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Saturday was packed with preparations of all kind, including a few hours spending in vain in a phone shop again to get my cell phone internet going….and a siesta nap for myself, before the guest for the barbecue party arrived! As I will probably paddle around Cape Horn together with Alejandro and Juan Pablo, we […]

Flying back home from Sao Paulo/ Brasil, Alejandro was picking me from the airport on Friday at 5.30 pm. Luckily I got enough sleep the night before (no party for me…) and slept on the plane. There was a pool session planned Friday night, starting at 9pm! This sounded already late to me, but for […]

Ricardo from SDK Kayaks in Buenos Aires was so nice to take up on the repair job of the four minor gelcoat airfreight transport damages on my two kayaks. It looked like an easy job – until he discovered something else:  Alsmost the whole front bulkhead broke out of one of the kayaks, plus a […]

Dry meetings in the morning, wet meetings in the afternoon… Aafter lunch, we did a short walk to a beautifu waterfall pool in the Brasilian rain forest…not too bad of a life on a THULE marketing meeting! 🙂 But then meetings *again*…

Activities on the meeting shifted on Tuesday afternoon from Sao Paulo to the Atena Beach Hotel, but Brasil didn’t present itself from the nicest side…rainy, relatively chilly weather greeted us, and a fat dumping surf was crashing at the beach. But spirits were great! I did a presentation about my trip around South America to […]

I was arriving back in Buenos Aires from the weekend in the Estadoe del Ibera at the wee hour of Monday, 5.30 am. It was one of the scariest car rides in my life, driving almost 18 hrs on doubtful Argentinean country roads partly through the  Argentinan night :-). Usually I fall asleep on long […]

Thursday was just shopping day for my trip food and packing, but Friday Alejandro and I drove off to a kayaking weekend with a group of Argentinean friends to the Esteros del Iberá, a wetland like the Florida Everglades. Although it was a loooooooong drive over some doubtful Argentina country roads, it was worth a […]

It is fix now – thanks to THULE Argentina, Juan Carlos Nisticio and Carla Barlado, who organized a fancy breakfast reception with a presentation of my trip,  press conference and VIP-shake-hands in the Puerto Madero Yachtclub – quite a noble place! The Mayor of Buenos Aires, the German Embassy in Argentina, the Prefectura Naval Argentina and some other […]

I was dropping my two epic 18x sport kayaks in Hamburg at the cargo terminal on Friday 2 pm, the same day I flew off myself. They got transported by truck to Amsterdam, and then on a cargo flight directly to Buenos Aires. It was working all fine – besides the 2900 € I had […]