If you´ve ever gone hiking with a bicycle, you knew something I didn´t really know until the day before yesterday. It´s difficult. After busting our butts (which becomes rather literal when bicycling) and battling the wind to reach El Chalten so we could ferry across Lago del Desierto, we got to push our bicycles up steep hillside and through deep ruts for two hours and bicycle another 15km on some of the worst things I still classify as roads, we reached Chile in time to take the weekly ferry across Lago O'Higgins. We enjoyed three hours of rest on the ferry, and reaching the other side realized that Trevor´s rear tire had blown apart.
Anyway, yesterday was a lovely rest day for us. When we reached El Chalten, we caught up with our Mexican friend, Felipe, and will be bicycling with him for a little while. He's a great guy who speaks English well and has much nicer equipment than we do. Is that all I really have to say about him? Ahh, the things a bicyclist focuses on.
And so, here we go. 700 Kilometers of dirt and gravel stretch forth before us, but everyone we meet coming the other way assures us that ´vale la pena de hacerlo.´ So we are encouraged.
Love and hugs (though I wish the hugs could be in person and not only imagination),
Will and Trev
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3 comments:
I wish the hugs could be in person too!
Yay! Imagination hugs!
I, too, wish the hugs could be in person!
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