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...

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...

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...