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Any resemblance to anyone real or imaginary is mere bad luck. We are all lying in the gutter, but some of us are trying to get up. Keepers of private notebooks, anxious malcontents.

On the road from Mexico to Argentina. Riding in to a glistening mountain lake was the highlight of our Chilean horse trek with Lot. Salto de las Rosas, San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina. The mountains reflect as if the lake were a shimmering sheet of tinted glass. The gentle swish as we ride through the shallows of the clear lake waters is the only sound. This is nature, on a grand scale and at its raw and unspoiled best. A national general strike? Bugger.

Tuesday, 29 September 2015. To thank him for his kindness, we took Jim to the Adventure Overland Show in Stratford Upon Avon, to hang out with other trucks and make some friends. That we first met in Guanajato whilst they were travelling south in their Wesfalia Sprinter. Wednesday, 2 September 2015.