Two Missions For The Day

Santiago, Chile – get an oil change and get a haircut.

Check both off the list.

At MotoAventura, Thomas and Mauro did a fantastic job to get an oil change, new tires, oil and air filters all done in an hour. Both are motorbike fanatics – Mauro is from Santiago and showed up on the most immaculate Honda sportbike I’ve seen and Thomas is German who moved here a few years ago with his Chilean wife. In the background is a poster of the Motorex oil we are all using for this trip.

As for the hair, I wandered into a down market shopping centre near our hotel and found Omar in his small salon on the lower level. It turned out that, once we started chatting, one of his clients is the publisher of Off Road and he produced a few issues that he gave me. Omar is from Santiago and has been in that same salon for 34 years; “a lifetime of hair” he said.

Small world.