We definitely needed the good night of sleep to prepare us for the gut-busting soft-dirt and steep climb to start the morning. It would have been challenging enough on the tandem in race setup, but schleping 90 lbs of gear had us wishing for lower gears. The many waves and

Things were not looking good when we headed towards Queulat National Park and the trailhead of the Mirador Ventisquero Colgnate, also known as a Hanging Glacier. The cloud level was quite low and light rain was falling. Nonetheless, we had booked our entry tickets the day before and started the

Wow, so much has happened since our last post! Chile is proving to be a wonderful and gracious place and the trail magic seems to be nonstop. We departed the beach of Santa Barbara heading to Lago Yelcho to camp for the night. En route, a young lady heading northbound

We woke up bright and early to dash to the supermercado for lunch supplies and make the 10am ferry, which was to be 6 hours total in transit. However an email alerted us that due to extremely low tides, our departure time had been moved to 2pm. Thereafter another notice,

After copious amounts of coffee, we mounted the heavy saddle bags and said a little prayer for our rear wheel. She’s going to get a lot of abuse, especially when we hit all the dirt ripio (rippled surface) later on. But day 1 is all nice paved road. However

After 31 hours leaving the Nice airport, we arrived in Puerto Montt, Chile. The three checked bags arrived with no damage and everything intact - great considering the probable lack of tandem parts in the area. Just the day before, we flew over our house in Barcelonnette and after a

Tomorrow we leave our car at friends Smith and Claude, then lug three heavy bags down to the Nice airport. We hop over to London and prepare ourselves for a 15 hour flight to Santiago, Chile for the first of many challenges over the next two months. Our goal, bike