Recent content by umpqua

Had a pretty scary experience in the last oil change in joacaba brasil. They put the truck up on the lift to drain the oil. As they lowered it to about the height to do the tire rotation the lift cracked the concrete mount. The truck dropped 6” or so onto the back left wheel drum. If it had...

Made it to Brasil and getting a serious beach fix.

Crossing to Paraguay.

Vineyard bikes but I’d sure like to have a couple.

Vineyard camping south of Mendoza Argentina.

If you have any intel I’d appreciate the help.

Will be in SA for 2-3 more months. I’m starting research on Africa now. Trying to decide if I want to ship back to the states or directly to Africa from Uruguay. Regardless, I do need to get back to the states for a few months this summer to see my daughter.

We are taking the poor man’s cruise next week on a 41 hour ferry ride through the Bernardo O’Higgins national park.

After almost 50k km’s driven over 25 months I finally reached the end of the drivable road on the South American continent. The road doesn’t end in Ushuaia but rather at an Argentinian naval base about 3 hours south. I’m not sure what I was expecting but there was no marching band to greet me...

El Chalten Argentina and Mt Fitz Roy.

Absolutely on the list.

Southern Chile, Patagonia. Had to get the oil changed a couple of days ago….,

Wild Camping, Patagonia Chile.

More Argentina. Back into Chile soon. Always south….

As I recall, when I ordered it a passenger side wasn’t available. Either that or I didn’t want to wait for one. You’d think that a passenger side would be favorable but honestly I haven’t noticed it being a problem. I never put it up when parked on a street.