Day 70

43,476 – 43,665  189 Miles today (20,965 Miles Overall)

Puerto Natales, Chile – El Calafate, Argentina

We decided as we were going to bed that we were going to be bored in town doing nothing the next day so we spoke to the hotel owner and they said we can leave today and come back another day to use our credit for the night. So we packed up our stuff in a hurry this morning before and after eating breakfast and decided we would head back to Puerto Natales to hang out there for the day before heading up to El Chalten the next day.

We took the ride back to the border which I did alone yesterday and had an easy border crossing. She loved the views. We took that same brutal dirt road except now with both of us on the bike with the added luggage as well the bike was really taking a beating. We stopped to see some pink flamingos in the middle of the dirt road portion. Back on the road we shot down the desert roads into El Calafate. We stopped for lunch and got a nice big steak with some beers in town and ended up finding a nice hostel with a private room right in town. We walked around town a bit and rode down to the lake to check out the turquoise water which was all coming from the glacier on the other side of the lake. We went out for some dinner in town with Lars and another guy named Justin that Lars met a few days ago. Tomorrow we were going to head to El Chalten so we called it a night pretty early which also means 11-12pm now since the sky is still light out until about 11:15ish.