February 16, 2023 Day 75 Bye bye Southamerica – I’ll be back So I took the morning bus from Valparaiso to the airport in Santiago and have checked in for my KLM flight to Copenhagen. I…
February 15, 2023 Day 70-74 Final days and shipping bike The last 500km – and with a slow route towards Valparaiso and Pontoval B&B where I had the first days waiting for the motorcycle…
February 9, 2023 Day 66-69 Pucon, vulcano and wildfires Arriving in Pucon on the Chilean side of the border was almost another culture shock – this is where everyone owning a Ford F-150…
February 6, 2023 Day 63-65 Goodbye Argentina Now with less than 10 days left of the adventure in Southamerica, I headed further north and was about to do the final border…
February 3, 2023 Day 60-62 Long way up … Besides being a known title of another blog by some known celebrities, this was also what the last three days have been doing –…
January 31, 2023 Day 57-59 Fin del Mundo – Ushuaia After Punta Arenas the final 500km was targetting the end of the world or Fin del Mundo – what is better known as the…
January 28, 2023 Day 54-56 Magellan Strait and Punta Arenas Moving from Puerto Natales to Punta Arenas was moving from a small tourist based town to a 200.000 inhabitants city with industry, harbour with…
January 25, 2023 Day 52-53 Torres del Paine One of the most fameous and must-see places in South America is the national park in Patagonia called Torres del Paine. From El Calafate…
January 23, 2023 Day 51 Glacier blues Some 77 km west of El Calafate is the largest glacier area in South America – and it covers ice in both Chile and…
January 23, 2023 Day 48-50 Continuing south, but left or right ? Going further south the weather provided me with options – wet/cold or re-plan the route. So it was looking into three cold days at…
January 19, 2023 Day 47 Marble caves in Rio Tranquillo This little special post is to give a bit more of the amazing marble caves in Lago Buenos Aries near Rio Tranquillo. Up very…
January 19, 2023 Day 45-46 Carretera Austral part 2 After a few relaxing days in Coyhaique and a needed haircut, next was 450km gravel/dirt on the last parts of the Carretera Austral for…
January 16, 2023 Day 42-44 Carretera Austral part 1 Leaving Chiloe Island by ferry early in the morning with Chaiten as target – only one quarter of the ship full, so calm and…
January 13, 2023 Day 39-41 Service and towards Carretera Austral Passing into Chile again for service and tire change of the motorcycle – and also a re-pack and cleaning of the rider and equipment….
January 10, 2023 Day 37-38 Top of Patagonia For many Patagonia is just a brand for trekking clothes, but I think I now understand why they took the brand. Just having spent…
January 8, 2023 Day 36 Red and black rocks and gravel Now almost touching the large southern region of Southamerica called Patagonia – I still needed another day heading south. Goal was Chos Malal just…
January 7, 2023 Day 35 Cañon del Atuel Now moving into the lower 3.000km of Argentina and still following Ruta National 40, but took a detour to vist the Cañon del Atuel…
January 7, 2023 Day 34 Mendoza and wine One day as a tourist not mounting the bike – so started early with a trek in the Park General San Martin to reach…
January 6, 2023 Day 31-33 Heading south to Mendoza Alright – Argentina is looooong and I needed to cover some ground so these three days was mostly a transport stretch with around 500km…
January 3, 2023 Day 30 Into Argentina Every night before entering a new country, both here in Southamerica and elsewhere, I have always been wondering what the new country could bring…