Author Archives: bigplatcool

The final two days of riding and then saying goodbye and dropping off my new friend in Punta Arenas. Just as we are starting to get to know each other, we will have to break the bond. And I also … Continue reading →

Day 13 5 – 12-2017 410 Kms Today we have a bunch of dirt   through the roadworks, en-route. We had decided not to take the mainly dirt route as this was an extra 100km of dirt and based on … Continue reading →

Day 13 5-12-2017 410 Kms Today we have a bunch of dirt tracks through the roadworks, en-route. We had decided not to take the mainly dirt route option as this was an extra 100km of dirt roads and based on … Continue reading →

  Day 11:  12.04.2017 Puerto Natales to Cerro Sombrero (The Hill of the Hat) 350 km (But we are warned that fuel will be very tight and that careful riding is needed – I am on a GS Adventure with … Continue reading →

    Days 9 and 10:   Estanza La Angostura to El Calafate and the Glacier 30.11.2017 and 01.12.2017   320 Kms and a border crossing, then a day at the glacier Firstly sportsfans please accept my apologies for the … Continue reading →

  Day 8 29/11/2017   The biggest day of the trip 510 km (151 km Dirt and 309 km on tar)   Malin Colorado to Estanza La Angostura   Knowing this was going to be a really challenging day we … Continue reading →

The South American Odyssey continued, Day 6 to Day 7.   So I have physically moved way past Santiago and Broad Hinton. Just catastrophically short of time and so busy that all I am capable of is to collapse into … Continue reading →

I started to write this in Santiago  (CHILE) on the way back to the UK, The long road now behind us. I will post this in portions as I find the time to type it all up. But fear not … Continue reading →

Hello Sportsfans, I realize that you must have been disappointed not to get the evening update from Biker Pilot and El Toro his wingman, but we have been riding hard, very hard, so hard that most grown men would be … Continue reading →

My wheels have officially come off and admit exhaustion. After eight days of riding, about 2,500 kms so far, with much of that on very difficult dirt roads, but all of it an incredible experience with emotions between ecstasy and … Continue reading →