Ecuador

http://rumbum.com/1066-where-anything-goes

Continue reading about New RumBum.com article up! (Carnival – Where Anything Goes!)

alisa on June 11th, 2010

http://rumbum.com/1047-mitad-del-mundo

Continue reading about New RumBum.com article up! (Mitad del Mundo)

alisa on March 31st, 2010

March 1, 2010 I’m truckin’ South on the Panamericana. I don’t think I have mentioned this yet, but it seems the universal symbol for something in the road ahead, is something else in the road. Most often it is a tree branch, or rather some twigs plucked from the roadside. Sometimes its a stone. I’ll [...]

Continue reading about Vilcabamba: Last stop in Ecuador

alisa on March 30th, 2010

February 28, 2009 I left Baños and headed towards Cuenca. I really thought I had seen everything. Until this. That poor little sheep was bleating it’s fool heart out. Oofa.  More construction. (Note I am traveling right past all the stopped cars…MAN am I gonna have to change my habits when I return to the [...]

Continue reading about Cuenca

alisa on March 29th, 2010

Definitely a let-down after the fanciful Chivas of Colombia.

Continue reading about Chivas of Ecuador (not so impressive)

alisa on March 27th, 2010

One afternoon in Baños I violated the A#1 rule of traveling in Central – South America with your bike: I left the bike for someone to work on while I went off and did something else. The bike needed it!!! Being the consummate multi-tasker, I had this brilliant idea to drop my bike off for [...]

Continue reading about Baños – Bike Wash

alisa on March 26th, 2010

February 24, 2010 One of the BEST parts of visiting with Ricardo was that he helped me come up with a PLAN for arriving at Tierra del Fuego, my destination fr this trip.  I’d been suffering considerable angst watching the weather get colder and colder down there, and was no longer sure if I could [...]

Continue reading about Ecuador & First glimpse of the Andes

alisa on March 24th, 2010

February 20-21, 2010 Ricardo invited me to his Birthday Party. His brother owns a popular discoteque in Quito, and that’s where the party was held. Oofa, it started at midnight! Ricardo runs Escuela de Motos. the only motorcycle School in Quito. There was a nice mix of all his friends and yes lots of motorcyclists. [...]

Continue reading about Otovalo Market

alisa on March 23rd, 2010

February 17, 2010 February 21, 2010 Wow. Beautiful Roads. Nothing like great scenery to help you forget the hollowness in your stomach after a proper and thorough emptying of it. This will would weird, but I feel “clean” (if weak from lack of sleep and unnatural stomach exercises). I even ate breakfast, although that was [...]

Continue reading about Mitad del Mundo x 3 (Middle of the World)