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Apologies for dropping off the end-of-the-earth.
Procrastination! I could be a professional procrastinator.
Contrary to what a few of you interpreted in our last post, Lisa and I are still great friends. “Departing ways…” meant she had work in Jacksonville, FL (IBA Daytona BIke Week Dinner) and I was going home in SoCal.
The VStrompasourus Fix!
May [...]
Yogi Berra once said “it ain’t over till its over!”
It’s the bottom of the 9th …
The fat lady has sung.
This is our last official “All-Star Motorcycle Circus and Expedition” BLOG post. Tomorrow after our second flight to El Salvador Lisa and I will go our separate ways.
Start & Stop: Vina Del Mar, Chile to Santiago, [...]
VStroms Stripped and Crated!
Start & Stop: Vina Del Mar, Chile
Mileage: 0 miles
Hotel: Hotel Vancouver, 2 Poniente N0. 561, Vina Del Mar, Chile
Fuel: $700 Chilean Peso /l liter ($1.48 USD/1 liter) or $5.51 USD per gal!
Currency Exchange: $1 USD = $473.95 Peso
Weather: Overcast, cloudy, scattered showers
Dean: I’m up at 6:30 AM for major reapcking. Lisa did all her [...]
All adventures must come to an end!
Start & Stop: Chillan, Chile to Vina Del Mar, Chile
Mileage: 325 miles
Hotel: Hotel Vancouver, 2 Poniente N0. 561, Vina Del Mar, Chile
Fuel: $700 Chilean Peso /l liter ($1.48 USD/1 liter) or $5.51 USD per gal!
Currency Exchange: $1 USD = $473.95 Peso
Weather: Overcast, cloudy light and heavy showers, and windy
Dean: Today is [...]
Start & Stop: Puenta Montt to Chillan, Chile
Mileage: 404 miles
Hotel: ? Chillan, Chile
Fuel: $700 Chilean Peso /l liter ($1.48 USD/1 liter) or $5.51 USD per gal!
Currency Exchange: $1 USD = $473.95 Peso
Weather: Beautiful day!
Today was goodbyes and see you’s! Getting off the ferry was like riding through a dairy farm’s holding pen. We had to ride around [...]
It was a very rough night! Woke up to more rockin’ and rollin’. But by the time breakfast was over, the ferry was returning into the inside-passage going due east then north between the islands. There were many sea sick passengers over the night! Our bunk mate Kang spent part of the night in the community [...]
Dean: Heavy rain and high wind continues all day. With so little passenger lounge areas people are packed everywhere warm and protected from the high winds and wet.
Breakfast: coffee, yoghurt, ham and cheese, scrambled eggs, bread, fruit juice
Lunch: Soup, chicken thigh & leg, rice with jus, lettuce and tomato salad, corn, bread, fruit juice
Dinner: Very tough [...]
Beautiful sunrise over Puerto Natales
Ferry departs late – 9AM
9AM – 2PM Weather: Blue skies over Puerto Natales but dark on the western horizon.
Route: South first the fish-hook around then north up between many channels and islands.
Sunrise over Puerto Natales.
Double stacked bunk beds! Lisa in her nest.
The bridge is open to passengers. [...]
Waiting and loading the NaviMag Ferry – “Puerto Eden”
Start & Stop: Puerto Natales
Mileage: 0 miles
Hotel: Ferry Bunks
Currency Exchange: $1 USD = $476.51 Chilean Peso
Weather: Cool, overcast, windy
Dean: Found a laundry service one block from the hostel. 4 hour service! Everything will be ready by noon.
Trying to hook up with Steve & Davis and Sari who [...]
No Internet on the Navimag Ferry! We will be dark till March 5th.
Start & Stop: Puerto Natales, Chile to Puerto Montt via the inside passage.
Mileage: 5 motocicleta miles – around Puerto Natales, Chile and bording the Ferry
Hotel: Ferry “Puerto Eden” for the next 4 days
Fuel: $697 Chilean Peso /l liter ($1.46 USD/1 liter) or $5.51 USD per [...]
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