Archive for February, 2008
Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Last Day in Baja
Early morning start, on the road by 7 am. The sun was just coming over the horizon so we stopped at an outlook to admire the view and snap a few photos. I took this one right away.
The place reminded me of pictures of the Dalmation Coast along the Adriatic Sea. I’ve never been there but [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Baja California by andy
Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Catching Up, finishing Day 3
Ok, ok, if you’re just interested in the Reader’s Digest version you can settle for reading Roar’s entries. However, if you want more substance to your reading, if you want to experience the emotional ups and downs, the details of these incredible adventures, then read on with me….No, just kidding…It’s amazing how much one experiences while [...]
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Topas!
Thanks for the comments everyone, it’s nice to get words of encouragement, offers to send parts, etc.
We’re in Puerto Escondido right now, we rolled in late last night and checked into this really nice hotel… Le Petit or something. We didn’t have the strength to look for the hotel Ken and Gary recommended, we were almost dead from partying in Acapulco the night before and riding for about 9 hours.
The ride from Acapulco was really [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Mexico by Roar Flolo
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Update in real-time
Since Andy is working on his “War and Peace” we’re a little behind on the blogging. I’ll try to give a little update as to where we are in the world without giving away the plot.
We’re currently outside Mexico City at the Teotihuacán pyramids.
We’re going to check them out tomorrow before we head south-west to Acapulco where we think we’ll hang out for a day and then head south along the pacific coast to Guatemala.
It has been a great ride so far but we’ve spent a lot of time on the road so we’re tired. We spent a day and a half in Guadalajara which we needed to recharge, we even had time to play some caps.
The ride through Baja California was very beautiful and the roads there are perfect for a motorcycle trip, I’ve never ridden so many miles of twisties in one go… simply awesome!
The ride from Mazatlán to Guadalajara was beautiful as well but it was m,ostly boring because we stayed on the toll-roads which are, in a word, straight. There were some sweepers coming off some mountains.
Today we rode from Guadalajara to Mexico City half on toll-roads and the rest on back-roads. The [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Mexico by Roar Flolo
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Day 3, Part 2
The scenery and quality of the riding in Baja continued to amaze us. After leaving the accident site, the next hundred miles was a series of fun, twisty roads. Roar put it best about the riding this day when he described it as “Ten Ortegas back to back.” (Ortega as in Ortega highway, a popular [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Baja California by andy
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Day 3
Friday, February 8
We woke up early and were on the road by 7 am. I used earplugs for the first time while riding and liked it. The previous day’s ride was loud and the noise wore me down during the day. The lack of noise made the riding more surreal and I almost felt like [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in Baja California by andy
Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Day 2
I guess we were a lot more tired than I thought. Instead of leaving at the break of dawn, we got up lazily, walked around a dead Ensenada looking for breakfast or a place to change money with no luck, and struck out of town around 10 am.
We were surprised to find great riding just [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Baja California by andy
Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Day 1
Roar and I left for our adventure around 1 pm from Huntington Beach on Wednesday, February 6th. Our motorcycles are 2007 Kawasaki KLR 650’s, an enduro type bike that’s good on and off road (Mine’s red and his is black). Both of us have the same hard saddle bags, which are modified Pelican cases. We [...]
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
F! It!
All right!
No more waiting. We’ve been patient for weeks with DHL only to have a quote for shipping our bikes down to Santiago go from $2,500 to $9,000 one way. We’ve had too many freight forwarders tell us they’ll call us back… they never do. How hard can it be to get a couple of [...]
