I really needed to find a place to stay in Cusco where I could have my motorcycle with me. Too many sleepless nights in the other place worrying about whether my bike survived another night 2 blocks away. So after scouring the entire town, I found a place where the owner (who hit and damaged my bike pannier.. and then fixed it no worries) was so kind to give me a...
The night after backtracking to Coroico, La Paz, and then north to Peru, we stayed the night on the border. This is usually avoided, never a good choice to stay in a border town. And it turned out to be the case again. They are dirty, loud, disorganized, etc etc. After searching and searching and searching on dirt roads in the dark for a place to stay, we finally...
Onward and upward from Estonia to Finland! From here I must take a ferry. I started to think that this motorcycle trip around the world includes so many ferry rides.. seems like I am cheating! But then I remembered that the earth’s surface is 75% water.. and I’m on a motorcycle, what do you expect Sherri Jo??? Just be glad I don’t have to put on...
I could have stayed on the barge for more than 4 days.. the time went by so quickly for me. I had an opportunity to catch up on my blogs, sort through photos.. I was working full time.. There was only an opportunity for short little breaks and some quick photos on board, but then I was back to work. I knew it best to take advantage of this time, because...
After leaving the deserted town, it’s just a small hop to the turn off that officially begins the “Road of Bones” Walter pulls off for a quick photo and all he says is “Now the hard part..” After the hundreds of kilometres on dirt roads, which is not particularly easy, as well as that gruelling test to the Gulag… I thought that was hard! You mean it gets...
So excited the best motorcycle riding gear is here! Very kindly sponsored by Rukka Products of Finland and Innotesco from Melbourne!! From the time I began putting this journey together, through heaps and heaps of research, I learned that Rukka makes the best riding gear. So I was off trying to track it down. Luckily I found Pasi and Mari-Anne of...