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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I spent the weekend in Córdoba, Argentina at the Pochongo Hostel, run by two young brothers. On both Friday and Saturday night their friends showed up and drank Fernet and coke – Córdoba apparently consuming the majority of the world’s supply of the formerly Italian alcohol.
Salta is a pleasant medium-sized town in Argentina’s northwest where I stayed at the luxurious Sumkama hotel (well after camping and Bolivia it would seem so). I spent most of my time recovering after freezing in the Andes for many weeks. I didn’t really see much of the city as I spent most of my [...]
After the rain finally stopped in Ollague on the Chilean-Bolivian border I left on a sunny morning for the drive through the Atacama Desert (one of the driest places on earth) to San Pedro De Atacama, Chile. San Pedro is an oasis in the desert that is quite overly touristy. Before arriving in town I [...]
I awoke to the sound of rain falling on the fiberglass roof. Stiff from yesterday’s marathon ride from Uyuni I entered the hotel’s dining room already full of miners sitting in the half-darkness. Electricity apparently is only available from dusk until sometime in the early morning. Grumpily I accepted the offered breakfast of stale bread, [...]
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.