Strewth, the big day has arrived.

Ol Kiwi is about to hit the road for a 2000 Km drive to cover the FAI F3A world championships in Argentina. Yep video camera, still cameras, laptops, were a travellin CNN guys.
Let me tell you a few stories about Argentina.

First off they have darn good beer and darned good wines available.

The eye candy is kinda sweet and not too tough on the old eyeballs at all.

If you ever get invited to a BBQ dont be a mug. Never say no as these dudes know how to make a feed from dead cows and birds.

Oh did I mention they have some pretty good beers and wines available.

If all goes to plan we will roll out of here tomorrow afternoon and head on into the Atacama desert as far as San Pedro de Atacama. This is a really old community and they have found ruins that date back over 12,000 years. Actually that puts the kybosh on the theory about the dudes migrating down through Alaska from Siberia etc unless they had a bullet train to get here in those days. DNA evidence points to the most likely or closest DNA match coming from Egypt. Maybe that explains the pyramids and temples and stuff found down this way.

Well we will camp out in the old hillbilly truck someplace in the desert Friday night so we can attack the Andes passes with some sparkle in the eyes early in the morning. The pass we are taking on is all paved road but it runs along for a good few hours at 15,000 feet. Thats high and lesson No1 is dont turn the old diesel off up there and let it get cold. If you do it just might not fire up again for you without a lot of effort.

Once we get over the hump and into Argentina we will pass by Salta and with luck be able to add to the blog from there. Hopefully we can make it to within 600 or 700 Km's from Santa Fe on Saturday so we get an easy run into the competition field Sunday afternoon.

Were all pumped up ready to go. RED BULL in bulk is on the ice. Santa Fe look out, you ain't seen nothing yet.

	I am not too smart with these blog things Posted 11-24-2007 at 10:00 PM by Kiwi Updated 11-24-2007 at 10:07 PM by Kiwi This time some photos. Kiwi Bad-ass Super Contributer!
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10th of November and over the Andes for the first time. Posted 11-24-2007 at 09:41 PM by Kiwi With a good nights sleep under the belt it was a dingoes breakfast (pee and a quick look around) and into the frontier post for the formalities. Customs, immigration all Ok and off we sailed. Now the road from San Pedro is all paved and weaves its way along the borders of Bolivia and Argentina. You can take your pick which country you want to visit. Just turn left for Bolivia. But we were on a mission to make Argentina, again with no map, a Garmin handheld GPS that had some roads marked in the map but still no idea what we were heading into at all. Departing the... Continue reading... Kiwi Bad-ass Super Contributer!

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Better late than never. Posted 11-24-2007 at 09:13 PM by Kiwi Well guys and gals I promised some photos and a few stories to give you an idea of what it took to get to Argentina for the World F3A champs. Friday 9th we filled up the old truck with fuel, that hurt as it holds nearly 100 gallons of diesel and set sail for the East. Our intention (me and 22 year old son) was to make a small village way to heck and gone out the back called San Pedro de Atacama. That is the frontier where we needed to do immigration and customs etc. Its about a 4 hour drive from where we live. Well we kicked her in the guts about 7pm and off we went... Continue reading... Kiwi Bad-ass Super Contributer!

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	Argentina Santa Fe or BUST!! Posted 11-08-2007 at 06:55 PM by Kiwi Guys this is a dummy post, from a dummy of course to see how this freakin Blog stuff works. That darned MadMax has all these technical stuffs that us older dudes just dont understand. So WTH, at least I'm trying. Kiwi Bad-ass Super Contributer!
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