Santiago>Ushiaia via Rt7 & Back via Rt40 in 27 days?

[Dirk_S]

Hello! I’m flying into Santiago next Friday the 20th. I plan to immediately apply for a RUT in order to purchase a dual-sport or midweight ADV. Hopefully that only takes a few days (I paid a Chilean resident who’s helped other foreigners get their RUT to help with the process).

Once I have the bike, I plan to ride to Ushuaia via Rt 5 and the Carretera Austral. From there I plan to ride back up to Santiago via Rt 40, stopping by some of the typical sites and side roads as you would in Patagonia. Can one do this trip semi-comfortably do this in 25-27 days (provided neither I nor the bike break along the way)?

I’m currently going through my waypoints and working out mileage estimates, but I figured I’d ask on here anyway.

A little about my riding experience: In 2017 I spent 24 days riding with a friend through Andalucia. This is the route that I laid out:


In 2019 I spent 24 days riding around Turkey. I laid this route out with the help of an older traveler’s itinerary that I found:


I’ve also done a couple trips into Canada, and the Mid-Atlantic BDR on a Moto Guzzi sidecar, so I’m not to totally new to these types of trips that last a few weeks. I’d say 80% pavement, 20% off-pavement. I *think* I can get it done, but I have a few folks who, I don’t know on other forums telling me I’m going to be really pushing it. Besides, I did make a bit of a leap in daily mileage from the Spain trip to the Turkey trip, and there were a couple days in Turkey where I wish I had a hair more downtime.

I really should’ve posted here sooner, but the other folks I had attempted to reach out to never responded, so I got stubborn and focused on just planning forward…but I figured I might as well ask now than never!

Cheers,
Dirk

First time poster, by the way, so Hi!


Pic of me standing on top of Nemrut Daği, watching that beautiful sunset, having no idea that 4 hours later I’d be hiding in the back storage room for a good 30 minutes while the Kurdish worker at the dilapidated visitor’s center made sure the lights coming up the mountain weren’t police…apparently despite his assurance that we could camp there out on the porch, legally that was a nope. And he’s a Kurd, so every light coming up the hill is probably Turkish police to that fella. Anyway.