Up really early, with a wake-up phone call.\u00a0 We get a really nice breakfast, with the promised eggs, from a bleary-eyed staff.\u00a0 We upset the normal hostel routine with our early rise.\u00a0 It is a short 3 klicks to the ferry dock, and it was really cheap for the bike and passenger – $15 USD total!\u00a0 The ferry operation was very modern and professional.\u00a0 When I parked the bike on the deck, they put just a single strap over the seat;\u00a0 when I questioned that that was all they thought necessary, the deck hand pointed to the clear sky and said ‘good weather’ as justification for the light-duty strapping.\u00a0 It was just fine.<\/p>\n
The ferry ride was great.\u00a0 The sun was out, temps were warm, the straight was calm and winds were low.\u00a0 A beautiful ride, with the straight enclosed with hills and mountains on all sides.\u00a0 We either sat in the comfortable passenger cabin, or strolled on the cabin-top deck in the fresh air.\u00a0 A nice 2-hour boat ride, and then we pulled into the dock at Porvenir.\u00a0 Just before we landed, we were spotted buy a pod of dolphins, who cam rushing over to the boat to play in the bow wake.\u00a0 What a cool sight, watching the dolphins jump play, getting a ride from the ship’s wake.\u00a0 A fascinating sight.\u00a0 Porvenir is just a sleepy fishing village,\u00a0 with a few too many restaurants to accommodate the tourists coming to the island.\u00a0 Today, there were not many of us.<\/p>\n
We ate lunch in Porviner, and then started out on the 150 klicks of gravel road we needed to cross to get back into Argentina.\u00a0 This road was not so bad;\u00a0 a ‘real’ gravel road that you could do 40-50 mph on.\u00a0 There were a few bad spots, some construction, herds of sheep and packs of guanaco, and plenty of strong winds,\u00a0 but we covered the ground in less than 3 hours.\u00a0 The scenery continued to be the same Patagonian desert we had been riding in for days now…\u00a0 flat scrub-land without trees, dark grey or black scrub-brush, and occasional salt-flats.\u00a0 After those 3 hours of rough riding, we arrived at the San Sebastian border crossing – and another easy entry into Argentina (third time, now).\u00a0 Soon after crossing the border, the road was paved and decent, and we speed along until we stop for gas in Rio Grande, which is about 250 kilometers from Ushuaia itself.<\/p>\n
It is now very cold (temps in the 40’s), and very windy.\u00a0 When we pull into town,\u00a0 my bike starts acting stupid again, and will not idle.\u00a0 As we gas up, it starts to rain, and I do not feel like we should try to make it the rest of the way today.\u00a0 It is so late now, that if we continue on to Ushuaia, it will be well after dark before we can get there, and there is nothing between here and there, at all.\u00a0 We search around, and have to settle for a tiny room in a hotel with little to offer.\u00a0 We walk about, getting money at the bank, and then finding a micro-brewery where we have pizza and beer for dinner.\u00a0 Our first night on Tierra de Fuego;\u00a0 cold, windy, raining.\u00a0 Tomorrow, we will reach the end of the earth!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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