ruta 40

Made way east toward chile and onto route 40...the infamous..well infamous amongst travellers heading south and maybe some Che-heads…known to be a very remote and rough road that goes north to south argentina about 3000 miles…its real claim to fame however is from the high winds that come across either ocean into the flat desolate route leading to the dramatic end of the andes mountains…we’ll see. it is the main artery for exploring the skinny southern half of south america….. all gravel though apparently in recent years they have started to pave it. Its also known to be the road that che Guevara took on his motorcycle trip while stewing his ideas of revolution.
Bfore hitting 40 traveled thru big time oil country and big time not much else…..extremely vast between towns with the occasional family hotel in the middle of nowhereonce on 40 things slowed down a bit with speeds around 35 mph….some deep gravel..some big rocks…some packed areas….no matter what terrain the whole thing is rutted out and creates sort of lanes like a swimming pool….the goal is to stay in them and try not to hit jagged rocks that could blow tires….easy really until you add wind….goes on for what feels like days only passing maybe 3 trucks in 6 hours and nothing else…did se first pakc/flock/family? Of emus…pretty cool …mostly small young ones and couple adult sized… got to porito Moreno and it was booked solid for hotle hostels due to a music festival in a nearby town but did manage to find an over priced a frame cabin the size of my old neighbors kids playhouse with 3 beds in it….next day chilled, did some bike prep stuff and met a few bikers at a more reasonably riced cabin/camsite…..life is beautiful craxy italin girl had a older beemer and the drive shaft u-joint like bolt broke in half…tryed to help her fix but not much you can do....appernetly toyoata trucksuse similar for their u-jointsGot up and headed out at the crack of noon after too much swapping riding stories wine and yet another fantastic meat bbq.. I realy am gonna clog up the ticker here