Tag - South America

To Bolivia, mysterious Tiwanaku and Back again

KTM’s on the loose!  Petar and I have two different objectives.  He wants to continue his South American adventure by traveling through Bolivia.  I don’t want to go back to Bolivia for anything, however it was the shortest distance for me to travel to renew my Peruvian visa.  Petar worked long and hard to convince me to travel with him to Bolivia, I can...

Riding to Machu Picchu, Peru!

The three of us ride our motorcycles into Cusco with no intentions of hanging around other than getting some super desperately needed laundry clean.  I will return to Cusco later. We are so close to one of the main reasons for being in this part of the world. Machu Picchu !!!! We all have been trying to figure out for ages how to RIDE the motorcycles to Machu. Kevin...

Santiago Chile to Mendoza Argentina

From Santiago I decided to ride straight over to Mendoza Argentina.  I didn’t really want to go there, as it was the last place Kevin and I decided to meet on his way down here before he died.  Mendoza is wine country and we thought it would be fun to meet there to enjoy the wineries.  So going there alone did not appeal to me at all.  However it is the perfect...

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...