February 8, 2010 Because of all the rain, I was concerned about the ride to Tierradentro and beyond…I knew it was many miles of dirt roads, and it haad been raining for days…Cata offered to let me leave my luggage at their house…whahoo! I love a light bike! So I rearranged all my stuff, and [...]
February 6 & 7 So the next day Cata and I met for breakfast…jugo de mora, juevos revueltos con perico, arroz and arepas. $2 each. Popayan is a beautiful colonial town known for its whitewashed buildings. Let’s take a tour… My beautiful tourguide… So back in Colomial timmes, Popayan had two bridges…one for the wealthy [...]
February 5, 2009 Well, as nice as Casablanca hostel is, I got a rotten night’s sleep…I am a light sleeper, and in a dorm room of 10 people…oofa. I missed my 9:00 am appointment at Asturias Motos (if you need a mechanic in Cali, Colombia, definitely stop here: they service ALL brands!) due to a [...]
February 4, 2010 Back out the Valley road back to the Panamericana. Nice pass on the double yellow… PEAJE. The road was hot and flat and pretty straight. I rode through miles and miles of sugar cane fields. Then I see this sign…I understand “tren” (train) but canero? i am puzzled… Until I see this. [...]
February 3, 2010 I had a great time in Manizales with Adolfo. It was fun to walk around together, and nice to get to know him a bit (finally! we’d been so busy we did not have much time to talk until yesterday) Today he wanted to visit a friend in Periera…we decided to ride [...]
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February 2, 2010 Adolfo was leaving the next morning as well. We were both headed south, and frankly I was REALLY unsettled now. I was happy to be riding with him. We met up with a friend of his, Pedro, for breakfast, and let me tell you this is the sweetest guy in the world. [...]
January 31, 2010 We walked to the train station Which is the public transport system. For $1 we rode all the way to where the the MetroCable connect and took the cable cars up up and above the city. Medellin was promoting cleanliness, and let me tell you: It is the cleanest City I have [...]
January 29, 2010 I admit I had a rough start to traveling in Colombia. I thoroughly enjoyed Central America, and had had the thought just before crossing over “why not just spend the second half of my trip touring back up to the USA–save South America for another trip, and this way I”ll have my [...]
Everything said and done, I have to admit while I found the whole Panama City experience very stressful, I had it SUPER easy. What a lucky turn of fate that I got introduced to Adolfo, and that he happened to be shipping his bike the same week I’d been corresponding with a couple other moto-travelers, [...]
[UPDATE: MOM corrected me: my bike and I flew to Colombia...I corrected the heading. Thanks MOM!] January 28, 2010 Well today is an exciting day…my bike flies to Colombia! But first, many errands, which I HATE! 1. Go by Suzuki (ugh!) and pay them (ugh!) Turns out that Adolfo insisted to them when we got [...]
