Hola Amigos, Today in my house in the lost Patagonia, after a trip of nearly four days and 3500 kms I am in my house with temperatures between 7 and 0 º C, but happy to be here with my wife and kids, and sad that the adventure has ended, for me it was the best adventure in a moto of my life and with a group of Kiwis was a lesson of life, but I have to wait to write the few letters because I don't have the time to do it, I have to come back to my job [View Full Entry]

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After having been home for a couple of weeks, how could we just settle back into how we were before we went on this great adventure, many of the adventurers have come back with a different perspective on their lives, and in many ways have changed their outlook on why they are here ?, one thing is for sure they all agree they would rather be 'out there doing it' than sitting at home on the sofa reading this blog ! Sorry if you got a false e-mail yesterday, but here is the latest blog, with thanks to Keith and String. [View Full Entry]

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All the Adventurers are back home in their warm beds and in the arms of their lovers..... Here is another instalment from Mike... Hola again (for the nearly final time) Just a clarification on our side trip to Pisagua (you will recall the Boo Radley imitation if you have been paying attention!) This town in all of its weird decrepidness was the starting point for one Augusto Pinochet (1915 - 2006) the dictator or as some would say, former right wing El Presidente de Chile (1974 - 1990). The town played host to Pinochet running the military there and has some [View Full Entry]

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Well, here we are back in Chile, having sucessfully crossed 7 borders, with varying degrees of stress and frustration, especially with Charlie's dead 1150 GS on the back of the truck for the last 6,000kms and Zane riding Alec's 1200 GS, with relevant paper work that had to be understood by ALL the officials at each border crossing. Today we have packed the motos onto the platforms and are currently working through the red tape to ship them home. Here is another blog from Mike to bring you up to date......Sorry still having problems with photo down loads. Hola Again, Today [View Full Entry]

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Here we are back in Argentina haveing experienced the magnificant San Francisco Pass as it just unfolded in a spectacular dusting of colour and texture, terminating in the pit of Fiambala.... We have two entries for the blog, one from Mike and one from Keith, thanks guys. We left Fiambala, as did everyone else, but with Gerardo, Lance, Zane and me riding North to Santa Maria to retreive Alec's moto. We slept overnight in Santa Maria, as it is just under 1,000km return for us to get back to La Rioja to catch up with everyone else that rode direct from [View Full Entry]

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everyone seams to have settled into a riding pattern of sorts, and it was good to have the past couple of days on the seal to make up a bit of time. we have had to give the truck it's 10,000km service here in Iquique. we are also trying to get Charlies moto back to Vina, as we have to pick Alec's bike up on our retern to Argentina in a few days time. After our visit to Araquipa, the South American guinnie ? pig population was somewhat depleted by hungery bikers.... I am still having problems to up load photos, [View Full Entry]

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Hi I am having majour problems loading photos, when I get it sorted I will load more...Cheers, Rosco Hola again, Left La Paz, climbed out of the city gaining around 600m from downtown to the tollgate at the top. Hadn’t been able to see Charlie but Rosco and Gerardo were seeing him today to follow progress with his Doctors & Lance & Zane in the truck were staying another day and night in La Paz with them. Chaos and bedlam is a conservative description of the traffic leaving La Paz. It was indescribable, an hour later we emerged from the seething [View Full Entry]

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HALF WAY TROUGH. By TOM This is definitely NOT a Holiday-Camp. I can’t remember what this Trip was called, Adventure, Expedition, Survival..... South America with Rosco’s Rocky Road is an experience Trip of my Life. Only half way and I already touched my physical and mentally borders. An absolute must for this Trip is to have Off-road skills. The road can be extremely demanding. It just shows that skilled riders, like Alec and Charlie can also be hurt. I wish Alec and Charlie a fast and good healing of their bones. The whole Crew is aware of that everybody is exposed [View Full Entry]

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Here we are safe and sound in Cusco, Peru. We are looking forward to a couple of days off the motorcycles, and our tour of the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu. Alec, is still in Salta with his wife Hazel, who flew over from NZ to be with him, he is recovering well, albeit a bit slowly. Charlie, is also doing well now in hospital in La Pas, they have operated and pinned his leg. His freind will fly down from Brazil to see him in a few days. We are sorry that these two very experienced riders can't continue with [View Full Entry]

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More Blog from Mike... Since my last email much has happened. Some good some bad, we left Andagala in drizzly conditions to traverse a mining road - they had had the most rain in 20years over the last few days so river crossings were expected to be a challenge, and they were. 10Kms out we encountered our first, I was first across no problem but 2 or 3 guys gave there bikes a bath. "Product endorsement" Dri rider waterproof boots and overtrousers ARE, even when standing in fast running water helping to pick up bikes. We continued up to a height [View Full Entry]

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