Hi all!

I left in late July from Alaska and have been riding South since. The plan is to do a loop around South America and then who knows.. maybe South East Asia, maybe NZ/AUZ, or maybe back home.

I'm 28 and have no wife/kids, so no time limit or responsibilities to take care of. For the past few years, I served on active duty military and was last stationed in Alaska along with one deployment to Afghanistan. A few months ago my service commitment was up, so I sold nearly everything I had, packed up the bike and took off.

In the last few months, I've made the trek to Prudhoe Bay, spent a few days riding the Continental Divide Trail, visited nearly a dozen National Parks, ridden the entire Blue Ridge Parkway and drank with the cartel in Copper Canyon.

Currently I'm in Belize and will be heading over into Guatemala shortly..

I've got a blog going, which I've been updating nearly every day. I wasn't actually going to post a ride report anywhere since I think my writing and photography skills suck but all my friends/family seem to be enjoying it so far.. maybe they're just being nice

I Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I am living it

Moto-Mikey.com


The bike, an '09 F800GS:



The general route:



and a few random photos from the journey so far:


Riding the Tail of the Dragon


Quite campsite along the CDT


About 30 miles south of Prudhoe bay along the Dalton Highway


In Copper Canyon along a 'closed' section of the road from Creel to Batopilas.


Fine dining in Oaxaca, Mexico



Trip Index if you want to catch up on the last 50+ days of my journey:

Prudhoe Bay:
Prudhoe Bay – Day 1 – Anchorage to Fairbanks, AK

Alaska to Florida Day 1:
Day 1: Anchorage to Valdez, AK – 284 Miles

Entering Mexico:
Day 38: Bienvenidos a Mexico!

Well, according to your spot tracker you are in Guatemala already , bienvenido!

Let me know if you need any information or assistance about Guatemala and send me a PM if you are coming to Antigua .

Ride safe !

Just got finished exploring Tikal. I'll be in Antigua in a few days!

Hi Mikey,

I really enjoyed reading your report so far and I am looking forward to reading about the next part of your trip.

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Jan Krijtenburg

My bikes are a Honda GoldWing GL1200 and a BMW R1200GS

My personal homepage with trip reports: https://www.krijtenburg.nl/
YouTube channel (that I do together with one of my sons): motormobilist.nl

I've made it to San Pedro La Laguna and will be studying Spanish here for the next week. Pretty excited!

I've made it to South America! I'm really loving it here in Colombia.. gonna be hard to leave