Capilla de monte

After being promised climbing, mountain biking and fishing by the tourist information in Córdoba, I arrived in Capilla de monte to find none of these on offer.  It was low season, and it was cold and quiet.  Not a good start for writing an interesting post! I paid for two nights when I arrived, Córdoba is quiet during the [...]

Salta

After a 16 hour bus ride I arrived in Salta and the dry mountain air was a refreshig change to the humidity of Rosario and Buenos Aires.  Even getting to the hostel was a nice walk,  the hostel is nice the baños are wet rooms which is a bit of a bitch if your clothes [...]

Listo para ir a Salta

I had an early night last night but there was quite a bit of rain and didn´t get much sleep.  Packed my rucksack and left it in the deposito in the hostel.  I was walking to try and find a shop that was open and saw some old lady with a walking stick in one [...]

Dixie, now ain’t she predy?

I’m leaving next Wednesday for South America for 5 months and Dixie needs to be put in storage.  A mate has agreed to look after her until I get back, which works out well as I can ride over with him to his place, prep her for her sleep and then go to the pub [...]

Gravity v internal combustion and their rides are on the line

Trash talk all you want but when your ride is going to the other man if you don’t come up with the goods you need to bring out the style.  I won’t say who wins but seen both these guys before and have great skill sets.  I really want to get some serious mountain biking [...]

The world´s most dangerous road.

Also know as the old road from La Paz to Coroico. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yungas_Road Note I say old road as there is a new road which now takes the bulk of the traffic. The new road is safer but slower so some traffic still prefer to take the quicker route. So the old road is no longer [...]

Goin’ south!

Day 1 Granada: When I went to visit my mum, I looked up a friend who I used to go mountain biking with. He said he was going to Granada with another friend so I arranged to meet them out here. After a 6 hour journy on the coach I arrived in Granada and gave [...]