not traveling. He hasn’t been out of the campground for two days. Oddly happy.
GANNET2 looks okay. Soon I trust, she will drive okay too.
