A week on the road (we got robbed) – EP 91

A week on the road (we got robbed) – EP 91

This week we share with you all the  little things that happen in travel   the daily routine the good stuff the  hiking and the bad spoiler we’ve been   robbed we are Nick and Matti and in 2022  we left everything behind to travel the  

World with our Land Rover Defender Europe  the Americas Australia Asia and Africa we   want to see it all this is day 583 and we are  heading into Argentina welcome to the next Madi Expedition we’re back at the border almost with  uh Argentina so we’re about to get into Argentina   and we just came by the last town called fut Leu  and uh it’s a very very cute town all surrounded  

By mountains with snow and lakes I’m actually  looking for my tilt I’ve lost her uh we kind   of she went that way and I went this way and  we said we’ll just get lost through the town  

And find each other and now we can’t find  each other but she must be around there she is M nice so she got a bit of mayo I’m doing  like them and ketchup yeah I’m not convinced  

About the mix but is that avocado Tomatoes what  else is in the hot dog there a sausage I think   sausage nice it’s called a completo complete  let’s see here this one right there 2,000 is2 is it m mine’s coming soon we finished  our first Chilean compto at light speed while  

Discussing of the plan for the following  week we like it so much the compto that   we’re actually going back now and we’re going  to buy one more split in half right yeah we   should normalize avocado in Hot Dogs seriously  really good and while Nick went to get another  

Compto let me tell you what’s going to happen  next this week we’re going to cross the border   with Argentina again enter Argentina again and  the plan is to drive to Baro because this is   our starting point to go to Antarctica and we  decided it would be the occasion to share with  

You some of the little things that happen in  TR just the everyday life in the road they’re   good and the bird something that became pretty  much routine for us is Crossing Borders luckily   on the panamerican it’s always pretty easy  Crossing into Argentina for the third time  

Uh we’re pretty good with the process now so we  have everything ready and it took 10 minutes bam at the entry of the Argentinian Adas the  Argentinian border you have a mate and the   water tank for the hot water this is typical  Argentina I hope I can show you one day how it  

Works but you see that everywhere so seeing  it at the border office like this is such a   entry into Argentina took us another 10 minutes  and that was it yes yes it is that easy into Argentina now we drive to this beautiful  Valley in search for a nice Camp [Music] spot  

I ain’t never felt kind love like this  before you took all the worries from my mind darling please forgive me if I  stare a little more I can’t look away   from those brown eyes and if we settle  down we don’t have to settle down please  

Don’t be afraid of all the things  that could go wrong we can take our time good evening all right we just arrived at  our camp spot um we crossed into Argentina and   there was no wild spots so close to the Border  uh very everything was Private lands all fenced  

Off and we did not want to drive further so we  found this Camp spot in Argentina and the prices   are very good it is €6 for the both of us for  All In included showers Wi-Fi and terrain I was  

Thinking maybe I could show really quickly  how um what we do when we set up camp first   thing is we kind of divide the jobs so one  of us spends about 5 minutes just cleaning   Albatross now when it comes to the rear parts we  usually put everything to charge in here that’s  

Where we have the electrical compartment and  we pull out the curtain and this uh cover so   that nobody can look into the car and we push  up the pop top just like that usually we open  

The two vents up there just so that it kind  of airs out pulled out the starting which is   up there here we have the trash dirty clothes  and a few Outdoor Equipment uh pull out that  

Little carpet so it’s easier to get in shoes  off in our car that’s it uh usually we go to   sleep I think around 11:00 we try to so that  we can wake up at 7:00 in the morning since  

We’ve been in uh Argentina and Chile uh it’s  been hard to wake up earlier usually wake up   around 8:00 uh sometimes 9:00 which is fine but  uh we would love to get back to a good rhythm of  

Sleeping at 11:00 and waking up at 7:00 and I’m  sure it’ll come but yeah all right that’s it for [Applause] me our friend Tom is now with us right  now but it’s time to go try fishing

Mailbox nowadays when you travel you want to buy  a fairy ticket you want to buy a permit to go in   a national park you need to create accounts online  for for all those things and when you create that  

Your name address phone number social security  number date of birth all of those things end up   online sold to data brokers who then in turn sell  again your data the bad news there’s hundreds of   data Brokers around and you just cannot follow up  on your own the good news is that legally you’re  

Allowed to go see every single of those data  Brokers and request for the deletion of your   information and contr to Nick trying to catch fish  we don’t have to do this fight alone a few weeks   ago we’ve been contacted by the company incog  they explained that their mandate is to reach  

Out to data Brokers on behalf of you to request  the deletion of this information and then do the   we asked to test the product and now it’s been  a month so it’s time to do a review Nick and I  

Noticed a huge decrease in spam email we went from  10 to 12 spam email per day to two to three there   is no doubt that there’s been a change in one  month already what I like as well is that the  

Platform is super transparent let me show you how  many data broker has been contacted how many have   been completed how many data broker actually said  they will never sell your data again and how many   are still in progress but these numbers change  every day if like us you’re done being drowned  

In spams in your mailbox and ghost phone calls on  your phone you can always check out for incog we   have a promo code it’s nmx and you can apply it  using the link that I put in the description box  

With that you get an exclusive 60% off an annual  subscription now let’s hope Nick has as much luck   with the fishing than we have with the spam emails  I spare you the details but that morning we fished  

Nothing again now that we all set on the it side  let’s go back to the mechanics wanted to check   that everything was good so uh making sure that  the steering box fluids are good over there the   clutch fluids air filter engine oil and over  there the coolant the idea is that everything  

Should be perfect before we go to Antarctica so  that when we come back the car is ready to go I’m   looking at is the level of the LI of the fluid  and you can see those are the levelers uh and  

I’m really at the bottom so I’m going to have to  refill this we do have these awesome boxes from   our friend George from the from Belgium who built  these for us and who now sells them and in here I  

Put everything in plastic bags cuz all these  oils they leak and here yes that’s the right   one we have the come on steering fluid uh for  the all the cross so we’ll put a little bit of this every time we cross the border to Argentina  there’s something special we’re like ah we love  

Argentina so much it’s hard to pinpoint maybe  because it was so rainy in Chile but there’s   something about the architecture the nature that  we love yeah honestly I think Argentina is the   first country where we really can say yes we  would live here 100% and on top of it uh why  

We prefer this side of Argentina here in the Great  Lakes area area is because uh super green you’re   at 400 m altitude the temperature is perfect  um you’ve got mountains all around you Green   Fields a lot of uh Rivers fishing animals  there’s so much happening around here and  

On top of it the food is good the people  are nice nice I mean everything about it   honestly seems amazing and they have cute little  Chalet buildings so wooden style uh we love it a   big topic when talking about everyday life on  the road traveling is the reason of a journey  

Each traveler has its own some are slower some  are faster we almost never sleep twice on the   same spot which means we drive every day on  this day on our way back to we explored the   national park of Los ales a superb territory  of wild and untouched forests and lakes it was  

Created to protect the aler or fit Hoya trees  of the region a [Music] gem [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah [Music]  [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] today we are in Park National Los ales it is  an incredibly nice park and we’re going to do a

Hike Valley of the lion yeah something  like that with no rain woohoo it’s only   800 M right or 1 km okay one way it says an  hour and a half which I think in 30 minutes   we’ll be back already and indeed not long  after okay I guess we’ve arrived the end  

Of the hike nice it took us 15 minutes  wow so an hour and a half to go up and   down 15 to go up 10 to go down yeah  nice cool this is nice huh yeah it’s Beautiful oh where to next let’s go find a camp spot  let’s go find a sweet spot in the sun with   the lake view on the snow mountains  you’re driving that sounds like a plan nice River Crossing this is gorgeous wow and  the snow on the mountains makes it like even  

Better honestly National Park Los ales in  Argentina Great Lake Region incredible this   is the place where Matilda and I would love  to live one day maybe you know how like all   those rich people by huge chunk of Patagonia  maybe we need to be rich and do that nice  

National Park Los aler say recommend for  sure we exit the park to find a place to   camp and enjoyed the most beautiful end of  day lighting for some drone [Music] shots shet see you there your feathers on the

Ground your eyes are heavy with the weight  of the world was in a life you never could affer even if you never flown before you can take a chance and try once   more don’t let your worries weigh you  down down down you can still will take F although your Earth [Music]

[Music] B you know what’s crazy about Argentina  is that so many of the camp spots are free as   well with tons of services it’s insane so here  we have free bathroom uh free we don’t have free  

Showers but we have free bathrooms free water uh  great tables set up with barbecues and right next   to a river avat Tross looking so cute all the way  over there and if you can see matild is sitting on  

The driver’s seat because she’s trying to finish  up a YouTube video and it’s a lot of work mael   is putting in honestly she’s trying to get them  all out before Antarctica and so it’s working hard good morning good morning this morning we  show you all of the morning routine in the

Albatrus and as usual Nick is up before me all right how is it outside warmer than  inside no Nick knows that he only   needs to say that so I get out of bed  First Step go down Second Step fold the  

Bed I take the things out and then Nick  shakes them off so that we keep the car clean now we push the bed everything is folded  up like this and with that we have access   to the sink to our clothes so we have lots  of space to do everything we need for the

Morning and this is the bathroom compartment my   side completely full General side a  bit of everything and Nicholas side empty boom and that’s the view on the garden in  the morning pretty cool we pack up everything  

And take the road it is our last day before  reaching barilo and a good example that on   the road not everything goes as planned  everything was going well we completed   another two hours Drive North and arrived in  the cute town of elbon on a Market Day Under the

Sun so when we were traveling the Laguna’s route  with our friends our cutting board went missing   so now we got a nice one we asked to run for  the best and panad place and found this amazing   homemade familyowned Empanada place and there  we stopped filming we actually noticed a lot  

Of different weird stuff from yesterday but  we had not necessarily talked to each other   and then we pissed everything together when  we realized some cash was missing in the car   you remember the previous day we were visiting  the national park and at some point we stopped  

To picnic next to the lake and we left the car  300 M away when we came back we didn’t notice   any intrusion until the following day as we  were about to pay for our anadas and when  

We came back a lot of things were weird a lot  of things and we were like ah could have just   been us but no it’s not us and so now we know  we got our first theft in a year and a half in  

Argentina and this is the region where everybody  knows there’s a lot of Thieves and so there we   go so we lost $100 and that’s it and somehow  we were lucky because this $100 was the only  

C accessible in the car and they were only out  for cash because there was a camera lens there   was a GoPro that was about it there were credit  cards mhm but they didn’t take any of that they  

Really just took the cash how we know is the  thieves we’ve been looking around at all the   clues we have a clue right here of a line out  of dust there’s no dust there um and there’s  

Dust the whole way this Central mirror was on  the side this phone carrier was down and this   curtain was down it had dropped so and then this  pouch here was not at the right place and mati’s  

Jacket was half inside the spare parts box which  is just weird look and they didn’t break a window   or anything else but it’s defin so for us it’s  okay it’s more like a joke now we kind of like  

Hilarious but the upsetting side is not the  stealing is more the people can get into TR   very easily just by putting in a metal stick and  secondly we need to get the alarm back on so that  

We really scare them but a loud one if you need  an investigator Duo for any of your problem you   have yeah exactly boom damn crazy somehow this  is life right we are already so amazed that it is  

The first time that happened to us in 18 months  month of travel and this is how we usually find   campsites as soon as we see some off-road on our  off-road map system and it looks kind of next to a  

River or kind of bushy or whatnot we check it out  and most times it works out this is our spot for tonight and always Park in the direction of the  exit I mean facing the direction of the exit so  

If anything happens jump into the driver’s  seat and go a day away from B loce ready   for Antarctica extremely ready and excited  um we’ve been asked if we’re not tired of   traveling daily and doing what we’re doing on a  daily basis and honestly not at all we actually  

Are loving it we got so used to uh driving hiking  visiting meeting people doing all the routines of   a Expedition like ours of course it doesn’t  mean that we want to do this as a lifestyle  

And it will for now be an expedition where it’s  all seven continents and that’s the idea and to   try and finish it in three plus years but no we’re  loving it it’s so much fun and it became so much  

Routine and it became so natural to us that  we’ve also received comments of people saying   hey we would like to see more of your daily life  on the road not only the crazy Landscapes or the   crazy adventure but also a bit of the daytoday  you know like the cooking the opening the car  

Where do we shower what kind of Maintenance we  do on the car and we noticed with Nick that we   actually stopped doing that we were doing it at  the beginning because everything was new and now  

After a year and a half we kind of stopped so  we were happy to do this little episode of all   the little things that happened on the road  and we hope to kind of sprinkle a little bit  

More in the future episodes oh let’s go use  this gas cook to cook out pasta okay let’s go that is it for this week on the  road and all the little things that   happen when we travel next week we  get ready for Antarctica and there  

Is a lot to do thank you for watching  and see you next week as we head to usua and as part of all the little things we do  on the road there’s always something broken and   usually make repairs what’s happening now the  Seal of the fuel pump is uh broken W are you

Laughing was funny how a day before we  go to Antarctica it decides to break so   it’s because the the gods of black said that  you are not busy enough yeah that’s what it is

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A border crossing, a maintenance check, a robbery, Nick woke up again before me, a magical region, a broken cooker and all the little things of life on the road.

Last week we travelled through the beautiful and unique island of Chiloé. We suffered quite a bit of bad weather but it is over. This week we travel back to Argentina all the way to the town of Bariloche. We show you the everyday routine on the road and our first security challenge.

Next week we head to Ushuaia as we prepare our departure to Antarctica! So subscribe to the channel cause more adventures are coming up!

Until next week, take care!

Nick & Mathilde

Music from: Epidemic Sound

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