Motorcycle Touring In Bolivia

Alisa on June 30th, 2011

Day Five on the Women’s Empowerment Motorcycle Tour: We had a very cool (40 degree!) ride out of Stanley.  Yet it was a spectacular ride, and a slight navigational error (was it truly?) on my part brought my small group through some of the twistiest, funnest roads over the Mores Summit in the Boise National [...]

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Alisa on June 28th, 2011

Third day on the Women’s Empowerment Motorcycle Tour. Karen Spotted a neat road on our way over to Montana, so we took a little detour and rode up the Spiral Highway.     Then  we rode one of my favorite roads, Route 12, Lolo Pass.         It was a long LONG day, but [...]

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Well the next day I got even luckier:  another friend of Eric’s had passed by the hotel just as I was coming back from Copacabana all exhilarate form my ride, and we got to talking. I told him I was heading to the “Road of Death”…Luis took the day off work and decided to ride [...]

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Alisa on May 15th, 2010

So 10 days of being sick in La Paz gave my hand a proper amount of time to heal, and so I looked forward with relish my first day back in the saddle. I felt like I had “wasted” time, an so now was not going to do a grand tour of Bolivia as planned. [...]

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