Paraguay

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 August 13th, 2010

http://rumbum.com/1172-robbed-in-paraguay

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http://rumbum.com/1138-the-kindness-of-strangers

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alisa on July 11th, 2010

May 6, 2010 I’d spent about 4 hours on the internet last night, then finished off a cheesy novel in my room reading until the wee hours. Next morning I went to breakfast a little on the late side, wrote some emails over coffee, then went out to my bike. It was something like out [...]

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alisa on July 10th, 2010

May 4, 2010 Well, it’s never a good time to get a flat tire, but at least I knew what to do when it happened. Check out this bolt I picked up about 40 miles after leaving Tebicuary… That bolt was 4″ long, and the entire thing was embedded in my tire. The rear tube [...]

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alisa on July 9th, 2010

May 3, 2010 It was a lovely, and long, and rather hot ride to Tebicuary. Robert Rolón  had invite me to stay with his family there, and tour the sugar can mill he worked at. I was really impressed my the countryside–gone was the dismal, trash-strewn roadside, but clean, kept, and with large ranches proudly [...]

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alisa on July 8th, 2010

May 1, 2010 Welcome to Paraguay! I had to ride another 50 k that morning after breaking camp, and arrived at this Paraguayan outpost…not sure what they really did since they didn’t stamp my passport or do any of the bike paperwork, but they asked me a lot of questions about where I came from, [...]

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alisa on June 11th, 2010

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 [...]

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alisa on May 20th, 2010

It’s been great working with Ken talking about my trip. When I think about it in terms of what would be interesting to a reporter, it puts my trip in an entirely new perspective for me. Thank Ken! http://www.examiner.com/x-378-Motorcycle-Examiner~y2010m5d18-MotoAdventureGal-Finale-Flying-to-Seattle-today

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