Category: Argentina
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Day 113 – Beautiful Bariloche (San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina)
We spent the day walking around the town and beach front. Vadim lost his tire cap on the rear wheel so we had to stop by a local bicycle shop that gave us a plastic cap, which worked for us. Later in the afternoon, we went to our pebble beach and layed enjoying the sun…
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Day 112 – Back to Argentina (San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina)
Spent over one hour at the Chilean border to check out of the country – long line of people. Beautiful ride – lakes, mountains with snow on top, twisty road with many trees. . Upon arrival to Bariloche, we had some wonderful chocolate at a place called Mamuschka (Russian name, by the way). Our hotel…
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Day 107 – Welcome Back to Chile again, Burning Bus (Santiago, Chile)
In the morning, we picked up our bikes from a BMW dealership in Mendoza. Our tires were replaced with new ones and each bike received an oil change and a change of the air filter. We departed towards Santiago, Chile straight from the dealership. It felt good to ride the nicely washed motorcycles with brand…
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Day 106 – Wineries and olive oil plant (Mendoza, Argentina)
We took a tour visiting the plant producing olive oil. It was very interesting to see all the equipment (some of which was quite old) used in olive oil production. We were taught to differentiate the different types of olive oil. This portion of the tour was very educational. In the second half of the…
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Day 105 – Parking Garage Police and Another 700km hike (Mendoza, Argentina)
In the morning, we went to get our bikes from the underground parking garage that was across from our hotel. We wanted to go down the ramp as it was a quick way to get to our bikes but were told that we had to go around the building to get into the garage. We…