Week 6 Trip to Santiago

On our trip north to Santiago we passed miles of these orange groves.

This rice paddies with the mountains in the background were sure pretty. There were a lot of them that had men out wading and working in them. The men were still there wading and working several hours later.

We had to stop to see exsactly what these were.  they were made from wide strips of cloth, pulled through a tarp-like material.(Almost like a feed sack)  they wouldnt be very durable but they were beautiful.  Most of them were about six feet square and some were SNOW white! 

For several miles there would be one type of thing sold by all the different little stops and then we would go a while and then something different would be for sale,  again the same for miles.  Several little places sold carved items from a little spoon to big platters and oars.  This shop also had colored wooden items.

We had seen several little carts with bottles.  we stopped to see what was for sale.  there were bottles of various shapes and sizes filled with peanuts they had harvested and roasted.  We bought a Gerber baby food jar full.  He was also selling potatoes.  He was roasting them in the potted fire on the cart.  Another cart down the road also had cashews in some of the bottles.

We knew we had finally arrived in Santiago when we saw the tower.  We don't know what it represents, but we knew we were there and we needed to figure out how to find an address for our stop.