After many days of hard "cycling work" we decide that we need a pause to recover physical and mental energy before starting the Carretera Austral: thenext part of our bike tour. For our "holidays in the holidays" we decide to stay in El Chalten the youngest...
Dear All, Let's go back to our travel report! Finally we spent almost one week in Coihaique relaxing, meeting people from all the ages and all the countries, sharing with them ideas and international meals... Eating Arthur's handmade crepes each of us...
Hi all, First of all, after many (bad) comments about Arthur's moustache, he finally decides to cut it and suddainly looses 10 years... No moustache version...18 years old Bac version... But let's continue with our story! After the legs are recoverend...
Salta - Jujuy -Quebrada de Humauaca - Quiaca (Bolivian border) link to the map Dear All, as always in life, one makes plans and then things ended to be different...and of course this happen as well in our travel... Till to yesterday, when we cross the...
Valparaiso - Vina del Mar - Concon - Pichicuy - Huentelauquen - Socos - La Serena link to the map Hi everybody, After Valparaiso our new objectives are to ride till to La Serena, then pass throgh the Elqui Valley and finally cross the Agua Negra Pass...
La Serena - Vicuña - Juntas del Toro - Paso Agua Negra - Guardia Vieja link to the map Dear All, So after Ilaria recovers from her stomach-ache we take the road toward east in the direction of Agua Negra Pass. We are now at the sea level and we have to...
Hi everybody, After few days resting and relaxing in Puerto Montt, we continue now toward North. From the ospedaje the street climbs directly up and offers us a nice view on the ocean and the city. Puerto Montt from the hill. The next village on our road...
Hi all, As written in the last post, we came back to Punta Arenas in order to ride the Patagonia from Magellan Channel to El Chalten at the bottom of the famous FitzRoy. This time we will try to face the wind and cold. So the 27th of november we cycle...
Rodeo - Villa Union -Chile Cito -Cafayate - Salta link to the map Hi all, It is a bit more than one month that our bike tour is finished. Arthur is since the beginning of May back to "norma lworking life" in Lausanne and Ilaria, still in nomadic mood,...
Of course we don't want to remain at Sofitel which is "a bit" out of our budget and we prefer to move to Letitia mum, Mireille, who has a lovely B&B (link) just few hundreds meters from the beach. There we meet also Fanny, the sister of Letitia and tourist...
Hi Folks! So after a nice Christmas we leave Tortel with definitively a best weather than when we arrived. Carretera we are back! Now we can finally continue cycling in summer configuration: shorts, T-shirt, sunglasses, suncream (very important) and hut....
Dear All, The first half of our travel is coming to the end, the Carrettera Austral with its wilderness is behind us, 2500 km whom 1500 km of ripio are in our legs... is definitely time for a new story, a different story! This story talks about the biggest...
Second 5 stars camp. But the night was colder then in the airport: No comments...the park is a really good introduction for this trips, going up and down on the pists in a wild landscape. And also a single trail to test the maniability of our bikes. Between...
After the first quite cloudy days the sun finally came and, together with Letitia, her kid and Fanny, we could enjoy a great sun bath at Copacabana! Then in the afternoon, in order a too serious tropical sun burn, we decide to stop the beach session and...
The first night we can sleep in the Sofitel,together with the Air France crew, just in front to Copacabana beach. Next morning we wake up a bit early and we can profit of a nice walk along the see on a rare empty beach. In fact it's Sunday and in few...
Bonjour a tous, Ca y est on commence a remonter vers le nord apres une nuit confortable et plusieurs rencontres a l'hostel antartica: Premiers km dans les montagnes proche d'ushuaia: Et premier col (passo garibaldi) vaincu avec un vent et un froid de...
After our nice night in the airport, we wake up wice a wonderful journey. No wind, 20ºc and yhe sun shine... First kms to reach the city of Usuaia. As eal tourists we offer us a boat tour on the beaggle Chanel with Hector the captain of the "Tres Marias"...
Today we travel from Rio Grande to Punta Arenas. The wind and the almost 200 km of flat pampas of the Isla Grande just totally win against our motivation. So we look the bushes and the ships and the skies and the clouds through our window and hope better...
Here we go! For one week we leave our bike and take our backpack for walking in this amazing park. The first 2 days the path is a bit too flat and we spend a lot of time in the wood. That make us a bit bored and we reel a bit disappointed because we expected...
Hello everybody! We hope end year holidays have been good and we wish you all the best for 2012!!! So after nearly one month without news, (but "No news, good news", of course), let's continue with our travel story. To refresh the memory, we spent 10...
Ca y est on attaque la fameuse pampa de la patagonie: Heureusement on a le vent dans le dos et on arrive facilement apres 70km a l'estancia Viamonte ou le proprietaire pas tres locace nous loge dans l'ancienne maison des ouvriers: Tout confort: Ilaria...
Hi every body, In italian we say: "Il troppo stroppia" and in french: "Trop de velo tue le velo"... In other words, sometimes we have enough of cycling and we need something else to avoid to loose that flavour and the pleasure of our bike tour. That's...
Hi all, Here a small digression with no bikes, but with crampons and ice axes. In fact in San Martin de los Andes we decide to climb Volcan Lanin, 3376m, wich is supposed to be the highest patagonian argentinian volcan. As we are in a National Park and...
Au petit matin dehors le vent souffle tres fort et l'air froid rentre de partout dans notre "chambre" mais Ilaria dort bien au chaud dans son duvet, on se demande comment elle fait pour respirer: On part le vemt dans le nez cette fois ci. On avance difficilement...
New organisation, now before each article we will name the place we cross. It would be easier to situate us. Villarica - Teodoro Schmidt - Trovolhue - Tirua - Canete Link to the Map Dear All, in this count we will tell you about our transition from the...
Il resto passa in secondo piano. Il resto è già pronto o è solo questione di pochi dettagli.
Forse solo lo spirito aspetta ancora un pochino.
Tanto ancora ci lega a questa realtà per permetterci di essere con il nostro animo dall'altra parte del mondo.
Meglio così.
Si vive ora, adesso, in questo istante.
Il passato e il futuro sono solo ricordi e congetture che danzano nelle nostre teste.
E il presente arriverà...fra poco più di 5 giorni.
The point is that Lum is a bit crazy... she's an idealist and a dreamer...maybe toooooo much...certainly even. So what's going wrong? Well, she lost motivation, she doesn't feel anymore the bike challenge... and when ahe loose motivation, she become very, very, very annoying. She start doubting and complaning aboiut evreything.... Bac is almost saturated. He want a clear decision from her part! Either she continue without complaining every hour, or she has leaves, or, at least, she has to propose something!!!! Therefore the 25th they take a big big and warm breakfast in the hut close to the campsite, they open the maps and they try to make the point of the situation. Next would be the cities of Calafate, then El Chalten and the Villa O'Higgings. From here they should start the Carretera Austral. This is around 1000 km or unpaved road! Beautiful, certain, but hard! Either Lum finds back her motivation or Bac doens't want to make it with her because it will be a torture for her and him! So she takes a while to think and finally she comes with the solution...a CRAZY solution! She has lost her motivation because the travel has lost his meaning in the moment in which we did the bus travel! So we have, at least, to go back to Punta Arenas and, at least, try to make all the path on the continent by bike! So the 25th in the afternoon they come back to this city. The 26th they take a day off as well and from tomorrow, the 27th, they will be again cycling! This time they will try to make all by bike and they hope in 20 days to reach the beginning of the Carretera Austral making the path describedin the article of the 25-26/11/11.
Hopefully the wind will reward their stubborness and craziness...