After eight hours of uninterrupted sleep, I was ready to ride again… By 6.00 am I had the Big Fella loaded and parked outside the front door of the hotel… I had to wait for the kitchen staff to get their day started, so that I could at least have a few cups of coffee […]
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January 24th, 2012 | Argentina All the people I had spoken to about Ruta 3, had but one thing to say: “It is flat, windy and boring…!! Towns and fuel stops are far apart, and when you reach them, there is no guarantee that you will find fuel anyway…!!” Armed with this knowledge, I set out from Rio Gallegos, planning […] January 23rd, 2012 | Argentina Northbound…!! I left Ushuaia early this morning, and started out on the long road to the town of Dead Horse, Prudoe Bay, Alaska….!! The route that I had planned would cover almost 40 000 km and would hopefully see me up there towards the end of July… Carl and I say our final […] January 20th, 2012 | Argentina I recently came across a book entitled “Warrior of the Light”, written by Paulo Coelho… It is a slim volume of short stories which were first published in a weekly column of a Brazilian newspaper, between 1993 and 1996. The preface on the cover was what first drew my attention. It simply read, “Short stories […] January 19th, 2012 | Argentina While the town of Ushuaia is marketed as the “End of the World”, and for many, reaching this destination, signifies the end of their journey to the southernmost point on the South American continent… I set out to get to the very southermost tip…!! Ushuaia was one thing, but this would be the […] January 18th, 2012 | Argentina As mentioned in my previous post, having anything repaired in Ushuaia, will cost you an arm and a leg…!! Rip-off artists abound…!! We had to remove the back wheel on the side walk to make the repair as cheap as possible…!! The Big Fella complained about having "his backside exposed in full view […] |
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