The Mission

"There are hundreds of thousands of men and women around the world who are in prison because of their race, religion, or political beliefs. Amnesty International works for all of them - the sick, the tortured, the forgotten".
“Son cientos de miles los hombres y mujeres alrededor del mundo, que se encuentran injustamente en prisión por su raza o por sus creencias religiosas y/o políticas. Amnistía Internacional trabaja para todos ellos: los enfermos, los torturados, los olvidados.”


We are on another adventure, this time, to bicycle about 3,000 km. in Argentina. We will take on the heat of the pampas, the gruelling climbs in the Andes and the freezing nights at that elevation.
Nos encontramos embarcados en otra aventura, esta vez, para recorrer en bicicleta 3.000km a través de Argentina. Nuestro viaje nos llevará desde el calor de la extensa pampa argentina hacia las agotadoras elevaciones y noches heladas de la Cordillera de los Andes.


We will do this in memory of the "disappeared", that sad time in recent Argentine history.
La razón que nos moviliza, es la de conmemorar a las decenas de miles de desaparecidos durante los tristes años de la dictadura militar en Argentina (24 de marzo de 1976 – 10 de diciembre de 1983).

Monday, March 28, 2011

Molinos and Helados

In the past 3 days we have biked over another pass, set a new record for longest biking day (132 kms), and passed the 2000 km mark.  Which means today's day off in San José de Jachal is desperately needed.  To think that the last time we had an ice cream was more than a week ago? Terrifying.  The Cuesta de Míranda, between Chilecito and Villa Union, was a fairly minor ordeal, (compared to the previous pass) following a small mountain river through a canyon of vibrant red cliffs and dropping us back into another valley on the other side.  To our surprise we found ourselves biking past sand dunes recently, nearly having to wrap shirts around our faces as the wind blew clouds of sand up the dry riverbeds.  Today we took the bikes out for a ride without all of our bags, a slightly strange experience, to visit one of the (no longer functional) local mills.
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