http://www.gsomething.com/blog Texas to Tierra del Fuego Sat, 08 May 2010 17:34:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My trip around the world continues!!  I started another blog about my upcoming trip, All The Way West. I'm leaving Texas and heading West until I hit NYC. I'm leaving in July form Houston to Seattle via Minnesota and possibly LA.  From Seattle I'm going to ship my motorcycle to Brisbane ... http://www.gsomething.com/blog/2010/05/08/all-the-way-west-time-for-another-trip/ I'm now back in Vaplariaso, Chile, just to the west of Santiago to ship my motorcycle. I'll be loading the bike into a crate then the crate will go on a boat to NYC. From NYC, it will go to Houston to a warehouse where I will put the ... http://www.gsomething.com/blog/2009/01/18/the-last-south-american-blog-entry/ I'm getting really lazy with my blog posts now.  Sorry about that.. it is the whole end of trip thing.  Atleast I have something coming online at all@!! There are the collection of pictures from Theo's camera.. so they're sequential, but from all over Argentina. Ruta 3... Camping... We met a really cool dutch ... http://www.gsomething.com/blog/2009/01/14/theos-argentina-pictures/ After driving for hours through the unchanging pampa, I finally encountered some new terrain. This is exactly what I thought the end of the world would be like! Crazy looking trees, jagged mountains, and rough roads.  Everything was there except for the rough roads.  It was a perfectly smooth asphalt pista the ... http://www.gsomething.com/blog/2009/01/10/ushuaia-fin-del-mundo/ After spending a week in Mendoza, it was time to start the breakneck pace of heading south to Ushuaia for Christmas. This was the first sign I saw that was indicating Ushuaia!!!!  I was pretty excited=] Theo is always commenting on German products around the world. We're finally starting to do some camping.  ... http://www.gsomething.com/blog/2009/01/03/traveling-south-in-argentina/ After spending a couple of days in Santiago, we then left for Mendoza, Argentina.  The pass between the two countries was another one of the prettier and more interesting passes on the trip.  On the Chile side, the road basically twisted its way up a couple of thousand meters in ... http://www.gsomething.com/blog/2008/12/31/mendoza-argentina/ Culture shock.  That is was my first opinion of Chile.  I've been traveling for 5 months and I've not experienced this much culture shock between two countries. I thought that it was pretty crazy going from Nicaragua to Costa Rica, but trust me... From Bolivia to Chile was basically like returning ... http://www.gsomething.com/blog/2008/12/28/chile/ After traveling for 6 months, I finally made it all the way south to Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina! Two years ago, I took a trip to Mexico with Gary to Real de Catorce.  There were no banditos.  Nobody wanted to steal my bike.  While my spanish wasn't very good, I ... http://www.gsomething.com/blog/2008/12/25/i-made-it-texas-to-tierra-del-fuego/ Since the epoch of my trip plannning, the Salar de Uyuni, or Salt Flat of Uyuni was one of the places that I was looking forward to the most. Ever since I saw the picture of salt piled up on the lake, I knew it was somewhere that I had to ... http://www.gsomething.com/blog/2008/12/24/the-highlight-of-my-trip-the-bolivian-salt-flat-salar-de-uyuni/ We left Sajama for Uyuni.  There were a few routes that we could take, but after fighting with loose sand for a couple of days, we decided to follow the paved roads as much as we can.  Yeah, we're weak adv-riders, but hey, we have a lot of luggage! As we ... http://www.gsomething.com/blog/2008/12/23/massive-road-blocks-in-oruro-bolivia/