Saturday, February 7 We stirred in the middle of the night to the sound of heavy rain, but by the time we woke up, it had stopped raining, which pleased us greatly. We had planned on doing another excursion on the Cordillera Blanca to the pass of Punta Olympica, which has great vistas and dirt […]
Sunday, February 8 We ate a breakfast of yogurt and fruit from the convenience store and were happy to leave Playa Hermosa behind. The ride continued down the desert coast, which was the home to all of Lima’s suburban beaches. It was mile after mile of playas and unusually for us, we didn’t feel any […]
Tuesday, February 10 After a cold night under several wool blankets, we were up and ready to get out of this hotel. On the other side of the wall directly behind our heads was the shared bathroom for the hotel, so once other people were awake we had little desire to remain in our room. […]
This is an out of sequence entry for a status update. After a week off the grid in Bolivia, we passed through the corner of Chile and are now in northern Argentina. Bolivia was beautiful but very challenging riding. We have a backlog of written posts as far back at Machu Picchu which hopefully we […]
Sunday, February 15 It was an early morning for me, getting up early to catch up on some emails before we headed out. We’d been in this hotel for a few days now, and the unpacking was nearly total. It took some time to reconfigure the scattered debris into our standard packed bags. We cleaned […]
Tuesday, February 17 We were happy to get moving again, and were looking forward to Bolivia with a mixture of nerves and anticipation. We knew that in Bolivia we would be on the most remote roads of the trip. The road south from Puno was an easy ride along the west coast of Lake Titicaca. […]
Friday, February 18 We had one of our better breakfasts in a long time to start the day. Since entering Peru the typical breakfast everywhere was coffee, juice, and some rolls with butter and jelly. Today we had a vegetable omelette, which judging from the flavor, was cooked in pork lard. A strange but tasty […]
Saturday, February 20 We reluctantly pulled ourselves out of bed and went to search for a big breakfast. As we were heading out, we ran into Martin, Lauren and Pedro. We were all looking to ride the Salar de Uyuni today, so we agreed to meet up after breakfast and head out together. We managed […]
2 falls Inna 3 falls Matt 2 license plates fell off (both) 1 subframe bolt (red) 1 turn signal fell off, destroyed (blue) 1 turn signal fell off but fixable (red) 2 cracked fairing pieces (blue) 2 lowbeam headlight bulbs (both) 1 fuse (red) 1 KLR toolkit fell off, recovered (blue) 3 license plate reflectors […]
Sunday, February 22 There were not enough hours in the night to allow us to rest from the previous days in Bolivia. Checkout was at 10 am and we slept as late as possible and the hour time change made it really 9 am body clock time. We struggled out of bed and went to […]