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.
Last challenge of the ride has been making my worn out rear tyre last the distance. It’s been down to the steelbelt for a while now and with still 600kms to go the chances of a failure quite high. Problem is locating a tyre this size in Mexico is nigh on impossible so it’s been […]
Fantastic country, wonderful people – this is an economic powerhouse of the future. Forget Baja California aka “Sanitised Mexico” or “Americanised Mexico”, the real Mexico is the mainland and it has heaps of potential. That the country has become the latest victim of the drug trade for rich Americans is a tragedy but it will […]
We had a couple of nights in the town of Loreto but found it rather lacking in the style of Mexico that we have come to love. It was like part of America, and the locals seemed strangers in their own town. First world prices with 3rd world service would be how the boat hire […]
Well this is a bike trip so I suppose we should talk about these trusty beasts that take us. Gareth’s rear tyre is getting a bit bald, as is he, but we can fix the tyre. Hopefully it will be ok as we only have 1200 km to the end of this ride. Gareth also […]
We are on a mission to get to Mazatlan and the Baja ferry that will get us to the Baja California peninsular so it has been a fast day with quite a distance on the toll roads. These are not cheap at about $20 NZ for 100 km (for each bike) but the time saving […]
There are next to no tourists here – well not from beyond Mexico anyway. Perhaps the recent beheadings have had something to do with that. And the police and army rolling through the streets continually with machine guns at the ready loaded to the eyeballs, certainly aren’t what you normally associate with surf turf. But […]
Acapulco and the cliffs famed for the high diving spectacular have always been my ultimate dream. Not watching but doing……but…….I suspect I have left my cliff diving too late,, that is if I intend to survive it. We went for the sunset event and settled into the La Perla restaurant with a wonderful close view […]
We are really enjoying the Pacific coast of Mexico. From the hot, scrubby, arid interior of Mexico to Porto Escondido where we lay in the sea’s shallows as the huge rolling surf was too much. Surfers played in the clear blue briny while we had a day of rehydration and then continued back into the […]
Have hit it at last – Mexico’s long coastline of beaches. Seems werid to be watching the sun set over the Pacific but the temperatues of the water (23) and the air (33) are agreeable – especially since we read its raining for Easter back in NZ. In fat i could stop right here, park […]
It has been a surprise to see the number of children and adults out selling trinkets on the street and the number of elderly who sit palm out begging. This has been of epidemic proportions in some tourist places and is likely to discourage tourists, as you feel constantly harassed. The adults are a different […]
