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Cracking RR!

Looking forward to the next installment :)

wow JonnyN first post... well you've got good taste in RR's

Welcome mate, becareful though, hang around these parts too long and you'll soon be quitting your job heading to silly corners of the world with your gentlemans area suspended from the ground by some foam 2x4.

Great story and photos. Keep up the good work.

You guys are my kinda adv dancers

Long time lurker! I thought it was about time I came out the shadows, had to show some love for the RR!

I can only hope and pray mate!

If I'm honest its probably only because I don't have anyone to do it with that I haven't already, but one day soon I'll man up, loose the shackles of work and the missus and just get out there and do it lone soldier style :)

Balls my friend, you guys got em!

Keep up the good read, to say I'm jealous would be a tremendous understatement

PICS! PICS!

I thought it was the rules of Advrider to have a obliged photo of hot women!

Sorry for the lack of updates! We are eating and drinking our way around the wine regions of Argentina (Mendoza), and doing well. My (less than a month old) Laptop decided to die, which has made it difficult to upload photos, its getting fixed at the moment, and as soon as it is we hope to head to Chile.


Needless to say, Bolivia was quite epic. We stayed off the beaten track where we could and the scenery and trails were astounding. We rode with Kerman (a French type on a Honda) and James, (an ex US army guy on a Suzuki) through Bolivia.
All the bikes took an absolute beating, I snapped my frame, Tim destroyed his electrics and flooded his engine (with water, not fuel!), James destroyed his front and rear wheel bearings and Kerman, front and rear wheel bearings and his steering and brakes!

Here are some teaser photos

Glad to see an update. Keep 'em coming!

-T

I am really late to this party but you, sir, are my hero of the day.

Unfortunately the laptop got diagnosed with a bad case of death, and lives no longer. How is that, I killed 2 laptops and a camera in 1 month! Updates will be delayed (I know, excuses, excuses)

you mean more delayed than they've been?

Peru, the rest of it


Ok, back to Peru. As a posse we left Nasca... Nick and Ivanka, Andre, Mark, Tim and myself. It wasn't long till we also caught up to Daan and Mirjam too.




The road from Nasca to Cusco was described by our mechanic in Lima as his favorite in Peru. I could see why.
Daan, Mirjam, Tim and myself decided to stop in a nice spot to do a little bit of camping.




And the next day we headed to Cusco. Once we arrived we did a spot of marketing.
















Our activities in Cusco involved seeing some old bricks (boring!) and much more fun, feasting











(best ceviche I have had)










We parted company with Daan and Mirjam - was great riding with them







Tim and I decided to take a long loop to go to Machu Pichu, and were rewarded with quite the ride.



























Machu Pichu was quite enjoyable, which we shared with our 5,000 closest friends















It was more enjoyable however to freak everyone out by dancing like idjits around it.
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(video courtesy of Nick and Ivanka)




Here I would part company with the rest of the crew as my bike needed love, in the form of new luggage (my former luggage had reached the point of dissrepair), and thanks to Giant Loop for getting it to me. No thanks to Fedex for it taking 10days longer than it should have.

Kerman, James and Tim did a ride around southern Peru


































Peru was over and done with. Bolivia to come!

That last post was just for you David, I appreciate a good bit of smart-assedry

Just found this rr and have to say I love your style! This video has me crying laughing. oser

Hope you're knee is healing and that there is a new camera and laptop on the way. Keep it coming!

thank you sir! glad i was able to smart-ass my way into another installment!

did you ride from cuzco to santa teresa and then walk the tracks from the hydroelectric plant? i was fortunate enough to do that ride a few years back and it was the coolest section of road ever!

good luck in bolivia, we're all eagerly waiting to hear how it goes!

Be careful though, keep it up and you will have this RR up to date!

Yeah, we did.
We did the loop up and around to get to Santa Maria first though.
The section from Santa Maria to Santa Teresa was particularly epic.

and this just gets better and better as you go!!!! so GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Damasovi

come on, mate. it's been a few days, i know you've got more in you!

i hope you're having as much fun as we are anticipation for your next installment!