Category: South America (Page 2 of 9)

Last night we went for a walk on the Plaza, where lovers were sitting, holding hands, mother playing with their children and people just enjoying the outdoors in the middle of their city. Vendors were selling food from trays and it just made me long for something similar back home, I can’t think of any safe space to go and walk the the public park or square and not have your gold teeth removed after handing over your cell phone.… Read More

As you know, we have two newly-joined members, or Charlies Angles if you prefer:

Last night we went for a walk at the town square where it was clean and friendly, the buildings built by the Spanish were maintained and there was a similar vibe as in previous towns, except they were preparing for some festival and were erecting many stalls for the vendors, at some places the vendors had already moved in and was serving traditional food and drinks.… Read More

We had a bad meal last night in a “restaurant” without a toilet and it served no alcohol. We bought some Peruvian Red Wine (tasted much better after the 1st glass) and warm beer from the little shop next-door. Mike, the fellow traveler we bumped into on the road joined us for dinner. He has done 10 000km more than us, so he is on 115 000km and we are around 105 000km, he is French and he travels on his own, that take guts, he is a nice guy, we only had one night together in Ecuador and he left early the morning to go and see a Doctor as his BMW GS fell on him and he got badly burnt on his calve.… Read More

It is important to Carry lots of Cash, as “cash is king” when something goes wrong, I split my money into three hiding places, on this trip I had some hidden under the bike seat, some was in my toiletry bag and the 3rd I thought I had hidden inside my file in between all my  papers and Passports, but when Tex organised a washing machine (sadly he used Stay Soft instead of soap, and sadly a power-outage messed with the cycle) he asked me if I had a load of washing and I gave him my smelly stinking laundry bag with all my socks and underpants, and, my 3rd stash of cash, which was washed when he dumped my entire bag into the washing-machine.… Read More

Yes, it could not just be all fun and games every day,  something needed to happen to keep old Murphy happy. Our little group are sleeping 60km apart tonight, but that distance Proff Google tells us will take 2 hours and 2 minutes. Today the navigation was a nightmare, and we had no cell phone signal for the entire day, only when we rode into San Luis at 14h00 did we get signal.… Read More

This stunning photo was taken by Tex yesterday, note at the pass snaking up the mountain in the back-ground of this photo:

We left at 7h00 this morning, the plan was to ride 91km (3 hours) to an Archaeology Site where we would meet the others, they were 30km away from the site and would leave later than our 7h00 to meet us there.… Read More

As you know from yesterdays Blog, we had difficulty finding a town with accommodation, and by the time we got to Cajacay we had already tried other towns without success, so we took what we could and booked the rooms. For dinner we thought we would walk to the Town Square and find at least one little eatery, but sadly this town was the proverbial “One horse Town” of which the horse had died.… Read More

Pie said he will stop riding when our days of riding reaches one year, 365 days. So he asked me if I was going to count today as another day and add it to the total days we have been riding, sadly, I must even though we just did 3,7km today, as my own rules for counting the days are based on if I rode on the bike, and we did, I dont count all the days traveling or waiting to travel to and back from where we start and finish our trips, so today was day 347, which means Pie will park his bike and take a taxi to the closest airport and fly home in 18 days, or 19 if we work on a Leap Year.… Read More

We had all our clothes and Riding Gear Washed and returned to the bikes on Friday to store the clothes on the bikes. I made sure mine were dry, (but the bikes are stored inside the KTM Workshop, so much better storage than in Ecuador, which was under a plastic sheet roof.)

Millsy’s “Baby” was already in the wash-bay and they had already started working on Tex’s bike.… Read More