Seattle to TDF and back on an airhead

Well, this RR is coming a bit late as I'm already in Costa Rica as I write this, but here it goes anyway. I'm loosely traveling with 6 other guys. We split up and rejoin constantly. 4 of us are from Seattle, one's French but living in Canada, one's German, one's British. 3 of us are riding airhead GSs, 2 of us are on DR650s and the two Euros are riding XT600s. This first post will be pic heavy / text light as there's no way I can catch up on all the minor stories thus far. Enjoy the ride. Here we go.

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...More coming shortly

Promise?! Glad to see that ST doing what it was born to do. Subscribed...

Sweet pics! Looks like a great ride so far. Looking forward to more updates. I think I admired your bike at Ride West once. I got a thing for big, round headlights .

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After lurking in the build thread, it's really great to see this trip well under way. Fantastic pics, too.

I was quite taken with Tikal when I was there, friggin' jacarandi stole my damn lunch, and I was lucky enough to see a black panther at 5am on the road. Magical place. Glad you got to see it.

Nice pix

My God! :eek1

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I'm jealous AW. Will be watching.

heck yeah!

Okay, you gotta tell the story of why that red-headed guy was getting his hands bandaged. Oh, and why you were shooting a rifle with bayonet in a motorcycle jacket.

where was this picture taken?


and where's the river crossing? I'm assuming they're related

um...I think that about does it. If you need any help from the states drop me a PM. I'm 6 miles from Boxerworks and I can probably get you anything you need. If he doesn't have it I can pull it off my bike. Good luck!

Damn Wrangler, no words necessary--those photos say it all. Amazing! This one sure looks a lot like the Eastern Washington.

Great stuff!

Dang! One post and we go from Seattle to CR!! The next one will summarize CR to TDF!

Where ya' at in CR?

BTW: amazing river / canyon picture!

Fantastic! Made my day. Thanks for posting.

Awesome RR, can't wait for more!

PS: I snapped up that Buckley DR350S!

Subscribed! Oh and taking notes, too. One of these days, I'm outta here and headin' south.

Great shots, I spent a few weeks in Zipolite y Mazunte....some of your beach pic's totally took me back.

TEXT ONLY UPDATE:

We just hopped a sailboat from Puerto Lindo Panama to Turbo, Colombia. Photos will be coming as soon as we find a good internet connection, probably in Medellin or Bogota. So far, Colombia hasn´t shown itself to be the ¨the wretched hive of scum and villainy¨that many of the doomsayers claim it to be, in fact quite the opposite - lots of very helpful, friendly people who are really interested in what we´re doing, much more so than in any other place we´ve been so far. The scenery is also pretty breathtaking. Tomorrow we´ll hit some mountains, so I expect that to only get better. More later, including photos.