Day 30 (470 km)
Today, we trying to jump on the map north as much as possible and left
8 am sharp the hostel after a good breakfast, we prepared ourselves. Soon we
were the only traffic on this lonely paved highway and we cruised 100+ km p/h
on an altitude between 750 and 1100 meters. Passes through an arid desert area
with some nice mountains as backdrop and soon the ice capped mountains
disappeared as well.
It started cold this morning, around 4 degrees
C, but soon we hit 30 degree Celsius and had to take layers of clothes off to
keep up with the heat. There was not a cloud in the sky, but plenty of breeze
again, so we had to concentrate not to be blown of the road.
The first small town we came
across was Zalapa, about 270 km away and filled up with gas. After that Scotty
could not start his bike and after eventually taken off all his bags and by
looking at the battery, we found the problem. Both terminals were broke off and
after fixing this as good as we could, we got the bike started but realize, he
had to buy a new one!
The next town 200km away, we
filled up with gas again and again the bike wouldn’t start, so it was time to
look for a battery in this small town. We found a 14 amp one for $ 125.00 and
Scotty had to buy it and wait at least 3 hours for the battery to be charged up
slowly, so we called it the day.
We found an hotel around the
corner and were glad the room had A/C, you definitely needed that in this place
called ”Chos Malal”. We picked the
battery up around 7 pm installed everything and went looking for some food and
beer! To our surprise we came across Vicente for the third time, an old guy in
his sixties, maybe seventies. First we saw him in Puerto Jaidal, Chile, then in
Esquel, Argentina and now here. He has a
Honda Tornado 250 cc and all he rides is ripio off the beaten track
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