Bikes held up by UK Customs so missed connection in Washington.
We stayed in2 star hotel in a street called Florida which we were told was also the Florida District of BA ( this turned out to be a long way from the truth.
Florida district was over a hour on public transport and walking from our hotel. While in BA we tried the metro and over ground trains as well as lots of walking and a few taxis. The city has many 1920's art deco building whick seem to have had nothing spent on them since they were built. We have meet a couple ( Gary and Loo) travelling around the world from St Agnes, Cornwall on 2 x Honda Dominators. We have had to buy local 3rd party bike insurance to get the bikes out of customs. Roly has alos had to buy some colthes as all his were packed in the crate with the bike.
The bikes finally arrived BA one week late it took us 5 hours to get them though BA customs on the same day they arrived which is apparently unheard off. We hired a small truck (Renault Traffic) and moved them across town at 1700 hours which took 2 hours with four of us squashed in the front.
We man handled them off the truck and put the front wheels on that night, the following morning from 0900 to 1600 we put them back together and managed to leave BA again in rush hour. After what seemed ages (1.5 hours) we got on to a clear road south and managed about 200 miles but missed our planned stop at La Posta. The winds are exteme ( up to 120kmph)and Dave is down to 30mph ( his bike is much lighter than Roly´s)

We are now a week behind we have been trying to get some miles behind us and our daily record is 430 miles in one day. Camping is going well with Daves 1st camping experiance in a national park called Serra de la Ventena. We had a little trouble finding meths for cooking but have crackes this now.
We are now in Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego and saying in a camp site with what seems to be about 30 other bikers.

For Christmas we stopped in a hotel on the Pampa and had steaks, wine and for pudding roly got cheese with thick choclaate and Dave had ice cream ( the chocalate ended up on Dave's ice cream).

Boarder controls are not to bad and so far have never been more than one hour at each countries crossing ( two for every bourder).
In San Gregorio, Chile we stayed with Filipe after crossing the chile border late one evening and not being able to find any camp site or hotel. Filipe invited us to stay with him and his father. His father was away and forgetten to hide a key so we spent 2 hours trying to break in with out breaking anything. His Dad finally arrived and we were fed and put to bed the left 0700 the following morning and they would not accept any US$ from us.

We arrived at our 1st ferry crossing very early and needed to wait for 0830 for the 1st crossing to Terria dfel Fuego. we found an excellant resturant just outside Rio Grande and ordered Chichen and got a rack of Lamb each and also met 4 bikers from Germany ( 3 women)
After the Tolhuin the senerey changed to mountains with switch back roads with sheer drops but little traffic but cold as it was getting late ( gets light about 0630 and dark 2230)

We arrive in Ushuaia 2015 hrs and there is a great crowd here with lots of stories to share and learn from.. we have done about 3,100 kms so far.

The drive down was very long and very much all the same. The Pampas was just huge and went on for what seemed thousands of miles. It was very hot for our first week in BA and our first 5 days travelling south but the last two days we have been glad to have some warm clothing and the wind has been extremely strong and cold. If you can get out of the wind it is quite warm. The mountains down here are just fantastic with great driving and very similar to South island of NZ and a great change from the pampa.
Lots of tourists buses and cruise liners here taking people around and also going to Antarctica.
Every one so friendly to two odd Brits who speak no Spanish but love to see our bikes and talk.

We seem to get by with our excellent sign language and after get showed the way to hotels/hostals/camping sites and supermarkets by locals. Christmas eve we were invited to have a BRQ with the owners of the camp site in Comodoro Rivadavia and then again for lunch but we decided to push on south.
We went into the national Park with Sue on a BMW FS650 and took photos at the sign showing the end of Ruta 3 (3100 kms) we bought i litre of wine for 60 pence which is cheaper than bottled water.
Ushuaia ( where the wind stops/goes/ ends in local indian) is a nice place and its great to get out of the wind. At Chile/ Argentina border crossings we have to eat or throw away perisible foods due to local import laws.
We are planning to go north after a few days rest and sight seeing and letting out bums recover.