Day 35 (379 km)
Left in cloudy weather Ciudad de
Este to the Argentina border, but we didn’t want to go through Brazil, while us
not sure if we were getting problems with the bikes, so we went over a new
paved road through Paraguay to the city of Encarnacion. We stopped a few times
and all we saw were German businesses and German advertisements, even the
people had German features and most of them were talking German among
themselves and all the restaurants and bars had German products.
It was almost surreal and being
it Sunday, they all went for brunch to their own fancy restaurants and Sunday
bands were playing German music all over the place. Around 3 pm we crossed the
border and the procedure was fast, because we were already in the Argentina
system and could stay with the bikes again till the 19th of November
and collected 2 more stamps in my passport. Scotty’s passport been filled up
and I asked them to stamp his entry stamps on top of others.
After I got rid of my “flat tire
syndrome”, I started to get a new one now involving the chain problems, which I
heard banging the last few days and as well slipping. Finally after the chain
getting too loose every day, I found out what the problem was, namely the teeth
of the rear sprocket were gone and it must have happened according Scotty in
the last week, because he cleaned my sprocket recently and didn’t see any wear
and tear. Anyway I decided to stop in a small place where I saw a hotel and
wait till Monday to change the sprockets and probably chain as well. It was a
good thing we have a spare set with us and it was five o’clock anyway!
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