Date: 11/13/2014 Starting Location: Bariloche, Argentina Ending Location: Bariloche, Argentina Mileage Today: 181 Miles (291.1Km) Mileage Total: 482 miles Kilometers Total: 776 EoD Odometer Reading: 13834.9 A beautiful day in Bariloche We spent the day in Bariloche, and over the course of the day, we managed to take care of laundry, buying our picnic lunch […]
Category: 2014 Patagonia Tour
Date: 11/12/2014 Starting Location: Pucon, Chile Ending Location: Bariloche, Argentina Mileage Today: 234 Miles (377 Km) Mileage Total: 301 miles EoD Odometer Reading: 13,543 The morning departure It was an early morning in Pucon, rising at 5:00 in order to get packed, get a little breakfast, get the truck loaded and ready to leave by […]
Date: 11/11/2014 Starting Location: Pucon, Chile Ending Location: Pucon, Chile Mileage Today: 67 Miles (108 Km) Mileage Total: 67 miles Kilometers Total: 108 EoD Odometer Reading: 13165 Today’s Events: Practice ride and a trip to the volcano Tinkering with the bike… Well, yesterday’s adventure with the motorcycle illuminated a number of things about me, about […]
Date: 11/10/2014 Starting Location: Santiago, Chile Ending Location: Pucon, Chile Today’s Events: The initial tour briefing Last night at 6PM we all gathered on the 17th (top) floor of the hotel and spent about 90 minutes signing forms and learning more about the trip. That’s where we met Eduardo, our guide for this trip. Eduardo […]
Ride Summary Sunday November 10, 2014 No riding today. Just tourista things done on this fine day… A Stranger in a Strange Land Did you ever get that feeling that you’re from a land, which is far, far away from the place that you are in that moment. Well, this strange feeling can come over […]
Today’s Stat’s Date: 11/08/2014 Starting Location: Santiago, Chile Ending Location: Santiago Chile Today’s Events: Detailed Below Life here in Santiago… After a shower, and a quick update to the ‘Blog, I finally headed to bed at 11 PM local time. Santiago is two hours earlier than EST, or 5 hours earlier than PST. So, let […]
And so it begins… Today is Thursday, November 6, 2014, and this evening at 8PM PST, I boarded a plane to Santiago, Chile. I changed planes in CA at LAX, and in Panama City, Panama, before boarding the final leg of the journey, which got me into Santiago about 8PM on Nov 7th. it took […]
7 days to go It’s the end of October, and I’m now down to only 7 days before departure to Santiago. In this post, I’ll talk about the last 30 days, and some of the surprises and disruptions that I’ve had to deal with. With just one week to go, I’ll be in the gym […]
My first seminar for Docwong.com On Thursday, October 9th, in cooperation with Doc Wong, and the clinics that he puts on at his office in Belmont, I lead a session about how to make the best use of your GPS by exploiting the hidden features of BaseCamp. BaseCamp is freeware, offered to the public by […]
What a weekend This weekend Skips was holding the third and final Hill Climb event at the Carnegie Special Vehicle Recreation Park. SVRPs in CA are state parks which are set aside for using Special Vehicles, such as dirt bikes, quads, Adventure Bikes, etc. The Carnegie park seems to be well suited for motocross and […]