Panama
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.
http://rumbum.com/1138-the-kindness-of-strangers
Continue reading about New RumBum.com article Up! (The Kindness of Strangers)
http://rumbum.com/994-into-the-darien
Continue reading about New RumBum.com article up! (Into the Darien)
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading about My five minute visit to the Panama Canal
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 [...]
January 25, 2010 Last night Igor Skyped me to see where I was at (we’d met in Honduras New Year’s Day and rode together with Mario). Turned out he was already in Panama City, and was wondering if I was close by. He wanted to ride into the Darien and thought it might be better [...]
January 23, 2010 I got an early start, but not too early since I’d been advised the border offices did not open until 8:30 am. The Costa Rican side was a breeze…here is my bike at the Panamanian side… It was a little confusing…like usual. When I finally finished my paperwork and went back to [...]