Sabine Piller
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Tolhuin – Rio Grande
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… Continue reading
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Ushuaia -Tolhuin via Estancia Harberton
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… Continue reading
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Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego
We chose the only day of our 4 night stay in Ushuaia to go to the Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego on Friday when the wind forecast was moderate and we stopped first at the train station where you could… Continue reading
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Andrew’s birthday in Ushuaia
After breakfast we waited for the rain to stop and researched a few things that needed to get done – first we wanted to get some clothes washing done and when we asked our host she said she would wash… Continue reading
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Tolhuin – Ushuaia
We had a wonderful morning in our dome cabin and our host made lovely breakfast and we listened to Luis Alberto Spinetta who is considered the founder of Argentine rock and he was a poet and songwriter and his birthday… Continue reading
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Rio Grande – Tolhuin
We enjoyed our breakfast overlooking the Rio Grande with the water moving quite fast. We cleaned the bikes enough to add some stickers and left around 11:00am in bright sunshine wondering whether we had put too many layers of clothes… Continue reading
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Punta Arenas via camping at Bahia Inútil – Rio Grande
The cold temperatures finally arrived and we put our liners into our motorcycle gear and got the thermal underwear out. We had to be at the ferry terminal by 8:30am and the staff loading the ferry were very helpful and… Continue reading
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Punta Arenas – enjoying the history and good company
On our first day we slept in, had late breakfast, caught up with family and started organising the next section of our travel South to Ushuaia. We walked to the Sacred Heart cathedral which was locked, got some stickers for… Continue reading
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Rio Gallegos – Punta Arenas, Chile
We left at a good time in the morning after breakfast and leaving our sticker on the glass entry door of the hotel. The plan was to get to the border in good time as we did not know how… Continue reading
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Puerto Santa Cruz – Rio Gallegos
After a nice breakfast with “huevos” for me – Andrew does not eat eggs – we left at a good time and rode to the waterfront of the town and took some pictures of stranded rusty boats before heading towards… Continue reading