My first eventful fired up roadtrip

My motorbike adventure starts

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January 5th 2014
Geo: -33.4011, -71.6937I left Santiago in the morning and truly believed it will take me only a few hours down the modern Autopista del Sol (Ruta 78), how wrong was I...a huge wildfire alongside the road basically grinded all traffic to a halt at one time the police escorted about 20 motorists at a time through the entire stretch of 5 km, came back and repeated it again...That does take a long t ... read more

South America » Chile

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Prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern Chile was under Inca rule while Araucanian Indians inhabited central and southern Chile; the latter were not completely subjugated until the early 1880s. Although Chile declared its ind... ... read more