December 16, 2007 GMT - Feria de las Flores y Cabalgata
December 11, 2007 GMT - Colombia
April 29, 2007 GMT - Costa Rica and Panama
I'm updating this section on Costa Rica and Panama six months after the fact, so my recollection of all the events are foggy. I'm anxious to catch up with the blog and get to my current location Ecuador. Six months...
April 19, 2007 GMT - Granada
April 11, 2007 GMT - MAPS of ROUTE II
March 24, 2007 GMT - Leon, Nicaragua 16/1/07
I left the mountain valley city of Tegucigalpa and rode the twisties all the way back to the Panamerican Highway. Then onto the border crossing of Guasale into Nicaragua. I had spent one week in Honduras, met the President, explored...
January 20, 2007 GMT - Ricardo Maduro
My grandfather, Charles Burrows, was the United States Ambassador to Honduras from 1960 to 1965. My father spent holidays and summers there during that time and my aunt spent some of those years there full time, attending school with other...
January 20, 2007 GMT - Honduras
Parque Central is definitely the center of town. Men, women and children line the benches and walkways to sit in the shade and people watch. There is a heavy police presence in Tegucigalpa. This old man is a retired police...
January 07, 2007 GMT - Marco Antonio Solis
Marco Antonio Solis is everywhere, on the radio, in restaurants, in bars, on buses and in markets. He's sings "romantica" and his lyrics make women melt. Here are two of my favorite songs, with translations. Is this guy good or...
January 05, 2007 GMT - MAPS of ROUTE
January 04, 2007 GMT - Guatemala and El Salvador
EL SALVADOR BORDER-- HOTEL PARAISO-- BMW-- ESTANCIA AND METROCENTRO-- VIGILANTES-- click here to download an audio file (500mb) click here to download an audio file (500mb) click here to download an audio file (500mb) click here to download an audio...
January 02, 2007 GMT - Chichén Itzá, Tulum, Belize
Nick and I left Mérida yesterday morning for Cancún. Along the way we visited Mayapan and Chichén Itzá. We got into Chichén for free because it was 4 o´clock by the time we arrived and there was only one hour...
December 30, 2006 GMT - Campeche, Uxmal and Mérida
This is a typical group of gawkers, checking out the beemer. Notice no attention is on the suzuki... 6/12/06 - We gratefully left the humid environs of Palenque and rode north on highway 186. We wanted to leave Palenque, the...
December 28, 2006 GMT - Ruinas @ Palenque
Nick and I left San Cristobal that day at 4pm thinking it would only take a couple hours to ride 250KM. We were wrong, it took more like 4-5 hours, so we spent the last two in complete darkness...
December 21, 2006 GMT - San Cristobal and Palenque
I´m glad fate brought Nick and me together because I was planning on spending the night in Tuxla, which seemed to be an urban town with not much happening. San Cristobal is up and over the mountains from Tuxla....
December 10, 2006 GMT - skippig to puerto escondido
ok, i messed up with the photos; i filled my memory card and transferred the photos to an online site. but now i can´t work with them easily to put them on the blog. so i´m going to skip...
November 28, 2006 GMT - Baja Ferry to Topo
So I delayed my ferry ride to Topolobampo because the people at the Taco stand, Super Tacos de Baja California de Sur, convinced me to stay one more night so I could attend their party. Here´s a photo of...
November 20, 2006 GMT - La Paz, Baja
La Paz: I rode the 4 hours from Mulege to La Paz saturday morning. This was a nice ride with some open stretches of highway where I topped the bike out at 125 miles an hour (with 3 full...
November 19, 2006 GMT - primary colors
Jake´s Place comes equipped with an old BMW r75\6 with a sidecar. here´s a photo of Lotsofsky next to it. we had been invited to have dinner with a very nice family from Boise (Terry Eve and their son...
November 17, 2006 GMT - leaving mulege
well "Jake,s Place" was wonderful. steve lotsofsky does a nice job of letting everyone know the legacy of Jake and his house on the hill just south of Mulege, in El Coyote. everyone who comes by gets a tour...
November 15, 2006 GMT - mulege
ok..finally i'm at an internet cafe. getting to the border from reno was a serious challenge. so the first day, i headed out of reno with my riding buddies, chris, kimmie and reiner. we had breakfast at bully's in...
November 09, 2006 GMT - leaving reno
the time had come for me to leave. it was a sunday and my riding buddies were cool enough to escort me out of town. we gathered in the alley by kimmie`s garage. that`s mike and reiner in the...
November 05, 2006 GMT - preparations
it's friday novmeber 3rd. i'm frantically tying up all the loose ends. today i got the final immunizations: teatnus and hep A. got a certified copy of my bike's title at the DMV. told all the credit card companies and...
