My wife and I have both been to Mexico over 10 times and spent our honeymoon in Belize and Guatemala, diving, fishing with the locals, and riding in buses with chickens, dogs, and people. We rented motorcycles, 4-wheelers, bikes, horses, etc while exploring these amazing countries.
My wife lived in Peru for a year as a student, as well as in Spain for 2 years and is bilingual, with me being fairly comfortable in conversational Spanish. So I wouldn't characterize it as a "brazen" move to hop on a bike, fill up the tank, and ride south. In fact, where are the keys?
We have done research, and dreamed about this trip for over 2 years. We have a pretty extensive travel library, to which we will definitely add the books you mentioned.
It's no big secret, and the routes are very well documented, especially on this excellent site.
The purpose of this post was more to find out if anyone had gone down the east side (Brazil etc), because we are thinking of hitting up the Amazon for some Peacock Bass fishing. :-)
Thanks for the great feedback! We're kindof leaning towards storing the bike in Panama and flying into Brazil. It seems a little more realistic within the time frame.
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Lizette and Bill Chapman
South America here we come!
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Lizette and Bill Chapman
South America here we come!
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