Rupert Wilson-Young, from the UK, riding from Alaska to Tierra de Fuego (ie: Peru) on a 49cc Yamaha Vino scooter:
“Ruts, constant gravel, sand, rocks the size of small houses and a pass at 4853 m’s where I had to push a wee while. We made it though. The landscape was incredible also. Sometimes the road was actually quite good though, for a record breaking 40k or something like that. When this was the case it was incredible. Impossible switchbacks clinging to the mountainside, Indians giving me gringo jibes and snowcapped, massive, vegetation-clad mountains all around. It was nice. Sometimes, in fact twice, the road twisted down from a height of above 4000 metres 50 kilometres straight down to under 2000 metres. This was a lesson in what to wear because I was freezing in the morning and baking when it was time to eat that bread and butter that was probably melting by now.
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