Motorcycle Explorer December 2014 Issue 3 | Page 83

border with Bolivia, 5121km south to Rio Gallegos at the Straits of
et to Ushuaia, then much like Luke Skywalker had to face Darth Vader
east a portion of your journey to get to Ushuaia.
e travel book, Lois on the Loose. It documents her Pan American
ed as she rode south, just one of which was riding on part of the Ruta
d the constant wind you encounter as it treks south through some of
e overlander’s in Tok, Alaska who had just come from Ushuaia and
a rider from Switzerland translated “the 40” into “La Quarenta” for
in through their teeth. The expressions on their faces betrayed a
no way to get there without riding on the 40 but there was nothing I
y hoped the Argentinean government might come across a few quid
own of San Carlos de Bariloche and started riding south on the Ruta
got through unscathed before continuing South across the Straits of
ck in Buenos Aires and about to go home after finishing the trip, that I
ually started up at the Bolivian Border in a town called La Quiaca. I
I made myself a promise that that someday I’d ride the entire Ruta
got to San Pedro de Atacama is recounted in “Not Dead Yet”, this
as limited to only a chapter in that book, hardly adequate when you
nos Aires was almost 9,000km.
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