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Rohayhu Paraguay!!! This means "we love Paraguay" in the indigenous language of Guaraní and is pronounced Ro-hi-hu. Sadly, this will be the last blog entry of the Biking to Build Schools bicycle tour. But happily, we want to share with you in ...

The blossom of the passion fruit plant.

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Greetings from Encarnación, Paraguay!! After riding some 6,950 kilometers from the tip of South America we have finally made it back to good old Paraguay!!! It is hard to believe that we are already here. It seemed like it would take forever ...

Karen watching the sunset over the Rio de la Plata with a little mate near by.

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HOLA! Greetings from Buenos Aires (good airs), Argentina! The last section of riding was our toughest yet, but before getting into that, we would like to inform you about the progress of the Biking to Build Schools project, fundraising, and the bike ...

Trucks cary all kinds of seeds along the route seven. Many seeds spill out and some even sprout.

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Many saludos from Mendoza, Argentina, the land of wine and good ice cream! Congrats to Chris Haynes who guessed correctly on the previous mysterious picture of viney plants... They were kiwis! We were confused at first as to what fruit looked s...

Gauchos in Uspallata.

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Buenos días from the steep and colorfull hillisides of Valparaíso! We have been in this coastal city for the past 5 days taking a proper rest from the road...and celebrating Joel's birthday which was on the 23rd! We have a new contender for the my...

A mural in the town of San Vicente de Tagua Tagua.

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Hello again! We are writing from of Concepción, a busy and populous city on the Pacific Coast of Chile. We are well and happy to say that InterConnection, our American partner organization, has shipped 12 reused and refurbished computers to P...

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Hola everyone and saludos from Bariloche, Argentina, the busy mountain resort town! Ok, so we are finally back on pavement and have completed the Carretera Austral road in Chile. Thank goodness because between the two of us, we had 12 flat tire...

One of the coolest statues we've seen on this trip...just on the side of Ruta 40. You never know what you'll find on the road.

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Saludos from La Junta, Chile! (The map says that we are in Futaleufú, Chile but we haven't arrived there yet...we just had to enter it because TravelStash wouldn't recognize our current location of La Junta, Chile. We'll be in Futaleufú...

Waterfalls, amazing waterfalls!

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Hello again!! Its been a long time since we've had the opportunity to update our blog and a lot has happened between El Chaltén, Argentina and Coyhaique, Chile. We are doing well and we hope that all of you are too! Thanks again to all for you...

The Carretera Austral.

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Hello from El Chaltén, Argentina!! Just a little reminder for new readers of this blog... Our names are Karen Schlatter and Joel Correia and we are in the midst of a six month, six thousand mile long bicycle tour to raise funds that will be u...

Uh oh! You know that when you see a sign like this its not gonna be good. Wind again!

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Hello all! Greetings from El Calafate, Argentina!! First, a few important notices... 1) Thanks to your support and those who have donated to our cause, our American partner organization, InterConnection, is preparing to send a pallet of comput...

Karen and Joel with the Lago del Toro (Bull lake) and the Torres del Paine massif in the background.

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Greetings from Puerto Natales, Chile!!!First off, we would like thank all of you who are supporting our cause and sending positive words of encouragement! Thanks to all of you, we have already raised over $2,000 and are on our way to reaching our fun...

On the road again!

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We made it alive and in one piece across the Island of the Tierra del Fuego and are waiting to get a ferry to Punta Arenas, Chile. We left you all in the sprawling, drab town of Rio Grande, Argentina. Since then we have pedalled 250 kilometers and ba...

Welcome to Chile Joel!

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It's been four days of riding and 222km so far! The sights have been amazing and the riding has been tranquilopa! We are taking a rest day in Rio Grande before we head further up the Atlantic coast to San Sebastí­an. We've got sore legs and knees b...

Rio Grande...the unofficial trout fishing capital of the world!

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Hello all and happy New Year's!!! We arrived in Ushuaia, Argentina around 9:30pm on December 28th. We had no problems with our flights and all of our gear arrived with us in great shape. The weather forecast for Ushuaia was WIND. And sure enough, we ...

Karen at the Tierra del Fuego National Park.

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