Day 3 La Tacunga to Riobamba

Today was a good and bad day!  My legs, heart and lungs felt good, but a number of us went of course and my computer's battery ran out!  Somehow we managed to miss some of the directions in the middle of the route and therefore missed the lunch truck.  It was not a disaster, it just meant that we landed up going a different way in the middle of the proposed route.  We stopped for some food in a little restaurant in a village called Quero and had a bowl of Chicken soup, Chicken with chips, rice, salad and a Pineapple Juice for the enormous sum of $2!!  After lunch we still went over the main climb of the day which was around 3450m.  As yesterday we were greeted with some rain at the top of the climb but it was not as bad as on day 2.  We also had fewer vehicles to deal with, maybe because it was Sunday, but it was also because we are getting further away from Quito.  Tomorrow we start to get into the countryside a lot more so the air should be cleaner.