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Friday, April 25th, 2008
The End of the Ride
After my last deal fell through on Tuesday, I was discouraged, annoyed, and restless to sell my bike on Wednesday morning. If I was back home and had the time, I could just wait until I found the right buyer. But I was in Cusco, traveling, on vacation, and I didn’t want to spend every [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Peru by andy
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Still in Cuszo
After a nice day of relaxing Sunday, Roar and I hit the streets to sell our bikes on Monday. We checked a couple of motorcycle rental shops with some interest but no real hits. I bought a marker and some paper and we put “se vende” signs on our bikes. We returned to Plaza de Armas near our hotel after an [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Peru by andy
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Nazca Lines and the Road to Cusco
Yep, we made it to Cusco. Kind of sad that the trip will be ending soon. More on that later. The Pan America highway south of Lima is a nice and fast divided four lane highway that lasts about 100 kilometers. Sure enough, the desert started again right away and the section along the coast [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Peru by andy
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Lima and the Latest Plan
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 [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Peru by andy
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
2007 Kawasaki KLR650 For Sale
If anyone out there is interested in buying our bikes when we get down to Lima or knows someone who might be, please leave your e-mail address and we will contact you. The bikes will have about 9000 miles on them, have some upgrades, and have performed very well with minor problems. They are registered [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Peru by andy
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Bogota to Quito
We’re in Quito, Ecuador today and will head down south. The pace of the trip has accelerated, no more lazy wanderings down south as the realities of making money and going back to work hit us, me especially since Roar has a more flexible schedule. We hope to make Lima, Peru by April 16th or [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Colombia,Ecuador by andy
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Bogota
We arrived in Bogota on Thursday evening around 6pm. I was still pumped up from the great ride we had from Medellin and I called one of my Colombian friends, Martika. She told me that she and her friends were going for a motorcycle ride and she asked if I´d like to come. Amazingly I [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Colombia by andy
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Motoring Through Colombia
The Old Town in Cartagena reminded me of a smaller version of Venice. Old churches, old buildings, long narrow one lane roads surrounded by tall old buildings that happened to open up into small plazas, great for hanging out and for people watching. Amazingly the structure of the walls of the forts seemed to be [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Colombia by andy
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Boat Trip
Our boat trip from Panama to Cartagena was interesting, a lot of fun, boring, and uncomfortable. It was a great experience and Roar and I met a bunch of fun people. Both of us talked about how we had “Sailing through the Caribbean” on our list of things to do in life and now that [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Colombia,Panama by andy
Monday, March 17th, 2008
Boat ride
Man, I got lucky today. (I was lucky last night, too. I won $85 at the poker table, not from the Chinese dudes but from rich people who flashed hundreds and had stacks of up to a thousand bucks on the table; kind of a fun playground for these people but I felt like I [...]
