Photos from Rio Grande to the Argentine and Chilean border posts of San Sebastian and west to Porvenir.
Dec 222014
Dec 212014
Sitting in the waiting room at the Argentine Customs post of San Sebastian, my dream shattered on the floor in front of me. It had turned into some kind of living nightmare that I couldn’t escape from. Tormented by the wind for days on end, occasionally a little respite, exhausted, demoralised, full of self pity I did […]
Dec 192014
Photos from Ushuaia to Tolhuin and on to Rio Grande.
Dec 182014
I had left Ushuaia in beautiful sunshine with hopes high and riding on a cushion of air that came with actually beginning this dream of mine. To ride the length of the Americas. I was now actually doing it, rather than talking about it. The road wound its way through what is the end of […]
Dec 032014
Today, Wednesday 3rd December 2014, I get on to my bicycle and I cycle out of Ushuaia. The same bicycle that I rode away from my front door and cycled to Spain on. Way back in July when I posted Time to Roll the Furry Dice, I dreamt of this day. I honestly gave myself less […]
Dec 022014
Warning: This post contains references to distances and co-ordinates! My face was a picture as my bike in it’s trusty cardboard box came round on the luggage carousel. It was one of the last items out, most passengers had left already, and it was clearly the most damaged. The box was open, upside down and pretty […]
Nov 242014
Just before I flew to South America my 9 year old niece hit me with a very pertinent question. I had expected to be asked it more often but I think she was only the second person to ask since I left the UK in July 2014. “Why are you doing this Uncle Iain?” I’d […]
Nov 142014
I’ve been in Buenos Aires for nearly three weeks now. I am here to attend a language school for four weeks to learn as much Spanish as I can prior to starting my extended cycle ride. I fly to Ushuaia at the very bottom of Argentina on the 30th November 2014 and shortly after will depart in the only […]
Oct 232014
When I arrived in Leon it was the start of the interesting cycling again. The previous days had been the flat plains which are brown, dry and well, pretty flat. The Spain that you know! The topography of Northern Spain is very hilly/mountainous on the sides/top and flat in the middle. Leon was the start […]
Oct 212014
I made a mistake. I guess I thought I was choosing an easy option which in my book is always the best play. Any fool can be uncomfortable, save your energy to fight the battles that need fighting, don’t be a martyr and put yourself in the fight. By deciding to cycle the route of the […]