Friday, January 29, 2010

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 .

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