pjpan:

Patagonia bike touring - what I’ll be seeing.

Here is the tour I did tumblr. 8-) I made it happen of inspiration from this picture.

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fruitellla:

I want to donate the 100-ish dollars that I’ve got to Sin Represas, a charity about stopping the building of dams in Chile. She said it was nice of me but that she wouldn’t do it. I’m literally on the verge of tears here. The one fucking time I think I’m actually doing something, something nice…

thats very kind of you lady

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the pavent ends, rains increase but my and others travels continue.

under bridges is the only escape from the rain.

met three guys who arrived in bolivia and purchased 3 Chinese 150cc scooters and have need thrashing them all over south america.

lots of climbing and crazy rain till my hands are sore from being waterlogged.

went from dirt to fast concrete into some rain the next day. came across an Italiano who was so glad to be riding in some sun again.

i have 5 days to make it to chaiten to catch my ferry out of this now raining tough section of the carretera austral.

Earlier that day i passed a very nice couple traveling all across the america in the campered out toyota land cruiser. They were having suck luck fishing they gave me a huge trout that i ate on for two days.

as i head north from Coyhaique i take the old dirt spar of the Carretera Austral.

i catch a french tourist far ahead on the road in front of me on the first photo.

he has had a dog following him for the last 10 miles. He is riding slow and i pass him.

 a few miles later the dog bridges up to me on a long hill and we procead to sling shot

past each other  for another 20 miles!

till i hit a paved downhill and he just cant keep up.

thephotographyqueen:

Chilean cuisine #tomatoes … (Taken with instagram)

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had a rest day in coihaique. two nights i a fab hotel with a bath tub.

tried to end the inner patagonia leg of the tour here but the ferry was

full, so i booked a ticket for 5 days layer 250 miles north from volcano

destroyed town of chaiten. a scedule for the first time in four weeks….?

one of the toughest days. 

70mph wind gust knocked me on the ground breaking

my der hanger. i had an extra. then my first flat. 

110k all day in the rain. 

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my loud but eventful night at villa cerro castillo.

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So amazingly enough I gained 5lbs on this tour!
Doesn’t seem like much but I have a crazy metabolism and have never went past 145 in my life of 38 years.
So why did this happen? Pan. Ate a lot of the white bread biscuits they sell down there. Every girl I talked to said they were gaining weigh because of it also. But in inner patagonia it about all you can get.

arc past the valley