2017-12-30 Day 240 Sat

Wheel change day. We have been meaning to do this for about 4000km’s but just hasn’t happened for one reason or another. Didn’t take long. The spare on the right went on the right rear, and the rear went on the front and the front on the spare. Same with the left side. Took a little over an hour. But was very hot in the sun. Due to be 37۫ C today with a cool wet change tomorrow.

With Internet in mind it is easy to see we have left Uruguay. Pretty much wherever we went in Uruguay we had great signal, now not so.

We drove on up to Victoria, a very mundane drive, sealed road and very straight. Some small ups and downs. We couldn’t find a park in town next to the river so headed out NW on a white road to a lake. We pulled off the road in high weeds under a tree. We sat outside in the shade which was so much cooler than inside EC. It had certainly reached its forecast temp of 37۫ C.

We watched the first half of Les Miserables, then went to sleep about 11:30. At midnight there was a bang and call at the side of the vehicle “Police”. We could see the vehicle with flashing lights on the road and the cop out the front of the vehicle. John yelled back and got some clothes on and exited. I got dressed and listened. John and the cop talked at the front of the vehicle. Our passports were required so John took out our photocopies to the vehicle and was questioned by the older cop. The first cop answered the questions for John. A ute arrived which had the fellow who “called” us in, he would not look at John. The cops didn’t seem to concerned didn’t want original passport or Aduana and soon all left. Back to bed.

220km’s