It took us three days to get to Lima from the border with Ecuador. We stayed in Piura and Huanchaco before arriving in Lima in the evening on Monday. The riding was fast and easy on well maintained, straight for the most part, highways. We made excellent time but I did miss all the twisties from Colombia and the Ecuadorian Andes.

Most people probably think about Machu Pichu and the Andes when they think of Peru. Some might think jungle. But I never thought that Peru would have deserts. The coast of Peru is covered with desert, ranging from the type with some plant life and some irrigation to reclaim desert land to rocky moonscapes to sand dunes to totally lifeless desert. The desert started in the north just outside of Piura and only stopped for us just shy of Lima. I don’t know yet if the desert continues south but we will find out.

I love the desert and we will post some of the amazing pictures we took of the deserts in Peru.

We are currently in the Miraflores neighborhood of Lima. We took the bikes to the shop for an oil change and servicing and will pick them up later today. Miraflores is the really nice part of town and reminds me of northern Bogota as far as the quality of the area, the people, and the fun nightlife.

We have a couple of leads on selling the motorcycles and we have had a lot of interested people. In Piura, one Peruvian guy approached Roar and tried to buy the bike from underneath him. I don’t think we will have too much of a problem.

A couple of guys have told us that it will be easier for us to sell the bikes in Cusco (near Machu Pichu). To the both of us, that sounds like the perfect ending to our amazing trip and I think that I will be able to make it back to the States in time. So, tomorrow we head to the Nazca Lines and hopefully, we will arrive in Cusco a couple of days later (by April 19th or 20th). We’ll sell the bikes there if all goes well, see Machu Pichu, and I will return to the States. I can’t speak for Roar but he talks about doing some more traveling. Why not??