Post Villa O’ Higgins. Everything after the end of the road.

Once we reach Villa O’Higgins, we estimated the ferry and border-crossing situation could take up to two days—especially if we ended up having to hike-a-bike. That would put us around March 7th by the time we fully made it through.

From there, we’d bike into El Chaltén.

This was the part I am genuinely excited about. El Chaltén is one of the most iconic towns in Patagonia, sitting right at the base of Mount Fitz Roy. After weeks of riding, this felt like the perfect place to slow down a bit—stay for a couple of days, sleep in, and trade the bikes for hikes and explore the trails around Fitz Roy.

Then we planned to leave El Chaltén and head to El Calafate. Luckily, there are plenty of buses that run between the two towns, so in theory we should be able to find one that would let us bring our bikes along.

And if not… well, there’s always the option of biking the 120 miles between them.

Ehhh. We’ll figure that out later.

So the plan was March 10th in El Calafate, with a flight home on March 12th. Simple enough? All we had to do was hope that the ONE bike shop in town could give us cardboard bike boxes to pack everything up for the flight—anddddd maybe even talk them into giving us a ride to the airport?

Minor details?…

At that point, getting our bikes home felt like a problem for future us. And honestly? Future us could deal with it.