The return home after months of motorcycle travel through South America was momentarily joyous but within days it became dour. The often experienced blues of a newly returned traveler hit hard and lingered for months. A loss of self, reduced sensory stimulus, and a redialing of perspective knocked me down from my world-traveling-I-can-conquer-all confidence. It […]
Nazca Reluctantly leaving the desert oasis of Huacachina, Jade and I rode several hours through the bone dry landscape to our next destination of Nazca. The sun was setting and the tourist-driven town afforded us ample options of hostels, hotels, and restaurants. The next day we shot off early through the mountains towards Cusco but […]
The border crossing from Ecuador to Peru could have been easy but my inability to find an illogically placed unmarked building for my motorcycle exportation stamp made the whole process more frustrating and significantly slower than it should have been. My mood wasn’t helped by the fact that I had just said goodbye to Martin […]
There’s no way to fully encapsulate Carnival through mere words and pictures. The sights, sounds, smells, and general excitement whirl your senses into a stupor from day 1 and it does not slow down until the festivities end. My initial plan was to spend Carnival in Brazil. The idea was to go through Venezuela and […]
Three weeks in and I still have not been captured by guerrillas or beheaded by cartels. Success so far I’d say. Somehow prying myself away from the intoxicating city of Medellín, I made the long, neck and back-aching, 13-hour ride north leaving the mountainous interior for the dryer, albeit more humid and flatter coast. The […]
My first mistake on my first big day of riding, other than waking up too late, was leaving the specifics of packing the bike until the last moment. Sure I had general ideas about where I might put things but it’s not until you start piecing the puzzle together do you realize that it’s not […]
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