Mexico & Central America

alisa on October 18th, 2011

Well sweet! Just had a GREAT interview with Entertainment Radio Network. I’m so honored that they contacted me. The segment is on Adventure Motorcycling–and guess who they interviewed–ME! I love taking about the sport from the female adventurer’s perspective. http://www.ernlive.com/ is Entertainment Radio Network’s web site–not sure when the interview goes live but I’ll post again [...]

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alisa on December 27th, 2010

In November I mentioned I was going to volunteer for the Baja 1000 desert race. RumBum.com just published my article and you can check it out at http://rumbum.com/1565-volunteering-at-the-baja-1000. Here are some misc. Baja pics: <> Next I’ll be publishing an interview with Jonah Street, who is en-route to South America to race in the Dakar [...]

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alisa on October 31st, 2010

This week Chilly White of Enduro360.com interviewed me about my Mexico-Central-South America Ride. Click here for the full interview and see the pictures below. [Oops, he still has not published the article, yet I do not want to remove from my posts and have a non-working link} Many of them are new and never published.

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alisa on June 3rd, 2010

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alisa on February 14th, 2010

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, [...]

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alisa on February 10th, 2010

[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 [...]

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alisa on February 9th, 2010

January 27, 2010 I follow Adolfo out of the Miraflores Locks (good-bye Panama Canal!) As we are leaving he tells me that before he retired he built one of the huge smokestacks for the powerful generators there at the Canal. He rides that heavy Goldwing like a moped! i can hardly keep up! First he [...]

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alisa on February 8th, 2010

January 27, 2010 For as long as I can remember I have been fascinated with the Panama Canal. It is one of the modern world’s true feats of engineering, and I just could not bear to leave Panama without seeing it. So I pushed back my appointment at the Suzuki dealer and decided to squeeze [...]

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alisa on February 7th, 2010

January 26, 2010 [A huge THANK YOU to my friend Igor who was a great travel companion into the Darien AND shared his photos with me.] Finally, some pics of ME! (one of the hazards of traveling alone: precious few pics of yourself!) Photo Credits: Igor Oops…caught me! Igor has a travel blog of his [...]

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