Day 681 1st June 2018 32 miles (Mocoreta to rn14 junction with the 04 at YPF petrol stations) Average speed 9.6mph Top speed 18 mph A very windy day. Up at 8 for brekkie of bread, pate and tea. The outlook was ok at first but then it took a turn for the worse … [Read more…]
Day 680 31st May 2018 2 miles (Mocoreta ) Average speed 7.2 mph Top speed 17 mph A day off hiding in my room from the rain. I was up at 8 and had tea with bread and pate for brekkie and checked in for another night. The thunderstorms in the night had kept me … [Read more…]
Day 679 30th May 2018 47 miles (Cuatro Bocas to Mocoreta) Average speed 12.3mph Top speed 23mph I got up late at 7.40 as I couldn’t sleep during the night, kept being woken by lorries in the garage car park and I am not used to wild camping lately. Rain started as I got up … [Read more…]
Day 678 29th May 2018 65 miles ( Paso de Los Libros to hotel cuatrao bocas where the rn 14 meets rn 119) Average speed 14.4 mph Top speed 24 mph I was up at 8 and on the road at 9.30. The lady in the supermarket wouldn’t sell me less than six large rolls … [Read more…]
Day 677 28th May 2018 68 miles (La Cruz to Paso de Los Libros) Average speed 14.7 mph Top speed 27 mph I was awake at 7.30 with wild horses braying around my tent and up at 8.30 for brekkie of tea and empanadas with Patch the dog. The fire took a while to get … [Read more…]
Day 676 27th May 2018 76 miles (Santo Tome to La Cruz) Average speed 12.9 mph Top speed 27 mph A good long day back in the saddle. At one point a staffie bull terrier chased me in one of my scariest dog encounters, it was with a lorry parked up in a car … [Read more…]
Day 675 26th May 2018 Santo Tome Day off Doing absolutely nothing!
Day 674 25th May 2018 Santo Tome A day off spent taking a long walk to find brekkie in the only panedria open as it’s a bank holiday to celebrate the first government of Argentina and its independence from Spanish control. I also spent some time finding out about why Argentines put a bottle on … [Read more…]
Day 673 24th May 2018 44 miles (Gobernador Virasoro to Santo Tome) Average speed 11.3 mph Top speed 26mph I was awake at 5 with a lorry left ticking over for an hour next to my tent, joined by 6 large ducks quacking. Then the workmen decided to use their strimmers to cut the … [Read more…]
Day 672 23rd May 2018 31 miles (Apostoles to Gobernador Virasoro) Average speed 10.1 mph Top speed 29 mph I was up late after waiting for the sun to break through the trees. There was no water in the toilets but I had enough to make tea. I wasn’t hungry so just had a Magdalena … [Read more…]