Things we had bought in Inogoya - papaya, avocados, watermelon, ha salincho April 3, 1974 One Phyllis darwin in my line. Of hot lots in his, near Cuyana and we spent the cloudy, cold morning put it up. Wednesday About noon we broke cap at headed up the mountain, following the signs for Siche de Pinos. The road became incredible, bad, although we could see a good road paralleling and down in the canyon. We stopped at a shepherd's stone house to be sure our road met to Siche, while he assured us it did, and he and a friend decided to go with us a ways. They both smoked of coca, and the younger one seemed especially stirred. They were Ayuaras, and mixed Ayara and Spanish when they tried to tell us something, so we got little information from them. Ultimately, they left us - the older one at a house, the younger to ride back to his house in a state truck going the other way. We still think there must be a better road from Cuyana to Siche. The mining 'town' that we recalled from 20 years ago has disappeared - the walls of the houses are still there, but the roofs are gone & nobody seemed to be living there. There was a new installation on the west side of the lake with the water intake for Tepetapa, got gas there and proceeded towards Sta Rosa. The papa at Siche is enormous - much bigger than we remembered it - and full of alpacas.