Trip: San Rafael, CA to Tierra Del Fuego, AR on bicycle.
There are [187] stories from my trip: San Rafael, CA to Tierra Del Fuego, AR on bicycle.
ARGENTINA | Saturday, 28 Dec 2013 | Views [1582]
What a powerful feeling to be back on the bike after 16 days- have I mentioned that before? POWERFUL! I imagine how it feels to ride a motorcycle - that big engine between your legs and the speed in your face, feeling the road, the world is yours... ... Read more >
CHILE | Saturday, 28 Dec 2013 | Photo Gallery
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ARGENTINA | Sunday, 22 Dec 2013 | Views [828]
when you read somebodies stories, live his moments too, which he wrote down way back in Peru. I was impressed by his style, his broken english.....but he kept writing -no worries to be correct. His stories drenched in emotions - deep reflections, addictive ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Sunday, 22 Dec 2013 | Views [2502]
Hanging here in Mendoza since Dec. 6th - happy Nikolaus Tach, everybody.....
But now we already write the 15th of December. James has been in Kentucky USA since a few days and is expected to meet me back here on the 18th. He flew home- just in time-... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Wednesday, 11 Dec 2013 | Views [2071]
....drinking water until I have to go pee...haven't peed much..maybe once a day, morning and evening after and before bed. Clearly dehydrating riding a bicycle through the desert - seems unavoidable when you do...duh...
Our last days ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Wednesday, 11 Dec 2013 | Views [1969]
In need for a couple of days rest in Chilecito. We only planned on one, but we had to stay an extra day, because a dog snatched James' shoe in the early morning hours of the first night. We heared him sniff around, but didn't think much of it until we ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Friday, 29 Nov 2013 | Views [2324] | Comments [1]
We had taken two full days off in Salta and felt rested and clean. The next days were easy, riding through a vast valley with vineyards and fancy farm houses until we hit another colorful mountain range: the "Quebrada de las Conchas" which ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Friday, 29 Nov 2013 | Views [1653]
We took a day off in Purmamarca - just laying in the grass, smelling the goodness of the earth ...doing and thinking nothing. The sky, the whole body expanding into the atmosphere, the breath: easy, the air gentle, soft, full of oxygen and LIFE. This ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Monday, 18 Nov 2013 | Views [1062]
.....it took us one whole day and part of the next after we spend the night camping right next to the road. Seems like in Chile and Argentina camping is safe enough. We are heading to Argentina, but nobody told us we would ride ... Read more >
CHILE | Monday, 18 Nov 2013 | Views [1007]
San Pedro de Atacama! An Oasis in the driest desert on earth. (Sunday the third - leaving Wednesday the 6th)
Never expected to find such a wonderful place in the middle of the real nowhere!
Yes, it is a touristy town, yes, it is horrendously ... Read more >
CHILE | Monday, 18 Nov 2013 | Views [3419] | Comments [3]
.... in the distance. I had no high expectations in terms of finding food - but maybe water, I was hoping..... Interesting how the level of expertise can sink so low and to the basics. Well, there was actually a train station and a little store and ... Read more >
BOLIVIA | Monday, 18 Nov 2013 | Views [1388]
Uyuni is the town at the edge of the Salar. We spend a day here to recover from the ever lasting headwinds and then set off into the Salar. Salt, salt, salt a desert of salt - aiming west to the island of Inca Huasi where they let you rest and sleep, ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Sunday, 17 Nov 2013 | Photo Gallery
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CHILE | Wednesday, 6 Nov 2013 | Photo Gallery
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BOLIVIA | Tuesday, 5 Nov 2013 | Views [1404]
The headwind at the end of the second day riding to Uyuni- up a steep mountain road- pretended to be permanent. I had to say it out loud: Wind, you are not permanent and neither is this damn, steep road, this uphill struggle isn't either and neither ... Read more >
BOLIVIA | Monday, 21 Oct 2013 | Views [1398]
Heading into the mountains again.We decided to leave the edge of the Salar....can't be that bad because we are staying on the Altiplano and we fluctuate between 3600m and 4200m. The landscape is unusual and "lunalike" - the natural colors are mind blowing.... Read more >
BOLIVIA | Monday, 21 Oct 2013 | Views [1736]
We rode 132km even though we wanted to take a day off in Oruro, but spontaneously decided to take off in the direction of Challapata- never thought we would make it.......and here we are!
The road was so easy -even with a little and sometimes a ... Read more >
BOLIVIA | Monday, 21 Oct 2013 | Views [1323]
Soon we'll be leaving Lake Titicaca, but staying on the high Plato of the Altiplano - we caught up with Salva who left just an hour earlier, but we found him sitting on a bench after the ferry ride from the peninsula (Cocacabana) to the main land - gazing ... Read more >
BOLIVIA | Monday, 21 Oct 2013 | Views [1642]
We wanted to rush through this place having "lost" too much time, but it was impossible!
It's reputation as a "touristy place" was a "turn off" and yet....WE ARE TOURISTS and this little town with all it's little cafes and restaurants, it's clean ... Read more >
PERU | Sunday, 13 Oct 2013 | Views [772]
Our visa was granted for 90 days and that seems like a long, long time ago.....( it will be 110 days ago tomorrow)....guess we overstayed our welcome in this country.
Our last village in Peru is called Yunguyo and it is quite the nice border town.... Read more >
BOLIVIA | Sunday, 13 Oct 2013 | Photo Gallery
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PERU | Saturday, 5 Oct 2013 | Views [1239] | Comments [1]
Two weeks in Puno - not a bad place to spend more time than you think you need to. Due to James's stolen passport we "sat up camp" in Puno to wait until the new document has arrived in Cusco. James is bussing it back to Cusco to pick it up and then we ... Read more >
PERU | Wednesday, 25 Sep 2013 | Views [3063] | Comments [1]
The "rough" part of the purr from my new chain and cassette soon turned into a problem called "chain suck" created by the steel middle chain ring, because it had been worn and didn't agree with the new chain we had installed in Cusco. James had ... Read more >
PERU | Tuesday, 24 Sep 2013 | Views [3375]
It wasn't easy to leave our little Cusco Nest, but we tore ourselves away
and I was happy to be on the road....back on my Surly, listening to the strong purr of my new chain and cassette. Being off the bike for one and a half weeks ... Read more >
PERU | Tuesday, 17 Sep 2013 | Views [2533]
If I had to pinch myself to realize the fact that I pedaled my ass to Cusco, what do I need to do standing in the midst of Machu Picchu?
I don't have much to say to that - but here it is M.P. (my initials as well, in case you haven't noticed): ... Read more >
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