Hi again! I have now been in (and around) Bariloche for over a month, waiting for the inflammation to disappear completely. I’ve had a great time and this place feels now like my second home! Bariloche is a touristic city placed at the shore of Lago Nahuel Huapi, a beautiful lake with crystal clear water [...]

After having spent more than 1 week off the bike in El Calafate to give my knee some rest, I felt very excited about starting again! I took the bus back to El Chaltén and slowly began pedalling on a sunny day with the birds singing in the valley. I had agreed to meet with [...]

Surprise, surprise – I’m back in El Calafate! But first, let’s start where I ended the last time. Leaving El Calafate and starting off with a lovely tail-wind, me and Juan easily covered 40 km before noticing that something was wrong with his rear wheel. It turned out that a spoke was broken on the same side as the cassette!

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 [...]

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 [...]