Sabine Piller

  • Sant’ Ana do Livramento to Santa Maria

    I woke up at 3:30 am and had a shower and felt better – like the fever had broken 👍😉 and my nose had finally stopped running 👍. After breakfast, I filled in all the required details in the hotel… Continue reading

    Sant’ Ana do Livramento to Santa Maria
  • Tacuarembó to Sant’ Ana do Livramento, Brazil

    I woke up still very sick and running a fever. We had planned to ride East and cross into Argentina because Andrew had not yet received his tourist visa to enter Brazil, but when he checked his email in the… Continue reading

    Tacuarembó to Sant’ Ana do Livramento, Brazil
  • San Gregorio de Polanco to Tacuarembó

    After a cold and very windy night with gusts reaching 60km/hr and temperature dropping to 0 degrees, we woke up and delayed getting out of the warm sleeping bag. We had to shelter in the picnic areas to light the… Continue reading

    San Gregorio de Polanco to Tacuarembó
  • Paso de los Toros to San Gregorio de Polanco

    We made breakfast in the room and I finally managed a long overdue video chat with my son and his wife – young people are so busy and hard to get a hold of 😂 and then had to rush… Continue reading

    Paso de los Toros to San Gregorio de Polanco
  • Montevideo to Paso de los Toros

    After a frustrating night of internet issues, getting locked out of the visa application several times and only having had 2 hours of sleep, we finally managed to complete and pay for Andrew’s visa application. We had breakfast and I… Continue reading

    Montevideo to Paso de los Toros
  • Buenos Aires to Montevideo, Uruguay via ferry

    We had another great breakfast and still struggled with the wifi being ridiculously slow and the internet dropping out – very frustrating. We checked out at 11:00am and were told that breakfast was not included and I had to pay… Continue reading

    Buenos Aires to Montevideo, Uruguay via ferry
  • La Plata to Buenos Aires

    We had breakfast on the roof top terrace and the cathedral and plaza looked even more impressive in daylight. We went to the front desk to confirm that we could have a late checkout at noon but it was a… Continue reading

    La Plata to Buenos Aires
  • Junin to La Plata

    We had breakfast in our apartment using up the last milk, cereal and the second pomegranate we had been given at hotel Barcelona a few days back. We had changed plans slightly after recommendations from our host Alicia to go… Continue reading

    Junin to La Plata
  • Realico to Junin

    We spent some time re-distributing our clothes, taking liners out of our motorcycle jackets snd pants and packing them away as the temperatures are a lot warmer now and it was humid too. We lubed the chains of the bikes… Continue reading

    Realico to Junin
  • General Alvear to Realico

    We had breakfast by 8:00 am and the owner gave us two large pomegranates which we fitted in our cooler bag. We left by 10:30am and fuelled up on our way out of town. We rode on the longest straight… Continue reading

    General Alvear to Realico