Oh!

I was hitching out of Tucuman just outside a big fruit market where some trucks were going to head out of in a few hours, i was waiting for that time so that i could get a ride north. All of a sudden a cross eyed dirty little fucker came up and pretended his bike was running out of petrol and he asked where there was a gas station...i knew he was up to something dodgy but i was alone and there was nothing i could do but play along, especially when he said " i have a gun so just be chilled and don't do anything..go on walk off"...i was wearing my big backpack and in a split second decided to keep my hand in my pocket and not use the knife i was holding, he was only taking my beaten up guitar and a small backpack with nothing important, i figured he most likely didn't even know how to use a gun, but he looked rough as fuck and i didn't want to risk anything, i walked off and let him be. It's not easy getting mugged, the feeling of not being able to do much about it, the feeling that some douchebag that can't be bothered to work like the rest of us has your shit, and of course the feeling when you think "what about your family" if something worse had happened.

All this has totally ruined the vibe of my trip, i no longer feel like heading further north and getting to know more of this beautiful continent, maybe i'll come back another time and do the stuff i havent seen in a better mood. I'm gonna head back south and stay at a mountain shelter for a few days, and just chill before heading to Buenos Aires and getting that early plane outta here.

Hitch hiking is obviously dangerous and getting mugged was a risk that i was always taking, but now that it has happened i don't feel like doing it on this trip anymore, and that's how i want to see the north, by hitch hiking, so i will come back when i'm in a better mood.

Hope all is good back home, looks like this summers gonna be a good one!!

Santiago.