We are in the final stretch before the next Leg. I have submitted the final document for my Bolivian Visa and now I must just wait. I was not planning on traveling through Bolivia, there are several political protests happening there as they are having elections there in October and their previous President Juan Eva Morales is planning to make a come-back.… Read More
Category: Leg 21 (Page 1 of 3)
This weekend is the DJ Rally (Durban to Johannesburg) with the old pre 1937 Bikes, so the bikes has to be from 1936 or older. Nora (my 1936 Norton) is ready even though she has not left my Patio since she finished the rally last year, but she has started 4 times now, so I believe she is ready.
It is only Pie and I from our group that will be riding the DJ Rally this year, the others has decided to go early and go to the Argentinian Moto GP this weekend, we will all meet in Lima on Monday.… Read More
It was a long and hard slog to get here in Lima Peru. More so for Pie and I as we had the Prize Giving Breakfast for the DJ Rally on Sunday morning, and we had to be at the airport at 12h20 on Sunday. The DJ Rally was on Friday and Saturday, which means we had to drive to Durban on Thursday already, and since Thursday it has just been running and riding old bikes in the Rally, (1936 and older) very little sleep and long days in the saddle.… Read More
This morning we all had breakfast together at the hotel and then we went to meet Eduardo our fixer at the entrance to the hotel.
I sat there looking at the traffic rushing by, many many busses of different size, people on scooters, and skateboards and motorbikes riding on the pavement, pedestrians and cyclists weaving past each others on the pavement, bus conductors hanging out the doors of the busses blowing whistles and blowing their sirens, chaos.… Read More
This morning we took taxis to KTM and started attaching our panniers, packing our bikes, sorting out our Riding Gear and just preparing the bikes. Eduardo, our fixer (turns out his name is Ernesto and I just called him by the wrong name since I met him,) came to have a meeting with us and return our TIPS and other Paper-work) that will help us leave the country without having to pay penalties.… Read More
Last night we went for a walk around the little lake at the centre of the Oasis and found a restaurant and had dinner. There is lots of Back Packers and young kids that comes here. It feels similar to Cappadocia in Turkey, but this oasis has far less to offer and is much much smaller.
This morning some of us went and climbed the dune, some overslept and some tried to sort out their lives and re-pack their bikes, bags etc.… Read More
Last night we parked in the Hotel Reception, we were not the 1st Bikers to stay at this hotel as the Receptionist had little rubber mats that she handed out for each of us to put under our Side Stand so that we did not scratch the shiny tiles.
Then we went “Out On The Town” and found the little Town Square and a very brightly lit Eat House, I can’t call the places we eat Restaurants, they are places where the locals eat.… Read More
Our hotel was really bad, like the one we had in Bogota Colombia. We were on a busy intersection and the traffic continued throughout the night, but worse was the “Ladies of the night” that worked the corner under my window, they are a happy bunch as there were Giggles and Laughter and lots of Bantering and discussions happening under my window.… Read More
Lots of dancing before the train leaves
Today was a day of School Fees and Chaos. Pie and Tex took it on them to book our train tickets to the main Inca Attraction, 1,5 hours away by train. But either they did not ask all the right questions or the Train Ticket Salesperson did not give them any info, but here we are, stuck without tickets into the Site, even no bus tickets to the Site.… Read More
And then we got lucky, the luck was that without us knowing, going to the site on a Monday, out of season, at 5h30, is the best for avoiding the crowds. They have about 1,6 million visitors here per year, and at the hight of the season people sleep in the streets as there just is not enough hotel rooms and trains and busses.… Read More
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