Feature Image is of Ollie replacing my motorcycle tires with new biting K60 Scouts. So excited for a new life with hard core treads to eat the mud and gravel Riding Day: Calma, Chile — San Pedro de Atacama (aka Chilean Atacama Desert) — 220 km — 12 hour day Arriving and then staying overnight […]
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Feature image is of a Manfred eating me on the Bolivian Salt Flats — Now lake because its rainy season. Riding Day: Sucre, Bolivia — Colchani (Uyuni), Bolivia (370 km) — 8.5 hours. Yesterday was a long day riding from the Capital of Bolivia, Sucre which really makes no sense since it is not much
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Feature image is of a rainy sign which says “Welcome — Death Road — Keep Your Left”. Oh, on the picture to the left here are a bunch of wet people on motorcycles — including me. Riding Day: La Paz, Bolivia — Coroico, Bolivia (200 km) — 7.5 hours. Definition: Sleep Deprivation… sleep dep·ri·va·tion — noun — the
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Feature image of an Inca medicine man — or a man representing himself as a direct descendant of an Inca medicine man. Again, I call bullshit — but it’s fun. I took the picture and of course the guys hand comes out for cash. I gave him a few pennies and he was pissed. Oh
Feature image is of Oliver, our guide who came out of a mountain restaurant with a Goats Head. I asked him to place the head over his head and it turned out perfect. Riding Day Nazca — Chalhuanca (370 km) — 8 hours. Today was dreamy awesome in one sense and another, sucked. If I
Feature image is taken of a bench supporting concrete wall with Nazca figure of Vulture carved out, in Nazca, Peru. Riding Day: Chincha Alta — Nazca (240 km) — 7 hours. Not sure if I’m going to yak or not? Just got off a small Cessna plane with Will, Bernt, Manfred and Oliver — first
Feature image is of my bike high up today at over 16,000 feet up in the Peruvian Andes — called the Pastoruri Glacial Mountain Pass. Incredible vistas of the Andes where other glaciers are over 19,000 feet. Video: https://youtu.be/zKs_CdZUEws Video-2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jYkGEqO408&feature=youtu.be Riding Day: Huaraz — Barranca (255 km Plus a Bonus 60 km of Hell) — 8
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Feature Image is of a truck carrying sugar cane — barreling down a dusty gravel road through a small Peruvian town we stopped and visited today. Riding Day: Chiclayo — Trujillo (242 km) — 8 hours. I’ll keep this short and sweet and just bomb you with some images of a small town we visited
Feature Image is of a confused sign off the PanAmericana Highway just east of Chiclayo, Peru. I think maybe about 100 cars per day pass this sign but the owners seem to have tried various advertising campaigns over its useful life. Riding Day: Piura — Chiclayo (218 km) — 6 hours. You know when
Feature image of me in the Peru Customs Office typing on computer my motorcycle information. The Peru official is next to me. He typed with one finger so I took over and I had a good laugh while he was trying to tell me what to do. Cant imagine doing this in the USA. Riding
Feature image today is of the off-road path carved into the mountains today. We rode for a good 50km off road — either rutted or with lose gravel on sand and as high at 8,000 feet and some good altitude declines as you can see in the image. Riding Day: Cuenca — Loja (216 km)
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Feature image is of our luxury 1-star hotel in Banos. Very rough around the edges and of course — no decent internet. But, its a bed. The ironic part is that they gave themselves a 4-star rating — on what rating system, I’m not sure? Riding Day: Banos De Agua — Cuenca (380 km) —
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Feature image is of our back parking lot at our hotel in Banos, Ecuador. Not fancy, but does the job. I also love the backdrop buildings and mountain covered in clouds. Its funny to think of this adventure as hard work — its supposed to be total enjoyment. That said, yesterday was real difficult and
Todays feature image is of hearty $3 lunch of chicken soup, beans, cheese and corn in Quilotoa Lake, Ecuador. We woke up early to get a fresh start on a quiet Sunday in Quito. Our goal is to hit Quilotoa Lake, somewhere in the middle of nowhere, Ecuador. Although traffic was super quiet, it took
What did I do on my day off? Go to a bull fighting match? Go to watch a cock fight? Walk the broken down town? Go hunting statues? People watch and take pictures? — well I did bit of that. No, it was a very mellow day — but rest assured, I had some fun.
Feature image is taken from top of 8 story monument overlooking the absolute latitudinal of the earth. Will and I are bugging Marc and Oliver everyday for a field trip — like in public school. Instead of full out riding, maybe stopping to really get into the life of the locals. Were generally stopping in
Featured image speaks for itself. Today we crossed the border between Columbia into Ecuador. The Saul hotel is not recommended. If your ever in Pasto, Columbia maybe look elsewhere for a raty hotel although admittedly the choices are limited. No heat in the room last night although I heard that others got hot water bottles
Featured image is of a mountain range — but not just any — if you look in the middle, or better still, click on the image to enlarge it and you can see the road we travel in altitude. We climbed up to over 9,000 feet often with no safety guard rails over mountainside —
The featured image today is taken from my hotel room balcony in Cali, Columbia. I can offer limited pictures due to no WiFi or Internet for the past 2 days. I am not using my phone to tether the single bar. Hope to add photo’s soon. So today started off with jubilance, excitement and more.
Todays feature image is of a truck which got toasted off the roadway. Hard to believe that it got stuck into green field and nobody got hurt — but then again, these are crazy drivers so its not a shock. I’m not really into bad news on this trip, but today the bad news bookend
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While riding, I often think about what to talk about in this blog which is really my journal because generally there is lots of time to think. Today was just too much to digest and come up with the vast topics that flow while I am in a specific scene or incident. However, today one
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We now have seven riders on this tour. That’s Jeff on top. I’ll get to that in a second. I had a pretty restless night sleep last night — Wonder why? Today was the first day of riding and journey begins for the next 70 days and 17,000 km’s. I also had on my mind
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Today I got up early. Had some light breakfast with Marc, Bert, Bearnd and Manfred. Jeff sat for a while and was in decent spirits considering his motorcycle blew smoke a few days back and its sitting now in Medallion at the BMW shop. He agreed to go in the support van behind us until
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Man, I’m beat. What a day. Working backwards, we all finally got back to our hotel in Cartagena with our bunch of freshly released BMW motorcycles. Its now dark and 8pm. The day started in the lobby to head out to the harbor at 8am. Simple math; thats a 12 hour day of of stress,
Today was a long day — basically watching third-world office workers complete very basic tasks in third-world time. Does that make sense? Ok, let me try again. Today, I spent most of the day trying to get my motorcycle out of Columbian customs, there, better. But its the minutia in the middle that is pretty
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