‘On a tour of one night stands’

‘And every stop is neatly planned’

To recap. Blue dot at the top is Bogota. From there we headed north to Cartagena and that’s where the long road south began through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.

The blue dot at the bottom is Ushuaia, the end of the world.

8,365 miles or, to say in another way, one third of the circumference of the earth around the equator.

Now we turn and head for home.

That means we head north to Buenos Aires (green flag on the east coast). That’s 2,000 miles. From there we can courier the bike to Edinburgh.

There’s not a lot going on between Ushuaia and Buenos Aires apart from a few days stop at Puerto Madryn which is about the half way distance. So essentially its head down and get the miles done. Head down is quite appropriate because it’s a pretty windy journey for the first week then the winds should ease off as we clear this region.

How long will it take us to get to Buenos Aires?

‘The answer my friend, is blowin’ in the wind’

‘The answer is blowin’ in the wind’

Honestly, I sometimes marvel at myself and how I’m able to sledgehammer song references into this blog.

‘I’m the lyrical gangster’.

So I will update the blog when we break in Puerto Madryn. Until that time ..

‘So long, farewell, auf Weidersehen, adieu’

‘Adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu’

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