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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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 9, 2010 I woke up in the night to the sound of POURING rain. Torrential. Stupendous. It was still pouring when I got up…Oofa. I did not want to stay another night in this dump, cheap as it was… I walked to breakfast clinging to the sides of the buildings trying not to get [...]
February 6 & 7 So the next day Cata and I met for breakfast…jugo de mora, juevos revueltos con perico, arroz and arepas. $2 each. Popayan is a beautiful colonial town known for its whitewashed buildings. Let’s take a tour… My beautiful tourguide… So back in Colomial timmes, Popayan had two bridges…one for the wealthy [...]
February 4, 2010 Back out the Valley road back to the Panamericana. Nice pass on the double yellow… PEAJE. The road was hot and flat and pretty straight. I rode through miles and miles of sugar cane fields. Then I see this sign…I understand “tren” (train) but canero? i am puzzled… Until I see this. [...]
February 3, 2010 I had a great time in Manizales with Adolfo. It was fun to walk around together, and nice to get to know him a bit (finally! we’d been so busy we did not have much time to talk until yesterday) Today he wanted to visit a friend in Periera…we decided to ride [...]
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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, [...]
