Bolivia
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/1158-the-bolivian-road-of-death
Continue reading about New RumBum.com article Up! (The Bolivian Road of Death)
http://rumbum.com/1138-the-kindness-of-strangers
Continue reading about New RumBum.com article Up! (The Kindness of Strangers)
May 4th, 2010 Oofa. I wake up and I am a wreck. The only satisfaction I have is that there’s a car in front of the hotel entrance–I ask them if it’s a guest and they say yes, and they go and wake Mr. Noisy at 6:30 AM. He comes down shirtless, which I easily [...]
In order not to repeat myself here, I’ll re-post the link to my Chaco experience I wrote about on RumBum.com http://rumbum.com/953-a-night-in-the-chaco#continue_post This tree is called the “palo borracho”, the drunken stick. The engorged trunk is actually a lifesaver for the tree: when the rains come, the tree stores water reserves in the trunk. I’d smile [...]
May 3, 2010 Goodbye Rick. Gosh, I’d had so much fun with him…he was great company–easy to be with, an awesome rider, and an instigator like me and we kept pushing each others’ envelopes. We’d had a great time together, but since we were headed in opposite directions (him North, me South) it was time [...]
May 2, 2010 Next day at breakfast, back at joy Ride cafe, we noticed that they also offered tours…MOTORCYCLE tours! Cool! It was Rick’s great idea to hire a tourguide and ride the area without the stress of navigating ourselves. We hooked up with Sergio, and told him what we wanted: more bike maintenance in [...]
May 1, 2010 It was a cool morning, destination: Sucre. We had about 60 miles of dirt before hitting pavement, and Rick left me in the dust, literally, as he opened it up on the ripio. (He was a good sport, however, and about every 15 minutes I’d find him casually waiting for me). He [...]
ON WITH THE STORY! Friday, April 30th It was probably a dumb thing to do, but after we finished the bike maintenance, then got some (late!) lunch for ourselves, we decided to leave Uyuni even though it was almost 4:00 in the afternoon. Both Rick and I felt “finished” with Uyuni–we’d had a great time, [...]
May 1, 2010 When I rolled into town yesterday, I met Rick, a UK fellow doing Round the World (RTW) on his BMW F650 Dakar. (You can see his blog at http://www.dickysworldadventure.blogspot.com/ ) Rick had been on the lookout for a fellow he was supposed to meet up with in Uyuni riding a DR650, so [...]