Last bike travel day.

We pack for the last bike-travel day of the trip, Montevideo is about 150km away so it is also a short travel day that we try and stretch out by taking our own city tour down by the waterfront and through some of the residential areas. Then we added a couple of side trips to the coastal towns and even stop to see a couple of tourist attractions along the way. There is a set of fingers in the sand in del Este modelled after the more famous Hand in Sand along the Chilean coast.

Then in Punta Bellena there is a large house/castle constructed with no 90°angles. The house is now a museum and place for special events and based on the swarm of people we had to ride through to get to the parking lot it must be popular. We decided to skip the interior tour as there were just too many people; instead we kept putzing our way down the coast until we connected to the Rambla. 

This is a fantastic road that follows the coastline through the city of Montevideo, there are two lanes in each direction separated by a decorated boulevard and accented with a wide Malecon on the water side and condo towers on the land side. It felt like Malibu as people were jogging and rollerblading along the water, surfing, fishing, swimming and tanning all the way along.

We decided to make a quick stop at Willi Motos to touch base with Kevin about storing our bikes. The shop is vey cool with lots of memorabilia on the walls from Willi’s racing days. Willi is Kevin’s dad and we found out that Kevin does not even work at the shop, he is a pilot for a skydiving company in Del Este, he just takes care of the bike storage portion of the business. Willi has a nice collection of old bikes including a ‘56 Indian, a BMW /6, a Douglas, a Bultaco and about half a dozen motorized bicycles that looked ancient. We took our time and snooped through the shop, I also made arrangements to borrow some floor space to complete some maintenance on the bikes before we put them in storage. We also find out that we have to drop the bikes on Saturday as the shop is closed on Sunday and Monday which means we will be without transportation for two days, how do people travel without their own transportation?? I guess we will find out.

Willi's bike, and yes it is an 850cc not an 1150cc. Only about 200 of these ever made.