Date: 11/26/2014 Wednesday Starting Location: Ushuaia, Argentina Ending Location: Ushuaia, Argentina (All riding done in and around Ushuaia) Mileage Today: 50 Miles Mileage Total: 2313 miles Breakfast Finally, a decent breakfast. By decent breakfast, I mean eggs and hot dogs. That’s right, they don’t know what sausages are, so they substitute hot dogs for the […]
Date: 11/25/2014 Tuesday Starting Location: Cerro Sombrero, Chile Ending Location: Ushuaia, Argentina Mileage Today: 263.4 Miles Mileage Total: 2263.7 miles Leaving Cerro Sombrero Our morning ritual of getting ready to go, and then, eventually, actually getting on the bikes and going. On this morning, we had a brief delay as we had lost Jay. I […]
Date: 11/24/2014 Monday Starting Location: Torres del Paine, Chile Ending Location: Cerro Sombrero, Chile Mileage Today: 275.6 Miles Mileage Total: 2000.3 miles Breakfast – Torres del Paine On this day, we were able to negotiate with the staff to have a special breakfast setup for us, available for us to enjoy at 6:00 AM. The […]
Date: 11/23/2014 Sunday Starting Location: Torres del Paine, Chile Intermediate Location: Porto Natales, Chile Ending Location: Torres del Paine, Chile Mileage Today: 0 Miles (All exploring done in pickup truck) Mileage Total: 1845.3 miles Our little road trip to Porto Natales Desperate to get some adequate Internet access, I decided to accompany Alain to Porto […]
Date: 11/22/2014 Saturday Starting Location: Torres del Paine, Chile Ending Location: Torres del Paine, Chile Mileage Today: 54.6 Miles (All riding done in Torres del Paine) Mileage Total: 1845.5 miles Torres del Paine The most beautiful National Park on Earth? When you read about this park, you’ll often hear that it is the most beautiful […]
Date: 11/21/2014 Friday Starting Location: El Calafate, Argentina Ending Location: Torres del Paine, Chile Mileage Today: 350 Miles Mileage Total: 1790.7 miles Leaving El Calafate The trip to Torres del Pain from El Calafate started with, as usual, the process of herding the cats, and starting the engines, followed by the other ritual of stopping […]
Date: 11/20/2014 Thursday Starting Location: El Calafate, Argentina Ending Location: El Calafate, Argentina Mileage Today: 109.9 Miles Mileage Total: 1440.7 miles Updates to previous posts Since I’m now in a place where the Internet is alive again, I’ve gone back and made a few updates to previous posts. In most cases, I’ve added some video. […]
Date: 11/19/2014 Wed Starting Location: El Chalten, Argentina Ending Location: El Calafate, Argentina Mileage Today: 133 Miles Mileage Total: 1330.8 miles Leaving El Chalten Breakfast this morning was even more rich in Carbohydrates than yesterday. Yum, this sure is great bread… Actually, the bread is not bad, but that’s about all there is to eat. […]
Date: 11/18/2014 Tuesday Starting Location: El Chalten, Argentina Ending Location: El Chalten, Argentina (No Riding Today) Mileage Today: 0 Miles Mileage Total: 1197.8 miles The day in El Chalten As has so often been the case, we had a nice breakfast, but there was not an egg in sight. So with all eggs banished to […]
Date: 11/17/2014 Monday Starting Location: Estancia La Angostura, Patagonia Argentina Ending Location: El Chalten, Argentina Mileage Today: 172 Miles Mileage Total: 1197.8 miles Leaving Estancia La Angostura We left the Estancia at exactly 8:00 AM. The breakfast was great. We had farm-fresh eggs, fresh squeezed Orange Juice, breads, a very nice Jam, and some form […]