Thanks Dennis, all the best to you, hope the weather isn't too cold back home

Congratulations you guys!!! Safe riding.

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This ws the easy bit, now all the way North, see you on the road

Heading North again after a great New Year party with the guys at Rio Pipo, muchos whisky and some Scottish dancing to entertain the locals, pity I didn't have my kilt with me. Heading Northwards and another stop at Rio Grande at Willie's Ruta 40 Hostel and a nice evening in the company of LaRoche (Christian and Mary) before heading on the ripio to Porviner , we met some of the guys at the border crossing and they told us the ferry was at 2pm, no chance we thought, made it with 6 minutes to spare! Woo hoo.

Fiona, willie and lolo saying goodbye

Leaving the island of Fire

Out for a stroll!!
From Punta Arenas we headed to the Torres Del Paine national park, in my opinion expensive and crap ripio, also it rained like home so not much fun, if the weather is good then go, if not avoid!!

Wet wet wet

Nice when the rain stops

Heading up there we spotted these Gauchos moving Sheep


Then onwards to El Calafate to see the famous Perito Moreno Glacier, very impressive and also a great paved twisty road to get there, the best yet!


More pics and more stoty on the blog www.ginoontour.blogspot.com

Howdy guys, great to see what your at. Will give you a shout when we start rolling again to have the other half of that drink!

Merv and Sarah

Look forward to that Merv, where you guys at just now? Carratera is a bit rough in bits!!

After a couple of days in El Calafate we headed up Ruta 40, had to get petrol from a guy in Tres Lagos as there is NO fuel herem no lakes either and quite a desolate road to get back onto the very gravelly Ruta 40, a stop in Gorbandenor Gregores, met Marcus again and got free camping (go to the tourist info) Onto Perito Moreno and then onto the Carretera Austral at Chile Chico. Stunning ride up the Carratera but pretty rough in bits. Now we're in Osorno hoping to get the bikes looked at tomorrow at Motoadventura (Hot starting issue on Fi's bike AGAIN!!!!)

Ruta Quarenta!!

Chasing birds!!

Man at work

The carratera Scenery is stunning

And so is the wildlife

Scenery!!

Volcano at Chaiten performs for us

More stories and pics as always on the Blog www.ginoontour.blogspot.com
Gino & Fiona

Holy cow! didn't realise you were in a race! We are still in Torres del Paine making it 8 days in the parc. nice weather every day bar 2.

pretty sure we will not catch you now, hope your bike problems are behind you now.

Merv.

Hi Merv, In Antofagasta now, been taking it easy (but not as easy as you!) having a day off, hoprfully update this later. Looks like we'll see each other in Ireland then (or Scotland!)

After getting the bikes serviced at Motoadventura in Osorno, Fiona's lasted a day before having serious overheating issues, all down to a wire rubbing on the frame I believe stopping the fan working. We headed into Santiago, a nice place, to get the bike picked up and fixed. Another week hanging around waiting for BMW to get their act together, adventure bike my ass, the biggest adventure is finding the dealer in every town and figuring how long you will be held up for!! But an opportunity to look around so not all bad. Now we are in Antofagasta, great run up through the Atacama especially alongside the Pacific, and there is Petrol at Taltal so the road from Caldera to Antofagasta is not a petrol desert plus taking Ruta 1 is better than the new Ruta 5.

Salta del laja falls north of Osorno, no health and safety here!

Unrideable bike gets picked up !

Political protest makes for Sunday entertainment

Santiago from the big hill Fi made me walk!!

I Like the uniform!

Santiago is a nice City

Just outside Santiago in the mountains, 36 180 degree hairpins!

The Atacama

The road is Diverse, just after fuel at Taltal

The must have photo, Mano del desertio 70Km's South of Antofagasta

As always more words and pictures on the blog at www.ginoontour.blogspot.com

next time, travel with your Norton

I have thought about it but only when you get the roads all asphalt!

After leaving Antofagasta we headed up Ruta 5, spent a night in a very noisy hotel in Arica then made the border crossing to Peru the next morning. Remember if you are doing this you need a relacion de passjeros form which you get at the bus station in Arica, not at the border. The crossing took 2 hours with loads of faffing around plus it was busy with Chileans going on their holidays. We headed through Tacna where the police were giving out tickets mob handed to speeders coming into the busy and Chaotic City. Glad to be free of that we headed to Moquegue, a nice little town for the night before heading to Puno. Puno is a crazy place, busy as hell and hard work avoiding the other lunatics on the road. A day spent on the Los Uros floting islands had us playing tourists which I hate!! Now we are in Cusco doing the same thing! A word of warning, we got stopped yesterday in a small town about 70 miles from Cusco for speeding, the police were pulling everybody, I acted stupid (easy for me) and got away with it but we slowed down to the pathetic 35KM/Hr speed limit aftr that and just as well as the police must have been out to get their Saturday night money!

The desert, a BIG place!

An hour waiting for fuel in San Pedro De Atacama, driest place on Earth my Arse

Main street in San Pedro, does this look DRY?

River crossing on Ruta 5 North (a huge mudhole across the road, great!)

Heading on the Altiplano to Puno, great to be out of the desert

Head for heights required!!

The ladies from Los Uros say hello

Colourful!

As always more pics and full story on the blog
www.ginoontour.blogspot.com

Shity ripio is following you
Love that desert picture.

Cheers mate ha ha , thanks, millions of desert Photos to sort out after the trip!!