Thursday March 6th 2025 Villa General Manuel Belgrano
Did not sleep great, but that’s not surprising, with all the things running around my head, well what’s the plan ! Good question spotted a hand written sign just up the road saying “reparación de bicicletas” not sure about it but we walked the bike there, guy had a look at it just shoock his head and said no parts . Pretty much what we expected but worth a try.

So the plan was to get Charlee (Bingo’s daughters ) to send the part out to us and as a back-up Kristian (Nephew) back in the day a world class cyclist to boot, to source a part and send it down from Austin Texas. According to DHL / FedEx websites they could get it here within 48hours.

If only it was that simple, it certainly wasn’t, Charlie tried but they couldn’t guarantee delivery until middle of March, so knocked that idea on the head, but both of us know how hard Charlee tried and really thankful for her sterling work. The same can be said for Kristian sourced the part, but same difficulties getting in sent down to us. Thanks for your efforts Kristian.

So plan xxxx go to the coach kiosk and see if we can get a bus to a bigger town, with all the bikes and baggage. Bit of luck, little slither really, we can get a bus tomorrow at 10 am to Formosa, big town with around 10 bike shops, the bad thing it’s 150 miles in the wrong direction!

Spent the afternoon kicking stones around this one horse town and doing some research on the bike shops, even sent them some messages. Bingo tried to cheer me up a bit, got his bunsen burner stove out and created a culinary masterpiece outside the frontdoor of the digs. It was massive had to have two sittings, devoured the lot, much to the dismay of all the local dogs who had been sniffing around.

Honestly I ate so much could not have a beer, stunned silence.

Thursday March 6th 2025 Villa General Manuel Belgrano
Did not sleep great, but that’s not surprising, with all the things running around my head, well what’s the plan ! Good question spotted a hand written sign just up the road saying “reparación de bicicletas” not sure about it but we walked the bike there, guy had a look at it just shoock his head and said no parts . Pretty much what we expected but worth a try.

So the plan was to get Charlee (Bingo’s daughters ) to send the part out to us and as a back-up Kristian (Nephew) back in the day a world class cyclist to boot, to source a part and send it down from Austin Texas. According to DHL / FedEx websites they could get it here within 48hours.

If only it was that simple, it certainly wasn’t, Charlie tried but they couldn’t guarantee delivery until middle of March, so knocked that idea on the head, but both of us know how hard Charlee tried and really thankful for her sterling work. The same can be said for Kristian sourced the part, but same difficulties getting in sent down to us. Thanks for your efforts Kristian.

So plan xxxx go to the coach kiosk and see if we can get a bus to a bigger town, with all the bikes and baggage. Bit of luck, little slither really, we can get a bus tomorrow at 10 am to Formosa, big town with around 10 bike shops, the bad thing it’s 150 miles in the wrong direction!

Spent the afternoon kicking stones around this one horse town and doing some research on the bike shops, even sent them some messages. Bingo tried to cheer me up a bit, got his bunsen burner stove out and created a culinary masterpiece outside the frontdoor of the digs. It was massive had to have two sittings, devoured the lot, much to the dismay of all the local dogs who had been sniffing around.

Honestly I ate so much could not have a beer, stunned silence.