Fin Del Mundo

As it had taken us the better part of a day to actually get to the gates of Ushuaia, the celebrating didn’t last long as the sun was setting in a darkening grey sky. One point of note that I noticed in our ride to the end of the world is that though the sky was dark, and rain threatened us more than a…

The Last Leg

As we rode the final days into Ushuaia the road to the city at the end of the world never let up on us- not once. We had adventures and missteps up until the very last day when all we wanted was to ARRIVE. Pretty mountains and fuzzy foxes are much less impressive when you have been working towards one goal for half a…

The Great Chase

After our adventures with Alex’s radiator, we were both eager to finally get on the road and ride every day till we made it to Ushuaia. We got up the next day and headed off on Ruta-40, after having breakfast at the gas station we filled up at (Note: Argentina has some pretty awesome gas stations with meals, that sometimes, are better than you…

99 Problemas

As my bike odometer ticked off the final tenths of a mile to 30,000 I started to slow my bike, shifting down through the gears I came to a slow stop and pulled out my phone to take photos of the odometer as Nathaniel parked his bike and jogged up to me. I had missed taking a photo of the 20,000 mile reading in…

On the move

From Mendoza we were on a mission to get to Santiago so that we could make the push down south. Ariel the mechanic (along with others) had told us we could make it to Santiago in about five hours, though the big question mark was how long the border crossing was going to take, as our last experience had scared us in terms of…