South America By Bike

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• One Month In Bariloche Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:30:46 +0000

Hi again! I have now been in (and around) Bariloche for over a month, waiting for the inflammation to disappear completely. I’ve had a great time and this place feels now like my second home! Bariloche is a touristic city placed at the shore of Lago Nahuel Huapi, a beautiful lake with crystal clear water (15-25 m visibility). The Andean mountains are located in the west, and the Patagonian steppe in the east. [more]

• The Beginning (And End) Of Carretera Austral Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:59:11 +0000

After having spent more than 1 week off the bike in El Calafate to give my knee some rest, I felt very excited about starting again! I took the bus back to El Chalt [more]

• Round-Trip To El Chalt Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:38:17 +0000

Surprise, surprise – I’m back in El Calafate! But first, let’s start where I ended the last time. Leaving El Calafate and starting off with a lovely tail-wind, me and Juan easily covered 40 km before noticing that something was wrong with his rear wheel. It turned out that a spoke was broken on the same side as the cassette! Fortunately, I had the necessary tools with me but the cassette was so hard that the chain tool eventually broke! We reckoned that El Chalt [more]

• Ice Ice Baby Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:50:40 +0000

As I mentioned in my last post, I met a Spanish cyclist on the New Year’s Eve in Puerto Natales. Juan (www.panamerikana.org) is going to do the whole Pan-American Highway all the way up to Prudhoe Bay in Alaska! He calls me El Sueco Loco, but I wonder who of us that is crazy… On our way on Ruta 40 in Argentina, we cycled through beautiful landscapes with strong winds and many corderos and condors. [more]

• Torres Del Paine Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:33:16 +0000

We spent Christmas Eve cooking and eating a lot of good stuff! I surprised the others with a few things that I brought with me from Sweden: Abbas Senapssill, Hallands Fl [more]

• Merry Christmas! Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:01:10 +0000

I happened to find a Santa Claus-outfit in Punta Arenas, which I surprised my fellow cyclists with yesterday. I even entered Puerto Natales wearing it so there were lots of honking cars and happy faces, haha! Since the last update, I’ve been struggling in strong winds, met several other cyclists (with tailwind!), caught Chilean trout, eaten nice food and managed to have a bottle of wine last for 11 meals. [more]

• Tierra Del Fuego Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:56:56 +0000

From Rio Grande, I crossed Tierra Del Fuego together with the German couple and Lasse. We made it all the way to Chile and Porvenir without the 100 km/h winds that we had been told often rolled over this flat route. Thanks God! We spent the first night camping next to the border. Second one at an estancia where we were invited to sleep in the worker’s house. [more]

• The First Four Days Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:32:34 +0000

Ushuaia. 2009-12-08. 0 km. I left Ushuaia the 8th of December filled with various expectations and a lot of curiosity of this nomadic way of living. The weather was sunny and there was almost no wind! The road took me through beautiful valleys along the mountains, and the first climb of “only” 416 meters went alright. I then descended down to Lago Fagnano, where I put up my tent after having covered 90 km. [more]

• The End Of The World ? The Beginning Of My Journey Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:36:56 +0000

I am right now in Ushuaia – a city also known as “El fin del Mundo”, or “The end of the World”. This is the southernmost city of the world, and it’s only 1000 km away from Antarctica. The scenery here is gorgeous, with snow-capped mountains and the Beagle channel surrounding the city. Right now it is spring and the days are quite chilly, around 5-10 degrees. [more]

• [1] Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:20:52 +0000

First, here’s how a very happy man just about to leave on a great adventure looks like: PS. Four people from the airport staff in Gothenburg had been staring at me when I was taping the box like loco. Just after the photo was taken, they said that I had to cut it open since it didn’t fit in the x-ray machine. Nice. Anyway, the flights went alright, and I am now in ARGENTINA! I spent the days in Buenos Aires to eat a lot of good food and make some final purchases. [more]