Archive for January, 2008
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Crating the bikes
Just posting a couple of pictures of the bikes at the warehouse ready to be crated… I hope the next time we see them we’re in Santiago, Chile.
The bikes will go by truck to Miami where they will clear customs and fly to Santiago. We plan to go to Santiago a few days before the [...]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Hurry up and wait
I’ve packed and re-packed and it looks like all the gear I need will fit in the bags and on me.I’ve tested the gear at night in the SoCal mountains with temperatures in the low 40’s and it held up fine.
We’ve had the bikes looked over and mounted the last hardware we need. Thanks to [...]
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Rough map of our route
This is a rough drawing of our planned loop. I’ve spent some time adding way-points and tracks to the GPS using the Mapsource software and the Smellybiker worldmap. The Smellybiker worldmap is very good in some places and worse than the maps that came with the GPS in other places. The map doesn’t support routing [...]
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
Welcome
I thought I’d set up this blog where we can keep in touch with people as we travel through South America.
It’s starting to dawn on me that we’re actually doing this and I don’t know if I’m ready (or if I’ll ever be) but I’ll find out when we twist the throttle on our way [...]
