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March 29th, 2012 | Bolivia

Out of Bolivia and into Peru…

By the time I had left La Paz, I figured that the remainder of the day would be straightforward… I had dealt with the traffic and the petrol “crisis”, so how much more excitement could there be ahead…??

At this point I was about halfway to the border, and things were going quite […]

March 12th, 2012 | Brazil

Paraguay…!!

We were beset with bad luck for a good part of the day today…!!

The night before, I had a runny nose, and hoped that it was just a sinus thing… My hopes were dashed the following morning…!! I woke up with a bad case of flu, feeling as if I had been run over […]

January 15th, 2012 | Argentina

The Ride to Ushuaia…

Our ferry was due to leave Punta Arenas at 9.30am, and we still had to buy our tickets…!!

Roberto and Carl join me for breakfast…

Carl seems well pleased that we got onto the ferry without slipping on the deck plates…

If we missed this ferry, the next one was due […]

January 11th, 2012 | Argentina

Hard Ride to El Chalten…

"Excuse me waiter, but do you really think this is enough meat for four growing boys…??"

Will somebody please remind me what the hell I am doing down here….!!!

Pablo has a "side stand incident"….

We took a 430 km round trip to another section of the Glacier National park today, […]

December 6th, 2011 | Australasia

The Long and Hard Way to Townsville…

I chose to take the longer in-land route to Townsville, via the Atherton Tablelands, rather than follow the coastal highway I had ridden up to Cairns on…

Stopped at the turnoff to Palmerston to decide which would be the best route to get me to Townsville…

It was double the distance to Townsville […]

March 17th, 2011 | Asia

Tricky Ride to Vientiane…

Umbrellas were out as we made our way through the outskirts of Luang Prabang…

The roads leading up into the mountains were slick, and the rain never let up…

The rain just wouldn’t quit…

Willi had warned that the first 25 kms of road to Xiang Ngeun was under construction, and […]