a day of penguins

Rode south along atlantic coast to puerto lombo to a spend day with peguins…lots of penguins.
Walking into the colony had no idea how many peguins there would be..just excited to see one in person.
Samuel Jackson wasn’t there to narate but this was one of the coolest wildlife experiences ive ever had.....Walking amonst a colony of 1 million peguins…right at my feet or to the side…chest out heads back soaking the sun….babies,mothers, fathers and fighters…some of them looked a little tore up and gauged like they were either bully or the beaten.occasionally there were couples gaucking each other slapping fins and rubbing bellies…others playing/ laying on the coastline….whatever they wer doing there is no doubt peguins are full of personality…..nature at its best.

these sheep started walking up the beach and hanging out right in with the peguins....penguins and sheep...who would thought

Atlantic coast

made it down to Puerto Madryn and for the first time since Belize got some beach time on the atlantic coast. wasnt sure what to expect of PM...never know if towns are gonna be dust blown or maintained til you get there...this time pleasantly surprised!

a jumping port for wildlife reserves to the north and south plus being a beach town/port for cruise ships.... i'm sure have to do with how nice it is...these guys were driftnetting right in the middle of public beach....better chance of catching a person than fish
did a whole lot of nothing but chill out for two days grilling/ drinking wine and soaking sun.

another steak for lunch today sent me to the dentist when i bit into a bone and broke my, has been broken before, now veneer tooth. instant bummed as i thought i would be finishing the trip one tooth willy...and then i saw the dentista

also nice was the bill...at about 1/5th the cost what it would be at home.

rode outside of town to see a sealion den tucked under this bluff...unfortunately as i got there the sun was going down and pics not turn out much but it was cool to watch and listen to them along the shore...not as cool was smelling them

s o s

love sleep and wind

last few days rode from BA to Puerto Madryn...... variety of space...majority of which is vast and desolate

first thru the romanctic 'pampas' where the landscape was the nicest and has an era about it that breeds romance....it might be the endless fields of sunflowers or the roadside cafes cooking meat on open fires... checker table clothed old wooden tables where people sip wine morning noon and night. or the countless number of roadside picnics also using checkered tablecloth and sipping wine next to their straight-from-paris WWII-1940's looking Citroens vanawagons with aged metal character.... looks of a vw bug front and high covered box rear

also added is pulling into tiny 5oo population towns for gas and having humble supermodel looking attendants pump your gas or sophia lauren's 25 yr old twins handing your change back at the toll booths..... im finding myself falling in love here about every hour if im outside... wanting to grab hands and motion/say jump on back... lets ride off to the horizon forever (why doesnt life work that way? i suppose not speaking spanish is one reason)

then again maybe im just horned up from BA?

while the landscape is nice when stopped...... its quite snoring (this time literally) when riding....once out of sun flower fields, nothing to look at but some short wheat grass... or short tumble type brush.....did see a field spreading on fire which provided 5 miles of different look. on day two as the sun taking its western position....... glaring in on helmet visor tiring my eyes……i started doing my routine wake up call…smacking helmet…adjusting seat position….pulling out hairs on my leg anything to oppen eyes…..then it happened….I feel asleep….only for a milla-second more like a lights on-lights off switch….quick system shut down enough to freak me out and then instantly alert like a soldier……

Later came into the wind which this area is famous for and my guess is, it will stay more or less til the bottom….. …constant lean occasionally coming up to a wind blocking semi for a short upright again break….at least it keeps you on your toes in the flatland.....definately dont want ot doze off againhow strong is the wind? strong enough to blow simons bike over on the side of the road when he parked it perpendicular(learning lesson- dont do) and a semi past adding gust

on day three after crossing into the northern part of patagonia region the wind picked up even more and couldnt make up its mind which direction to blow.... so navigating was strange to say the least. at one point i passed a semi and instead of the normal blockage alongside....this time as i was next to it a freak wind gust sent me off into the grass on side of the road....quite a spook...i think i'll hold off on passing semis in multi directional wind from now on

Buenos Aires

If I weren’t aware of riding thru CA and 70% of SA before getting here I would think BA was on a different continent…..nothing, I mean NOTHING here resembles anything else I've seen in SA. Extremely clean, highlife cosmopotitan, western only faces, expensive, English speakers, not a trace of indigenous culture or latin america feel, its like a hybrid of east coast US cities and cosmo europe Paris/ Barcelona type. Everything id heard about the city prior to coming is ringing true...and yes... the women here are drop dead gorgeous 98% percent of the time causing serious rubbernecking everytime i go outside.. the distraction is too dangerous riding bike so i hired a taxi to show me the city. Extravagant monuments, European architecture mixed with modern hustle bustle glass, huge tree-lined avenues, atmospheric neighborhoods and attitudes that match...Lots of pride and what could be percieved as arrogance to go along with the seemlingly all encompassing lifestyle of all-day-cafe sitting, matte sipping, see and be seen. had the driver drop off in soho.. a hippie/yuppie mix haight & ashbury like area... joined in the gazing cafe sit.... swapping out the matte for beer