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Perito Moreno glacier

As you get closer you can feel the cold radiating off the glacier, almost like you feel heat coming off a fire, the closer you get the colder it is...these pictures do not really show the massive size of the glacier, its the only advancing glacier in world according to info i read
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left there to go and camp...missed a llama by about 3" when it ran out in front of me at dusk, this was where we ended up camping, it was freezing and nothing to stop the wind
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clearest night skies i have ever seen
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the next few days headed towards the lake district, still running along ruta 40 intermittent tarmac and gravel but the one consistant was the wind that never stopped blowing
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Great shots Paul - keep them coming. I�m following your travels with interest. Many thanks again for your input too. Ride safe fella, and have a great Crimbo.
Pat

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Originally Posted by Barcelona Pat (Post 166057)

Great shots Paul - keep them coming. I�m following your travels with interest. Many thanks again for your input too. Ride safe fella, and have a great Crimbo.
Pat

i'll keeping adding them, i took around 6000 shots so far (not going to put them all here just the good ones), i'll add more once a week and by then it'll be time to leave and continue around the world

i should be in Spain late 2013 we should meet up for a beer :moonshine[1]:

things you see in Argentina...

YPF gas stations in any reasonable size town and all of them have great food, free wifi and are super clean
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huge steaks and massive portions of lamb...sucks to be a veggie here
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lots of riders heading north or south some have MASSIVE gas tanks, this guys was over 50 litres!!!
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...and amazing scenery
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and lots of opportunities to practice your off road skills
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Great photos makes the nightshift flow nicely.

look forward to more enjoy the ride

tenere invisible force field

so most of you didn't know the tenere had an invisible force field, problem it only works on south american goats!!!!
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for some reason they just refused to go by my bike!!!

about 20 minutes from the border
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first bowler hat sighting!!!
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if you want off road trails, Bolivia is your place with only 400 miles plus of tarmac virtually all riding is a dirt track
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right around here i had an off, pretty bad, i ended up on crutches for 3 days, if i didn't have motocross boots on i think i would have broken my leg, the reason...a local came around a corner and just drove straight at me, i avoided him but hit soft sand about 12" deep, the bike flipped and my leg got caught behind the bag and gave it a real good twist
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so as i sit unable to walk the rest of the guys headed off to see Salar de Uyuni, the largest salt lake flats in the world, visible from space by not from my room where i lay with a very swollen ankle that wouldn't fit in my boot!

so this is what i missed...all that means is i have to go back

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