Südamerika_MotoForPeace

Ich bin am 22.03. am Frankfurter Flughafen eingetroffen. Jetzt werde ich mich erstmal wieder an die Normalität gewöhnen müssen, ohne Pasta und Thunfisch-Bohnen Konserven....

Mittwoch 18.03. Da wir erfahren haben, dass der Flughafen La Paz am Freitag um Mitternacht bis erstmal Ende des Monats schliesst, sind wir ins Stadtbüro der KLM gefahren und...

Tuesday, 17.03. Now that all land borders are closed, the MotoForPeace Tour can be considered ended prematurely. Tomorrow we will arrange tickets to go home. Otherwise, we just...

Monday 16.03. We had an appointment at 10 o'clock with the chief of police of Bolivia. Here at the police headquarters, too, it was a matter of high importance due to the Corona...

Sunday 15.03. We drove to the Salar de Uyuni at 8 o'clock, the largest salt flat on Earth, with a length of 140 km. Although we were only at the beginning of the flat, it was...

Saturday 14.03 The trip to the salt flats and on to La Paz is currently not possible. The workshop van broke down and needs to be repaired. The initial attempts at self-repair...

Friday 13th March. Continuing to Uyuni. The route on the way was once again fantastic. We are slowly entering very high areas in Bolivia. Until we reached our destination Uyuni,...

Thursday 12th March. We left Ingeniero Juarez at 7 o'clock. After crossing the border, we headed up into the Bolivian mountains. The higher we went, the cooler it got, and we...

Wednesday 11.03. We left Asuncion at 6 o'clock. The first problem arose at the border crossing to Argentina. Since the documents of the vans were stolen in Ciudad del Este, no...

Tuesday 10.03. At 10 o'clock we had 2 appointments at missions. One here in Asuncion and one about 40 km away. For this we divided up. I accompanied the mission here in...

Monday, 09.03. Since we didn't have any appointments today, we were in the city with Sebastian, one of the bikers from last night, in the morning. He showed us the most...

Sunday 08.03. Since we had an appointment at the cathedral in Asuncion at 12 o'clock, we started at 6 o'clock in Ciudad del Este. Before we even started, we had to realize that...

Saturday, 07.03. At 8 o'clock we had an appointment in the city with representatives of the church, the city, and the Italian consulate. The police chief of Ciudad del Este was...

Friday 06.03. We left Paso de los Libres at 7 o'clock. The passport control from Argentina to Paraguay took about 1.5 hours. At the first gas station in Paraguay, we could see a...

Thursday 03/05 We left at 7 o'clock and were accompanied by colleagues from the Argentine Federal Police until we were taken over by the Gendarmerie. On this day we drove to...

Wednesday, March 4. Today was a free day until the evening, as we had an invitation at the Austrian Ambassador's residence. He lives here with his family, but it is also used...

Tuesday, 03.03. First appointment at the Police Museum. The exhibition of foreign police uniforms was interesting. There was actually an old Federal Border Police uniform here....

Monday 02.03. We had agreed with the Argentine colleagues the day before that they would pick me up at the airport at half past six to pick up Kurt. Since Veronika and Luigi are...

Sunday, 01.03. After starting in Mar del Plata, we had the first breakdown right away. The chain and sprocket on Egidio's Transalp are shot. A quick makeshift solution and the...

On Saturday, 29.02. At half past 10, we went to the Argentine Federal Police station. Same usual procedure with exchanging of gifts. I was able to give some colleagues a patch...

Friday 28.02. The first appointment was at the Italian Consulate. As always, introduction of MotoForPeace and explanations of the goals. The next appointment was with the Mayor...

Thursday, 27.02. Before we could start properly in Bahia Blanca, Marco Monachelli's KTM had a flat tire. Since it was not a tubeless tire, Marco Veronese quickly replaced it...

Tuesday 25.02. and Wednesday 26.02. We started on Tuesday at 7 am from Puerto Madryn to Bahia Blanca. Bahia Blanca has approximately 300,000 inhabitants. Another day trip of 660...

Monday, February 24th, in the evening we drove the motorcycles through the entrance door into the lobby of the Catholic educational institution where we were staying, in order...

23.02., Sunday. We were shown a few other church facilities by members of the church community where we slept, and a small city tour was included. In Comodoro Rivadavia, there...

Saturday, 22.02., we started heading north at 8 o'clock. At the first fuel stop, we met three motorcyclists from the USA, Belgium, and Germany. The American from Ohio has been...

After breakfast, Marco removed the wheel and we went to a tire dealer. They installed the tire on the new rim, but unfortunately, they did it wrong because they didn't pay...

We started towards Rio Gallegos today at half past nine. Ushuaia is located in Argentina and so is Rio Gallegos. Due to the complicated border arrangements, we had to enter...

On Wednesday, 19.03, we set off for Estancia Harberton at half past nine. This is about 100 km from our accommodation on the Beagle Channel. We passed by there by boat yesterday...

On Tuesday, 18.02. we started a boat trip in the Beagle Channel with a catamaran. The Beagle Channel runs directly past Ushuaia, above Cape Horn. Regularly cruise ships are...