All the women I meet want to know how much product and stuff I carry. They are aghast when I explain that the only product in my bag is chain lube and I have to apply it myself every night. My teeth are getting a bit worn looking at only 12500 km so it will […]

Having come back into the US legally, by riding our bikes through the border crossing at Ojinaga/Presidio, we felt as we rode east along the Rio Graqnde towards Big Bend National Park, that we just had to take the piss. So off with the gears – in these temperatures we don’t need much persuading – […]

We pulled into Batopilas pretty tired after a 6,000 ft decent to the bottom of one of Mexico’s Copper Canyons down a gravel, sand and mainly rock slide road. It reminded us somewhat of the “world’s Most Dangerous Road” in La Paz which, in a moment of madness we’d descended on bicycles. Not to detract […]

The arid environs and extreme climes of the North Mexican desert are tough for us softies from the temperate zone to endure. 46 degrees during the heat of the day and still 34 degrees at 10 pm at night is no norm for us. Setting the air con in the hotel room to 25 degrees […]

Again we are riding BMW bikes on this trip. Last year we had 650 Dakars for the boys and Joanne a 650GS on The Silk Road which proved to be the ideal bikes.This year the boys have chosen the bigger R1200GS as the bike for the American roads (easy choice for me I already owned […]

Ok so it wasn’t huge but it did bite my finger and it looked like it was going septic, so talk of amputation and gangrene was rather premature. I don’t think you would want to play with a mummy one Jo I think it was a foot long

We are all in shock from the devastation we saw during our tour of New Orleans with a local fireman. 8 months later to have so much damage and wreckage strewn about has to be put in perspective. 250,000 homes (all of Christchurch) are unliveable so 60% of the population has been relocated and many […]

“Down in Louisiana, where the alligators grow … “ – or so the lines from Poke Salad Annie go. We finally found a location to have the night out on a swamp, alligators ‘n all. The hut, on stilts to keep it above the water provides much needed protection from the feisty mosquitoes that take […]

We were following a local on a honda, guiding us along a back road beside the levees of the Mississippi, past sugar cane fields. There plumb in the middle of the road was a big turtle waiting to be saved. I stopped and before long we were all admiring the baggy grandmother who didn’t pull […]

Vicksburg ,where General Grant finally got the Rebels to surrender in 1865, was a parkland of history and memorials to the Civil War. The locals still feel the loss and there are often a few comments that let you know that the wounds are not healed. After the history we had a great steak at […]