Wednesday 23rd January 2013. We have just arrived at El Sosneado from Pareditas on Routa 40 - The original route, not the new one via San Rafael.
From a cyclist point of view....
It is * ***** ******* ******* road.
Imagine a dirt road with two settlements at either end some 185k apart. Now add heat. Now place what little surface water there is as far apart as you can. Now make that water as silt ridden as you can, really concentrate that run-off dirt. Add some steep,hills, almost no living person. Maybe two passing cars in a day. Well, all of those things are OK, are even part of the fun of being 'in the wilds'.
But.....make 50% of that road hard and rocky - mostly rideable, but very tough going.
25% sand and rock - mostly unrideable, very, very tough going.
25% sandy, completely unrideable. As in push your loaded bike against soft sand for many hundreds of yards. Even downhill at times. In the heat and with not enough water.
I ******* ***** ********** great sections of this road. ****** *** ***** ** ******!!!! Good job that the wild camping was great, the views stretched for 30miles plus towards singular volcanos, the night sky was as clear as a window, the stars spectacular, and the hail storms a little frighentening.
Perhaps today I learnt that not all bike rides are fun; sometimes, just sometimes, the best thing about a bike ride is when it ends.
It's only the hairs on a gooseberry, that stops it from being a grape.
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