Distance: 96.76 km Ride time: 5:00:35 Average: 19.35 km/h Altitude: 2039 m Total: 24924 km After our night sleeping under the stars, it was quite a sight to wake up to the sun rising over Laguna del Inca right in front of us. Petter and I both agreed that this place would make it into [ Read More ]
Distance: 47.39 km Ride time: 4:19:49 Average: 10.98 km/h Altitude: 2880 m Total: 24827 km If there is something I like to do on a bike it is to climb mountains. Today would be my kind of day! We had done the first 10 km of the climb to Paso Los Libertadores yesterday, but there [ Read More ]
Distance: 59.40 km Ride time: 3:59:23 Average: 14.89 km/h Total: 24789 km Nicolas was going to leave his work at 6 in the morning, so we were also up early, ready to cycle before sunrise. We were still going north from Santiago, and in front we could see the snowy Andes Mountains that we were [ Read More ]
Distance: 48.35 km Ride time: 3:14:23 Average: 14.95 km/h Total: 24728 km It was great to be reunited with Petter again after we last saw each other on a windy day in Southern Patagonia two months ago. Now we had been drinking beer and catching up on the roof top terrace of our downtown Santiago [ Read More ]
Before reaching Santiago I had been in contact with Roberto CE3CT, a radio amateur who had invited me to stay while in the city. I had heard many stories about Roberto’s place from my friends in Buenos Aires. I thought I had reasons to believe there would be some very good days ahead, and boy, [ Read More ]
Distance: 131.01 km Ride time: 7:01:15 Average: 18.69 km/h Total: 24658 km For the last time in a while I woke up at a petrol station and joined the Ruta 5, the highway that has been my home for the last week. I was a bit nervous about cycling into Santiago, after all a big [ Read More ]
Distance: 63.42 km Ride time: 3:04:26 Average: 20.68 km/h Total: 24527 km I have had very mixed feelings about cycling on the Ruta 5 highway. In one way I have been enjoying the easy cycling (the wind has now been in my favour for 800 km!) but I’m also getting really really tired of the [ Read More ]
Distance: 56.74 km Ride time: 2:36:24 Average: 21.82 km/h Total: 24463 km I know I have been talking a lot about being cold and wet down in Patagonia, but now I almost wish the temperature would come down a few degrees again. The mornings are still fresh, but after 2 pm things really warm up. [ Read More ]
Distance: 44.46 km Ride time: 2:05:11 Average: 21.36 km/h Total: 24407 km Today I spent far longer time in front of my computer updating the blog than cycling. Usually I prefer to separate my cycling days and my rest/’office’ days but since I already now imagine that I will be very busy in Santiago I [ Read More ]
Distance: 88.48 km Ride time: 4:05:25 Average: 21.68 km/h Total: 24361 km I’m getting used to life on the Highway by now. It seems like it is always possible to find a free place to put the tent near a restaurant or at a gas station. So, basically I’m not only spending all my waking [ Read More ]
