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Ushuaia: The end of the world. Start riding north….soon

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

Well we have finally arrived in Ushuaia to start the next big aventure… riding our bikes from ‘the end of the world’, Ushuaia at the southern tip of South America to (hopefully) Mendoza, a distance of about 4000kms.

Surprisingly enough it is pretty cold at the end of the world. We leave tomorrow, rain, hail or shine with a good chance of all.

Yesterday we went on a practice ride out to the southernmost point of the highway in the Tierra del Fuego National Park. It was a beautiful ride, especially on the way back with a 60km/h tailwind… hardly had to pedal going uphill!

Here are a couple of photos from the last couple of days.

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A ride up to Las Juntas, the friendliest town in Argentina.

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

After gorging ourselves on cakes and empanadas at Ariana’s cousin’s baptism (what chimers we have become!) in Catamarca we decided to ride our bikes up north to a small town called Las Juntas to camp the night.

The road was beautiful, climbing steadily and following a clear boulder-strewn stream as it wound its way through a steep valley. After about 20kms the road left the river and switchbacked up another 400m towards the 1800m pass. At the top, and after more than 1000m elvation gain in a few hours we ate lunch, totally exhausted (too stuffed to take photos). We were hoping it was all downhill from there, but it was not to be…. after passing through the little tourist town of El Rodeo (only one of about 500 towns called this in Argentina) the road wound its way up to another pass before dropping down into Las Juntas.

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