We had a fairly quiet few days in Cordoba, waiting for the new fuel pump to arrive. It was a good time to walk the city streets, look in the shops and enjoy some fine food in some fine restaurants. It is a pleasant enough city for all of these amenities but, like Mendoza, there […]
About Norman Magowan
From Belfast, Northern Ireland, Norman worked in the aerospace industry for 10 years before moving to Stevenage in England in 1989. For the next 15 years he was gainfully employed in the UK Space industry. He took a voluntary redundancy package, swapping his role as Quality Manager on a leading space programme to take up the challenge of the Pan American Adventure.Leaving Mendoza – Fuel Crisis! Valle de La Luna – Breakdown! Cordoba
What a week it’s been! New plans made at the start of the week are already broken, we have had some more fun with Di Funta Correa, we have had a successful return to riding on the Ripio in some awesome scenery (desert this time), and are now in Cordoba with one dead bike. All […]
Vendimia in Mendoza
Well, the fruit harvest has at last been gathered – that we can attest to from the number of ancient lorries we passed on the road to Mendoza, laden down to the axle stops with tons of blushing ripe grapes on their way to the wineries for pressing. A beautiful thing to overtake, as they […]
San Rafael
We left San Martin and its grey skies on Sunday morning, on a leap year 29th February, to ride north towards Mendoza. From Mario, we learned that next weekend there is a huge Wine festival – the ‘Vendimia’, celebrating the annual grape harvest and sounding like a wine flavoured Oktoberfest! Within 25 miles at San […]
San Martin De Los Andes
Well what excitement! We are finally back on 2 wheels again, having returned to Rio Mayo to collect our bikes. Teresa had looked after them well in our absence (they were sat in the hotel function room draped with dust covers). We had a lovely footnote to our adventures in Rio Mayo on the Tuesday […]
Comodoro Rivadavia
We are now enjoying a short break from our travels. We left the car back last Wednesday and have been resting up in Comodoro Rivadavia in the rather pleasant Victoria Hotel. Mag’s arm is gaining strength every day and we have arranged for Lito, our van man, to pick us up on Monday to return […]
The City At The End of the World! Ushuaia
Ushuaia could rightfully claim itself to be a jewel of a city. It does not contain beautiful buildings – it is mostly a collection of tin roofed single story dwellings built to withstand the horrific winter conditions of wind, snow & ice in this extreme land – nor has it a pleasing layout, built like […]
The End of the World! Tierra Del Fuego & Ushuaia
Well we have now reached the bottom or should I say the start of our trip! Ushuaia – the southernmost city in the world, sited on the shores of the Beagle Channel. To get here, we left Torres Del Paine and drove south to Punta Arenas. Just outside Puerto Natales we stopped the car at […]
Torres Del Paine National Park
We left El Calafate and drove in a day, back into Chile, to Puerto Natales where we had a one-night stop over to buy supplies for a 5-day visit at the next highlight of the trip – the Torres Del Paine National Park. The park is 170km from Puerto Natales mostly on ‘Ripio’ dirt roads […]
Moreno Glacier
Today we drove 70km from El Calafate to visit the Moreno Glacier. The road wound and twisted through the National Park and we had first little tempting glimpses of the river of snow & ice. The Moreno Glacier is quite special as it moves relatively fast, advancing several metres per day (it is one of […]
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