Hola xFiltrate - thank you for the share and please send my best wishes of recovery to Rosa del desertio.

I had put away Glen's book as advised by my wife at the time, who judged his less then perfect character with suspicion. I travel alone now andncurrently feed my own inspiration on Australian lands (it is magical). Glen's may add to the mix, on those nights when the longing to be in company of like souls burns warmer than usual.

Then, it is good to read this thread and share a few lines of beauty; it is good to know there are always people by the fire.

May you all travel safely, and thanks again for these news.

hasta luego.

Alain

Mountain hot springs search
Primal baths call of the wild
Soak these miles away



GS3&TT2

Rides of a lifetime
Always around the next turn
Antici.....pation

GS3&TT2

Changed from mountain heights
Nothing remains as it was
Horizons renewed


GS3&TT2

Riders
Being out here in motion
Beats the hell
Out of standing still...

xfiltrate, Flagstaff, Arizona

Rosa del desierto and I are still enjoying our ranch in Flagstaff, enjoying the mountains at 7,000 ft (yes, Flagstaff is higher than Denver) and enjoying old friends stopping by, the reason Flagstaff is higher than Denver....

We have decided to extend our visit. Yes, we will be in Arizona, enoying it all and buying up needed video camera equipment and needed accessories, new panniers/tail bags/ etc etc etc... for our next run through South America, because the (fictitious title: chief of security) of Argentina and his administrative cohorts in customs have been busted with various industrial sea containers filled with contraband gear.

As a result, plan on paying 1/3 to 1/2 more than U S retail for imported electronics/goods in Argentina. I figure the inflated prices will be reflected in the market for less than three months, the time it will take for the players to once again outfox the foxes.

I mean no malice, no negative political connotations, nor judgement, just the facts.

All this international intrigue, while Argentina is increasing its own industrial base and is rapidly moving from manufacturing power strips, heaters, air conditioners, washing machines etc to producing software, and high end electronics like flat screen TVs and financial instruments that rival the credit default swaps and derivatives of our own Wall Street.

rosa del desierto - does interviews of interesting writers, artists, actors and wannabees for a Buenos Aires TV channel and her director wants her to go on the road again, without the use of network provided cameras, lights and microphones.... She will be doing a series of interviews with South American artist , writers etc for the BA channel.

So, you'll come visit us at our ranch, we have free rustic accommodations, free parking, room to stretch out and enjoy the ponderosa pine forest.... and are beginning again "milongas with curtinas of salsa" on the weekends . And there is always the Zoo Club - a nearby authentic road house where most of the greats of country music played before they became great. Where you can learn to two-step before joining the cowboys and native americans (who dance to a different beat) on the dance floor in front of laden musicians.

We have poetry readings in the "Noble barn," yes a take off on Barnes and Noble book stores whenever poets show up. We have a stage and something called the "spy bar" where real spies from 19 different countries have turned in their PPKs at the door.... except the one strapped to their ankles and sipped martinis.

As Hunter S. Thompson would say: C ya

eat , drink and ride Arizona
xfiltrate

Sometime during the three years I resided in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico - located about 4 hours by moto north of DF (Mexico City) I was declared Godfather of my brother Bob's daughter Amanda. She was born weighing only a couple pounds, very prematurely, and was residing in an incubator somewhere in the United States. My brother Bob was off piloting F-16s for the USAF. Not knowing how I could help and wanting to do something, I wrote and mailed the following poem to my sister in law Laurie.

I recalled in the poem that Bob had been born in Tokyo - Dad was assigned there at the time, and recently, in Mexico, I had become Buddhist after befriending a celebrated world class Japanese artist who confided in me he moved to Mexico because he could not paint in Japan. Apparently Japanese society had not been inspiring for him, I had found Japanese society to be the opposite.

Poem for Amanda

Godfather blues
Waiting for news

Chanting in a foreign place
looking into your face

A photograph

Are you really that small
practically not at all

Koichi Yanashima

An artist

He paints

He chants Nam-myoho-renge-kyo

The ultimate law or true entity permeating
all phenomena in the universe. First chanted by
Nichiren Daishonin on April 28, 1253 at Seicho-ji temple
in the province of Awa, Japan.

Chanted for you

Over and over

Your Father born in Japan

Blessed by a Holy Man

Koichi knew ...........

Godfather knew too

Copyright November 6, 1983 San Miguel de Allede, Mexico


Eat, Drink and ride Arizona and visit us at our ranch

xfiltrate

"Gauge scan" eye lids droop
Mountain twisties don't forgive
Highside freefall roll

I found it on the wall of a beach hostel room in Ecuador.

Translation:

I am in love with you.

Roxana Rodriguez,
I do not offer you a car,
Nor a beach front house,
But I offer you
MY LOVE,
Which is pure and sincere.

I only want your happiness.

Listen to your heart and
Give me an opportunity

YES or NO

(The space for "NO" is checked)

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Café colombiano

Mirar sin ver:
una taza de café,
verde lima por fuera,
blanca por dentro.
Bebo un expreso doble, colombiano,
en Bogotá,
y juego con las palabras, los colores, los sabores,
con la esperanza de que llegue,
sin esfuerzo,
como si no importara,
lo que yo más quiero:
ver sin mirar.


Colombian Coffee

Looking without seeing:
A coffee cup,
Lime green outside
White inside.
I drink a double espresso of Colombian coffee,
In Bogotá,
And play with words, colors, flavors,
While hoping it will come,
Effortless,
As if it did not matter,
What I want most:
Seeing without looking.

The need for therapy
He said
“the expression you’re looking for is ‘deep shit’

I believe that describes
your situation.”

I replied
“hey patient number 13, do you mind?
That’s a long drag on my half
of the cigarette.”

He, who put two rounds through my gas tank
at maybe…25 yards.

Thing is
I was sitting on the bike when he did it

so you see
the need for therapy
is strong.

Dispatch: The Hubb Pub.... Cachi, Argentina 12 January 2015

Rising slowly from my side of the big bed,
I wondered if she was dreaming
of the dirt road threading Cachi to Cayafate
I had

The devil of my Colombian shoulder pain less now after a
night of wine and pasta at Oliver's on the Plaza

Martin Oliver is a Yamaha endurance rider and the walls of his
restaurant are crowded with maps, patches, posters and photographs
of the places he endured.

We sat at the small wooden table below his museum quality cleaned, pinned and glassed Yamaha endurance jacket

She was slow eyed and beautiful, those Galician blue green eyes, seeing and feeling it all
I forgot my shoulder

We ride slow
We might or might not make it
to Cayafate

It just doesn't matter

xfiltrate

author's note, Martin Oliver, owner of Oliver's on the Cachi Plaza will be riding Alaska - Argentine with a Frenchman, Brazilian and another Argentine beginning in April 2015 stop by and say hi... he knows many valuable off road endurance tips

try rideasia.net. loads of info like HU

I don't really like poetry but being creative on the road is nice. I started drawing and this came out.

Perhaps turn this in a 'creative' topic?



Fortune and Glory, kid. Fortune and Glory.

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Blommetje, what is she about to chop?