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much like I ’ d imagine New Zealand to be . At this point , we had gotten pretty remote . From Villa Cerro Castillo southwards , it was mostly gravel road with some washboard at times that would shake the bike a fair bit and when pulling into a campsite one evening , I found that the roads had taken their toll .
One of the KLRs license plate had gone missing and only a tiny , valiant corner had remained . Given the amount of gravel roads we had travelled on that day , finding it seemed impossible . We had one more border to cross to get back into Argentina , where we wanted to explore some national parks and a glacier and then head back up that side . Would any official let a German on a Chilean bike with no plate leave into Argentina ? Surely they wouldn '' t let us through and at this point , it
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