After spending a few days in Cusco recovering from the previous three days riding rough roads endlessly through the Andes, we took a bus to the Piscacucho train station – where the trains now leave for Machu Picchu. The late afternoon bus ride took us down into the Sacred Valley which has gentle rolling green [...]
The phone alarm clocks incessant chirping ate it’s way into my consciousness at 5am like an unwelcome visitor, signaling that that we had 1/2 hour to load up the bike and escape Andahuaylas before the road-work crews closed our only hope of making it to Cusco before the night fell. So we grudgingly hurried in [...]
After the previous long dusty day riding, Kai and I woke up in Ayacucho undecided whether we should spend a day relaxing (and searching for Alpaca sweaters) in town, or make for the next town. After examining the time Kai has left and the distances we are trying to cover (Machu Pichu, Cusco, Lake Titicaca, [...]
Kai’s private taxi organized by Hostal Kokopelli in Lima for $15 met him at the airport but then told him to wait for another person arriving on a different flight – after 30-40 minutes the taxi driver gave up and drove Kai to meet me at the hostal. We sat and drank some beer and [...]
After the marathon 14-hour ride the day before I had a leisurely breakfast in Huanchaco (a rich Trujillo beach house suburb with a not so spectacular beachfront) and set off once again along the barren PanAmericana south towards Lima. Not really sure how far I would make it I drove an unpleasant 6 hours or [...]
On Chessi and I’s first full day in Chachapoyas Chessi wanted to go to the Kuelap Ruins, a fortress with three keyhole-type entrances (one apparently resembling a giant vulva) situated on a ridge about 3000m high overlooking the Utcubamba valley. The drive follows the river on a decent dirt road at about 400m for 30kms [...]
The Pirelli MT-21 front tire that I’ve had on the KLR650 since Houston had warn down so that it was no longer a ‘knobby’ but more a road tire. So with the best intentions I set out in Cuenca today to find replacement tires (the Pirelli MT90 put on in Medellin doesn’t do very well [...]
I woke up in Sucúa after a night of endless downpour to more rain. My plan to get to Cuenca wasn’t very appealing and indeed I was wet before even leaving town. Driving out of Sucúa the curvy jungle road passed through a small town where I stopped for breakfast and was told that one [...]
I woke up on Sunday at Hostal Belmont in Quito and rushed to checkout as I was late – the crippled (permanently) and grumpy (frequently) owner was not pleased that Mark and I had returned at about 5am earlier that morning. Martina very nicely handled the Easter Sunday breakfast we had planned as I wasn’t [...]
Chesi (Vancouver, Canada – Honda Bushlander 200) and I left Quito Monday Tuesday morning and drove up over the dry Andes mountains surrounding Quito and headed north towards the Equator and on to Mindo. We crossed the Equator twice on the drive which soon entered a cloud forest. Perhaps unsurprisingly the clouds soon gave way [...]
Things Said
September 15, 2011 (7:14) How to air-freight ship a motorcycle from Buenos Aires I'm working detals for a US to Buenos Aires ride on a KLR. Considering the cost of getting the b...
August 23, 2011 (3:43) Near the rich and amongst the expats of San Miguel De Allende, Mexico Heck of a job there, it abseolutly helps me out.
August 20, 2011 (12:14) Near the rich and amongst the expats of San Miguel De Allende, Mexico @ZayaBee Definitely the American an individual.