Eva Pfarrwaller & Miguel Anjo travel blog
Two recumbent bicycles, a tent, camp kitchen, no limits. After six years of sedentary life we start off towards the west, to see where Europe ends, and beyond...
With a very strong wind pushing us forward, we passed yesterday the 8’000 km milestone, still rolling in Argentina next to the cordillera. Soon after stopping my bicycle fell with the wind. After we struggle to look at the camera.
Here is the picture and click more for the making of.
In South America the camp sites have electricity included in the price and plugs are available everywhere. So we use it. While in Europe we would use our solar panel to charge the phone or leave the phone for a while in the toilets’ only plug, here we are all the time connected to the grid and use also electricity to boil water for the tea. Different places, different ways to survive. We can live 3 days on the battery of the phones – we use most with OsmAnd for the maps – and live with fuel for cooking. Not yet electricity dependent but getting close. And we carry an electrical toothbrush!
View over Lanín volcano, taken on road 40 between Zapala and Junin de los Andes, Argentina
We crossed the 7’000km milestone on one of the several days crossing the Pampa desert (more than 100km between villages and about 8 hours pedaling per day, not counting the pauses). We took a road that has so little traffic that we could spend some minutes “drawing” and taking a picture in the middle of the lane before a car came.
A short post to help other tourists in need of exchange dollars in Neuquén, using a better rate than the official one. Dollars are welcome in the computer/gaming shop in the Petito Moreno street, block 200-300. It is not a cueva and you might not get the blue dollar rate, but I found it a safe place to exchange. Just enter and ask them.
