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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
