Thursday, January 22 We slept in until 9:30 am, and by the time we rolled out of our room in hopes of having breakfast at the hostel, they could only serve us coffee and one glass of juice. We weren’t particularly impressed with our hostel and it was not available to us the next day, […]
Wednesday, January 21 We woke up early, had a quick grocery store breakfast of oatmeal cookies and yogurt and were on our way to Quito. We continued riding through the Andes, surrounded by mountains on both sides, though not as spectacular as in prior days, the scenery was still very pleasant and we stopped frequently […]
Tuesday, January 20 We woke up around 9 am, had breakfast at the hotel and came back to the room to watch Barak Obama’s inauguration ceremony. We have been waiting for this moment ever since we left Seattle, hoping we could be somewhere in a bar with a bunch of Americans getting drunk on beer […]
Monday, January 19 We slept well and woke up early. We ate a Mexico style convenient store breakfast of coffee, some yogurt, and a granola bar. Since it was still raining, we weren’t very enthusiastic about touring the Cafe Zone, as beautiful as it was. We were aiming for a long day of riding with […]
Sunday, January 18 Despite the party the night before, we managed to get up early and be ready to head out by 8:30. We felt bad about waking up Lew and Jennifer to say goodbye, as they’d been up quite late, but it would have been rude to miss a proper farewell. We thanked them […]
Saturday, January 17 We woke up around 10 am, feeling a bit beat up from last night’s fun at Andre’s. After breakfast we decided to visit the Salt Cathedral, a tourist destination that Lew recommended, about 30 km outside of Bogota. Jeffrey had a day off from school and was hanging around out at home […]
Friday, January 16 We slept in until 9, enjoying the plush bed. Our first order of business for the day was finding some maps of Colombia and possibly a guide book. Lew had drawn us a map showing how to get to two book stores, which would likely have maps. By the time we had […]
Thursday, January 15 We awoke feeling damp, as our hotel air conditioner wouldn’t even have qualified as a swamp cooler. It was cooler and less humid in the open air hallway. We sampled the breakfast buffet, packed our things and headed to the airport in a state of anticipation. We were finally clearing North & […]
Thursday, January 22nd Now that Panama is posted, we’re making good progress towards getting caught up on our writing. We had a great time in Colombia that I’m half way through writing. We have decided to interrupt our once in a lifetime journey to take another once in a lifetime opportunity. We’re taking advantage of […]
Saturday, January 10 Today we planned on going to the airport to find out about shipping the bikes to South America. In reading other riders’ reports we were hoping to ship and fly to Medellin, Colombia by using Copa Airlines. On the way to the airport we stopped by Panama Bikers, a custom Harley shop […]