New work in issue 12.2 of The FlyFish Journal in a feature about the Junin de los Andes area of Argentina by Fred Melton. Check out the new issue to see the entire piece.
Diego Gonzalez del Solar with the second flat of the day on a pretty remote dirt road not too far from Alumine, Argentina. It was a stunning evening and the mood was high and nobody was really that bummed—the spare, useless, was flacid in the back of the car— and we laughed a bit and kicked small rocks around not long before a 10:30 pm sunset. Within 15 minutes or so, a wildly short duration, a bus was headed our direction and Diego waved it to a stop. It was taking laborers from Junin back to their village after a day’s work. They let us on and the driver rallied the bus like a Baja 1,000 driver and a woman with short dark hair sitting up front with a thermos of hot water between her legs passed around matte and chatted with the driver. The bus was sparsely occupied and the faces were pleasant but fatigued. An hour passed and the bus stopped at our place along the Alumine River…
Woman with matte on a bus near Alumine, Argentina.