Wednesday 22nd January 2025 Rio Gallegos to near Cerro El Faso
Double Header today little 140 mile jaunt up to Piedr Bueno, there is nothing in between to two town, so its looks like a little camping. After our hearty breakfast not enough for a condemned man stale bread and jam, least that’s we went to school on, fair play the bread was never stale then!

Off we set without a care in the world. just a nagging feeling this could be tough, we flew through the first 20 odd miles wind on our tails, early doors though as we both knew we had to tun into the wind after 25 or so miles.

Turned right into a steady climb around 3 miles and a decent gradient, just ploughed up it, alas we was not to know but when we reached the brow of the climb it do not stop, here we go again straight into the head wind. We ended up battling the head wind all day, 2 hours riding then a little rest repeat. Both of us were hoping to over the halfway mark, just to make it a little easier for tomorrow. We are both getting used to the weather pattern the wind seems to get stronger in the afternoon, just when we are getting tired.

We nearly made the halfway stage and had good intentions, but the clouds started to darken, little spots of rain, so decided to stop and see how the weather turns, pretty b* obvious really, but like to fool ourselves. We did the now familiar trick lifting up your bottle water to the oncoming traffic, within a few cars guys stopped and topped the water bottles up, good guys.

There is nowhere to hid out here, our best plan was to huddle around a culvert under the road, both of us just layed down and rested, realised that the wind was not going to die down, so made camp. No tents just sleeping bags inside the culvert. Thanks to Glen I now have a nice tripod camping stool (cut down to fit in my panniers), think it was left over from a Cornish tour, Bingo has the upmarket version, so both sitting on the stools, “what we going to now then” lets cook something, Bingo fires up his Bunsen burner, sure its got a proper name but that’s what it looks like. Peel the onions chuck then in, Bingo is in his element chucking this in and that, even had last nights left over rice. We ended up with a pasta / rice tomato and onion thing, was very nice, that good we decided to eat are breakfast before we went to bed to save time in the morning.

Then bed in our detached culvert, no need to worry about the trucks rumbling over head, it was really cold, with the wind blustering through until the early hours.