Tuesday March 11th 2025 Las Lomitas to Ingeniero Guillermo Nicasio Juárez
Think the most difficult part of this tour is getting enough to eat and making sure we have enough cash to pay for it, the cycling is the easy bit!

Same again last night, tried to eat in the bar, nothing for me on the menu so went for the normal chips and eggs, Bingo had a big Milanao thing with salad and chips, his came out fine, mine was just the eggs, something lost in translation again. Bingo offered to go halves on his chips and salad, (he so looks after his older brother) but we had just done 100 miles on a bike we need to eat, so I finished my eggs ,then went next door and had egg and chips. Bingo is going to need to get his bunsen burner out again, I need some pasta.

Have breakfast in the room, nice mix of banana, yogurt and porridge, then try and pay for last night meal in the morning, never a good thing try and pay as we go all a bit of a mix up, but eventually sorted it after we got the manager up! They tried to get us to pay for the room, that we had paid online.

Then got going, only for me to suffer a puncture in the first half a mile, you can imagine the language (sorry Mum) and there was no sheep to blame! (reference 1st tour Durness to Dover 2012) Young Cathal Bartolo was distraught, but he is a good young lad from solid stock, thanks for the donation young-un, could do with your wheel mate. side tracked a bit there, best get on with the saga.

My the time we eventually got going it was coming up for midday, only joking 7 in the morning, with another epic ride planned today, we’d best get a move on. The plan if we have one is to pedal, how far is anyone’s guess, couple of options in mind ride to Chiriguanos, get a bit to eat, then push on another 30 miles to Ingeniero Juárez, few places to stay there.

Just one of those days where you just knuckle down and ride, constantly looking out for any new birds or animals, the road is very good with light traffic, makes for good ridings, just not a lot happening on the road, pushing the miles out, trying to eke out any stops we can, first one after 35ish miles a little Indigenous village Pozo del Mortero, quite sweet place, got some strange looks as we had an ice lolly and soft drink outside the one and only shop, everyone was very pleasant and nice, just a little smile and a wave, nice.

Off we go again, just riding hard and strong, both feeling good and fit bring it on, as I was day-dreaming down the road, spend most of my time singing / daydreaming about all sorts of crazy stuff, Bingo shouts whats that down the road a couple of Black Vultures gorging on a road kill, well he has to investigate, blimey its a snake about 8ft long, think it could have eaten me, if it was alive, makes me think great got to do some camping in the next few days, that will be fun.

Kept going loving the mixture of wild horses, few donkeys, sheep, goats and very strangely pigs just meandering down the side of the road all looked pretty relaxed and contented, one pig made a little go at trying to cross the road in front of Bingo, that made me chuckle good match that not sure what the outcome would be, but would be fun watching it, kept me going for a good few miles.

Soon called for another stop we need some food, pretty much how we are all the time really, come to Chiriguanos, we was thinking of stopping here, but not a lot going on, eventually found a little shop, so sat outside it with a soft drink, bag of crisps and a packet of biscuits, yes the high life again, the lady in the shop tried to sell Bingo a massive sausage, thats not a euphemism he settled for a bag of crisps, wisely in my opinion. As we sat outside the little shop a few of the locals came and had a little chat, which was fun and nice, time to get going.

Last 25 miles no stops just full steam ahead, just got going I was head down riding Bingo spots a massive lizard (2 foot long) obviously I did not see it, too busy blurting out Oasis numbers, so decide to concentrate now, really not one of my best traits, usually have the attention span of a chocolate tea pot according to my late Father, always a good judge of character. But there you go I did, finally spotted something before Bingo, though I said it was a rabbit with skinny legs, he did spot both of them I only seen the one, then sternly corrected me, it was an Agouti (Dasyprocta), bit like my Dad, would have done all those years ago, wonder where he gets that from.

Finally entered Ingeniero Juárez, settled for the second hotel we saw, first one was a bit out of Town, all sorted very quickly, lets get a shower, few beers and eat, need some food glorious food, not chips and egg!