The great adventure has, like all great things eventually do, come to an end. Macky is attempting to catch a plane back to the US and I am moving into my new place in Cordoba. Time to be a student. Blah. The blog posts are probably about to get a lot less interesting.

I struggled for a long time to think of a way to summarize our trip, to encapsulate two months of adventure, mishap and love into one measly blog post. This is what I came up with. It’s not perfect. It leaves a lot out. But you’ll get the idea.

2 people, 2 bikes, 1 car, 1 continent.

Days: 52
Kilometers driven: 13,000
Meters driven: 13 million
Miles driven: 8,077
Percent of nights spent in tent: 88
Percent of nights spent indoors: 12
Nights spent camping illegally: 1
Showers: 12
Maximum number of days between showers: 11
Border crossings: 5
Trips to lavadero (laundromat): 1
Bike races: 4
Penguins: ~120,000
Times we ran out of gas: 1
Times we almost ran out of gas: a lot more
Times we ran out of money and couldn’t find an ATM: 3
Flat tires on the car: 1
Flat tires on the bikes: 5
Tuna fish sandwiches in the car: 1
Other kinds of sandwiches in the car: 45
Chorizo consumed: ~ 6 kilos
Macky’s average peach consumption by day: 8
Andean lakes swam in: 6
Volcanoes: 3
Erupting Volcanoes: 1
Times we could not ride our bikes because of erupting volcano: 3
Times we rode our bikes around a volcano: 2
Times we parallel parked in places too small for our car: every time
Nights we had dinner before 9 pm: 0
Nights we ate dinner in the tent: 3
Times we were stopped by police: 5
Times we were given imaginary fines by police: 1
Times Macky bribed police to avoid a real fine of $500: 1
Times the Chilean Customs stole our fruit: 3
Hours spent in US embassy: 10
Times it snowed: 1
Fastest Winds: 120 km/hr
Glaciers: 1
Times Syd stalled out the car: 801
Times Syd stalled out because she forgot to take off the parking brake: 800
Times Syd stalled out the car in front of oncoming bulldozer: 1
Times we pushed the car out of a ditch: 2
Times we pushed someone else’s car out of a ditch: 4
Times Syd’s underwear mysteriously ended up in a lake: 1
Maximum number of apricots consumed in one day: 1 kilo
Street dogs Syd wanted to adopt: all of them
Times Macky peed on the KM 999 sign: 2
Pictures of street signs: 17
Times we went off-roading in our Chevy Spark: 2
Times we said we wanted to move to South America: 1 million