In Salta !

OMG ...  this had the potential to be a bloody nightmare ! 

 I"d planned on a simple 2km drive out of the Airport to our Motel near Salta - time i thought to get used to the car, the traffic and the local Salta driving conditions. It had all gone wrong though when our Car Hire agent suggested that we head into town to pick up a GPS unit for our hire car !

I didnt know that the city of Salta was over 10kms away and comprised over a million people! I didn't know that the route that our agent took was soon to be closed by striking workers and I sure as hell didn"t know that Salta had a shit load of one way streets with a large number of them really poorly marked !

We'd started the day off well enough by undergoing our well worn route to the Buenos Aires city airport of AEP only a 20+ minute drive away from downtown BA.

Checked in we were soon on our way to Salta in the Nthn corner of Argentina. Salta is an area that is famed for its wineries and its proximity to the  high altitude painted hills of the Andes.

Fast forwarding - after our arrival at Salta & journey into the city centre to pick up the GPS unit we now found ourselves going round in circles trying to pick up our route (yes even with GPS) while trying to avoid the narrow one way streets !

Using some Henley logic after using up my full list of expletives, I thought stuff it - I just took the shortest route (down i suspect a one way street) and finally rejoined our missing potholed shitty Hwy. 

Somehow we eventually found our way to our ranch style Motel and with a huge sigh of relief checked in !

It was time to finally unwind although with our detached unit coming with its very own 4 kennel dog enclosure (full) this just might be a bit problematic !

 Only 7 days to go !