Chapter 24 – Mexico
“Mmmm…that was a bit too easy” I thought as I rolled out of the Mexican border in Tecate. No US exit post, no Mexican immigration, no Customs. No paperwork was bound to make things difficult for me...
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“What do you mean you want the receipt for my tourist visa!!!???…How could I have entered without paying for it!?” The ‘migracion’ officer was adamant I pay again and gave me a form to take to the bank...
View ArticleChapter 26 –“Rain drops keep falling on my head…”
Trip distance and Time trip correct at Ecuador/Peru border 16/06/11 More photos in the Ecuador gallery I was a little nervous as I rolled down the hill to the border, filtering past a long queue of...
View ArticleChapter 27 –“Here comes the sun…do do do do…”
Trip distance and Time trip correct at Peru/Bolivia border 11/08/11 More photos in the Peru 2011 gallery The motorcyclists amongst you may also like the ‘Trails of South America…a photo journal’...
View ArticleChapter 28 – The Altiplano
Trip distance and Time trip correct at La Paz, Bolivia on 28/11/11 More photos in the galleries Bolivia 2011 - Chile 2011 – Argentina 2011 The motorcyclists amongst you may also like the ‘Trails of...
View ArticleChapter 29 – Welcome to the Jungle…
…”we got fun ‘n’ games”. The bugs ate me alive, I broke my speedometer, tent, laptop, sleeping pad and got stuck in Brazilian customs. Oh…and then there were the snakes…Fun ‘n’ games? Oh yeah… I wasn’t...
View ArticleChapter 31 – Silk Roads to Siberia
England – Uzbekistan The long cold winter stretched all the way to Istanbul. The snowline throughout the Alps was still as low as 600m ski resorts normally looking sad and forlorn by mid-April still...
View ArticleChapter 32 –‘The Roof of the World’
Tajikistan Along with the change of country came a change of weather and as I followed the straight, smooth ribbon of tarmac along the wide valley so there was a storm brewing to the north. On the...
View ArticleChapter 33 – Altai Adventure
It was a slow, snowy, slushy, muddy descent from the pass and I was conscious of the pain in my back after picking my bike up off the ground at the border. Unsure if I had the strength to pick it up...
View ArticleChapter 34 – The Western BAM
[NB: Distance and time trips not updated this chapter] With so much going on everyday my diary notes are a little ‘thin’ for the period I spent in Siberia and so I’ve used photo’s and written a daily...
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