A blog about one man, one bike and thousands of kilometres...
Join me on the journey through amazing landscapes, dirt roads and tough climbs. This blog currently covers two of my big adventures on my two-wheeler friend.
Firstly, there is a trans-South-America journey which took 16 months, measured more than 20.000km and in general contained more climbing than is healthy.
And then there is USA's classic - Great Divide Mountain Bike Route cannot be underestimated in the toughness and beauty department and this time I am trying to do a semi-live coverage of the journey.
My second part of Tierra del Fuego consisted of going from Rio Grande to Porvenir.
I decided not to take the conventional Route through San Sebastian but instead opted out for a more adventorous ripio roads through Bella Vista border crossing in the middle of nowhere. This of course ...
I started my whole trip (and the Tierra del Fuego) at Ushuaia by leaving quite late from my airbnb accomodation -- I actually wanted to go sooner but then Sam (my host) told me that between 12-3pm there is a siesta time and everything is closed. Thus I waited ...
Tierra del Fuego - "The Land of Fire" - is a fierce piece of land at the complete south of South America. The colonists named this island according to the fires (or smokes) they saw but these days Tierra del Fuego is anything but fire:
There is a lot of earth on ...
Before starting my biking trip, I had one day to set everything up in Ushuaia and I decided to spend this day by visiting Tierra del Fuego National Park. And while there aren't so many hiking trails in the park, the park itself is certainly worth visiting for longer ...
Buenos Aires -- a city which, according to my current (read: very limited) level of Spanish, should translate to "good airs" definitely does not have such a good air. As a city, Buenos Aires is very huge, very flat, and very expensive. Seriously, 50 USD to get from the airport to ...
My bike trip starts at Ushuaia but obviously I won't just appear there out of nowhere. Instead, I had to fly from Vienna through Amsterdam to Buenos Aires and the tomorrow to Ushuaia.
Checking in at Vienna airport was much less of a drama than I anticipated. First I ...
My bike tour preparations are in the grand finale. On Monday I went to ProCycling to pack my bike. This wasn't as scary as I imagined. Basically, we removed the front wheel and front rack, put spacers on the fork and brakes, removed pedals and the bike was ready ...