Gypsy Biker

My “Two day Ride to Salta”  has now been updated…. Click here to check it out… I am on the Peruvian border, heading for La Paz in Bolivia… How the hell did I get here…?? It’s a long story, filled with heartache, despair, pain and misery…!! Ha….!! No, not really…!! Things are good with us…!! [...]

I left Salta, knowing I had a long day ahead of me… I needed to cover about 600 km to get from there to San Pedro de Atacama in Chile, and would need to make my first big climb up into the Andes to do it…!! Salta lies at an elevation of 1150 m.a.s.l., and [...]

Determined to find a good road to ride on, I left my hotel later than I had intended to, and headed south towards Cafayate… I was told that it was about 200 km away and it would take as much as 4 hours to get there, depending on the condition of the road… I did [...]

The size of Salta threw me…. Not because it is an especially big city, but more because I had something so completely different in mind when people started telling me that I must not leave this off my itinerary when I rode across northern Argentina… I had pictured a small town in the foothills of [...]

I have now added the photos and story of our first visit to Iguazu Falls, as part of, Itaipu and Iguazu… You can click on the link above or just scroll down… It will be on the home page for a day or two more…!! Also now added our visit to the Argentine side of [...]

Before I left Asuncion, I studied the area I was going to be riding through to get to Salta in Argentina… The reason for going back there was to avoid riding through Paraguay to Bolivia, because I had no knowledge of the conditions that I would have to ride in to get there from Asuncion… [...]