Category Archives: 2009-11 – 2010-04: Georges in South America

Dear all,now that I have reach main target behind me, it is already time to think a little bit ahead: I will have to come back!Saturday, 15th of May 2010 I organize an “apéro” with drinks and small stuff to … Read More »

Dear all, everything gets to its end… after a looong week in New York with Franziska, we finally came back to “reality” and landed with over 4 hours of delay in Zurich. I really cannot recommend to anyone of flying … Read More »

Hi all, for the one of you who are addicted (or interested) in numbers, here an overview of my trip: Distance: 3,329.51 km Time: 259:46:54 h:m:s   (including waiting at traffic lights, etc) Calories: 181,749 kCal (or minus 7 kg on … Read More »

Now getting to the end my time in south america I would like to thanks a lot people, mainly those who stayed in touch during my travel, especially:Fränzi, my better half! And the kids for supporting her…Maman for her great … Read More »

As I did not slept well during the night, Wednesday was an easy going and lazy day: after buying some food around, I stayed at the hostal and enjoyed doing nothing.Thursday was first dedicated to some cleaning (bike, tent etc) … Read More »

For today, I had in mind to leave as early as possible: I ha the feeling that the wind could get an issue on the way to Arica. The guy from the hostal said, the wind would only rise in … Read More »

After the leaving of the Carabiñeros, I could finally sleep… And woke up today morning well, even the night was cold (-4C). Due to condensation, the tent was a little humid and I needed to wait until packing it. So … Read More »

Yesterday nights few rain drops have changed my plan… As I wanted to leave early to get quite far today, I needed to have a dry tent, as I didn’t wanted to pack it while still wet. So I left … Read More »

As I woke up a little bit earlier than the other, I started to clean yesterday’s dishes. And as I finished, we could start with breakfast. Yan made again a reaaaaal coffea, which definitively better taste than Nescafé (which is … Read More »

Fortunatley, the rain stopped quite rapidly yesterday night. Despite it, the tent was wet and I needed to wait until packing it. During all yesterday, one thing disturbed me especially in that beautifull part of the national parc: all the … Read More »

I sarted the day with cold müesli, as I didn’t want to start the oven in the tent. Then I finally got up and looked around Of course, the most interesting was to see how warm the therms were. Well, … Read More »

Jaime and me where waken up a first time by a noisy dog and the carabiñeros’ car that was started and used about 90 minutes later and a second time by another carabiñeros coming for Jaime: he had another service … Read More »

I woke up as usual around 8am and packed everything after having breakfast. The road was in direction of the pass and just a little less steep as some passages from yesterday: from 5 to 15%. I arrived at the … Read More »

The day started as the last one ended: children crying, freezing, drink tea, eat Llama for breakfast (with egg and bread) and then I prepared myself to leave. During the breakfast the house tennant which is as well working in … Read More »

Dear all, as take the opportunity to say that I am alive… But I don’t have the connection with the phone and the pictures. You will need some more time until you can read what happened the last week. The … Read More »

Today was not really productive in terms of kilometers. After short night and quite long ride (55km with a long pent) my body was tired and the sand on some parts did not help.After only 12km I passed by a … Read More »

As usal now for me in Chile, I woke up at about 8h: who can have a “party” can cycle…;-)Sergio and another guy had already left, Prudencio was finishing is night shift. He told me to take breakfast. After packing … Read More »

Todays goal was easy: joining the station from the cabiñeros, as I had heard that I was only 20 minutes away – by car. So after breakfast, drying the sleeping back and the other stuff from every morning I left … Read More »

Now that I’ve reached my goal – I still can’t believe it – it was time to leave and follow the Andes to the north. There was three ways: -go back to Ollagüe (steep and bad road down, loosing to … Read More »

Please… Don’t do it! Sorry for those words, I just want to avoid any reader thinking: “let’s do the same!” Today was much different then all the others, with not only one risky part. So if you think you are … Read More »

After the longer walk from yesterday I wanted to give some rest to my body (legs, lung and feets) as there was not used to such a day. And waanted hust to enjoy the view of the mountains, checking some … Read More »

During the night, the pain was not decreasing, so I decided to take some of the Diamox I did get from Manfred and Birgit.When I woke up (I could sleep!), the headache was gone…and I could go for a little … Read More »

Yesterday after sending the last emails I finally headed in direction of Amincha and the place where RocketGeronimo had let some water for me with a beautifull weather!Amincha is the rest of the pueblo from the time people were needing … Read More »

Today morning I am packing the bicycle again since 8 days once again. Yesterday evening, I heard in the news about the 6.3 earthquake (or seisme as they tell here) about 180km south of Ollagüe. Here, I did not feel … Read More »