Colombia
Adventure Motorcycle Dual Sport News? (http://www.adventuremotorcycle.com/) If so, this is a must-subscribe magazine, and not just because I have three articles in the Sept/Oct 2011 issue. In this issue I write about Mystical, Magical Colombia. Gosh I loved traveling in that Colombia. I can’t wait to go back. (Lap # 2 of South America?!?) I’m [...]
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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
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February 16, 2010 Today’s agenda s a full one: Ipiaples and the beautiful Sanctuary of Las Lajas, a basilica church nestled in a crack between the mountains of southern Colombia. Then cross the border into Ecuador and hopefully make it to Quito all in one day. I have breakfast at the hotel and hit the [...]
February 15, 2010 I got a little later start than I would like, but it was worth waiting for the fog to clear off. The Panamericana was great. qq Except for this poor guy… PEAJE! Up, down, across mountain ranges… Brunch. I was starving! Thsi was a really good roadside restaurant mean with fried bananas, [...]
February 14, 2010 [Sunday] I bring some goodies over to the house and have breakfast with the girls. Andrea wants to take me for a tour of the things I have not seen yet in Popayan…and she’s not too hard to talk into going on my bike with me… Isn’t she cute? We ride up [...]
February 13, 2010 Today Catalina and her sister Andrea pick me up at 6:30 am to go up to the Thermals at Coconuco. We want to get there before it gets too hot and also before the crowds set ii. We have breakfast together on the way there, and then get there about 8 am. [...]
February 12, 2010 (continued) Okay, well fed, my ride back to Popayan starts in earnest. It’s beautiful scenery, along 150 +/- km of dirt roads, and I am loving it. Some days I don’t make very good time because I stop and take so many pictures. I love these days where I just *travel*, not [...]
February 12, 2010 Packing up early that morning, a local finds a baby owl in the street. He works at the Archaealogical park and says he will take it there to release…I tell in that the owl has no wing feathers yet, it cannot fly, and it needs its mother still to learn to hunt. [...]
February 11, 2010 Or tourism anywhere for that matter… I suppose there’s all kinds of tourism to be had, if one looks for it. I did NOT go looking for anything extraordinary, but while in San Agustin the extraordinary came up and offered itself to me…in the form of a) a tour of a cocaine [...]