I am now in a city called Oruro, Bolivia. The last quick blog I sent was in Antofagasta and I left off with riding in Valenar. From Vallenar we stuck pretty much to highway 5 and went north up the pan american highway. We hit a series of towns on the Chilean coast. Some great fishing towns and beaches. One highlight was staying in a campsite in Pan Azur national park in the town of Piquero where we got to see some interesting marine life...

I’m taking part in Blog Action Day today, which is designed to get thousands of bloggers posting about the same topic on the same day. This year’s topic is Climate Change - an issue very close to my heart, and one of the reasons I am here in South America on this incredible journey...

If you look at a map, we are now right back to about the same latitude as when we started the trip in Brazil. Just on the opposite coast. The town of Antofagasta is generally considered to be very dull, without much to do - my guidebook actually said to avoid it. But Chile has high standards for an interesting city...

Arriving in Santiago was nice, as we were finally out of the cold of the Andes. Santiago is one of the four very large cities I've seen so far in South America (the others being Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires). On my day off in Santiago I was eating at a Japanese restaurant and I started talking to a guy who was from North Carolina...

I am nearly halfway through my adventure. We have traversed a lot of country and seen some of the most beautiful things. Since I sent my last blog post after just crossing the border to Chile, I have since arrived in Santiago...

This morning we crossed the border into Chile. I exchanged all my Argentinean Pesos to Chilean Pesos this morning at the border. The US is still clearly the world’s reserve currency and the bid ask spread is much tighter for dollars than for Argentinean Pesos or Brazil Reals. They kept us at the border for a couple of hours and checked through all our baggage and made the group unload the entire bus...

First off, we have had very little access to internet since I left Cordoba. I really do want to write more often but it is not necessarily going to be easy. Since we left Cordoba we have had no internet connection or cell phone reception. Usually after a day off they give us a list of the towns we will be staying in until the next day off...

Hi everyone,

I am in Cordoba, which is Argentina’s second biggest city. But it is only a city of roughly 1 million people and doesn't have nearly as many people as Buenos Aires. It only took me half the day to see all the major sights listed in my guidebook...

I snapped some shots from our trip to Iguazu Falls and the surrounding area. I have posted the entire album on Facebook, but here's a sampling of the better ones...

I will arrive in Iguazu falls tomorrow at 2 O'clock. I will go directly to the falls and try to snap some shots that I can load onto the website. The next section of the trip which lasts about a couple weeks passes through Uruguay and then finally to Argentina where we will rest in Buenos Aires...

All was great... until i woke up the next morning without the effect of the painkillers and realized I couldn't move my arm. I went for breakfast with my friend Christiano and he talked to me about the difference between Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo. These are Brazils two biggest cities and they are about 5 hours away. They sort of dislike each other like Montreal and Toronto. Rio is probably more like Montreal except that Rio is even more scenic...

Today was the second day of the Tour. We did 150km and finished in a town called paratay. very cool town. I am now riding this blog in the upstairs of a bar/ restaurant that has pretty cheap internet access. They are playing great brazillian folk music and Im having a couple beers, this is now the best moment of my trip for me so far. I still havent learned many words of Portugese yet which is unfornate because it pretty difficult to communicate with anyone...

Today we rode 120km to a town called mangaratiba which is very pretty with the mountains and water. We had a 35km convoy out of rio which was slow but picked up nicely afterwards. The couple of climbs were a nice warmup for what will be an overall hilly trip. Had a nice dinner the group and everyone seems friendly. Did some reading along the water some zen and art of motorcycle maintenance.