Here are a few statistics to close out the trip. Travel Stats Consumption Stats
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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFXkQbPhavg?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Here are some of the videos Oggy and Charlie shot on our Patagonia trip, unedited for the most part, along with a couple of my shots. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUo0GxOdCNVtskD3KVmsw3LJM3G23E1-v (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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January 18th 2014 Distance – 5493 miles as the crow flies Travel time – ~24 hours door to door This was a brutal travel day. After far too much beer, too many cocktails, and too little sleep, Martyn bangs on the door of the “Princess Suite” to wake me up…
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Friday, January 17th Distance – 0km This is it. The trip is almost over. All we have left to do is hang out and get our flights home. The lads are leaving around 5:30pm this evening. I’m hanging out until 6am tomorrow. For those of us who have not yet…
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Thursday, January 16th Distance – 354km This is it, just 300 or so clicks of pavement left to go, getting us back to the KTM dealer, Roland Spawater, in Temuco. Martyn was supposed to be up and out early for his 1000 clicks back to Santiago. We are flying the…
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Wednesday, January 15th Distance – 165km, 50% ripio Ferry – 30 minutes Some of the lads were up and about early and sorted breakfast for us. Martyn, Simon, and I were moving a little slower. George had got Martyn a cool, little iPhone speaker for Christmas. We’d spent a late…
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Tuesday, January 14th Distance – 75km, 100% ripio Ferries – 30 minutes, 4 hour In this area of Los Lagos, the Carretera Austral becomes discontinuous and your transportation becomes bi-modal. There are sections of road connected by ferries. Today, we have two ferry rides to enjoy, a short one of…
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Monday, January 13th Distance – 197km, 80% ripio Unlike yesterday, we got a pretty quick start out of Puyuhuapi after an unusual breakfast. The cabana made a porridge of barley an apples along with homemade bread and the ever present coffee. We made our way north along the Carretera Austral…
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While we were touring Patagonia, we had one motorcycle that ended up with a bad battery. It had basically been installed incorrectly and shaken itself to bits. The KTM 990 is not easy to bump start on flat ground. This video shows how we got it started out in the…
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Sunday, January 12th Distance – 96KM, 90% ripio We got a slow start out of Cisnes. The concept that there are no stores, restaurants, or petrol stations open on a Sunday morning is quite foreign – Nosotros somos los extranjeros. Still, it gives us time to chill and relax on…