Expedition Rigs Encountered

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Location: Sarmiento, Argentina

Owner & wife are from Poland on a multi-year global expedition. Spent the last two years working in Bolivia and are now back on the road.

Range is 280 miles / 450 km. Carries extra fuel since that's not enough range down here.

Heading to Ausralia next.

Peru would not let them cross the border.

 

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Location: Sarmiento, Argentina

Aime Tschiffely rode these two horses from Sarminento to New York, New York, USA.

Duration: 1925 to 1928
Distance: 13,360m / 21,500 km

 

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Location: Ruta 3, southern Patagonia, Argentina

 

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Location: road to the Petrified Forest National Monument

Swiss couple.

CA plates.

 

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Location: Puerto San Julian, Argentina

 

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Location: Puerto San Julian, Argentina

Full scale recreation of Magellan's ship Victoria, the only ship to survive the journey.

Initial fleet: 5 ships, 265 men

Journey:
Depart: 8/1519
Return: 1522

Distance: first circumnavigation of the planet

Returning fleet: 1 ship, 18 men, Magellan was not among them.

 

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Location: Rio Grande, Argentina

 

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Posted merely to demonstrate that there is at least one chassis down here more heavily laden than ours.

 

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Location: Cerro Sombrero, Chile

 

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Location: Ushuaia, Argentina

 

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Location: Ushuaia, Argentina

These are available for rental.

 

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Location: Ushuaia, Argentina

German couple who moved to Colorado 13 years ago.

They've spent the last two years on the road with this rig.

They came down through Central America and all the way here.

It has been to Alaska three times and is almost 20 years old.

They've never had a leak in the camper.