Southern Exposure

Tuesday, March 3

We took advantage of our nice hotel room and after another breakfast of instant coffee and stale pastries with jam we lingered until a “courtesy call” came for the 10 am check out.

Before getting out of town we stopped at a Yamaha shop to get a few quarts of oil for our ever thirsty bikes.

We had two more days until we were to meet Matt’s mom in Santiago, and the distance was very short. We decided to take it easy today and ride only to Uspallata which we heard was a quite town good for a relaxing stop over.

The ride of 90 km was mostly uneventful. We passed through a scenic mountain pass with a large blue lake and before we knew it we were in Uspallata.

As we were parking near a hotel a BMW rider pulled up and stroke a conversation. He was a Brit who has been riding around the world for the last three years. He was going north from Ushuiaia, so we decided to grab lunch together and exchange tips for the roads.

After lunch we found a suitable hotel and spent the evening working on the blog. Matt picked up some pizza for dinner, so we treated ourselves to a Superbike race while chowing down on pizza in the room. After the dinner break it was back to the blog for me, while Matt had an early night.