After a week of riding long days down freeway 5, we were excited to turn eastward towards the Chilean lakes district. Our first stop was in the town of Villarica, where we stayed at the Torre Suiza (Swiss Tower) hostel. The Torre is run by a Swiss couple who, after traveling for 2 years by [...]
Filed under: Argentina, Chile on February 19th, 2008 | No Comments »
The rest of our time in Mendoza didn’t go exactly as planned…I had to do some maintenance on the bikes, and that took longer than anticipated. We found a decent bike shop in Mendoza to true our wheels, and buy some replacement chains (actual Shimano parts or equivalent are hard to find down here). And [...]
Filed under: Argentina, Chile on February 3rd, 2008 | No Comments »
Since leaving Cafayate, we have been riding mostly through desert, which means heat (40+ degrees Celsius) with little shade and wind. For the most part, we are able to find a town with a restaurant to stop in for lunch and to wait out the hottest part of the day before continuing on, though we [...]
Filed under: Argentina on January 22nd, 2008 | 1 Comment »
That’s what the posted signs told us when we crossed the border into Argentina at La Quiaca. We’ve traveled pretty far in total so far, but we’ve only biked just over 7,000 kms up to now, so we’re going to need to be a little more disciplined (and luckier) than we have been so far on the [...]
Filed under: Argentina on January 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment »