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. [...]
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, [...]
After leaving La Paz mid-morning I arrived at a hot-springs hotel that had been suggested to me by Phillip (a German driving a Land Cruiser around S.A.) as a way to avoid staying in Oruro (a “shithole” in his words). I didn’t spend the extra $25 to have a room with a private hotspring so [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I left Pasto and drove the short steep windy Pan-American highway drive to Rumichaca (the border crossing near Ipiales, Colombia and Tulcan, Ecuador) but first stopped at the pastiche church of Las Lajas. A 10 minute walk down the overly-tourist heavy path (it is the beginning of Semana Santa) and then some bad chorizo and [...]
We drove into Panama at night quite exhausted from ~500kms of driving from Uvita, Costa Rica and checked into a $55 hotel in a newer fancier neighbourhood. I was told by the skipper of the boat (Fritz of the boat Fritz-the-Cat) to go to a hostel to follow an 4×4 truck down the Pan-American highway [...]
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.