Category: Leg 19 (Page 2 of 2)

I have always known that when you need to make an omelette you will have to break some eggs, so I knew that traveling around the world would have some sections or days that has too be done but is not part of the fun-days or “Lekker dinge” as we say in Afrikaans, my mother language. I have been dreading today the most of everything, today was breaking eggs for the omelette, I knew all along it would come and I knew it would be painful.… Read More

Correction: In yesterday’s Blog I said Bogota was at 1600m, but I was wrong, it is at 2600m high and lots of people have a mild case of Altitude Sickness when arriving in Bogota.

This morning we tried our best to extend our stay but the Holiday Inn Express was fully booked for tonight and Sunday night, and I am going to miss their beds, and hot water, and breakfast, and fast Wi-Fi, instead, we just checked into our $25 rooms, two per room, making it $12-50 per person, so I probably can’t expect to sleep as well as I did last night.… Read More

I must be physic !!!!!!!! Like a Clairvoyant, I knew last night that $12-50 per person sounds too good to be true. But our Half-Swiss-Half-Portugese-Half-Spanish-Speaking member was assigned with inspecting last nights rooms, and he was happy with the cleanliness and size of the rooms, so we trusted him, but he had a serious loss of concentration, very un-like him, and missed completely the position of the rooms, all street facing on the 1st floor, plus no air-con, so you could not close the windows, and the noise from the street was deafening throughout the night.… Read More

Today’s Blog is going to be a short one, mainly because we just sat in the waiting area at the Customs Office from 9h00 to 18h00. And at lunch time we sat in the Canteen, and then we sat in the waiting area again. All the bikers we had met were there and two new Americans, a great couple which chatted away with us for hours.… Read More

We had coffee at 6h00 and left at 6h30, not expecting the day it turned out to be we were relaxed and after the 1st Stop-&Go Pie disappeared off into the Sunrise. I was leading with Milsy right behind me when the road forked. We spoke on the intercom and both our GPS’s said right, getting off the “45” and onto the “20”.… Read More

Correction: I said fuel was R40 per litre, I was wrong, its R40 per Gallon, so closer to R10 per litre in Colombia.

Yesterday’s Route on the 10 ran South West and joined the Trans American Highway just below Cali (famous for where the Cali Cartel operated from.)

Last night we went out for dinner, it was a bit of a dud as it was late and most places were getting ready to close the kitchen.… Read More

Last night Peens treated us with a Braai, he rode to town and bought a selection of meat, potatoes, onions, foil and butter, everything one need for a healthy dinner, (we did have to order a large salad to get plates and cutlery.)

Our waiter was a bit of a disappointment, but she did smile nicely:

This morning we had a late start, breakfast only at 8h00, (although the early risers were scratching around for coffee at 5h00, their poor wives.)… Read More

Re sending this post as some people did not receive it by email??????

My last blog of each Leg is usually a very deep philosophical expression of the feelings I felt on the trip. I have lambasted Putin, Trump, Biden, shared thoughts on the youth of today surfing the coat-tails of others and entitlement, I have expressed my feelings about losing our rainbow to 3,5% of the worlds population.… Read More