Half way. How did that happen?

If you were wondering why we've gone so quiet of late, we've been busy trying to haul ouselves through the neverending desert that leads to Mendoza, and it has been an epic journey.

We're at the half way point of our trip in more ways than one:

1. We're more than half way through the 167 days between our departure from Ushuaia on the morning of 21st January and our flight home from Lima on 7th July.

2. According to the ACA distance finder Medoza is 3,234 kilometers from our staring point in Ushuaia, and slightly further by the circuitous route that we've taken through Patagonia, meaning that we've covered roughly half of the estimated 7,000km from Ushuaia to Lima.

3. The seafront atUshuaia is located at a latitude of 54° South and the centre of Lima is at 12°, meaning that the mid way point in terms of latitude is 33°25'S.  Mendoza is at 32°.

Hurrah!  After all that hard work we've decided to take two weeks of rest (on the naive assumption that we'll do the second half faster than the first half...).