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Motorcycle trip

Day 31 - update

Eventful night! While we were taking the showers and getting ready to go back to La Plancha a light rain turned the roads into soap. In the first 10 meters of road Marc slid off to…

Motorcycle trip

Day 31 - La Plancha to Tikal and back to Gucumatz

Quick post today - writting from my iphone - photos and videos tomorrow night maybe :) Had a great breakfast at the hotel (La Lancha, Jobompiche) and waited a little for the rain t…

Motorcycle trip

Day 30 - Belize City to La Lancha (Jobompiche)

Mood swing day for me. The weather was not nice so we decided to skip the Cayes and head out of Belize into Guatemala. As I was getting my bike off the center stand I dropped it an…

Marc's bike wash - new photos

Ari, who we met in La Paz and rode with for a couple of days has posted some photos of Marc washing his bike :) You can see the rescue operation. From Motorcycle NY to SP …

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Day 29 - Chetumal to Belize City

So we crossed Mexico!! The border crossing wasn’t that bad after all - a few procedures though: 1. Pay a fee for having stayed longer than 7 days in Mexico 1a - Get cash at an ATM …

Motorcycle trip

Day 28 - Palenque to Chetumal

We saw the our first Mayan ruins today! Very impressive in terms of size and how intricate the cities were - several buildings with many divisions within. We ran into two other mot…

Phrase of the Day

“Trajen perico?” (Are you bringing any cocaine?) asked the Military officer ”Que es perico?” I innocently replied knowing what he meant… He then proceeded to walk around our bikes …

Motorcycle trip

Day 27 - Tuxla Gutierrez to Palenque

Wow - what a day!! The morning ride from Tuxla to San Cristobal de las Casas was amazingly beautiful - the temperature dropped quite a bit - felt very very nice. The road was excel…

Blog procedure

As Marc pointed out it is sometimes hard to follow which videos the blog postings are referring to so from now on I will be posting text and then when I get the video up I will add…