The Carved Wood El Bosque Tallado (The Carved Forest) is a collection of 50 works of art carved into lenga trees destroyed by fire high above El Bolsón, Argentina. It was the brainchild of the sculptor, Marcelo Lopez, who wanted to bring attention to his natural surroundings and create an environment for collaboration with other …
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Bill Whitacre and Chris White Have to Leave These two leave our group today as our accumulated delays mean they have to skidaddle to get home on time. I will miss both of them. When you travel with a group of guys for seven weeks you will inevitably reveal something of yourself that is not …
Ruta 5 Chile – Meet I-5 Oregon When you travel to a new place your mind naturally tries to relate to a familiar experience. This mountain is like the Rockies, this is like riding in Eastern Oregon, oh look, they have McDonalds here too. But, for the last seven weeks criss-crossing the Andes in six …
A Rarity in South America Santiago, Chile The usual profile of the cities that we have crossed so far on this trip is of a wealth pyramid. In the centre there is money, history, sanity, and (relative) safety but, as you head outwards, the economic status falls exponentially until the edges are primitive, broken, and …
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 …
The First Traffic Ticket. We have now collectively ridden over 100,000 miles on Expedition65 and every one of us has committed every imaginable traffic violation hundreds of times. We have broken speed limits, ridden the wrong way on one-way streets to get through towns, and it is impossible to calculate how many times we have …
Darwin Was Here Traveling today around and across the Andes off the main routes, as we are doing, can be a grueling and dangerous experience. We have ridden dozens of roads that are very high on the internationally recognized “Do NOT Fuck Up Or You Will Die” scale. Crossing the pre-Cordillera into Mendoza from Uspallata …
Mountains are big. They don’t fit into a camera. The highest peak in North America is Denali (Mount McKinley) in Alaska at 6,190 meters (20,310 feet high but there are 46 mountains taller than Denali in the Andes and, as we wind our way south, we have been enjoying a peak fest that will not …
La Hospitalidad Argentina When we got together in Cartagena to begin this trip, we met Jorge Jovanovics for the first time. We intended to camp most of the time along the way and Jorge was joining us as the team cook. We have camped much less than planned but Jorge has worked miracles in the …
Half Way There – Leaving Bolivia Expedition65 set out to cross 65 degrees of latitude in 65 days. We left Cartagena, Colombia at 10 degrees N on September 7th and we are now in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile which is 23 degrees S – half of our 65 degrees are now completed. We have …
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