still more to come ...

After we spent a few days looking around the barriloche area , which was my favorite area in Argentina , we continued south on Ruta 40 , nice road mountains with snow on 1 side , desert on the other simular to riding down in California or Nevada . But always a brutal cross wind from the west , we hit gravel near Rio Mayo and for the next 4 days it was grueling ... it took all my strengh and skills to keep the bike on the road sometimes , the cross winds were about 80km hr and the road was terrible in places , we were down to 20 km hr trying to keep from being blown into the oncoming lane . numerous times we were blown to the right and i has to let the bike go so as not to dump it , then crawl it over to the left again slowly over the loose gravel piles . Lucky we would not see traffic for hrs sometimes on these roads ..

I am sick to the wind down here !! It is so nice when it is at your back and front and not from the side you can hear and your neck and arms do not hurt from the constant battle of keeping straight.

The south area el chalten and el cafate were great , but starting to get cold with glaciers and 40kph winds constantly wind chill was clold riding , wish I would have brought my Gore tex liners... but still it is an Adventure which is what we wanted !

Woild like to come back to this area to expolore , hike and fish again some day ! Cool area ! Fishing looks amasing if it was not so windy all the time. Well it is time to leave and head North to the heat again after about 430000 km I start my journey North !!!! cheers

I'm in Ushaia , end of the road going south !

Well after many weeks of travel and no posting... It has been a long few weeks rought roads , dangerous winds and terrain, and some cold days . But we pushed on and now we are here .... it is cool here , sort of like Alaska, High mountains surround the port clty , and as of last night we have now fresh snow on them and even in town !

We are going to try to head north today for Rio grande which is about 3 hrs away over a high pass , I know it will be slow going with the snow . But time is running out to get back to brasil for the 16th , and we have to get visa's in BA still .

We started this trip south after athe climb up Aconcaugua , which you can check our blog out on www.climbforprostate.com . Cheri , nick and myself rode south for 1 week on the 11 th of January . It was very hot leaving Mendoza around 40c , but easy riding untill south of San Rafael, then we hit a wall of wind , about 90km /hr , so we had to wait at a station for a few hrs , and continued on later under brutal cross winds , soon to learn that this was the norm !!

we traveled with nick for a week testing his riding skills and patience , it was difficult riding for him on the gravel unpaved roads and with wind to boot ! He learned alot before he left to head home 1 week later just north of Barriloche .