Portland to Portland - 129Km (Total 2248km cycled)
Highlights: FOOD, climbing Dog Mountain, wonderful warmshowers hosts, peanut butter, roses, Voodoo doughnuts, bicycles, four-legged companions, liberal lefties, making friends with Elo!
Day 127 – May 14 : Food galore
After a long flight from B...
Puerto Natales, El Calafate, El Chalten, Villa o'Higgins - 85km (Total 790Km cycled)
Highlights : The fork finally arrived, we met some great people who kept us sane while waiting, rough off-road, hilly and tough single-track, rainstorms, beautiful and stunning wilderness, hanging glaciers,...
Puerto Natales, 0km (Total 705Km cycled)
Highlights: Sunny, no wind, steak, lentil stew, waiting, more lentil stew, more waiting, cake swapping and finding out that our tent is a godsend and pancakes.
Click here to see our photos from our trip in Patagonia
Day 33-45: 11th - 22nd Februa...
Puerto Natales, Torres del Paine, Puerto Natales 8km (Total 705Km cycled)
Highlights: Rain, snow, hail, wind, stunning views of Los Cuernos in Torres del Paine, Peli's pannier plays hide and seek and a flying overtake by my red pannier.
Porvenir, Punta Arenas, Puerto Natales 30th Jan - 4th Feb 2012. 60Km (Total 690Km cycled)
Highlights: Steak, wind, broken spokes, veggie curry, cake and meeting other cycle tourers.
Click here to see our photos from our cycle tour in Patagonia
Day 22,23,24 and 25: 31th Jan. to the 2nd ...
Rio Grande, Bellavista, Cameron, Porvenir 21/01/2012 - 30/01/2012. 322Km (Total 619Km cycled)
Highlights: leaving Rio Grande, the flight of the condors, wind, guanacos, Chilean border crossing, wind, illegal garlic, epic night-riding, wind, never-ending ripio, wild camping, and did we mentio...
We arrived at the airport with plenty of spare time thanks to the help - in the form of a chauffeur to Gatwick - of our good friends.
We needed that extra time to get my massive bike box (large as it's also containing the Extrawheel trailer) through the security checks since it would be too big fo...
This is a little list in no particular order of what I have learned while cycle touring and camping, this list will probably be edited and added to as I learn and tour more.
Take lots of plastic bags : Like the ones your get from the supermarket. They just come in useful, they just do. To wrap up...
