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Joined: May 2009
Location: between my last drink and my next one
Oddometer: 321
Photos and story are both awesome!
(p.s. you may want to give the lens on your camera a quick clean )
Adrian, Central & South America, 2011/2012
I know violence isn't the answer. I got it wrong on purpose.
Joined: Aug 2010
Location: Washington DC
Oddometer: 188
Day 16: Into Chile!
In which Pete successfully leaves Peru and enters Chile, finds himself lost without a map and picks a random road south and sleeps in the desert.
Day 16
Begin: Tacna, Peru @ 10:30AM
End: Unknown Location, Chilean Desert @ 6:00PM
Distance: approx. 243km (~158mi) in ~6 hours (~40KMH / ~25MPH average, 1hr for customs)Average Gas Mileage: N/A (calculations fried)
Stopped by Police: Only at the border
I have to admit by this point I was looking forward to getting out of Peru and into someplace new. I do really enjoy Peru, but it has a justified reputation of frustration for travelers with the constant police checkpoints everywhere. Plus I was at sea level now and Red was like an entirely new bike, the pickup in 3rd and 4th gear was amazing!
I woke up early and walked downtown to try to find some breakfast but didnt have much luck it can be really frustrating sometimes in a South American city you dont know because its not at all like an American or Canadian city where there are places to eat every couple of blocks. Instead there are entire neighbourhoods without food, and as I discovered last night walking around, mine was one of those (I did find some street food). This morning I finally found a bakery and grabbed a couple empanadas but I have to admit they did not settle right whether it was the remains of the street food from yesterday or both, I was pretty yucky that morning.
After packing my stuff I walked over to the Honda dealer and picked up Red, all shiny and clean! A full service only cost around $20USD, but they didnt fix all of the problems and I didnt want to stick around to deal with it Ive made it this far with the kickstart, I guess thats the way its going to be. I did remember to pick up a pair of goggles since my sunglasses have not been cutting it in strong crosswinds, but of course they have the same problems Ive always suffered with goggles: they give me a headache. Oh well, better than not being able to see or permanently damaging my eyes.
The drive out to the border was about an hour on a very straight road through the desert. The entire time, I was playing out in my head all the different things that could happen to screw me over. With the border finally coming up, I decided to wing it and do my best, which seems to generally get me through most situations. At first I was excited because I pulled into a vehicle lane that looked just like the Canada/US border, but the guy yelled at me to park and go get a bunch of forms first.
No problem, I can do forms! I walk inside a building where I see people waiting in line and get my passport and vehicle ownership card all ready. When I get to the front of the line, the guy looks at me and asks for my vehicle form. Sorry, what form? Where do I get it? He tells me to go around the corner and get the form, so I go around and find another door, where I tell the security guard I need some sort of form? He has me sign a guest book, then gives me a Vehicle Information Form where I have to write all sorts of stuff about my vehicle, from the engine # to the chassis # and other esoteric stuff beyond just the plate. I get that all filled out and go back inside to try again.
This time the guy looks at all my stuff and asks for my vehicle registration card. I give it to him and next thing I know he has stamped my passport and my form and taken one off and told me Im all set. Outside, some cool older ladies are taking photos of each other standing in front of my moto, reminding me for all the world of my mum. I talked to them for a bit and they were so excited for me that I couldnt help but be a bit nostalgic.
Back at the drive through port, I pulled up with all the forms and the guy happily took them without any complaint. He asked me if it was the first time my moto was leaving Peru and I told him that yes it was. He dithered around for awhile before asking me for my drivers license, so I gave him my US drivers license. This he did not like You need a Peruvian drivers license to drive here! I showed him my international drivers permit that explains that I can drive temporarily on my US license, but he responds by saying That is issued in the US too! Its not valid here!
This is odd I have had police insist on seeing my international drivers license, or insist on seeing my US drivers license, but never both and, more oddly, never has one or the other been insufficient. I pulled out my second international drivers license (I have one for the world and one for Latin America) and he finally either got tired of trying to figure it out or was familiar with the world one because he closed up all my paperwork and wished me a good journey!
Now to get into Chile I drove up to where everyone was stopped and pondered for a moment. There is not a single sign explaining what to do, so I turn to one of the guys in a military style vest and ask what I should do next. He tells me to go talk to someone at one of the little windows of a building across the way, so I do. This guy takes all my Peru paperwork and my passport and has me fill out a Chile immigration card, then gives me a Chile version of the Vehicle Registration Form and tells me I need to have it stamped by S.A.G. (some sort of security) and Customs before I can go, then he provides his own first stamp.
Realizing the guy I had spoken to earlier was a S.A.G. guy, I went back to him and he told me to take my stuff through this building in the middle for it to be xrayed. While I did this, he stamped my paper and when I came out he told me to head down to Customs at the end of the building.
At Customs, a nice lady asked me if I would only be going to Arica (the nearby town) or if I would be going further south. I explained my plan of going around Chile for awhile, to which she responded with well then you need to fill out this form. I see. This was the hardest form to fill out yet because there were a bunch of words I didnt understand!
I guessed at a few and decided to ignore an entire chunk of the form which looked weird (when I asked I found out thats for bringing in boats and stuff), but apparently got almost everything right because she stamped my other form and gave me back this new form all happily stamped up, telling me I have until July 29 to get my moto out of Chile or the police will impound it!
Next thing I know, Im handing in my completed form on the way out and heading south into Chile, a country which I am so unprepared for that I dont even have a map or any idea where Im going! I figure South cant be too wrong, so I just follow signs that say South I make it through the unexpectedly huge city of Arica without too many problems, though its clear that Chile is not Peru.
First of all, they love round-a-bouts in Chile. Second, there are a ton of pale skinned people everywhere here it seems. Third, the city itself (Arica) had much more greenery and was generally less dirty than most desert cities in Peru, as if maybe they even use water to clean things sometimes! Most importantly, I did not see police on every corner and didnt get stopped at all!
Before long I was fueled up and on the highway southbound, figuring itd get me somewhere (and hopefully I could buy a map there). I did not at all expect what happened next five hours of a desolate desert road with only one little diner where I picked up some water. It was an interesting road at first, with pristine desert views and these amazing desert canyons, but before long it all started to blend together.
If anything, its a reminder that for a large portion of its route, the Panamerican highway is just a giant easy button to travel, mostly flat, straight, and endless. I dont want to travel this way, but I dont have any choice right now as I dont have a map and I know its taking me in the direction I want to go!
Night begins to fall without any real progress made, as far as I can tell. Im just in the middle of nowhere, hundreds of kilometers to the next town, so theres nothing for it but to find a place to sleep. The cool thing is that the desert here is mostly solid sand with a lot of salt rocks, so I pick a little teeny side road that has a weird pipeline next to it and drive off the highway about half a mile before pulling over into the desert to set up camp.
I read for awhile as the sky darkens, then turn off my light to look up at the sky. Its perfectly clear, with most of the haze from the day fading with the sun. The sky is alive, marvelous, a beautiful ménage of lights, colors, and shapes. You dont just see stars, you see bands of them, nebulae, galaxies, more colors and shapes than a life of light pollution can ever prepare you for. With this endless diorama circling over me, I sleep.
Ride Reports:
2011 - South America on Three Wheels
2010 - DC to AK and back on a 106cc scooter (mini-report)
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Day 17: Chilean Desert and Coastline
In which Pete runs out of gas and is forced to rescue himself.
Day 17
Begin: Unknown Location, Chilean Desert @ 7:30AM
End: Unknown Location, Chilean Desert / Coastline @ 5:15PM
Distance: approx. 319km (~200mi) in ~7 hours (~45KMH / ~28MPH average, 3hrs in stops)
Average Gas Mileage: N/A (calculations fried)
Stopped by Police: 1x, plus Aduana checkpoint
Last night was surprisingly comfortable, some bran cookies keeping my stomach pains in check as I read late into the night before closing down to sleep around nine in the evening. I didn't get out much of my cold weather gear since I was at sea level, just draped my sleeping bag over me and called it a night. As I woke up in the morning, it was a bit chilly, but I just tucked it tighter around me and dozed until the sun came up completely and started toasting everything right up.
Finishing off the last of my water (in the middle of the desert, ut oh!), I hit the road wondering how long it would be until I found anything at all. Luckily, the next interesting thing was only a few hours down the road, a cool little rest stop on the side of the road in a fruit orchard. The nice lady sold me a great steak and cheese sandwich on very hard bread as well as some excellent fresh fruit juice and some waters for the road. Fed and hydrated, I took off towards Iquique, the next big city apparently, some hundred kilometers to the south.
As I turned off the endless desert highway towards Iquique, I was stopped by police for the first time in Chile! Also for the first time (on the entire trip), the first words out of this officer's mouth when he saw me were "Hablas Español?" In fact, I think that's the first time anyone has ever asked me that at all this trip, maybe my opening "que mas" or whatnot is usually fluent enough sounding to preclude it. Regardless, we had a quick conversation where it became apparent the officer was more curious about me than anything, and once that curiousity was satisfied he confirmed Iquique was a big city and I should be able to buy a map and gas there and sent me on my way.
More humdrum road through the desert followed, when with nearly no warning it dropped. The "nearly no warning" is because there was a sign for a "mirador" (viewpoint) to the side which I foolishly ignored, as I immediately found out that Iquique was built in a half mile wide stretch of ground where the ocean had eroded the desert, and I was coming in from about a third of a mile up! The only thing between this huge cliff face and the city was a giant sand mountain smack dab in the middle of the cliff and the city, which made no sense at all.
What did make sense was all that paragliders hanging out flying through the air – man, what an ideal place, just drive up the cliff outside the city then sail down! I told myself that I needed three things in this city: Gas, a Map, and more Cash. I would not leave without these three things! It was nice to be by ocean now, the breeze coming in cool and wet, and I sort of checked out as I drove through the city.
Long story short: I left without any of those three things. There was gas going into the city but not leaving the city, and somehow I avoided any sort of district with stores or banks. Before I realized what was going on, I was outside the city following a small road south along the ocean – not to worry though, there is an airport a few kilometers out of the city, and signs for all sorts of other towns, so there will be tons of places to stop and get gas.
Yeah, uh… let me just skip ahead to a couple hours later as I coast to the side of the road completely out of gas, my reserve stuttering dry and my spare can completely empty. All those towns were actually clusters of maybe four houses with a restaurant, not a single gas station amongst them. I'm an idiot… but not to worry, I've seen plenty of SUV's with gas cans on the roof, someone will hook me up!
For an hour I sat on the side of the road holding up a "Need Gas" sign at every car and truck that drove by. Almost all drove by waving and smiling… but only one stopped. This guy was really nice and said he had a ton of gas but I needed a hose to siphon it! I don't have this because I shouldn't need to siphon gas from someone. >_< With no easy way to get the gas from his tank into mine, he sadly bid me good luck before quickly coming back to gift me with a bag of marshmallows (???)… um, ok? Actually this was just what I needed, to stuff my face with half a bag of sugar. It kept me in good spirits at least!
I finally decided to start pushing Red down the road. By my calculations I was only about five km from the next "town" and maybe I could get help there. After pushing it about a kilometer, something made me stubbornly try to start it… and wtf, it started! And ran! Could it be that pushing it had sloshed some fuel around? Or maybe, wait, I was just cresting a steep hill when it died… either way, there's something left! Vroom!
The remaining fuel got me around two kilometers before it died again, this time for good. From here I could see some cell towers that hinted at maybe a bigger "town" than usual… could I dare to hope? I kept pushing Red but the grade started to change slightly uphill. The going was rough, but I figured out a way to walk backwards pulling it up the hill, using my weight more than my muscle power and slowly got myself to the top – from which I could see a small cluster of buildings about a kilometer off to the side!
Grabbing my gas can and the bag with my passport and paperwork, I left Red and the rest of my stuff beside the road with my finger's crossed that no one would try anything out of expectation I was hanging out at a beach nearby watching. As I got closer to the buildings I realized it was a cluster of about five houses, but one had a huge collection of junked cars and motorcycles and other crap outside it… a mechanic of some sort? Surely he would have gas!
As I walked up to the house I was laughing desperately inside. Two large, overweight guys were working on giant speakers in the back of an SUV, with a generous portion of butt being shown by both of them. With the ambience of the front yard full of junk, it could be a random cluster of houses in West Virginia… until I politely asked if they knew where I could buy some gasoline and the entire house erupted!
Well, actually, the analogy stayed, it was only the calls in Spanish that decried the truth. The two guys outside started yelling that I needed help out here RIGHT AWAY and cussing at someone inside to GET THE @%#%# OUT HERE! Five or six overweight women of various ages came running out to see what was going on, look at me, then run back inside before finally the patron of this family came out to talk to me in the craziest accent I have ever heard. I can only think to describe it as "pikey Spanish" – remember Brad Pitt in Snatch? Yeah, that.
Holy crap, I found a nest of Chilean pikeys. As I desperately quelled the urge to ask them if they liked dags, I managed to understand that this guy would happily sell me some gas but that it was over a hundred kilometers to the next gas station! He couldn't sell me enough to get there because he only had around eight liters and he needed some of it. I told him I was on a motorcycle and he got all excited, saying five liters should get me there (correct, I hope) and that he could spare me five liters.
He then fished around his junkyard for about five minutes trying to find a funnel, then poured gas from a giant blue can into a five liter earthernware jug that, I kid you not, looked for all the world like it usually held moonshine. During this process we chatted about my trip, where I was coming from and going, how long I thought it would take, and other such niceties. For every response I gave, he would spout off about ten sentences in rapid pikey Spanish of which I would be lucky to understand a few words near the end, but he didn't seem to mind that I only ever responded to the last couple of words I heard.
Gas in hand, I paid 5000 pesos (normally 3500 pesos worth of gas, he asked for 4500, I didn't want to deal with change) and walked away from this utterly surreal experience shaking my head in wonder. How bizarre, how bizarre.
Fuel in moto, I tore off down the road towards what I thought was the next big town ten km away. I had thought this because this Rio Loma (or something like that) place had been on all the signs since Iquique, so it must be big… but the guy who sold me the gas said it wasn't. Not sure what to expect, I came up to it and found out it wasn't a town at all; rather, it was some sort of inspection area.
I will admit at this point I was somewhat mentally and physically broken. Crossing into Chile, sleeping in the desert, running out of gas, having no idea where the hell I was going, it had all started to add up. Now I'm in some sort of weird inspection area which, like everything else in South America, apparently can't be bothered to have any sort of signs explaining what you're supposed to do… so I just pulled up, turned off my engine, and sat there, pouting.
This advanced "traveler in a strange land" technique worked, thankfully, and an official came up to me and asked me what I was doing. I explained that I had no idea at all what I was doing, and wondered if he could tell me what I was supposed to do? Thankfully he either did not sense my sarcasm or chose to ignore it (or I was concealing my emotions better than I thought), and instead his face lit up in a huge grin as he actually looked at me and my moto for the first time. "You should have received some paperwork when you entered Chile, I need to see it" he asked me very politely.
I seem to recall having such – I dug into my bag and pulled out my paperwork, including four separate pieces of paper I received entering Chile, and showed them to this gentleman. He happily pulled one piece out and said "This is the important one, come with me please!" and walked me over to a nearby building.
Inside the building he spent a couple of minutes telling everyone inside that I had some sort of weird motorcycle and that he'd never had to fill out the form for one of those and wasn't sure what to do! Oh no… wait, no, he's laughing, it must be okay… sure enough, he catches my look of horror and tells me it's okay, he was just joking. My relief must have been palpable because the entire room – as well as the three other Chileans going through the same process – all break out into laughter at this point.
He fills out a registry book of some kind (really Chile, no computers? I'm actually quite surprised here, you seem so modern in so many ways), then stamps and signs my form. He returns said form to me, explaining that I need to guard it carefully while I am in Chile, and to show his stamp and signature to the guard down the road. I thank him profusely for his help, he wishes me a safe journey, and I head down towards the guard.
He looks at the paper, looks at me, and with a look of disbelief asks me where I came from. "Lima, Peru" I say, "and I'm going to Santiago, then into Argentine" to preempt his next question. He shakes his head at me and smiles, returns the paper and also wishes me a good journey. I shoot him a grin and a thumbs up for his trouble and tear off in a squeal of tires showcasing the ultimate power of my ride (one of those things only happened in my head).
At this point it was closing on five and starting to get dark – the sun seems to be setting around 5:30PM down here right now. I am out of water again and haven't eaten since breakfast, so the little roadside eatery next to the customs place has been calling me like a magnet. I pull in and see a sign that has a list of prices next to a bunch of "chicharrones, chicharrones + queso, chicharrones + tomato" etc. Under that is "ave, ave + queso, ave + tomato" etc.
I'm not a huge fan of chicarrones, but have no idea what ave is. When it's my turn, I politely ask the lady what an "ave" is. She looks at me like I'm a total idiot and goes "an ave is an ave." I'm still confused, so I ask "but what is it?" to which she replies "it's a sandwich of ave." My confusion must've finally gotten through because she then stopped, cocked her head, and said "ave is chicken!" (using the word "pollo" which I know).
I don't know if ave is a local word, or a type of chicken, or what, but I know the word chicken! Chicken sammich for dinner! Yeah!
But wait, there's more! What is that I see in the refrigerator? Why yes, it is indeed, a 1.5L bottle of Coke Light! Nectar of the gods with my name on it. As the lady hands me my diet Coke (which I am still drinking as I write this), she heads in back to prepare my sandwich. She pops out for a moment to ask me if I want mayonnaise on it (another sign this is not Peru – she would have just slathered it on), to which I reply "Yes please, but only a little!" During this interplay I notice she is slicing a fresh tomato for my sandwich, a sure sign of happiness.
The sandwich is delicious. The diet Coke is amazing. My body and stomach tingles as I stuff my face, but it's definitely getting darker… should I push for the next town three hours down the road and hope there is hostal? Ugh, what if I run out of gas again? Screw it, I have been driving down this coast for half a day looking at the endless beaches, let's put that soft sand to use.
Barely half a kilometer from the checkpoint, I pull off the road and drive onto the beach. It's mostly hard sand, though I get stuck a couple times and have to push myself off. Likely spot found, I unload, set up my tent, and get to work.
Who knows what tomorrow will bring? I still don't have have a map (though I had a high resolution .jpg on my laptop that I transferred to my phone to use until I find a map), and I'm not sure what the plan is from here because all my previous plans are shot.
I know I have a buddy who really wants to come down and hang for the last couple weeks of May, so within the next couple of days I need to figure out where we can rendezvous. Santiago maybe? If I stay on this easy button road and actually get gas appropriately, I should be in Santiago inside a week though – so maybe somewhere in Argentina? Can I make it over the mountains down there?
Ah well, those are questions to be answered with a map and an internet connection. For now, I can relax and let the sound of waves lull me to sleep.
Ride Reports:
2011 - South America on Three Wheels
2010 - DC to AK and back on a 106cc scooter (mini-report)
Check out my 2009-2010 Adventure Highlight Video on Vimeo!
Joined: Aug 2010
Location: Washington DC
Oddometer: 188
Day 18: More Endless Road
In which Pete becomes bored with the endless easy button road.
Day 18
Begin: Unknown Location, Chilean Desert / Coastline @ 7:30AM
End: Taltal, Chile @ 6:00PM
Distance: approx. 450km (~280mi) in ~10.5 hours (~42KMH / ~26MPH average)
Average Gas Mileage: N/A (calculations fried)
Stopped by Police: 2x
Another easy button road day. There was an awful lot of driving down the coastline then through the desert, with the monotony only broken by a trip through a very large town called Antofagasta. After that, there was a considerable amount of more desert however I did find a book of maps for Chile! So I sort of know where I am going now.
I ditched 5 at my earliest opportunity (though Ill be back on it tomorrow) and shot off towards the coastline again heading out of Antofagasta. At one point I could see what looked like clouds below me through a gap in the desert mountains to the side, but that made no sense at all I wasnt high enough for clouds. I decided it must be some sort of fluffy white sand dunes or something, and was excited to be heading towards them.
Down and around a canyon, suddenly the temperature dropped almost 30F in moments from a balmy desert 70+ to a chilly low 40s. The reality became clear; they had been clouds I saw, once again I was descending rapidly down to the coast line, except here the entire horizon was full of dark, evil, horrible clouds in some kind of cold front ready to wreak havoc upon the coastline in one of those epic coastal storms anyone from the west coast of the US is familiar with.
Ive no idea when the sun set, only that it was dark before and dark after. I could camp on the beach and weather the pending storm, but I needed power for my laptop and an internet connection so I could figure out some coordination with my buddy Adam, who is looking to join me down here for a couple weeks. I knew the town of Taltal was somewhere within range to the south, so I simply opened the throttle wide open and raced the storm.
After a few minutes, I noticed a slight orange glow far to the south and realized I was seeing the lights of what had to be Taltal or another big enough city. I kept at it and suddenly the city unfolded before me. At the very first corner, there was a sign pointing inland for highway 5 and a hostal whose sign said Internet Wifi. Done and done.
The irony? The storm didnt break apparently it was just evil fog in a cold front. Doh!
Some random thoughts on Chile so far:
1. Chile is expensive! Holy crap. I had heard, but see, I went to Easter Island (which is in Chile) and everyone talked about how expensive it was. I thought they meant for Chile as well as for South America but I was wrong. As far as I can tell, Chile is just pricey in general. Im paying $3USD for a 1.5L bottle of water vs $1USD for a 2.5L bottle in Peru. Snacks run a minimum of $5 instead of maybe $1-3 in Peru. Everything from candy bars to cookies to sodas are priced about what they are back home in the US, sometimes more. The room here was $30USD, considerably more than I paid even at nice tourist style hotels in Peru.
2. Gas is killer. Try $1.50 a liter almost $6 a gallon! I have no idea how people can afford to travel, its costing me nearly $10 every 100 miles and I get better gas mileage than anything on the road here. Oddly there are very few motorcycles, everyone just seems to drive cars with this crazy expensive gas but not many people travel, I guess.
3. 99% of the terrain I have passed through over a thousand km is completely barren desert. Not the typical America Southwest kind of desert we think of in the US, but barren desert. Im talking not a single scrub brush or cactus no life at all. Just rock and sand. Life is very uncommon outside the little valleys and oasis. Its bizarre.
Ride Reports:
2011 - South America on Three Wheels
2010 - DC to AK and back on a 106cc scooter (mini-report)
Check out my 2009-2010 Adventure Highlight Video on Vimeo!
Joined: Aug 2010
Location: Washington DC
Oddometer: 188
Ride Reports:
2011 - South America on Three Wheels
2010 - DC to AK and back on a 106cc scooter (mini-report)
Check out my 2009-2010 Adventure Highlight Video on Vimeo!
Joined: Apr 2011
Location: Belleville Michigan
Oddometer: 22
The pictures at night with the sunset and stars are amazing! It almost looks like you're on another planet. It sucks the goggles give you a headache but in the long run it is probably much better protection. Besides that, they are very stylish!
Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Mar 2011
Location: Central Newfoundland, Canada
Oddometer: 321
Thank you Pete for taking the time to share your trip. I am greatly enjoying your ride report. I was hoping you could clarify something for me. The mototaxi is designed to carry the weight of 3 small adults (Max Cargo Load: 180kg (397lbs). You dont seem to have a great deal of stuff, and you dont look very heavy. You have several times on your trip so far run out (or were stressed out about almost running out) of food, water and gasoline. Why dont you simply add a second gas can, stock up on some water and non-perishable food items? I noticed in your intro to the report you were expecting to find yourself hungry during the trip. Are you intentionally not taking sufficient supplies of those things to heighten the sense of adventure, to have more stuff to write about, to force more interactions with the locals, to satisfy a masochistic trait or some combination of those reasons? Or some other reason entirely?
Beastly Adventurer
Joined: Apr 2008
Location: Leon, WV
Oddometer: 2,414
Thanks for sharing with us Stay safe and grab another gas can.
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Joined: May 2010
Location: Nashville, TN
Oddometer: 2,284
Thanks for keeping this going, I've been following from your start, looks like a ton of fun!
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My KLR650 - Matt's Trippin' in Peru
Joined: Aug 2010
Location: Washington DC
Oddometer: 188
I made it to a big town (Copiapo) that has a Honda dealer and decided to stop early to get my bike serviced - good thing too, as I found the reason for a bit of a mushy feeling in my front end was due to seven spokes failing on my front wheel. I blame the Radio Lab podcasts I was listening to for distracting me from my usual inspections every stop - according to the Honda mechanic, after eight spokes the wheel pretty much is likely to go.
Anyway, more on that later tonight when I get a chance to update my report. Before I pop into the shower and do some shopping I wanted to answer this great point from Bike Nomad:
I've almost sold off my spare tires (I replaced the stock ones to start) a few times because it was extra baggage, finally keeping them only as a convenient place to store water. So that's part of it - this idea that I am carrying too much stuff is a hold over from "normal" motorcycling (and a slight worry about having more stuff to worry about/manage).
With some of the other stuff, it's usually just "bad decisions made intentionally" or, as you put it (more elegantly) "forcing interactions." This is definitely part of it - there is this cavalier part of me that constantly goes "oh well if I blow up/get stranded/run out of food/get lost it'll be fun resolving that situation." I guess that is part of the challenge and part of what I enjoy. I am by trade (with a long storied background in IT) a problem solver and strategist, two apparently mutually exclusive areas of expertise. On adventures like this, the strategist plans for every eventuality then the problem solver part goes "eh screw it let's just see what happens." ;x
Also, do keep in mind that I am in foreign countries and cultures. I felt like I knew Peru pretty well and I was comfortable enough there to not really worry about anything. I am new to Chile, however, and I'm learning a lot is very different. For example, in Peru it was very easy to find drinks, snacks, food and gas - in Chile, there have literally been 200-300km stretches without a single living thing and gas stations are even rarer. I was not prepared for this, and have run out of supplies a couple times as a result (found a 5L water bottle for today though, that lasted nice).
Over the last few days I have convinced myself to make some changes to my planning as a result of all this. I planned to stop tonight in this large city precisely to find a real grocery store with some canned goods for something other than crackers. I've really never done that before, I pretty much live exclusively off crackers and fruit when I camp anywhere because I'm an "ultra lighter"... Get this, I slept in a tent over a hundred nights last year and yet I don't own a camp stove, cup, pots, or any of that "fancy schmancy" stuff. So it's definitely a paradigm shift to think "hey I can toss a bag of potatoes on the back and eat them for a week, no problem!"
If I was in the US or Canada I would probably be tailgating off my moto by now with a grill and a banging stereo system, after making the decision to change the style... but it's not so easy to switch in Chile. We'll see how it goes. I hope tonight I can find some good loots to start it off, I think I even know where an American style grocery is. :)
Ride Reports:
2011 - South America on Three Wheels
2010 - DC to AK and back on a 106cc scooter (mini-report)
Check out my 2009-2010 Adventure Highlight Video on Vimeo!
Joined: Aug 2010
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Day 19: Taltal to Copiapo
In which Pete's front wheel nearly falls apart in the middle of the desert.
Day 19
Begin: Taltal, Chile @ 9:00AM
End: Copiapo, Chile @ 5:00PM
Distance: approx. 337km (~210mi) in ~8 hours (~42KMH / ~26MPH average)
A completo (hot dog with tomato, avocado, and an italian roll) may not be the healthiest breakfast in the world, but it certainly jump starts the taste buds especially when accompanied by the first somewhat decent coffee Ive had in months. Surprisingly, the random house-turned-hostel I spent the night at had a very fast internet connection, so I was also freshly stocked up on something new to pass the time: podcasts from Radiolab.
On the surface, these two things may seem unrelated, and yet they would begin a nearly catastrophic series of events that almost culminated in the mutually assured destruction of both myself and my moto.
Each day each stop, in fact - is supposed to start with a quick but careful check of the moto to ensure nothing is obviously wrong, especially with the wire spokes on the wheels. These tend to loosen up over time due to vibration and once loose can break off or, if the tube is low, potentially push into the wheel and pop it. Its a fairly quick and simple check to make sure everything is tight and replace any broken spokes. Yesterday I had noticed that two of the spokes on my front wheel were broken and made a note to replace them this morning.
Instead, full of delicious completo and coffee and excited about having something interesting to listen to on the endlessly boring easy-button road of Ruta 5, I skipped the morning health check and tore off into the desert. I was immediately enthralled by Radiolab, impressed by the production quality and the diversity of the programming and discussion, and the day began to fly.
Around 300km and eight hours of basically endless droning driving across a barren desert later, I arrived in the town of Copiapo. I initially expected nothing more than to pass through this district capital and camp in the desert on the other side, changing my oil and, now that I thought about it, replacing my spokes that night. As is my habit when driving through towns, I turned off my phone to be able to hear the traffic around me and navigate safely, especially since this was turning out to be a much bigger town than I initially thought.
The moment I unplugged my earphones it was glaringly obvious that Something Was Very Wrong. There was a horrible droning noise from the front wheel which caused me to actually look at it and see that it was wobbling side to side and up and down like a horribly beaten on fighter fifteen minutes into an uneven battle. I pulled over in a panic and realized that nearly a third of the spokes were snapped off or gone.
This changed things. The road I was on had a bunch of small car dealerships, so I pulled into a Honda dealership and asked if there was a Honda motorcycle place in town; they told me there was and it was just down the road. I started carefully riding through town, paying attention to the front of the moto and realizing I could feel the wheel deforming on every small bump and could even see it bend when I turned not good at all!
Finally, I found the Honda motorcycle dealership and met the absolutely fantastic guys there. Even though it was getting late in the day, Javier and a mechanic looked over my moto and told me something that absolutely chilled me to the bone: If eight spokes are missing, the wheel will lose integrity and almost definitely come apart. I was missing seven and had been driving in this condition for an unknown number of miles in an empty desert at high speed.
Unfortunately, they did not have any spare spokes offhand and had just sold their last CG125 so they didnt have a spare wheel either, but I knew I had five spokes hiding in my bags somewhere. We decided I would come back first thing the next morning and theyd see what they could dig up. I got some directions to where all the decent places to stay were and carefully, oh so gingerly, rode off to find a place to sleep.
It ended up costing me $40USD, but I found a really decent place with a fantastic shower and pondered my near death experience and the decadence of a shower and bed two nights in a row before finding an actual grocery store in town to do some shopping. Having no luck finding canned food to snack on in camp, I salved my conscience with a bag of tortilla chips and nacho cheese.
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Day 20: Copiapo to Unknown
In which Pete is unable to repair his wheel and stumbles across the desert in search of a replacement.
Day 20
Begin: Copiapo, Chile @ 2:00PM
End: Unknown Location, Chilean Desert @ 7:00PM
Distance: approx. 203km (~126mi) in ~5 hours (~40KMH / ~25MPH average)
This morning I had my first inkling that something else was off. I had been stopping around 5PM when the sun went down and getting up around 6AM as it started to rise, according to my watch. Thus, I was up at 6AM in my hotel room putzing around and heard what sounded like eating coming from the dining room, which didnt quite make sense considering I had been told breakfast would be served from 7-10AM. I didnt think too much of it, finally heading out to grab something to eat around 8AM and apparently being the last person in the hotel to do so interesting, people must get up early around here!
I packed up and checked out to head over to the Honda place with a bit of a new concern: I had been unable to locate my replacement spokes. I have everything else, from tubes to spark plugs and more, but at some point I must have removed my spare spokes (I think to access my zip ties) and left them somewhere. Heres hoping the Honda guys were able to find some
Sometimes hoping is in vain. No dice. The mechanic came up with an interesting solution, however he removed three spokes from each of my rear wheels and put them on the front wheel. He suggested that this configuration should get me the 700km to Santiago, where it was absolutely critical that I buy a new front rim, preferably alloy. He was convinced that the integrity of the wheel was lost and that it would keep destroying spokes.
In order to save my liter of oil for an emergency (stranded in the middle of the mountains somewhere needing an oil change and no where to buy oil), I decided to go ahead and have them change the oil while I was there and discovered a very nice treat: they had synthetic oil! Changing my dino oil every 1000km was already driving me nuts, since that was basically every 3-4 days, but no one in Peru seemed to sell synthetic. What a treat it would be to be able to go 4-5k km without worrying about an oil change!
The downside: it was expensive. Like, EXPENSIVE. Gas in Chile is incredibly expensive ($6/gallon for the cheap stuff), and whatever the reason, this apparently carries over to all petroleum products. The end result is that I paid (wait for it) thirty two dollars for a quart of oil! $32!! The same quart of Mobil 1 would be expensive at around $8 in the US and not terribly hard to find in bulk or on-line for $4 or less per quart. Oof.
I also needed some chain lube, and a can of high quality chain lube (also petroleum based) was the same, another $30. Sick. I just dropped $60USD on freakin lubricant. I had been considering purchasing another pair of goggles, but all they had at the shop were $100USD+ or higher after paying $6 in Peru I didnt think I could stomach it.
As I was about to leave, Javier told me about another shop in town that he had called and who might have some spokes for me sweet! I drove over there and he did have some 18 spokes, but they seemed a little bit long. We agreed that I would buy them and if they were too long I could return them to get my money back, and I paid the exorbitant cost of $25 for an entire bag of 20 or so (over 5x what they cost in Peru). I returned to the Honda place to find it completely shut down hrm, lunch maybe? Hey, lunch is a good idea.
I found a pizza place and spent a luxurious hour and a half relaxing outside and slowly eating a huge pizza (steak, onions, and pineapple) before returning to find the Honda place back open and confirming that these spokes were too long no dice. At this point it was around 2PM and the mechanic was pretty certain I could make it to Santiago on my current setup, so I returned to the shop where I bought the spokes to get a refund only to find they were closed for the day. At 2PM. WTF?
Screw it, I thought, as a little light bulb went off in my head I now have some very expensive ultra lightweight tent stakes (I had lost mine). Time to get out of dodge before the sun goes down!
I made it a couple of hours out of town before the sun started to set and at first it wasnt looking good for anywhere to stop to camp the road was now going through a very rocky set of hills and my boring endless desert was nowhere to be found. Finally I saw what appeared to be tracks from service vehicles doing work on the power lines that paralleled the highway halfway up the mountains and a possibility of some flat spots near the towers. Imagining myself waking up to find a severed power line slashing through my tent and electrocuting me (epic), I found a tenable spot in near-dark under a power tower and set about making camp to the low background hum of electricity.
Off in my own little world of faux domesticity, preparing camp in the low glow of my headlight, I nearly voided myself upon seeing three ghostly white figures circling my moto. I had thought I was alone in the middle of the desert, half a click from the closest highway, and suddenly these figures just appear in the middle of my camp site! The only thing that prevented me from going immediately off the deep end into gibbering insanity and pleading for my life was my headlamp illuminating the face of one of the figures, showing me a huge grin and very obvious amusement coupled with an utter lack of ill intent.
Some things are universal, and sneaking up on people in the dark for kicks apparently is one of those. Once the spell was broken, we ended up talking for awhile and I found out they were shepherds who had a lean-to set up about half a klick further up the mountain and had watched me pull up and scout a camp site with intense interest, both at the atypical action of someone pulling off the road to camp and with appreciation for my vehicle. Eventually they wandered off to find rest and I pondered the amazing stars again before finally deciding to crash out myself.
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Fenugreek Millet Special
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|1 Bunch (100 gm)
|Millet flour
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
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|Turmeric powder
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|1⁄2 Teaspoon
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Clean and wash the fenugreek thoroughly.
Chop coarsely.
Heat the oil in a thick bottomed pan and place the mustard seeds in it.
When they splutter add the , turmeric, asafoetida and green chillies ana saute for 10 seconds.
Then add the fenugreek leaves and enough water to cook.
Cook covered for about five minutes.
Then sprinkle the millet flour with one hand while mixing in the fenugreek with the other hand, to prevent the formation of lumps.
Add salt and required water top let the Flour cook thoroughly.
Cook, covered, stirring occasionally till the mixture thickens and the flour is cooked transfer to a serving dish.
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Slow Cooker Daube of Beef
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|5 , thinly sliced
|4 Clove (20 gm), minced / pressed
|2 Medium, cut into about 1/4-inch- thick slices
|Diced baked ham
|1⁄3 Cup (5.33 tbs)
|Orange peel strip
|1 (Colored Part Only, About 1/2 By 3 Inches)
|Dried bay leaf
|Lean boneless beef chuck roast
|3 Pound, trimmed of fat and cut into 1 1/2-inch cubes
|All purpose flour
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Whole black peppercorns
|1⁄4 Teaspoon
|Dry thyme
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|Ground cloves
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|Dry sage
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|2 Tablespoon
|Dry red wine/Beef broth
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|All purpose flour
|2 Tablespoon, blended with 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
|2 Tablespoon (At Room Temperature)
|To Taste
|Chopped parsley
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Coat beef cubes with the 1/4 cup flour; add to cooker.
Sprinkle with peppercorns, thyme, cloves, and sage.
Drizzle with vinegar; pour in wine and brandy (if used).
Cover; cook at low setting until beef is very tender when pierced (8 to 9 hours).
Remove and discard bay leaf and orange peel from stew, then blend in flour-butter mixture.
Increase cooker heat setting to high; cover and cook, stirring 2 or 3 times, until sauce is thickened (about 20 more minutes).
Season to taste with salt.
Sprinkle with parsley.
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Grilled Acorn Squash With Rosemary
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|White wine vinegar
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|1 Tablespoon
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|4 Clove (20 gm), crushed
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ALMATY, Kazakhstan - ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) - Where better to leave a lion overnight than in a dingy van in a parking lot?
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