{"id":1416,"date":"2013-01-10T01:19:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T01:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2013-01-11T01:22:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T01:22:34","slug":"10-january-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/?p=1416","title":{"rendered":"10 January 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

We left Sierra de la Ventana at around 7:45 this morning for a fairly long run of 525km to Las Grutas. The evening spent at Sierra de la Ventana was pleasant but uneventful.<\/p>\n

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Our hotel in Sierra De La Ventana..<\/em><\/p>\n

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The ride out of Las Grutas was fantastic because we took a dirt road for about 75km that was awesome fun to ride. This was Enrico\u2019s first attempt at dirt on the GS and he did really well although he was slow\u2026not sure if that was him or the BMW?!? <\/p>\n

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Not bad for a skinny old bullet on a fat bike..<\/em><\/p>\n

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The rest of the ride to Las Grutas couldn’t have been longer, straighter, more boring or hotter. At one stage it was 40C and my feet were burning inside my boots. The area we travelled through was so desolate and hot that it was peppered with salt pans and shrubs for almost the entire ride.<\/p>\n

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So hot that Enrico shrank!!\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n

Las Grutas is a coastal resort town that is jam packed with tourists. We struggled to find accommodation because it is peak season but not a town that we would rush back to.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow we head to the Valdez Peninsula where we spend two nights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We left Sierra de la Ventana at around 7:45 this morning for a fairly long run of 525km to Las Grutas. The evening spent at Sierra de la Ventana was pleasant but uneventful. Our hotel in Sierra De La Ventana.. The ride out of Las Grutas was fantastic because we took a dirt road for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theamericas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t