I took a minibus to Ushuaia and I am staying in a hostel but I am in so much pain and can’t do many things (I haven’t had a bath for four days now) that I don’t know how I am going to cope with the last month in South America until I am able [...]

I went and pickup’ed my bike yesterday with a big truck. The back was all smashed in, the speedo broken and the windscreen gone. Made me realise that I was lucky to survive. Apparently I was found about 10 meters away from the bike.

Sit, stand, pull, push, bend forwards, bend backwards, walk, go to the toilet, get a drink of water, pick up a laptop, all these things you can do with a good back. With a broken collar bone it hurts to do everything.
I am going to have to ship almost everything to Buenos Aires and [...]

Enough of this natural optimism. I have spent two waking days in the hospital and I am over it. Everyone else is celebrating Christmas in Ushuaia and I am staring at pale green walls trying to figure out how to get news on the condition of my bike and what I will do [...]

After a day of lying in my hospital bed I have had time to reflect on my situation. I can barely walk (dizzy from inactivity) or use one side of my body (tube to lungs or broken collarbone – not sure).
I have talked to my mother who says I am lucky to be alive [...]

Hi,
I’m fine. I am lying in a hosiptal in Rio Grande, the bottom of Argentina where I have been for five days in and out of intensive care. Not really sure what happened or is wrong other than being in pain.
Yep, 200 kms from my final destination after 50,000kms. And to [...]

After having breakfast in a petrol station and checking my email I realised I needed to buy a front tyre as I wasn’t going to get it further south. Having just missed morning hours I had to wait until after the three hours siesta so I headed to the Petroleum Museum where I [...]

As I was waiting to pull into the road a truck backed into me with a bang wiping out me and the bike. He kindly got the pannier holder welded but later on I kept on finding bits of my bike that were broke. The panniers are about two inches out, my right [...]

Peninsula Valdés is famous for it’s whale watching. I was a bit worried I was too late in the season but with a bit of patience we got to see a couple of Southern Right Whales pass right under the boat.

Our first day was spent riding around the peninsula on the gravel trail where I was out front in the lead, up on the pegs showing the fellows a bit of my bmw off road training course abilities.

After the meetup I joined up with Nick and Paul to ride down to Peninsula Valdés. It was a pretty boring ride and I actually fell asleep and came off onto the gravel for the first time which had my heart racing.

The weekend finished with an Asado and promises to meet up on the road. Lovely bunch of people. Thanks to Oscar and Nancy for organising!

The next day we rode to see the sea lions which I am a bit over now. But I did spend all my time trying to get a photo of the parrots flying from the wingside up.

I must admit that when I got the meet up it was a bit underwhelming as I was originally going to start my trip with the meet up in Dec 2006 now three years later I was ending my trip here. Most of the people were in couples so I was a little bit [...]

I headed out of Buenos Aires at 5am to ride down to the Horizons Unlimited meet up in Viedma. It took me 12 hours to do the 600miles (1000km) through the rain and sand.