Rio Gallegos

16th October 2025

Having slept the night on a bunkbed, which was located right outside Tim‘s bedroom door I was more than happy to wake up, get dressed and get ready to leave this morning.

Today we have another 380 km road run all the way down to Rio Gallegos. There is not much to see in this desolate section of Patagonia and one of our conversations during our ride was why or how that these towns exist.

They are anything between 300 and 500 km apart and without knowing the history behind all of them it seemed to us that the likely explanation would be that they were there to serve the road.These places spring up at more or less what you could drive or ride in a day and perhaps this is the reason why they exist. Of course in previous times these coastal communities may well have been fishing villages that have now been linked by the road and have grown up around these purposes. It is something that we vowed to try to find out over the next few days.

We made a fairly good progress and got into Rio Gallegos at around 2 pm parked our bikes around the back of our hotel and had a wander around the city to try to find something to eat. As has been the case in nearly all of the towns on this section of the road there does not seem to be a huge amount of choice and fresh food is certainly something of a rarity. We eventually settled on an Italian restaurant which served very mediocre pasta and disappointed again we headed back to our hotel to rest up. we ended up having what was probably the earliest night of the trip so far. Tomorrow we are heading into Chile for the first time and into Tierra Del Fuego.

There are absolutely no photos from this day, so I have added from other days for interest !