Tag Archives: Argentina

KLR650 gains wings, tango, and Buenos Aires

KLR650 gains wings, tango, and Buenos Aires

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.   [...]

How to air-freight ship a motorcycle from Buenos Aires

How to air-freight ship a motorcycle from Buenos Aires

To ship the bike dealing directly with the brokers (saves $100 USD).  I was shipping to Los Angeles, USA and so the broker (Navicon) used Continental, they also have other arrangements for shipping to other countries. Contact the following person at the agents (Navicon) in order to be given a time/date to show up at [...]

Santiago Chile and arriving in Buenos Aires

Santiago Chile and arriving in Buenos Aires

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 [...]

Conservative Mendoza to Dilapidated, Intellectual Valparaiso

Conservative Mendoza to Dilapidated, Intellectual Valparaiso

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 [...]

Finding Gauchito Gil from Córdoba to San Juan and Mendoza, Argentina

Finding Gauchito Gil from Córdoba to San Juan and Mendoza, Argentina

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 to Cafayate to Cordoba, Argentina

Salta to Cafayate to Cordoba, Argentina

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 [...]

San Pedro De Atacama to Salta Argentina

San Pedro De Atacama to Salta Argentina

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 [...]