Almost ready!

After I found the heavily needed screws for my chain wheel (or however it’s called in English) – the first bike shop didn’t have them and in the second one I only got them after the guy searched for some old parts, in the middle of Almirante Simpson, if you need something similar) -, got a new prepaid SIM card because my other one stopped working after a month and hopefully also got my clothes washed, I’m more or less […]

Junta-Puyuhuapi-Amengual-Mañihuales-Coyhaique

After a bit more than 900km in total, I finally reached Coyhaique on Silvestre Eve. Tired but happy. After I have done the first part of my journey more or less by myself, I was happy to meet some other cyclists in Junta. Sonia, Carlos und Diego). However, we did not really drive together because everybody has its own speed at cycling and some are sometimes a bit slower till they have all their stuff together in the morning, like […]

Lesson learned 1, 2 & 3

From time to time I will write under this title a few things which I learned during this trip and which are maybe also helpful for other ones to avoid to make the same mistakes :-). Lesson learned 1: Exchange before a longer trip all parts which are heavily used. And really all. Do not think that this one little thing will keep a bit longer. It won’t. It will fail on the first few kilometers (or miles) and frustrate […]

The weather

I shouldnt complain too much because the first two or three weeks in Chile I was really lucky and it was more or less sunny the whole time. However, since I left Puerto Montt this has changed. First we had two days of storm and heavy rain. After this there was one day which was more or less okay and let me move to Villa Santa Lucia. However, after this rain started again and forced me to stay in Santa […]

Chaiten is alive!

Just a short update with some information in case somebody else is planning on visiting Chaiten. Despite that the government has decided to abandon the city, some of the inhabitants do not want to give up their town. There is no electricity, running water, fixed line telephones nor Internet available in town but several supermercatos and accomodations are open and available to serve you. And by visiting the town and using those facilities you can help the people of Chaiten. […]