25th October 2005 Bound for South America
Here we go then! Our last day at home, lets hope none of you are Pikey's or that'll be the end of the house and contents! Mind, in a couple of days we'll be living like motorcycle gypsies anyway!
Straight off to the local tip?
Fri 28th Oct 2005
A day sight seeing mainly combined with meeting of'virtual' friend Nik. Spoken on web, and knew he washere, but paths not crossed.
Had some very nice cakes (not that they could match the Freddo Heladosof last night mind) for breakfast after a good nights kip. Best not get used to the luxury we have here though, it'll be a far cry for future reports of that I'm certain.
Popped up to the 'local' - that's the internet café you see, to read some mails and see if Nik wasaround. Sent a message to meet at Law courts as had to recover me card from bank.
Saturday 5th November Dog Day Afternoon
Mileage - 300 miles
Monday 7th November
Mileage - 625kms 403 miles
Up at 7am for breakfast of couple of dodgey buns and coffee before the off.
1st November 2005
No entry for yesterday as too bleeding tired the now, basically a trip into BA and the fantastic lunch at Tortoni´s (if I remember correctly) The hot chocolate was the best !
Hot Chocolate
Wednesday 2nd / 3rd November 2005
Friday 18th November
Villa General Belgrano and back via Cordoba, Villa Carlos La Paz, Los Gigantes, Tala Canada, Salsacate, then 14 to Alta Gracia.
Mileage - 250 miles
RIDING STRAIGHT TO THE GATES OF HELL !
Thursday 10th November
Mileage - guess 250kms
Well back to the road today, and wets a bit before south towards Argentina again.
Saturday 19th November
Mileage - 105kms
Wednesday 23rd November
Mileage - 5 kms...on foot !
Warning : virtually no motorcycle content !
Mileage - 73 kms
[editors note Heres a map that Fritz and Bev sent through a week ago showing where theyve been (in red) and where they intend to go (in green) should make things a little clearer]
The Plan
Mileage - 152 kms
THAT CONDOR MOMENT...Well the first job today was to get Nik's bike to BMW Mendoza for the allocated service. very dissappointing lack of fresh coffee, donuts or croissants...not like the UK at all !
I guess they must get a few travellers through as they plainly didn't have any interest in the bikes or where we had been. Mind, if you've got a garage full of BM M5's and the like they're clearly not going to get much from us.....well if you exclude the price they've quoted Nik for a rear tyre.
Mileage - 239kms
THE BISCUIT HAS OFFICIALLY LEFT THE TIN
Mileage - 0
Nothing day really, for a change, Half a day fruitlessly emailing in slow cafe, Bev sun-bathing, little else (PS : Please note record short entry)Tuesday 6th December
Chos Malal, Andacollo and around
Mileage - 180kms
As we'd decided to stay on another day and risk exploring an area without the guidebook (wow) we headed out after our rather dissappointing breakfast (3 croissants and a solitary coffee...how we've been spoilt before eh)