It was a hard rain

This picture doesn't show the rain (we hardly get sprinkled in our canopy), but since it's blurry it gets the idea across. Shortly after this photo, we biked thru the storm back to the Hostel, rain changing to hail along the way.

El Parque General San Martín (Mendoza)

January 28th 2007
Back in Mendoza for the afternoon, we rented bikes and rode all around El Parque General San Martín, an enormous park on the western end of Mendoza, just on the edge of the Andes. Of course, since we were on bikes, a rainstorm-turned-thunderstorm-turned-hailstorm ensued, and we camped out under some trees before finally sprinting back to the hostel through the downpour. ... read more

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