Jinji Sadan

Hello all my friends.
I got to tell you that from the last mail that you had from me I cycled more then 3000km on the really interesting landscapes of Chile and Argentina. It is hard (a little….) for me to give you in this mail all my toughs on the way and the amazing people that I crossed. It is amazing world after all. I reach Patagonia one of the places that I dreamed as a little child hearing and reading all the stories about open fields and more wild horses then wild people. It is a hard place to live all the year and I was imagining the life in this place in winter time when it’s far below zero degree.
I cycled on one of the most beautiful roads in South America ,the Carrartera Austral in south Chile and for over a 1500km every day was amazing day with glaciers and snow caped mountain in my eyes.  The cold weather is affecting on the people and they are harder to reach they are taking there time to open for me but believe me its only matter of time until I will get them smile and talk like we know each other from childhood.
With the strong wind is not easy everyday and some time I need to get off Amuna and start to walk with her because the wind can make me loose control and kiss some rocks… and it happen… the kiss wasn’t like kissing my Helena but it wasn’t so bad and my teeth are stile in one place.
I feel strange now to right on a places that I have been 2 months ago when I know that in the next to months I will be in Africa and you can tell it from the way that I am writing to you this note , I started to think and plan my way in Africa but will go back now to America… South America and to Patagonia.
In my past roads I saw maybe one cyclist one in a month but in the Carraartera Austral it feel like I am on the Tour de France.
Many people from all over the world coming to cycle on this road and it’s nice to see the “beginners” cyclist that going to Alaska the other way around.
Like all the tourist places in south America there are many Israelis in the cities and I had crazy meetings with them.
Some Israelis recognize me from there renting car and took photo with me and the bike. It wasn’t in south Israel it was in south Patagonia… I saw on the road a couple from France that cycling with there 2 years old child.
It was interesting to see the life on the road with a child they taking all what he need on there bags and cycle in south America.
Cycling with toys in my bags it something that I can’t think that I can do but when I see them I know that everything is possible in life so why not.
One day I was invited by framers to a dinner and after it we set near the fire place and talked about life. “You are 27 years old why you don’t have children”? The women asked me. I am always thinking that some time people don’t need to have a wife before the children… “I have time and in Israel is OK to have children when you think that you are read….Here in Patagonia people have children when they are 18 years old” she told me. “OK, but for me its not the way of life now”. That woman had her first child when she was 12 years old…She is now 35 and she got a 5 years old grandchild….. Crazy and normal life.
One morning I saw a little child on a big horse in the middle of no where.
Really wild place to be alone , I stooped him and asked where he is going and he told me to school… and its 20 km away! 9 years old child going to school with his horse in the middle of no where. For the western eyes it will be hard to think that it’s normal but the craziness is something normal her in Patagonia.
Crazy people with crazy landscapes
Ha, and if we speaking about crazy things I would like to finish with a funny story that I had. I met on the road an American cycling group that came to cycle in this amazing places, they had a doctor and a car with them so they don’t need to work hard “only” to cycle. One of them was a 55 guy that cycled in Africa and Asia and he asked me about my journey and the route that I am taking. I told him that I started in Alaska 18 months ago and I am going to Africa after I will finish America. “And then” he asked. “After Africa I want to go to Europe and then Asia and then Australia.
“And when you are going to a psychiatric (mental help) doctor????”
I will send some photos to give you an idea how it’s to wake up to a dream.
love you all
Roei “jinji” Sadan
Patagonia
south Chile
south America
the world