As I mentioned in my last post, I met a Spanish cyclist on the New Year’s Eve in Puerto Natales. Juan (www.panamerikana.org) is going to do the whole Pan-American Highway all the way up to Prudhoe Bay in Alaska! He calls me El Sueco Loco, but I wonder who of us that is crazy… On [...]

We spent Christmas Eve cooking and eating a lot of good stuff! I surprised the others with a few things that I brought with me from Sweden: Abbas Senapssill, Hallands Fläder, knäck and polkagrisar. Lars made meatballs and Anna & Peter made a German potato sallad. I also made some Christmas candy – marzipan! Moreover, [...]

I happened to find a Santa Claus-outfit in Punta Arenas, which I surprised my fellow cyclists with yesterday. I even entered Puerto Natales wearing it so there were lots of honking cars and happy faces, haha!

From Rio Grande, I crossed Tierra Del Fuego together with the German couple and Lasse. We made it all the way to Chile and Porvenir without the 100 km/h winds that we had been told often rolled over this flat route. Thanks God!

We spent the first night camping next to the border. Second one at [...]

Ushuaia. 2009-12-08. 0 km.

I left Ushuaia the 8th of December filled with various expectations and a lot of curiosity of this nomadic way of living. The weather was sunny and there was almost no wind! The road took me through beautiful valleys along the mountains, and the first climb of “only” 416 meters went alright. [...]