[14.02.2024 – 21.02.2024[ Interlude A lot has happened, since you last read. Culture, riding, some rain and my body did not what I was expecting of him. And we need to go shopping, but to be honest, the only one doing some shopping will be me, as we will not find anything here that might fit Stefan, being 1,90m and all. We have been to some rather remote areas, but everywhere we went thus far we got thumbs up, and…
[07.02.2024 – 14.02.2024[ La Paz Getting the bikes filled, was not such a big deal after all, took us all in all 30 minutes, including a quick haggling about the price. No that was no haggling we said 6 she agreed, done deal. Operator happy, we happy, let´s get on with our business. Which for this day meant exploring more of La Paz. And we did use the Teleferic to do so. Quite an interesting way of public transportation, fast,…
[31.01.2024 – 07.02.2024[ Salinas de Garcia Mendoza – Oruro This morning i got up early and went for a short walk. By chance i caught the sunrise. On my way back I bought some bread for breakfast. And with renewed energy we packed our bikes and set off onwards towards Oruro. Much to our surprise the the whole stage was paved. Which made this one of the easier stages of the past days. My body also played along and we…
leaving Chile behind, just like before Argentina, we are now moving into countries neither of us has been before, starting with Bolivia
[17.01.2024 :: 24.01.2024[ Malargue – Mendoza The last stretch before we stay in Mendoza. Mendoza is important as we now have travelled approximately 10000km and our bikes need to be serviced. We have found Panella Motos which is an official YAMAHA service agent. And they agreed to let to take our bikes in on Thursday. Stefan booked us a nice appartment with its own laundry machine, and we will stay two days. But first we need to get there. Another…
10.01.2024 :: 17.01.2024 Tecka – Chaiten (volcano camping) This day. it was just one dconstant highlight. It started with the road to the border, where Stefan basically five minutes in already stopped for a picture with a very lilac blossoming thistle, and it got better and better throughout the day. Later that day we moved onto the Carreterra Austral, which we have done 2020, but this time we had clear weather all around and saw all the mountains and volcanos,…
03.01.2024 :: 10.01.2024 Rio Grande – Punta Arenas Let´s try this again, as the border crossing we wanted to take towards Porvenir was closed we took San Sebastian and then the gravel road westward. Once we were at the Magellan Straight it was really nice, and the wind dialed down a notch. We even were in Porvenir in time to catch a coffee before taking the Ferry towards Puerto Montt. Finding a place to sleep in Puerto Montt took us…
Our last kilometers to the end of the world and the beginning of our trip north
Idiot Well the week was off to a great start with driving out from Sarmiento and cruising through a massive oil field. I had never seen one, the amount of infrastructure is just insane, and it kept with us for about 70 kilometers. Quite interesting to see where the stuff comes from we burn on each kilometer we ride our motorcycles. At the end of the road east we were greeted with a nice view of the Atlantic ocean. Our…
New week, new destinations. After Lonquimay our next destination was supposed to take us to San Martin de los Andes across the border to Argentina and on to Ruta 40. However after 68km of gravel we reached Icalma and the lake of the same name. Being midday it was time for an extended brake and while getting to the beach of the lake we drove by a camp site that was open, beautiful day with a temperature above 20°C i…