Backdated from Sunday, April 24, 2005 11:51pm-ish (mined from paper journal.)

Bed, Purmamarca, Jujuy, Argentina.

I´m at my ¨hospedaje,¨ which is more like a room with old beds (all
but mine unoccupied, my stuff notwithstanding) attached to the pizza
joint across the street from from Chapanal, which had been recommended
as nice for its $7 pesos price tag by Maxi and Magdala in Iruya and
was closed when I arrived. I´m only paying $5 pesos (less than $2.50
CDN) here, so I can´t really complain that the washroom, outside and
around the back of the restaurant/house, has no toilet paper (or seat
or hot water or mirror or soap or towel, etc.)!

I´m lying here, probably past midnight, reading through the final
section of the ¨Traveller´s Companion¨ Argentina guide that Chad R.
left me in BsAs, noticing mistakes in the English-Argentine glossary,
and fantasizing about starting an NGO or maybe even getting back into
the academia in some interesting, worthwhile, fulfilling area… I must
get Internet access soon and look into possibilities.

My back will be sore from this mattress tomorrow, but I´m hoping that
Jose, my Hospitality Club host in Salta, will have a comfy bed and, if
I´m lucky, a washing machine. I´m in need. Not direly, but my
clothes (especially the ¨poyeras¨ and repaired green pants and light
blue fleece I´ve been living in) could sure use a good wash after
being subjected to all the dust of Jujuy and Salta …