Day 73 - Salta to Presidente Roque Saenz Pena
Long day but AOK! Woke up at 8 to get some breakfast and go change my tires and balance my wheels. Turned out to be a long process that lasted till around noon but everyone was very nice, curious and ...
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Day 72 - San Pedro de Atacama to Salta
Wow - what a day - yes another one of those! Breakfast, bike packing and gas routine in the morning. Last night we had dinner with Steve and a friend of his - a girl from Hong Kong who has been travel...
Day 71 - San Pedro de Atacama
Short post today - slept in till a bit later than usual had some breakfast and then came back into the room to rest a little more. Around 11 we took off on the bikes to explore the region. On the way ...
Day 70 - Iquique to San Pedro de Atacama
What a day! Last night was kind of cool as well - we went around town to look for a restaurant and ran into Fernando, a local Iquiquean who showed us around and had a couple of beers with us at a bar/...
Day 69 - Arica to Iquique
Allright!! Moving forward again!! But first an update from last night… we ran into two Argentineans who were leading a motorcycle trip around this area… they were the guides of a group of friends ...
Day 68 - Arica
I guess we were tired from yesterday - we slept till around 10am today! Around 11:30 Carlos stopped by to pick us up and go to “Marcela” - his garage/beach house where we… well… his employees ...
Day 67 - La Paz to Arica
Ok - this was probably the most eventful day so far. Started out of La Paz OK - we saw Jorge, an Argentinean on an old (1979) Kawasaki 660 - he’s on his way back from a “short” ride from Buenos ...
Day 66 - Puno to La Paz
We are unstoppable! Woke up at 6 and went over to the bike and saw two more problems totaling 4. I had found 2 severed wires last night leading to the voltage regulator - that meant that the battery w...
Day 65 - Cuzco to Puno
Calm day riding… easy road… no traffic… soothing scenery… frequent gas stations… all good. Puno is on Lake Titicaca - the highest navigable lake in the world at 4000 meters (12,000 feet)! Pu...
Day 64 - Ollantaytanbo to Cuzco
WOW - Machu Picchu was definitely worth the trip. The geographical setting of the place, the train ride, the energy there and the mystery that shrouds that place is phenomenal. This is how it went dow...