After a day of getting the bikes an oil change, a long walk through town to a Western Union bank that was open on a Saturday to get enough cash to pay the mechanic who did not take credit card and a trip to the mechanic named Gregorio’s house and workshop to get the leaking fuel tap of Andrew’s looked at and fixed 👏- Gregorio is a genius by the way and if you are ever stuck in Ushuaia needing your bike fixed, Gregorio is the man for the job. And he learned English from video games including league of legends 😂 which my son plays too 👍 And after taking some pictures with our host Miguel who turns out is a vintage car enthusiast and Andrew and Miguel bonded over that on the last day 😉 – so after all of that we finally said good bye to Ushuaia and to our lovely host Miguel and headed towards Estancia Harberton – it was a long dirt road to get there and it was very dusty with little wind and myself not feeling 100% having woken up with a very sore throat, I followed Andrew and when we arrived I was caked in dust from head to toe 😂 but what a location right in the Beagle channel. We were hungry and hoped for a late lunch but the next tour just started as we arrived so we opted to do the tour and then get food – 3 hours later 🥹 but the tour of the Estancia and the history about the Yámana people and Thomas Bridges was captivating and fascinating thanks to our amazing tour guide. And you won’t believe what was in one of the sheds – it is red and has 4 wheels – yup a red Ferguson tractor 🚜 😉👍and the tour guide showed us another old machine asking to help him what it could be – that was easy – it was an old washing machine and he was impressed that I knew that but I told him that every woman knows what a washing machine looks like 😂😉👍

The second part of the tour included the Acatushun museum of mostly bones from marine mammals and birds from the collection of Dr Natalie Goodall including a tour behind the scenes of where and how the bones get cleaned. This visit and the tour of the Estancia were a highlight of our trip so far and for those who are wondering, it was at the Estancia that we had reached the furthest South we made it on our trip at latitude 54.8706. If you want to know more about the place check out their website: https://www.estanciaharberton.com

We had a dessert by 6:40pm and I was fading quickly and it was late in the day and we still needed to do 40km dirt and another 80km on the road to reach our destination in Tolhuin. We arrived after 9:00pm – I was cold and exhausted but the bikes were under a car port and we just made it inside when the rain started. We had some hot soup and went to bed- hoping that I would feel better in the morning and only having to ride 100km to Rio Grande the next day.