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
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