Trip on a KLR650 Motorcycle From Canada to Mexico, Central and South America. GPX Tracks and POIs | Motorcycle Trip Log: United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Darien Gap, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Boliva, Chile, and Argentina

And so?

And so what – did I expect? I had to stop driving around at some point. I think that the dénouement of the trip (down) felt quite like that – falling action after the climax, a not necessarily satisfying follow-up to new places found and unexpected events. A trip across the interminable (terminal?) landscape of [...]

Riding in Yosemite Park and on to Reno, Nevada

I went to meet Mario at his new business in Hollister, CA in the morning. He couldn’t come for the ride unfortunately and I didn’t feel like I could spend another day before heading north. So Mike and I set off for Yosemite across the dry central Californian valley. After an oil change in the [...]

La La Los Angeles and the Pacific Coast Highway

From past experience I had expected Los Angeles to be a number of things; sunny, endless conurbation, full of strip malls, traffic congestion, Mexicans tending lawns, and lots of vaguely plastic-like people. It is all of those things. I have however enjoyed it, largely thanks to my friend Jay who has graciously let me stay [...]

KLR650 gains wings, tango, and Buenos Aires

I managed to get lost in Buenos Aires (two train stations named Florida on two different lines and no one at the stations having system maps didn’t help) for two hours this morning on the day on which I was to bring the bike to the airport for packing for air shipment to Los Angeles. [...]

How to air-freight ship a motorcycle from Buenos Aires

To ship the bike dealing directly with the brokers (saves $100 USD). I was shipping to Los Angeles, USA and so the broker (Navicon) used Continental, they also have other arrangements for shipping to other countries. Contact the following person at the agents (Navicon) in order to be given a time/date to show up at [...]

Santiago Chile and arriving in Buenos Aires

After leaving Valparaiso in the rain and driving the short express route I arrived in Santiago easily and checked into the ChileInn. The two ladies who run the place insisted my bike would make it through the 3 sets of doors into the courtyard – they were right, even though I bumped the television and [...]

Conservative Mendoza to Dilapidated, Intellectual Valparaiso

I don’t think I saw anything at all really of Mendoza. I drove into it at night and left it in the morning. I didn’t find the people as friendly as other places in Argentina but I’m sure it was worth at least two nights stay. However, now that I’ve booked a flight (Buenos Aires [...]