Come in for coffee

20th Jan 2012. Wild camp number two.

After a very good nights sleep and a belly full of porridge we set off on our way. Now the plan for today was to try and get to Puerto Rio Tranquillo. However due to the extra 10km we had to do yesterday we were doubtful we will manage it, but we decided to see what happened.

We hadn’t got to far down the road before we stopped for a photo stop. Every corner we went round we come to another amazing view. At the rate we were going I’d wouldn’t have been surprised if it wasn't a short mileage day after all.

After awhile however you start to slip in to cycling mode and in some cases a bit of madness as witnessed by Sarah at one lunch stop. In my defence I was only trying to bring a third party into the conversation!

The day went well and after stopping to fill up with water we found a German cyclist couple on the side of the road brewing up some coffee. They invited us to join them and we accepted. We probably ended up chatting with them for an hour or more. They were heading north and they told us that the next part of the road southwards for us was terrible, which we had been told before. What really alarmed us was when they told us it had taken them 5 hours to do 25km! There was no way of getting to Tranquillo with that between us.

So, we started looking for camping once we had parted company and as usual we came up against the chilean fencing system. They fence everything over here, I’m sure if I stood around long enough they’d put one around me. After another hours worth of pedalling (and the help of some biscuits) we finally found somewhere. It had been used before for camping and wasn’t to ideal, but we were tired and it was the only option we had seen in the hour. So we pitched camp, washed and had something to eat.