Moving Average: 80.3 km/h
Moving Time: 83:28 hours
Total Distance: 6670.4 km = 4002 miles
Travel time: 14 days
Travel per day: 476 per day
Flat tires: 2 (both within 30 minutes of each other)
Accidents:1 (rear ended on the road by a truck that was driving too fast on a mountain road)
Stops in San Luis (province of San Luis), Uspallata (Mendoza), Las Flores (San Juan), Vinchina (La Rioja), Tinogasta (Catamarca), crossed into Chile at Pasa de San Francisco (4,730 meters altitude = 15,470 feet) in the Andes before coasting into the immigration/customs office on fumes where we spent the night and were happy to be fed toasted rolls with spam by the janitor, Juan Carlos. The next day we fired the afterburners (after Juan Carlos arranged for the water truck driver to bring us 20 liters of fuel) and made it to the coast and stayed in Taltal, Chile. The following day we decided that driving through the Atacama Desert was like driving through most deserts so we skipped Antofagasta and made it to San Pedro de Atacama, where we spent two nights. We crossed back into to Argentina at Paso Jama (Chile ruta 27 & Argentina ruta 52) and dropped down to San Salvador de Jujuy(Jujuy) with two flats en route and were assisted by a fellow adventure rider (thanks Gonzalo) who had just the parts we needed while changing a flat on the highway in the dark. The next day we traveled to Cafayate (a good place, in the province of Salta) and finally Frias (a not-so-good place in the province of Santiago del Estero). We ended the trip with flaring after burners traveling from Frias to Buenos Aires arriving Thursday, April 17, 2014, 12:43:10 AM - a very long day.
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| Trip Summary, April 2014 |