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and I’ll upload more as I have more time

The SV650 feels like a monster after spending so much time on the KLR650. WOW!

I’m going through the photos and will put them all online later this week I think.

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The road to Nasca and the Nasca lines… we we’re in a very small plane just a week after the crash… didn’t bother us after surviving 100′s of attempts on our lives by drivers in 9 nations

The road from Nasca to Cusco has some amazing riding in high altitude over a few mountains and along rivers running through valleys… and Llamas!

Oh… and it’s not always easy getting into the hotels… no valet either!

We’ve reached Cusco after some of the absolute best riding on this trip! The road from Nasca to Cusco is absolutely fantastic and I will post more photos later.

We’re doing all right and after riding almost 9000 miles we’re ready for 9000 more down to Ushuaia and back…

We saw the pacific again… can’t remember when we saw it last. Bright sun too

Right across the border to Peru the desert starts and goes right down to the ocean… not too hot because of the ocean breeze. We had to stop a couple of times to take some pictures and once because Andy’s bike keeps losing screws.

Nada más!

Riding through Ecuador today from Riobamba to Machala we went through everything… cold weather at up to 11,000 feet, thick fog, rain, smooth pavement, potholes, dirt, mud, gravel, construction, twisty roads through the mountains and flat straights through banana plantations and farmland, 35 C heat… ah the heat… always breathtaking landscapes like we were riding through some fairytale.

Riobamba… the carnival was in town and all night I could hear kids screaming from their rides

Breathtaking views

We met a Colombian guy on a 180cc bike on his way to Argentina where he will fly his bike to South Africa, ride up to Egypt and across to India. He’s writing for a Colombian motorcycle magazine and we’ll post his info later… I don’t have it handy now. Good luck!

The road isn’t always what you think it is… sometimes it’s not even finished…

Clouds dancing on the road down the mountain. We went through the thickest fog I’ve ever seen, we couldn’t see more than 5-10 meters ahead.

We finally made it to Machala where we dropped into the first hotel we could find… tomorrow we’re going to Peru!

Right on the PanAmerican highway there is a monument created by an organization dedicated to research about all thing releated to the middle of the earth.

Check out their web page: http://www.quitsato.org

We spoke a bit with the owner and he let us ride the bikes in to take some photos. Thanks!

We’re in Quito right now, walked around for a few hours and we have some cool pictures I think but I don’t have time to upload now.

Tomorrow we push south and I think we may be in Peru Friday night… unless we get lots more rain…

Take care everyone!

Bolivar square in Bogota… tons of pigeons because people feed them. If you have some feed in your hand the pigeons will land on your arm and eat out of it. The people behind me caught a pidgeon by just lowering their hand

On our way out of Bogota we got a nice surprise… radar checkpoint! I guess going 80 miles and hour in a 60 km/h zone just won’t do for the Policia Caraterra of Bogota. We got away with a warning though

We’ve done so many nice twisty roads going south from Bogota… wonderful mountains!

Parking at the hotel isn’t always easy when there’s no valet

Parking at our Popayan hotel in the courtyard right outside our room… Popayan has all old colonial style buildings and they’re all white

On our way south throuhg Colombia the 100′s of miles of twisties is broken up by some long straights through beautiful farmland

Going south in Colombia towards Equador. The awesomeness of the mountains and valleys just can’t be captured with these photos. Go there to check it out for yourself.

We’ve hit rain every day for the last three days which is a real change from the previous 2 months of no rain at all.

Close to the border with Equador we were following a Police car and I didn’t dare pass them on the double yellow line. As they pulled up to a roadblock I just went for it and heard the horn behind me. As I stopped I noticed a constant dribble of rocks coming down from the mountainside! I got the hell out of there while Andy was stuck on the other side. We waited for about 10 minutes before they let traffic through.

Welcome to Equador. Getting immigration and customs sorted out before heading into a small border town for the night. Tomorrow we go for Quito.

The stairs up to the top of Publito Paisas… some 260 of them and at 1500 meters I was huffing and puffing my way to the top

Chilling in Botero Park in Medellin, there are lots of fat sculptures of people, horses, dog and cats and other stuff

We got some good Empenadas in this little shop, supposedly the best Empanadas in the world

We were hanging out in the Poblado area in Medellin where there are lots of bars around a park, we got some nice rain a very slow tuesday evening…

I took a trip to the botanical garden in Medellin, a nice and relaxing change from the partying we did

Wehad some trouble finding our way out of Medellin and it got a bitfrustrating after turning around 3 times and going half an hour up some mountain… we finally made it though…

Colombia is beautiful to ride through… from high jungle-covered mountains to farmland and the temperature changes are huge. Here we stop to remove work clothing and open vents so we don’t die from the 30 degree (celcius) heat

Going across the mountains from Medellin to Bogota we saw lots and lots of military, some just patroling the road and some black-clad looking like they just came back from the jungle. We also saw this cool poster at a place we stopped to eat…

Bogota is next but I’ll save that for another time… this internet connection is a bit slow… This is the viewon our way to the Monserrate, it started out as a beautiful day but within the hour it was raining hard