Jetlag Jon

Introduction I first bought a Himalayan for a trip to South America in early 2020. I'd been looking for a cheap, smallish and simple ...

Lately I've been hearing a buzzing sound between 2-3000rpm while riding my Himalayan. It's been getting gradually worse, and I'm using the bike every day ...

8 Feb 2020 Another lazy start. Two local guys offered me some mate tea this morning, which I gratefully accepted. Then I just couldn't pull ...

6 Feb 2020 No riding today, the weather in the national park was crap, it would have been foggy. Instead I got some laundry done ...

Feb 5 2020 Although last night went on later than expected, I got a good sleep. Tim leaving around 8am woke me up, but I ...

Feb 4 2020 Breakfast was excellent, the best I'd had on the trip so far. Ham and cheese, in addition to the normal bread with ...

Feb 3 2020 Well, today turned out a bit different than expected. Kurt snores very loudly, though Sergio said I had a concert going with ...

I woke up at 8, packed up, and met Kurt and Sergio at the main square in Cochrane. They'd spent the night at a guest-house ...

1 Feb 2020 I woke up in the morning to pouring rain. Kurt had already left, hoping to catch the ferry from Puerto Yungay to ...

31Jan 2020 I woke up at 6:47 in the mountain campsite in the Parque Nacional de Patagonia, about 20km from Cochrane. The air mattress was ...

Jan 30 2020 I left Coyhaique about 9 am. First a fill up of petrol, a coffee and one of the rather bland sandwiches they ...

23rd Jan 2020 Today turned out to be the best days riding of the whole trip. It started with leaving the spot where I had ...

22nd January 2020 I left Chos Malal around 9am, an early start for me; I was finding it very difficult on this trip to get ...

13th Jan 2020Well today was just mind-boggling. I left Cusi Cusi around 10am. The first 20 km or so were really slow, as the roads ...

Jan 28 2020 So not such a good sleep as I was expecting at my riverside beach. My air mattress still leaked. I woke up ...

Waking up at 5:30 am due to another mattress deflation, I realised I hadn't heard my alarm, Which I had set for 5am in order ...

26th Jan 2020 Well, maybe I should do a bit more research sometimes....I will come back to that in a minute. I left the particularly ...

Jan 25th 2020 Today I woke up at 9am, after 10 hours sleep. Yesterday, I had been suffering from a stomach bug all day, and ...

So here finally is my review of the bike and equipment I used on my recent trip to Argentina and Chile. For those unfamiliar with ...

12th Jan 2020 I woke up in La Quiaca with a really bad headache. I had known it was a bit stupid gaining altitude so ...

11th Jan 2020 On the road again, after a day off to do laundry, buy camping gas and look over the bike. People here are ...

7th Jan 2020 The flight to Buenos Aires turned ou to be very pleasant,  after nearly missing the connection in LHR due to a delay ...

8th Jan 2020 I only left Villa Maria about 11:30, after going into town to buy a sim card. Plus it's taking me ages packing.....packing ...

9th-10th Jan 2020 I ended up waking up around 10 am. I'd been bitten by bedbugs, and hadn't slept very well. I ended up leaving ...

21st january 2020 I left El Sosneado about 10 am, after a decent sleep interrupted by trucks and dogs barking at 6am. The road was ...

20th January 2020 Today I only left Mendoza at 12:15. I bought a foot-pump to replace the highly rated but good for only two inflations ...

January 18th and 19th 2020 Jan 18 started with Google Maps sending me to a river crossing that actually wasn't on Ruta 40 anyway. Initially, ...

Jan 17th 2020 Today was working out to be a day of two parts. It ended in three parts, but I will come to that ...

16th  Jan 2020 I ended up finding a welder on Google, and a very good one he was to. Its a small setup called Welder ...

15 Jan A bit more adventure than I was looking for today. I set off for La Poma and the Abra del Acay pass at ...

14th Jan 2020 I left the El Cactus hostel in Susques just after 9 am.I said goodbye to 3 very friendly Brazilian bikers who were ...

So it's less than one week to go before I set off for Buenos Aires, and I'm getting nervous. Bike is packed and shipped, it's ...

A video of my first day on Ruta 40 ...