So here we are, in San Martin de Los Andes (Argentina) after having cycled pushed our bikes over the first Patagonian roads dust-spreading, unpaved kind of 4WD-tracks. The terrain wasn´t always very easy and as such we didn´t always get as far as we planned to go sometimes only did 40 km a day. A big problem in Patagonia, is the absence of good maps: our best map has a scale of of 1:1.600.000 (yep you calculate it right: 1 cm = 16 km) and some vague indications of altitudes basically has no appropriate altitude indication, making that sometimes, to our big surprise we had to go up 700 or 800 meters, whereas we were expecting to go down…
What else to say? The weather has been nice acceptable: we had good weather most of the time, but on one bad day, we had to pack our tent wet in the morning after a night of rain, in the hope that in the evening we would be nice and toasty in a guesthouse, but thanks to our bloody incredibly precise map, we had to emergency camp somewhere in the pampa, in our wet tent and damp sleeping bag…
We hate love Patagonia! And cycling here was the worst best idea we ever had! 
Vera & Jean-Christophe
