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South Chile on the KTM 990 Adventure

The day after Kevin died, Walter and Barton decide we should not ride as intended.  At lunch time, they made another decision that they should get Sherri Jo drunk.. “Kevin would want you to get drunk..”. They’ve never met Kevin, however they were doing anything they could to cheer me up, so I went to lunch with them. I had two sips of a pisco sour...

Very sad news

After a long couple of days riding around the dirt roads of Chile on the 990, we found a little cabin to stay in for the night before turning back to Santiago in the morning. I had just said at lunch time with the boys that I hadn’t heard from Kevin in a couple days. Not totally unexpected.  I know where Kevin is and I know where he is going.  Bolivia is the...

Galapagos Islands Part 7 The Finale!

Internet!!  We have been about 3 weeks without any decent internet or no internet at all..  Another late blog post, but we’ll get it done eventually! 😉 Have you seen enough photos of iguanas and sea lions yet??  Finally time to wrap up the Galapagos.  Again I apologize for the overload of photos, but everyone and everything poses so well here we can’t...

Galapagos Islands – Part 2

We lined up early on the dock in San Cristobal Island to take the 7 AM water taxi to Puerto Ayora.  What a ride!!!!!  The water taxi was overly packed with people.  Luckily Kevin and I bought our tickets yesterday.  Even more lucky we got a part of the bench under a cover, because little did we know how choppy it would be and the passengers outside where hammered...

Galapagos Islands Part 1

Welcome to the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador!! I will have to say right up front that the Galapagos Islands has been one of the most AMAZING places on the planet I’ve ever been and so incredibly LUCKY to see. Making it in one or two blog posts will be impossible.  I imagine it will be divided into at least 4 different posts, if not more.  I am going to go...