Central America
 

The ride started on November 13. Even though it's been in the planning stage for the last 6 months or so. It will be solo trip from Kelowna
! British Colubiia Canada-up until San Jose Costa Rica. Where I pick up my partner. She will ride Costa Rica and Panama with me.


The plan is to start in a little town in BC called Kelowna. Head straight south to
Yuma Arizona, then east to El Paso and down to Brownsville Texas. Then ill follow the east coast south to Panama , to a small town at the end of the PanAmerican Highway called Yaviza.

The route back up the West coast to Palm Springs then straight up to Canada.

The ride through Kennewick, Winnamucka was a little chilly. Vegas through to Yuma was nice.

Now if I can only figure how to post photos and my route??

From Yuma I headed east through to Tucson I met up with a couple of Calgarians finishing up on there trip through the Baja. Photos?? Thierry and his Friend on a African Twin. Great guys.

Through Tucson down to Tombstone. Tourist trap but nice. A little town south called Bisbee. That was a cool little mining town. Lots of history.
A definite "must see" if your in the area. Photos?.

Rode into El Paso Texas. Another big city. Lots of traffic. I couldn't get out there fast enough.

Once out of the city the weather turn to cold:freezing::freezing:and Gail force winds. First stop was Van horn for two before it warmed up enough to ride:freezing:
1-5 degrees??

From their I rode down to Brownsville for a couple of days. I got an oil change on the GS. But they refused to look at gas leak I've had since leaving Kelowna. To cold to stop and look at it. Nothing serious? Today, I pull the top and side panels of and had a goodlooked at everything. I found nothing?? Put it all back. Filled the tank. And no leak???:D. :thumbup1:

Tomorrow November 23. I heading to Corpus Cristi. Never been. Thought I would take a look see since I'm close and don't know when I'll be back in this part of the US It's supposedly very nice there.
If I can post photos I will.

Friday is when I'm heading south through the Mexican border. To a town called
Tampico. I'll be using Air bnb through out my trip south. It's easy and cheap.
Plus you get to meet a lot of great people.

Way to go, great to hear you're on the road!

You have a couple of options for posting - one is to continue here, the other is to start a new blog in our whizbang new Blog system here.
There's a lot you can do there, maps, locations, add friends and family to your personal notifications list for updates - no account required, photos are easy, just upload direct from your computer to your new blog webpage etc. Just click the "Start your new travel Story here" green button on the above linked page and away you go.

If you want to continue here, photos need to be on the web somewhere, and then just click the yellow "postcard" looking link above the edit dialog and enter the link to them (ending in .jpg, not html or php, in other words, the picture not the page they may be on.)

Also see the FAQ link above in the blue bar, lots more on posting here on the HUBB.

Hope that helps! Any questions just ask.

Pictures
 

Thanks Grant. Only able to post one pic? But only half :(.
I'm knew at this. Maybe I'll try and edit and reduce size of each photo?

Hi, not sure what the issue is with posting pictures, but have a look at the FAQ with all the info.
/hubb/faq.php?faq=vb_read_and_post#faq_postapicture

Hope that helps!

I'm in Honduras and lived in western Guatemala for a bit. If you want any tips or need anything when you're here feel free to reach out.

Hi. Thirty one. Will keep that in mind. So far all I is great. Having the time of my life. bier:thumbup1::thumbup1:

Let you know when I get closer. Is there anything I shouldn't miss??

Pictures from my first post
 

I figured it out. My iPad is just a little slow to upload

Not the iPad but the connection more likely. You do have to give it a minute or two - or more - especially if it's a big image! The internet is a wonderful thing but it's not instant :(
Good to see you're sorted anyway!

unfortunately not - not sure what you did but it was a problem - I had to delete the post. Some kind of gibberish that the browser REALLY didn't like when I tried to edit the post to get rid of the garbage characters. I had to crash the browser!

Can you tell me what you posted?

It should only be by using one of the buttons above to post an image or a youtube link, any other content pasting other than text will NOT work.

Sorry Grant.
I mentioned that wifi was hit and miss in Mexico For the last several weeks. I was in Belize so I used a program on the net called tinypic . Com to get a URLs for apic of Belize ??

This is the photo
 

http://tinypic.com/r/2s80fm9/9
above is the full tiny url - doesn't work. (it had a superfluous http:// at the beginning of the url but even fixing that it still doesn't work.

Below is the actual url of the image
http://oi68.tinypic.com/2s80fm9.jpg

Ok, that was a very bad url and didn't work at all.

I HAVE EDITED your post to make it work.

There is NO need to use tinypic, it's a bad resource to use as it only keeps the pictures for a very short time, a few weeks at most on average.

I think for your purpose it's best to just "attach" the image. That will put a decent sized thumbnail on the page, and users can click for a big picture. That way it will never go away. Just click the PaperClip icon above and upload direct from your computer.

Hope that helps!