A FEW MORE PHOTOS & A FEW LAST WORDS.

THE TIGRE DELTA just north of Buenos Aires

AS ABOVE

TIERRA DEL FUEGO NATIONAL PARK, where the road ends.

AS ABOVE. Its wild, isolated & quite spectacular.

And heavily forested too.

We went thru THE GARIBALDI PASS, just out of Ushuaia on the road north. That's snow on the roadside.

AS ABOVE. Tricky, not to mention cold!

WAITING TO CROSS THE STRAITS OF MAGELLAN, separating Tierra Del Fuego from the South American mainland. The Sir Douglas Mawson lookalike is me, but the conditions were fairly Antarctic.

The magnificent LAGO ARGENTINO , between El Calafate & El Chalten.

ONTO THE GRAVEL AGAIN, Ruta 40, north of Tres Lagos. It gets worse.......a lot worse!

BUSH MECHANICS! An improvised clutch lever after a drop on the gravel. It actually worked. (No, its not mine!)



LANIN VOLCANO, on the border between San Martin de los Andes (Argentina) & Pucon (Chile). Yes, it's active ..........better keep moving!

A BIT CLOSER. The foliage is a so called Monkey Puzzle Tree.

PART OF THE SANTIAGO SKYLINE. The smog blots out what would otherwise be a spectacular mountain backdrop.

PLAZA BAQUEDANO, Central Santiago

ONE OF THE MANY CATHEDRALS, Santiago.

TERRAZA NEPTUNO, Cerro Santa Lucia, Central Santiago.

Ever wonder what the Third Reich did with all the leftover uniforms? Now you know!

CROSSING THE ANDES THE EASY WAY. Flying back to Buenos Aires from Santiago.

AS ABOVE.

Its been a hectic 3 weeks, covering a bit over 3,000 km by road. When we started in Ushuaia, it looked as though we were going to cop really bad weather, but I think we got lucky. It had been snowing the day before we arrived, & it was raining on arrival. The wind was stiff enough to be a concern, & it made the riding tough, but it could have been much worse, apparently. There was snow on the ground in a mountain pass on the first ride day from Ushuaia, so that's a first for me. Fortunately, the weather steadily improved as we moved north.

As a group, we have seen some spectacularly rugged & isolated scenery, ridden through some of the most remote & challenging parts of the planet, had some fantastic rides, honed our skills, enjoyed the cameraderie of similar minded adventurers, met a lot of very friendly & hospitable locals along the way and, best of all, had a lot of fun doing it. What more could anybody want? Just more, that's what! So there will probably be a next time, at least I hope so. Thanks for sharing this great experience with me. Hasta Luego, Mike.