Today was a driving not a seeing day - we wanted to make it to Cordoba.

The countryside continued to be flat farm land, with wide spread stands of palms trees and lesser stands of pine and eucalyptus. For much of the day the land looked quite wet, some of the water looked like the result of recent rains but other times it looked like a natural wet land. We passed through a number of small farming towns. These varied in size from villages to substantial towns. They all looked clean, well cared for and prosperous. In the early afternoon we stopped at San Francisco to get fuel and groceries. The town sported a modern shopping center with a theater, and games parlor with a large fast food area that was stacked with people. Unfortunately it also sported the slowest traffic lights and checkout staff we have ever seen.

We arrived in Cordoba a city of 1.2 million people, just as the sun was setting and had to navigate to the camping ground in dwindling light. Not my favorite activity. The campground was hard to find and required a number of stops to ask locals for directions.

While settling in for the night we noted that

• we are once again south of the 30th parallel, and

• the climate is again temperate not tropical, the evening is cool and clear with no humidity.