You have a LOT of free time?

[Devaclis]

Go here:

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=480532

See in a week or two :)

[Devaclis]

LOL

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[Devaclis]

We climbed too quickly from San Pedro de Atacama (Chile) to Bolivia. From 2500m to 4500m in less than a 2 hours. And then headed up to over 5000 meters where Bolivian aduana (customs) was. There I got a knockout blow and, I almost fainted...

Thankfully there was a chemical plant in the middle of nowhere aside the Bolivian customs where a doctor re-animated me with oxigen:

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This could have ended with my death if we had not been lucky to have a doctor here with necessary equipment at hand in that very moment. Most of the South-Bolivia is just an empty land with nothing and nobody to help you.

Kariina said the colour of my skin in the face changed visibly from gray to normal again under the oxigen mask. After some time there + loads of medicine I got on to my feet again and we could head on. Doctor strongly advised to get to lower grounds as soon as possible, but it was impossible here - everything nearby is well over 4000 meters over sea level on the altiplano (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altiplano).

It was geting dark and we had to find a place to shelter, the best spot we found was at 4500m over the sea level and we pitched the tent. Kariina had to do everything, since my condition was worsening again and I didn't have any force at all - I could barely ride bike. In the night it dropped -2C below freezing temperature, we didn't get any sleep, I constantly went out the tent to vomit, in fact I could barely walk and stand up and felt like I was about to die. But still, the freezing night sky above me (while vomiting, I was constantly staring at the sky) was just stunning, mind-blowing! It's the thing that made me slightly better and after few bad situations and bad signs on my collapsing health, while couple of times we were just one move away to start our sattelite-telephone and call for an emergency evacuation - I decided to test my survivability and I was alive in the morning, maybe just 1-2 hours of sleep.

In the morning the same trick - Kariina had to do everything, pack the tent and stuff on the bike while I layed on the ground, shaking from cold and vomiting. When done, Kariina helped to get me on the bike (which I barely could do) and we could ride on. Kariina could ride our heavy bike as an emergency, but NEVER in those (rather off-)road conditions here. So I had to pilot us on to the safer-lower grounds myself.

And the road ahead was yet again nasty.


Motorcyclists are crazy people :)

[Devaclis]

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[WHTEVO]

Doing something like that would be pretty sweet.

Aaron

[jonny05]

Adventure ho...Only if mney and time would allow!