After a nice stay in an A frame house with the bikes under a car port we thought this should be an easy day of just 100km riding to Rio Grande where we again booked in the same place where we stayed on our way South where the bikes were securely parked in a garage and we had a view of the Rio Grande. Unfortunately, my cold was not any better and I had a terrible night having to get up every two hours and the bathroom was down a very steep wooden staircase and I was running a fever and had body aches and was just looking forward to get to Rio Grande where we could check in from 3pm. The ridiculous strong winds made the 100km feel like an eternity and when we got to Rio Grande I went to a pharmacy to get myself some paracetamol and then we did a bigger grocery shop at a “Carrefour” – which is a chain we used to have in Austria when I grew up and I stocked up on all essentials for camping and to treat my cold with salt for warm salty water gargling and a small jar of honey for tea with honey to soothe my throat. Then we looked for a place to have a good lunch but the place that had great reviews on the waterfront turned out to be a street vendor shack which was closed – so we looked for another place for lunch near by and ended up in a place that seems to mostly do catering – all we could get there was a ham and cheese croissant heated up and no hot drinks or any cold drinks other than wine were available – we then headed to the accommodation – I just had enough strengths left to get my stuff off the bike and we both lied down for a siesta with the wind howling outside – we woke up at dinner time but decided not to go out and just had soup and avocado sandwich downstairs and got to know our host María a little bit better. We decided to stay an extra night for me to get better and not to travel in high winds again – we moved into the full apartment style room in the morning which was amazing and then headed to town for a nice lunch at place recommended by our host called “Tante Sara” where we had our first meal in a few days. We headed back to our apartment, took pictures with our lovely host María and planned the next part of the trip including fuel stops and filled in our customs declaration for the border crossing into Chile the next day. I had more tea with honey and salt water gargles for my throat and steam inhalations and we tried to catch up on our blog as well, knowing that we would head into the remote areas and camping for a few days as we wanted to see the only king penguin colony in South America which we had managed to get a booking for a one hour tour on Feb 12 and we were going to camp at a private campground in Camerón which is 35 km past the penguin reserve on a dirt road 😉👍🏕️🏍🏍