Crossing Border into Argentina (Bye Uruguay!)

EPISODE 107
Crossing border into Argentina, leaving Uruguay on my way to Buenos Aires.
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The Uruguayan ride was short and sweet and soon enough we're at the Argentinian border to continue our travels in Argentina. Spend mos of the later afternoon riding south down to Buenos Aires and arriving in the city in the evening.
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[@iPedroMota]

This one has SUBTITLES for the Spanish bits, turn on English subtitles on the bottom right of the player! Check out the playlist with the whole SOUTH AMERICA ride so far, it's very bueno kzbin.info/aero/PLLlVyDsZdOqOKTOEnOqUza78sQ4FJtfxn

[@octaviosolisbarrera3013]

Hey Pedro cuidado con los policías argentinos son los corruptos del planeta

[@euripedeslimafilho]

"Hey, Pedro! Hey, Pedro!" Have you realized you're a superstar yet? 😉

[@federicoanselmo5495]

Nice to get to see myself in one of your videos, such a coincidence! Let me know if you need help in buenos aires, I guess that when quarantine is up you'll ride south but if not, Ill be happy to show you the city if my 150cc can keep up with alp. Hope all this covid situation stops soon!

[@luis6633]

Which one was you ?

[@beahumanbeingfirst]

Pure documentary series... A Man and His Motorcycle should be the name of this movie series...Love from Republic of India 🇮🇳🙏

[@beebeer]

"Honey I'm home" - great!

[@I_Santos_]

Pedro, I think you mentioned in your livestream that you would go back to making shorter videos. You do what’s best for yourself and the channel. But for what it’s worth, I’m loving these longer videos lately. The thing is, you have such good quality content that they don’t drag on and feel too long or boring. This is just one opinion and you know what’s best. Either way, I’m Leary’s excited to watch your videos. Thanks for the solid entertainment and inspiration.

[@gpsboladao8874]

crazy how so many people recognize you and you have just 36k subscribers

[@pascalb2062]

To meet someone who follows you on YT! Qué casualidad!!! You are famous... and the "Honey, I'm home!" made my day. 😁😆

[@MrKapochardo]

Grande Pedrito!!! Ojalá puedas continuar tu viaje pronto! Stay safe man!

[@markmark2080]

Great to see another video uploaded, please keep posting regardless of the content to show us how things are over there, haven't even watched the video yet, best wishes my friend.

[@manuelgasparmartins]

Ah man what a journey. Your videos are so dope. Hope you find solace during these times.

[@KLRmurdercycle]

It's so true about the border people😆 Stay frosty🤙

[@nose2wind872]

Love to see a listing of the background music. Safe travels.

[@matthewskea6715]

Awesome video PEDRO. Neat to see you run into people in the city where you are that follow you on you tube. You're quickly becoming a you tube star!! Be safe looking forward to you being able to continue your adventure:)

[@detouraheadmoto803]

Hey Pedro. I've been watching your videos for a year. You're the best of them all. Your spirit is inspiring. So inspiring that I'm planning my own trip from Oregon to Patagonia on my Africa Twin. You asked for video suggestions while we're all locked down. I'd love you to make one on advice for a trip like mine. Best months for all the countries. Of course I want to miss intense heat, rainy season in Peru and Bolivia, frosty conditions down south. I wonder about hotels vs camping. Tire preference. Helmet style. Jerry cans or not. I'd love any advice, no details too small. Thanks, Pedro. You're truly the best. Thank you. Keep on. And there's a bed and nice meals wating for you in Corvallis, Oregon.

[@gonnabeok]

Constant progress! Awesome, keep it rolling lol

[@Os3eEu]

Amazing video as usual! Respect from Brazil.

[@jrhAus]

Hi Pedro. Nice choice of music. 🇦🇺

[@robpinter5431]

It is so good to see you on the road Pedro, here is Australia we are in lockdown so our only motorcycle entertainment is KZbin....

[@frankpinion4937]

Well done you pedro on fixing your rear brake. The gentleman was right at the border crossing. You are heading in the wrong direction for the season is changing. Especially now with the lock down which will delay your trip further. I guess by the sounds of it this is your second attempt at Argentina/ Pategonia, so I know what that's like when you feel you have unfinished business-you gotta do it. Great stuff Pedro-enjoyed your video & big thum's up. I'm guessing you are stuck in Buenos Aires. That is a real drag & we're all stuck too. Nothin going anywhere. You take care Pedro-

[@facucalzada]

Hi Pedro. Nice to know you. Gualeguaychú, my lovely city. Regards from here, hope you come back again!

[@nalu5059]

Mi Buenos Aires querido, cuando yo te vuelva a ver...no habra mas penas ni olvido🎼 . ( Carlos Gardel)... hope all is going well in Argentina Pedro!

[@WolfMates]

haha you entered Argentina TWICE in a day :D Awesome video Pedro! Stay Safe Bro! \m/

[@GruntHarley]

Safe Travels Mr. Mota.

[@yorkchris10]

In Montevideo and Buenos Aires I stayed in international hotels - might have been French chain. I don't hang around much in big cities other than to replenish consumables. The internet and cheap airfare would let me revisit . I think Honda AT are popular in Argentine.

[@tecojo3884]

Ey Pedro.que bien que te aya ido Re bien en mi país gracias por visitar Argentina genio!!

[@elpelaoloco9470]

Casi le roban 10 veces xd

[@pepeloco2008]

sssh finally u made it ! it seem like from March i ve seen the same title.

[@iPedroMota]

It started a couple of years ago with the border runs from Chile, now we are in to stay.

[@davidwisse1940]

Hi Pedro, ive been following you lately and watched a lot of youre very nice videos, amazing what you do. Are you going to travel South Africa too. If so come by

[@topixfromthetropix1674]

That micro-elevator reminded me of a hotel I stayed at in Taiwan.

[@AdelinT]

Stay safe Pedro 🍻

[@cohall46]

Always amazed by how anybody is able to complete the confusing border crossings. With much of South America closed due to the coronavirus it will be interesting to see how Pedro handles the lockdown.

[@MeLevaEmboraEstradaAfora]

Love uruguay and Argentina!!!

[@6199665]

stay safe bro!

[@ger13nunyah56]

My Man be Safe and Well

[@TheFeliciano1957]

I started following you now, I just watched the video of your fellow countrywoman Noraly, she is in Lima, Peru, waiting for a flight to Holland. And where are you now?

[@iPedroMota]

Day 19 of lockdown in Buenos Aires. In Argentina you're not allowed to move around freely.

[@ingsoc9066]

Hi Pedro. hope you're coping OK in lockdown land, must be pretty frustrating, although the rest might do you good. I take it you don't have to be repatriated; that would be a complete ball ache for no apparent benefit. In times like these you have to keep yourself occupied....make some goggles or a little crash helmet for the bunny :) Good Luck, Man!

[@ipadrom]

Hoi Pedro, Itchy Boots had to return to the Netherlands immediately because of the lock down in peru. Can you still drive freely. I'm curious. You also make beautiful reports and films. Get well soon. several thumbs up. Greetings Hans de Boer

[@iPedroMota]

Dank Hans! Day 19 of lockdown in Argentina, you're not allowed to move around freely. It's what it is and hopefully in seven days they'll let us out of our cages.

[@LucasSousaS205]

Las manos de papa Hahahah Maybe “la mano del deserto”was inspired by them.

[@dreamboxx]

altijd te kort thanks tot next upload

[@wnicklas]

Pedro, nice to see you get some videos out from this trip 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Q: What's the artist playing guitar when you enter Buenos Aires and at the end of this lovely video? Take care at your hotel room and hope you can get out soon. Looking forward to your next video. With love from Sweden.

[@RainorXXX]

Dá-lhe Pedro.

[@ruipinto4144]

Olá Pedro !! O Flávio dono daquela loja de motos de São Paulo! Ele está retido lá no Chile por conta das fronteiras fechadas ! Vi ele na reportagem de ontem!!

[@iPedroMota]

Eu sei pa, estive em contacto com ele e ainda pior a ma noticia que passo com o amigo dele. Podes encontrar link da reportagem?

[@ruipinto4144]

@@iPedroMota kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZofIi6iBmNNjfq8

[@ruipinto4144]

@@iPedroMota Reportagem do Flávio minuto 5:28

[@iPedroMota]

Obrigado!

[@MACKDUMBULSTER]

Up to you

[@RoadDogSteve]

quite the day!!!

[@tengairoad5007]

Hey Pedro para cuando apretas el espejo izquierdo jajaja llevas meses colocándolo. Sal2

[@peterm.3982]

Nice journey. I hope, we can travel soon... #covid19-sucks!

[@YourFirstFourHouses]

As a new rider, I love your videos so much, but can I please ask a question, how do you record your audio? I'm assuming you have a mic plugged into the go pro, but when you're not using your helmet, how or where are you recording the audio? Ps. Keep up the wonderful work, you're so inspiring 😃

[@metubeslave]

Pedro, please number your videos so we follow all of them in order, I watched until the #100 and then there were no more numbers!! pleeeeease!

[@marksanchez9809]

12.54 que paso jaja coffe time

[@gcm4312]

Victoria didn't breach protocol but she was a cutie, though :D

[@notsofunny8639]

All the best from india..👍✌✌

[@stefankoelsch788]

There is Starbucks now in BsAs. They couldn’t resist any longer.

[@santiaguin6]

they have over 100 locations just in the capital, spreading like Covid.

[@carronda46]

nice

[@abazdarhon]

If you will choose different bike for this trip like BMW you will need another few years to accomplish it as it will brake down each thousand miles...

[@eduardoirigoyengarcia3100]

I don't understand what happened. Why did you do the paperwork twice? On the Uruguayan side (Border Crossing of the "General San Martín" Bridge), the controls and procedures of the two countries (Customs, Gendermería, Migration and Toll) are carried out in one place. It is a unified system.

[@Jose59649]

Nice

[@j4ck_tr4vels50]

Pedro, greetings from Namibia! What music did you use in the background??

[@iPedroMota]

Greetings back, By the Riverside · Lindsey Abraham

[@Nicks4004]

Road guards in this Argentina's road are very corrupt, it's a shame. Luckly you didn't have much trouble.

[@uruguayo884]

Estaba la moto afuera al otro día? ?😆

[@russbentley7677]

Surprised you travel is not impeded by the virus lock-downs in other places. Adelante, brave soul..

[@wudangmountain3802]

Amigo. You are not completely stuck where you are by the lockdown in Argentina? I am... in Belén along ruta 40

[@AfricaTwin-Stuff]

I don’t see kangas boomerang? Have you lost or have I gone blind?

[@Peter-gt6jq]

Hi Pedro, how long have you been riding with this helmet? What are the pros and cons?

[@Peter-gt6jq]

@@franklin23st thanks. Must have missed that

[@ruigarcia3398]

Pedro Mota soa mesmo a Portugues. Certo?

[@EduardoRodrigues-qo7yp]

which drone are you using?

[@eliasbremm8149]

Go get yourself some winter layers, it's gonna be cold I bet.

[@MrKrishluv]

How much you paid while crossing the bridge? Why you paid twice ?

[@KLRmurdercycle]

Oh ya is your cousin still in Argentina? Quarantined as well?

[@templario1118]

Why do you need the brakes for?

[@juancarlosromero1320]

location buenos aires ?? pedro

[@RainorXXX]

Order a "bife de chourizo" in Buenos Aires.

[@MrJujitsu62]

I would think twice about venturing too far north. Peru is liken to a police state right now. I follow another biker ichiboots and she is having a really hard time and there is a lot of predudice of foreigners. At this point she is getting helped out of the country by the Netherland government. Her bike stays in Peru. Not a good predicament to be in. If I were you. I would find friendly faces and bunker down.

[@raspepe]

Cuando pasaste la frontera? Estaba abierta?

[@Tomasitoke]

Pasó hace como un mes ya, tienen delay los videos

[@michaelkerkering7047]

Was this during covid??? I desperately need to see my girlfriend in Argentina but flights have been unavailable for months. Is there a way for me to fly to Uruguay and then cross into Argentina like this?? Please someone help!!

[@iPedroMota]

This was almost three weeks before the lock down, flights been suspended until September but I don't see international flights starting even then. This government is taking it real slow. Few weeks ago the ferry between Argentina and Uruguay got going again, once a week on Friday but it's for Uruguayan and Argentine nationals only. Uruguay has been free and open for a while now but not sure about international flights. Maybe you two could meet there or maybe she could could get you some sort of "partner exemption" to get you into the country. Or maybe she could fly out of Uruguay to you. Anyway, South American waifus are the worst to have during these times, endless lockdown in most countries down here. Hang in there mate!

[@michaelkerkering7047]

Pedro Mota Thanks for the info! Unfortunately the latter exemption stuff is only for married people and we are only engaged. I know that international flights have been grounded till September and like you said I have little faith they will get going again anytime soon which only leaves me the option to cross on foot. Are the borders still completely closed? If I was in Uruguay or Brazil am I allowed to cross the border with a passport? At this point I also could give a shit about crossing the border in a “legal” way. If you have anymore details that maybe you could email me about ([e-mail]) that would be greatly appreciated..

[@hernanvargas4144]

@@iPedroMota porque tenes ese nombre si sos holandés? Pero a la vez tenes cara de holandés no de alguien del sur de Europa jaja

[@Kradmelder_Marc_Sellmann]

Didn't you have difficulties to cross the border? Isn't there some kind of teavel ban due to the pandemic? Other riders have obviously severe difficulties even travelling in Peru....poor itchy boots... Ride safe always!

[@iPedroMota]

For sure, day 18 of lock down here in Argentina, footage is a month old

[@Kradmelder_Marc_Sellmann]

Ah,okay. I hope, you're well and we all get over this shortly! Good luck to you!!

[@sharknado7157]

Después de ver éste divertido video de Pedro sólo me cabe una pregunta........ que carajo hacemos un montón de boludos metidos en nuestras casas???

[@sharknado7157]

me respondo solo....esto se grabo antes de la cuarentena no?

[@tengairoad5007]

@@sharknado7157 así es el vídeo es de hace 1 mes mínimo. Sal2

[@jamessanthan2447]

there is no problem with virus in argentina capital .Bcoz all country are lockdown so i ask . happy journey

[@midlifebiker4394]

Didn't realise there was a town named after a steak and kidney pie?

[@MotoSly]

gezondheid.

[@avantetrader7029]

legendas em portugues

[@federicosoto3060]

boring that road?,wait for RUTA 3!!,if you can cut to western side of Argentina after Bahia Blanca,is much much better!!

[@stefankoelsch788]

Shaking hands in times of covid.

[@ludovicofabris5819]

Policía de Entre Ríos, altos coimeros.

[@albertopena5644]

Hahaha. It's an integrated inmigration office. You are checked out and in in the same place. You didn't need to go back. But it's a confusion many people had, so I gess the problem is it is not correctly explained.

[@iPedroMota]

Yeah I found out there that I don't need to stamp in to Argentina since the Uruguayan one is already valid because of their union. Though I asked if that also applied to the Uruguayan temporary import of the motorcycle and they said no. Still had to do a new temporary import for Argentina so glad that I ended up going back otherwise I would have been riding around illegally.

[@albertopena5644]

@@iPedroMota Mmmm.... I think you also missunderstood that. The integrated inmigration/customs means that the officials of the two countries operate in the same location. I'm sure that your passport might have been stamped out from Uruguay and in for Argentina in that location (well, maybe stamping out is just done electronically in their registers now). And same thing for the motorcycle admition into Argentina. Since you came back, they probably did that twice. I guess it was a problem of communication. They didn't tell you that the whole process was done the first time, and they didn't completely understood what you were doing there the second time, so they simply repeated the process. I've seen many videos of people stopping at the trucks post in Argentina, looking for inmigration, and some even going back like you. Uruguayans and Argentineans know all that, but other tourists, don't necessarily. The authorities should clariffy the process to everybody.

[@iPedroMota]

Was a bit unclear what you exactly meant but I think I get it now. I went back because the process wasn't complete yet since I only dealt with Uruguayan customs. Still had to visit Argentinian customs and do motorcycle paperwork.

[@iPedroMota]

​@@albertopena5644 I get it for the passport, you're right (no stamp, automatic). I went back for the motorcycle paperwork and specifically asked if the same applied to the temporary import of the motorcycle and they said no. So I had to hand in the temporary import document from Uruguay and they made a new one for Argentina. This did not happen the first time (I didn't go to that office then) so this suggests that the process wasn't automatically completed yet. Otherwise they would have said "no that's also already done you're good to go" just like they did with the passport. Maybe they did something wrong but I doubt it since customs tend to not like doing work unless they have to. You got to remember that my Dutch plates aren't part of the Argentine/Uruguayan customs union, not even Mercosur, my motorcycle is the 0.01% anomaly at the border so the process is probably different. My mistake was not going to the the Argentine office the first time expecting it to be on the other side as is the case usually.

[@albertopena5644]

@@iPedroMota I believe it was their error. I passed that fontier many times and the argentinean customs officials were always after the inmigration office, and before the booth where you had to hand the paper that's says you are done. Even with my Uruguayan plates, the customs guy asks you if you are carrying any prohibited goods and sometimes he may also check the vehicle. Anyway, you probably won't pass that border again... So don't worry.

[@Gus-cg9yp]

Hi Pedro, welcome to Arg. You'll find amazing places there and more if you go to Patagonia and lovely kind people, more outside the big cities. But NEVER trust a POLICEMAN . AN argentinean living in UK but lived 33 years there hahha, enjoy it , Gus

[@polinese7938]

Gus todos los policias no son mala gente ,al igual que todos los argentinos no somos boludos como vos

[@Gus-cg9yp]

@@polinese7938 Parece que te toque el corazoncito de Poli... o sea que vos sos boludo a parte de Poli. lamentablemente es la realidad que no va a cambiar

[@polinese7938]

@@Gus-cg9yp no soy policía, soy argentino y no pelotudo como vos

[@johnnytolengo742]

Worst mistake you made ; getting into peronia , i guess you are still locked down over there

[@hernanvargas4144]

El resto de los paises es peor por algunas partes de chile y uruguay mas o menos pasables

[@comrade916]

This gentlemen tries so hard to speak like an American.. Frankly, he does a good job of it.. Before he knows it, he'll be speaking dutch like Mr. Paul Verhoeven. This guy moved to America and forgot how to speak dutch within five years.. Verhoeven has this exaggerated american accent when speaking his mother tongue..

[@pelipequi1493]

Where is your mask?

[@rapsongs50]

Speaking of wallet: How's doing taxes while traveling and working at other places?

[@Seemannsfrau69]

I've been watching your videos for a while now, and I mostly like them, but I gotta say, your sexism in this video kind put me off. "The bros understand, the girls don't". Really? That 'girl' seemed fairly young, maybe it's her first job, or maybe she's new in that job and doesn't want to get in trouble with her boss? Maybe she's been burnt before. Etc. You complain about women not seeing the context of your situation, but do you sometimes stop and think about the context for other people?

[@alejandrorauch]

Macho vos sos portugués, te llamas pedro mota y viajas como holandés y hablas inglés. Pregunto: porque no decís que sos portugués que venís de Holanda con nacionalidad holandesa y de paso hablas flamenco o portugués en los videos tuyos? flamenco porque es el idioma holandés es ese y NO inglés y portugués porque es tu país de nacimiento no? Te pregunto porque sino quedas como que la vas de anglosajón que habla inglés y NO sos anglosajón ni tu idioma tanto de tu pais de adopción como de tu origen es inglés Podrías aclarar?