http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/porter/ The 3 Americas en-us West of the Parque Nacional Bernardo O'Higgins on the coast of southern Chile. Pengy finally got to see lots of relatives (the Magellanic family branch) swimming past. Unfortunately they were a bit camera shy and kept diving for fish instead... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/porter/004972.php It's been over six months, somewhere around 19,000 miles with more highs than lows. We set out with a target of Patagonia, and even though technically we have been in the region since the Chilean "Lake District" just north of... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/porter/004975.php Seno Otway penguinera, near Punta Arenas, Chile. Pengy spotted his relatives returning home from the sea, after a long day fishing. When they had finished resting and 'socialising' they all waddled back to their burrows making a lot of noise... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/porter/004981.php (for the Higgins family) Bernardo O'Higgins, one of the main players in the independence of Chile, has tributes all over the country. There are main streets named after him, a national park, town squares, and numerous monuments. This statue in... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/porter/004982.php We have been very lucky on this trip, except for the actual breakdown. A rapid search on the internet located Gonzalo at Motoescar in Punta Arenas who agreed to look at Jean's shock absorber if we could get it to... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/porter/004980.php Cerro de la Cruz, Punta Arenas. There's the route home, via Buenos Aires and Madrid. I just need a way of getting there! An enterprising resident has used big poles in their garden to set up signposts to cities around... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/porter/004984.php I think I did, once, but I got away with it. Yes, we are now in the home of beef and claimants to British sovereign territory. Jean's bike is finally fixed, last adjustments made at 10.00 this morning and then... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/porter/004986.php After four days of progress north seeing nothing but flat pampas stretching from one horizon to the next, we finally reached the Welsh region of Patagonia at Trelew and decided to have a two night stop. This meant that we... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/porter/004987.php But still not out. After all the bad roads we have crossed :- The gravel, the mud, the sand and the ripio. A roundabout on tarmac in Argentina is the scene of my worst spill so far. Its not as... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/porter/004988.php On the road all kit is useful, however some kit is more useful than others. By far the most useful and utilised is gaffa/duct tape for its ability to stick anything back together again. However we carried and collected a... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/porter/004990.php Thats two continents down, at least one to go. No more bikes have fallen over recently. It has been a quiet week, especially with me limping everywhere. We spent most of the week sleeping and socialising in the garage at... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/porter/004991.php We left Buenos Aires in the autumn and 12,000k later arrived in Madrid in the spring. It took us 12 hours in the air to travel half of what took 7 months on the ground. The steak in Argentina is... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/porter/004992.php We managed to leave Buenos Aires without any (more) mishaps, and arrived in Madrid at 05:30. As it was dark we could see straight away the moon was back the right way up, and waning in the correct direction. The... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/porter/004995.php When we crossed from Spain into France two things became immediately apparent. The first was that we had finally entered a country where the road signs made logical sense (to us) with the same towns consistently listed, in the same... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/porter/005002.php We've spent the last week drifting across the country visiting friends and relatives , from Plymouth to Surrey and then Sheffield, before turning west across the Pennines with one last stop at Rawtenstall where I was presented with a solution... http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/porter/005007.php