Sunday, March 8 Today we were finally leaving our fine quarters at Hotel San Francisco for a two-day car trip. Our plan was to spend the night in Valparaiso and the next day head south for Chile’s Ruta Del Vino to check out the wineries in the Colchagua Valley. After breakfast, Matt and Judy (his […]
Thursday, March 5 We left Los Andes and rode south to Santiago. The road quickly swelled to 4 lanes and became a toll road. I don’t think we’d been on a road this big in months. Unfortunately, unlike Peru, motorcycle do not travel free in Chile. As we got close to the city, I realized […]
Wednesday, March 4, 2009 With so little distance to cover today, we slept in until 8, and packed up slowly. Inna had been up late writing, and we proofed and posted her writing. We’re almost two weeks behind in writing and it’s taking diligence to get caught up. We ate another nutrition-less breakfast of coffee […]
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 […]
Monday, March 2 Getting out of bed was tough today. Since we arrived from Bolivia in Argentina via San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, we just have not recovered. We’re both fatigued and my back injury does not feel much better. It is healing very slowly and riding every day is probably not helping. Our alarm […]
Sunday, March 1 Our room last night was surprisingly pleasant and comfortable, and I so wished we could sleep in, but we planned on visiting the second park in the area in the morning and then needed to make up some distance going south, so sleeping in wasn’t an option. For breakfast we went back […]
Saturday, February 28 Today we made an effort and actually succeeded in being on the road by 9 am. Stefano decided to ride with us at least to La Rioja and then possibly split up. The three of us have been dreaming of paved easy roads for a while now. Yesterday’s ride was much more […]
Friday, February 27 We got a late start the next morning, not wanting to leave our new favorite bed and breakfast. The breakfast was the usual bread and jam with juice and coffee, but much higher quality and included a selection of local cheeses, which Inna very much appreciated. Stefano was already almost finished by […]
Thursday, February 26 We reluctantly checked out of the hostel and got on the road. The doctor had warned me that the muscle relaxers might make me drowsy, but I figured I would at least try it for one morning to see if it would be doable. Unlike many cities, Salta was very easy to […]
Tuesday, February 24 After the last three days on the road we were in need of serious rest. Although our 5-star hotel was a total splurge, nothing felt so good in a long time than waking up in a king size bed and a fancy room and having an awesome buffet breakfast (included in the […]