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 chosen destination was Caleta Oliva, and that is where the title´s idiot comes into play. We were greeted by a police check, which was not a problem. On our way to the assumed camp site, I however rear ended Stefan while greeting the police men in the car next to me while approaching an intersection. Both of us found our self on the road, with my front fallen of. Other then that and of course my bruised ego we got away unscathed. The police was helpful in getting our bikes up, no ticket was issued no time spent in any police station, and even some days later everything seems to work, bodies and machines.

Of course that was not the end of it, as the city camping was nowhere to be found, and both of us would have rather slept somewhere out on the road then on the other camp site. So off we went further down south. Fitz Roy which was the next town the camp site was closed, but luckily in Jaramillo another 30km further the camp site was open, and yet again equipped with hot showers, electricity and wifi. Since we have hit the Atlantic coast the winds have steadily picked up, and the night in Jaramillo i was bit worried that our tent might not stay on the ground.

All worries where without cause, the only thing that did not where it belonged was the sand, that we have still in the tent to some extend.

Jaramillo – Puerto Desedao

The next day was just a short straight ride towards Puerto Desedao as we did see that there is a ferry across the river and it promised to be an interesting ride down the coast line after Puerto Desedao. Anyway that did not happen, the ferry is not existing anymore, however the camp site was ok and properly protected against the wind.

Puerto Desedao – Puerto San Julian

As we were not able to just jump across the river we had to go back 20 km to Tellier and then turn towards the gravel, for about 150 km to reconnect with Ruta 3 to go further down south. Up until half of the gravel road there was some traffic, but after that we only saw one more oncoming car, and none that overtook us. So we were properly alone. I tumbled my bike once in some deeper gravel, right after a stop, but other then that it was an enjoyable ride with amazing landscape. And we did do some drone shots.

This is basically 70 km in each direction away from any kind of civilization. The only civilization you get after 70 km west is the paved Ruta 3.

In Puerto San Julian we again took the camping municipial with the usual benefits, and decided to stay 2 nights. We did find most probably the coolest unexpected place there called Argensud, anyway we were out of the bar/restaurant much to early, but riding is tiring. The place itself could host parties up to 750 people, more if you pack it, and it seems like they do have the soundsystem and lighting to go along with it. Some cool techno events would come to my mind :-).

Both of us are trying to improve our work with the drone, by not only using the preprogrammed features but as well fly manually while maintaining the object we want to capture in the center. Lots of improvement needs to happen, but we got some time to learn.

Christmas Day Riding – Puerto San Julian – Isla Pavlon

So we had to options either go directly to Rio Gallegos or take a camping spot on the way, which was Isla Pavlon, and turned out to be quite the popular place, nicely embedded between two arms of Rio Santa Cruz, the camp site was packed with people. Everybody was running the BBQ and so did we.

All in all it was a properly spent Christmas Day, some riding, sunshine, BBQ and beer.

Isla Pavon – Rio Gallegos

Damn, that were hard earned 250 km, with constant wind at 50km/h and gusts up to 70km/h. The last 20 km though felt almost easy as we had tailwind and that was just so enjoyable, that we actually slowed down to the speed of the wind (50 km/h ) and just enjoyed.

Anyway finally we arrived and chose to stay 2 nights in a lovely little hotel, which seems to be quite popular with riders, judging by all the stickers.

It is now just 580 km more till Ushuaia which we plan to reach on the 30th of December and then will stay 3 nights there.

till next time everyone,
happy hacking