Steaks. Solved.

Just had the best steak ever at this tiny one table kitchen. We are inquiring about how to say certain cuts of meat in Spanish and the owners are drawing us a map of a beef and labeling the parts and cuts in Spanish. This could be delicious. We now posses the MAPA DE VACA!

Off to Mendoza

Leaving Dakar Motos. Adios.

Finally

We have got the bikes. It took all day but Sean, Luke and myself can join join Mike in the ranks of bike owning travelers. As you may be able to see from the photos, our front tires had all the air let out and handlebars had been removed. The port guys had a couple wrenches for the bars and by amazing luck I had stashed my cig lighter powered air compressor in my cases that were with the bike. We leave at 8 am and will head towards Mendoza AR where we will then head south into Patagonia. Hopefully we will find some cooler weather there to make camping/riding more enjoyable.

Off to get the bikes

We are out drinking our morning tea, which is obligatory due to the British influence in our group, and the rain just started coming down hard. Pairing the Bluetooth on the helmets and off to the airport to get them in 30 mins. Hopefully this rain is relief from this heat!

Bikes are here!

Great news. Today the bikes landed in Buenos Aires, as did our titles. We will be off to pick them up and get them thru Argentine customs first thing in the morning and hope to be on the trail by end of day tomorrow. Getting thru Argentine customs can be a tricky thing, but we are confident all will go well.

Iguazu Falls

Absolutely no words to describe this place. Supposedly Elenor Roosavelt's first words were 'poor Niagra!' and I can understand why. It goes on forever, makes 2 national parks as it is the border between Argentina and Brazil. Around the next river bend is Paraguay, so it's a really unique opportunity to be hit with international roaming charges in 3 countries while standing in one spot. Seriously, this happened to all of us, and the best part is that out phones aren't even working. We hope to resolve that tomorrow as we kick Movistar in favor of Claro in hopes that we can keep in touch better with y'all.
The top was absolutely breathtaking as unimaginable amounts of water fall from on high into a white mist so far and so big you can never see the bottom from the Devils Throat overlook.
We also took the boat ride that goes very close to being under the falls. Amazing. We understood what our friend Jack from the first nights hostel meant when he told us that when you are on the boat tour, you could get out of the boat and it would be the same. Couldn't have been wetter. This was alright with us tho as temps climbed to 40 degrees Celsius (104 F) and it was jungle humidity.

To the Jungle

We have been without communications for a couple days but lots have happened. We found that out bikes will arrive Monday and be available to us Tuesday. Although this is not ideal news, we decided to make the most of our time by renting a car and spending a few days traveling to Iguazu Falls on the border with Brazil. We made it approx half way Thursday night and stopped at a fuel station in rural Argentina to ask about a place nearby to make camp. The station was owned by an amazing family who allowed us to camp in their yard.
We hadn't even set up the tents yet when the two boys in the picture approached us with a soccer ball and invited us to play with them on a great field on their property. All was going well (if you forget the fact that Nicolas 13 and his brother 8 beat us soundly while being undermanned 2 of them vs 4 of us) until I did what I do best while playing sports, get injured. I went with the ole standby, spraining my left ankle in proper fashion. It felt like déjà vu as I have sprained that same ankle many times before at incredibly inopportune times. I was quite worried I would be out of commission for a long while, however I am very happy to report that after only a few days I am getting around pretty well and am confident it will not be a problem going forward.
The falls were absolutely amazing, easy to see why they are one of the 7 natural wonders of the world. Pictures of the falls will follow this post, as soon as we can find enough internet to upload more pics...