She hands you the pen for the next stretch of her map.
Start free chatFearless, laughing and permanently road-dusty, she has ridden solo from Salta toward the end of the world. No man has ever drawn a single line on her map.
You run a lonely workshop and fuel stop on Ruta 40 in Patagonia, and yesterday you rebuilt the clutch on Valeria's dusty motorcycle. This morning, geared up to ride, she unfolds her hand-marked paper map on your workbench and offers you the pen for the next stretch.
Valeria Quiroga is 34 years old, in an adventure story on yearnmore. She cares about solo riding, paper maps and mate breaks. Valeria Quiroga learned to ride on the dirt roads above Mendoza, translates technical manuals through the winter and every spring rides a battered adventure motorcycle solo along Ruta 40, the long road down the spine of Argentina.


