Sounds like a sweet route Mark. Kinda tempted but I got another few days delay here in Quito with the paperwork and registration of the bike (6 days on-going, an that's with help of local friends!). Maybe Wednesday I'll be done and start heading south.

I'll be doing some visiting, probably 1 day on the road, 1 day visit? all depends. Thanks for the tips guys, keep it coming. You can also e-mail me directly at: samizmc@yahoo.com

Ride up
Sami

Hi

I moved from Quito today and am in Riobamba tonight Sunday, and riding to Ceunca tomorrow then south into Peru.

Motoman, I also would like to get to TDF by new years, but I also want to do Machu Pichu and the road of death in Bolivia, have you done these yet?

Cheers
TS

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Hey
Dunno what sort of bike your on but the road from Loja to Macara is pretty cool - good tarmac, hairpin bends, mountain scenery + border crossing at Macara is easiest in S.A

Hi, I actually designed a Garmin route that went that way, but for some (stupid?) reason followed the road signs to Huaquilla, which took me on the dirt crap road, sounds like I had a different type of fun, the scenery was good, when I got a chance to look at it though

I hope you write up the border crossing for other people, because there is nothing but the crap one I went through, but I am using Wiki
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Hi If anyone is passing by or staying in Lima and want to get out a have a , send me a message giacomoolcese@yahoo.com

Ride safe,

Giacomo n' Pat

Love to have that with you Giacomo, or anyone else if you are around Lima for Xmas, especially if it is Cusqueña Red Lager.

Chris, motomon at pobox dot com

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Motomon, you say you lived of live in Bolivia?? I thought I knew most bikers in Bolivia, especially if they're foreign, but then the country's big and I don't like la Paz. Where were you living then?
I used to live in Sucre with lots of biker friends in Santa Cruz also. I'll try to find out your real name then....
And travellingstrom is that you R.?? I'll look it up now. What has become of you? I recon you should be back home working by now right? Let me know what's up.

Gert, the dutchman

PS. by now I have all of south america complete except for the Guyanas (but no one goes there except for me I think). All for Garmin and all routable. send me a mail at gertmans at yahoo dot com and I'll send them to you. All thanks to Graham, you remember him travellingstrom?

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Gert,

It was many years ago, but we lived in the Calacoto suburb of La Paz, where I taught maths and science at the International School. I didn´t like La Paz either and only stayed one year. I went from there to Costa Rica where I was the director in a bi-lingual, multicultural school.

My "real" name is Chris Brown.

Gert, maybe you can help me. I met a dutchman briefly some months ago in Quito, Ecuador. I don´t remember his name, but he had shipped his bike from the Netherlands to Surinam. The cost was less than I paid to ship my bike from Panama to Colombia. I would love to know the company, or some way of finding out who they are. Do you have any ideas as to how I can find out who they might be?

I´m currently in Rio Gallegos, Argentina, where I´ve been stuck with a blown engine in my Suzuki DR650. I found it essentially impossible to get parts, so I used my airline points to fly to the US to get parts to rebuild my engine. It has cost me several weeks of time, but gave me time to see more of Argentina and Uruguay by bus (El Calafate, Rosario, Cataratas de Iguazu, Colonia, Uruguay, and Buenos Aires, where I had a bag with all my clothes, etc. stolen).

I am now almost ready to leave, but don´t know exactly where I want to go. One option is to get to Surinam and ship me and the bike to the Netherlands, especially if it is as cheap as the other Dutchman paid. I think he said it cost $400. I had originally hoped to go back to Chile from Ushuaia and ship me and the bike to New Zealand, but the unplanned for costs of a new engine destroyed that dream.

If I don´t go to Surinam, then I was planning to go back up the west coast of Chile and Peru to Ecuador and Colombia. The two problems with that are that I hate to retrace travel that I have already done, and the recent earthquake in Copiapo may make travel through there somewhat difficult.

Chris, the "Pinche Gringo Loco" (sobre nombre given by friends in Mexico) or "Cabron" (another sobre nombre in Mexico given by a cop who misread my firma, which is C. P. Brown as C.A.Brown)

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