The All-Star Motorcycle Circus & Expedition

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 [...]