On the road early and just 18km up he road passed Salta you cross Rio Uruguay and back into Argentina. You cross the river via a massive hydro dam which must be shard by both countries as there are massive power lines shooting off into the countryside on both sides.
Once on road passed Concordia on Ruta 14 some cops stopped us at one of the many Police check points. They asked us to get off the bikes and sent us in to the station with our papers for some reason we did not understand. Sitting in one of the offices was his copper who started to try and ell us ha we had overtaken on double yellow lines in front of a patrol car about 5Km back and he wanted to slap us with a Pesos $360 fine! We responded wih lots of "Que?", "No entiendo" and "Que significa doble linea?" ect...basically denied having a clue what he was on about as the main problem was that we had no Argentinian money on us. After a bit more of "No, No possible donde es evidencia?" (thats not even spanish) the copper left the room in a huff, and slightly worrying that he took our passports which was a bad move from us as you are apparently not obligged to give Police your passport, only Customs/Aduana...anyway we know for next time as we have heard of stories of Police holding your passport untill you pay them off. Luck was on our side and a few minutes later another officer told us we could go...Kew Kew!
Pretty soon after this little ordeal which was our first run in with the cops, we left Ruta 14 behind us for the moment and headed for Mercedes to fuel up and stock up for Colonia Carlos Pelligrini as there is no fuel out at this tiny town. If you rock up in a country town between 12pm and 5 pm there is nothing open expect the petrol stations, therefore we have spent a fair bit of time at them and eating alot of average Empanada lunches at YPF petrol stations.
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