Don’t get me wrong – it’s a great country. We are loving Leon especially – not too large a city and lots of cool folk here doing neat things. Like fellow New Zealander Conor fromGisborne who right now is running this not-for-profit tourist operation, the profits from which are spent on the disadvantaged kids of […]
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South of the Border
Motorcycle adventure in South America/h2>
Riders: Gareth Morgan, Jo Morgan, Dave Wallace
Motorcycles: MW F800GS
Distance: 11,421km
Countries: Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico, USA
Trip description: A run from Panama to California will cover no fewer than 9 countries of South America. The motorbikes were strategically left behind from our last adventure so we can get straight into it.
Blogs from the trip
Gareth’s bike has stopped, his moto is roto.
Gareth’s trusty steed wouldn’t restart yesterday morning after a fuel stop. We had only got to the outskirts of Leon. All easy fix-it options were covered off. The kill switches were checked but as the starter motor still turned – not them. Bike immobilising alarm was checked and seemed normal. Most of my day was […]
Heat and history
As we were frying on the road, yesterday, I glance across yet another huge Nicaraguan lake and see two more perfect volcanic cones. Wisps of smoke rising from the tops of these ones too. We have seen lots of volcanos and there are at least 11 in this small country of about 8 million folk. […]
A Philosophical Perspective in the middle of Lake Nicaragua
Half way up Nicaragua now and feeling the effects of the heat. Today it was 38 degrees on the road and with high humidity – the rains aren’t too far away now. It’s debilitating and we savour every opportunity to climb some hills and reduce the temperature. Best to ride early but given its 30 […]
Utu
Revenge is sweet and so when I found a south American snake, black on the top and yellow on the under-side I thought of my dear friend, David Wallace. Not the Dave Wallace that is on the trip with us but another one, and both dairy farmers. Anyway a snake bit my mate David Wallace […]
Mt Arenal, a very alive volcano
Thank God for GPS technology as the many unmarked corners in the Costa Rica countryside would have us well and truly lost, but with the mountain lodge in our destination we wound on through 35 degree valleys and up the cooler lush hillsides. The last 15 kms were bone jarring pot-holes and rocky ruts, then […]
Into Costa Rica
We were on the road shortly after first light and found a local food place where we got coffee and boiled eggs ,,, we wondered just how bad the bridge could be. We had read blogs about this bridge with one biker in hospital and another falling twice on it. Another biker told Gareth we […]
Wonderful jungle roads and high wires
After a dip in the Pacific Ocean and watching the sun go down clutching a cold beer we wondered how so few food and accommodation places got it right. This one with location, location,,,,,,, is semi derelict, the woman is surly and the food marginal. Open sewers and rubbish don’t seem to discourage the locals […]
Uncle Henry
Panama City has a lot of statues – but we can’t find one of former president Manuel Noriega nor, more interestingly one of my distant ancestor (oh yeah?) Henry Morgan, also of Glamorgan in South Wales, the same county my dad was born and grew up in (Peterson Super Ely versus Henry’s stomping ground of […]
Two of three bikes have arrived
Finally, our bikes have arrived in Panama from Ecuador. The normal tortuous bureacracy as every department the government has needs to affix their stamp before we can ride them out of the airport gates. And – lest we forget to mention – another $1,000 US to set them free! So that’s $1,200 US for each […]
