I went to meet Mario at his new business in Hollister, CA in the morning. He couldn’t come for the ride unfortunately and I didn’t feel like I could spend another day before heading north. So Mike and I set off for Yosemite across the dry central Californian valley. After an oil change in the [...]
I managed to get lost in Buenos Aires (two train stations named Florida on two different lines and no one at the stations having system maps didn’t help) for two hours this morning on the day on which I was to bring the bike to the airport for packing for air shipment to Los Angeles. [...]
After leaving Valparaiso in the rain and driving the short express route I arrived in Santiago easily and checked into the ChileInn. The two ladies who run the place insisted my bike would make it through the 3 sets of doors into the courtyard – they were right, even though I bumped the television and [...]
I don’t think I saw anything at all really of Mendoza. I drove into it at night and left it in the morning. I didn’t find the people as friendly as other places in Argentina but I’m sure it was worth at least two nights stay. However, now that I’ve booked a flight (Buenos Aires [...]
I spent the weekend in Córdoba, Argentina at the Pochongo Hostel, run by two young brothers. On both Friday and Saturday night their friends showed up and drank Fernet and coke – Córdoba apparently consuming the majority of the world’s supply of the formerly Italian alcohol.
Salta is a pleasant medium-sized town in Argentina’s northwest where I stayed at the luxurious Sumkama hotel (well after camping and Bolivia it would seem so). I spent most of my time recovering after freezing in the Andes for many weeks. I didn’t really see much of the city as I spent most of my [...]
After the rain finally stopped in Ollague on the Chilean-Bolivian border I left on a sunny morning for the drive through the Atacama Desert (one of the driest places on earth) to San Pedro De Atacama, Chile. San Pedro is an oasis in the desert that is quite overly touristy. Before arriving in town I [...]
I awoke to the sound of rain falling on the fiberglass roof. Stiff from yesterday’s marathon ride from Uyuni I entered the hotel’s dining room already full of miners sitting in the half-darkness. Electricity apparently is only available from dusk until sometime in the early morning. Grumpily I accepted the offered breakfast of stale bread, [...]
After leaving La Paz mid-morning I arrived at a hot-springs hotel that had been suggested to me by Phillip (a German driving a Land Cruiser around S.A.) as a way to avoid staying in Oruro (a “shithole” in his words). I didn’t spend the extra $25 to have a room with a private hotspring so [...]
After Machu Picchu we returned to Cusco for a night. At the Norton’s (Rat) Pub on the plaza we met Micha, Igor who I met in Medellin and Chessi who I’d been riding with in Equador and Peru. On Saturday morning we left Cusco driving out through the bedraggled end of city and into the [...]
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August 31, 2010 (9:31) Santiago Chile and arriving in Buenos Aires Hi, Saw that you rode from Santiago to BA. My brother and I want to take an unguided motorcycle...
August 19, 2010 (8:44) How to air-freight ship a motorcycle from Buenos Aires great article thank you very much!
July 21, 2010 (7:36) How to air-freight ship a motorcycle from Buenos Aires This is great information. Any idea who to contact in Los Angeles since I want to do the same th...