Across Americas - Discovering the New World on a motorcycle

[Hernando]

Congrats you two on achieving your travel goals and arriving safely Thanks again for sharing your adventures.

[El Explorador]

So glad to see you made it amigos. Love the report and happy to see that even when the road ends the adventure doesn't - that's the spirit I liked about you guys!

p.s. When they ask me how much it costs, I laugh, say "mas de cinco dollares", and quickly ask them a question to change the subject. I like your story better though!

[eSTes1300]

Can you summarize the bike's performance. How many Km did you start and finish with? What modifications? Problems along the way? Average fuel consumption? Great report and I like your spirit. Thank you.

[AnjinSan]

Hi guys,

we are back on the radar, after 10 days of complete rupture with all technology :) It was interesting but now we are starting to plan our way back home.

So our journey is quite far of being over... as we have more than 5000 kilometers to go and a little under 1 month until our embarkation point for Europe.
Also, in this month we have to sort out the way we are going to send our motorcycle back to Europe. I figure from Montevideo or from Buenos Aires. But we haven't found yet a solid deal...

eSTes1300: very valid points. I will try to make a summary about all of them but I would like to get home first, so we have a clear overall picture :)

@Blake: haha, your answer is good as well. But be aware, some of them might be ready to "pay" that amount to get your bike :P Eh, just good old fun on the road :) I wish you safe travels!

[AnjinSan]

As I've noticed quite a lot of mistakes in my report I got a little bit horrified and promised myself a "re-read" and a proper cleaning up once we will get home. In order for this to function properly I need to have access in a centralized place to all the "text and lyrics".


So from this post onwards I intend to post here the first 2-3 pictures from the story and then provide a link to Micadu website for the rest. I figure it shouldn't be more difficult to read, and you can most definitely go on with the comments here, on this thread, as it is more easy read by everybody than on our website :)






Here we go...


Still trying to get out of Bolivia with the stories. But somehow we are delayed again. This time with a good reason: Salar de Uyuni!




Salar de Uyuni: 12-14 of January
We had plans to take a detour, starting from La Paz, into the Amazon basin on the (in)famous Death Road. But since we couldn’t find the inter strength to stop in the capital, we find ourselves now on our way to the next “landmark” that we would like to see: Salar de Uyuni. But to get there we first need to head towards Potosi.
Then, using a newly asphalted highway (just finished in december 2012), we make our way through beautiful landscape.

We have around 200 kilometers to go and we are really enjoying ourselves. This is what motorcycles are made for!

Open roads, bright colors, blue skyes! Uhuuu!


The continuation of the story, on micadu, right here!

[AnjinSan]

One day in Argentina: 15-16 January 2013
Leaving Uyuni is not that easy as we have to sneak through the line of cars waiting for their turn at the only gas station in the area. We didn’t manage to figure out if the line was that long because there was no gas at the pump or because the whole village wanted to fuel up at the same hour of the morning.

We don’t have to join them in line as we have our spare gas canister that will take us out of here, to the next, hopefully uncrowded, gas station. We are heading back the same way we got to Uyuni just that this time it seems drowned in a summer day’s laziness. We get to a small village where we were supposed to find gas. Hmmm… Some other times maybe. Now everyone is enjoying their siesta….



Read the rest on micadu, right here.

[Oldone]

Wow! Those falls are absolutely amazing and it's now entered into my bucket list. Those photos are great and gives a person the idea of what it's really like there. It's something that I've thought about doing for many years but at times others say that "it's too commercialized, etc." I just want to see the water going over and that's about all! Thanks for taking the time to do this for the rest of us.

Gary "Oldone"

Grampa’s Lake Superior Ride
Grampa’s National Monument Ride

[AnjinSan]

Originally Posted by Oldone

Wow! Those falls are absolutely amazing and it's now entered into my bucket list. Those photos are great and gives a person the idea of what it's really like there. It's something that I've thought about doing for many years but at times others say that "it's too commercialized, etc." I just want to see the water going over and that's about all! Thanks for taking the time to do this for the rest of us.

Gary "Oldone"

Grampa’s Lake Superior Ride
Grampa’s National Monument Ride

Hi Gary,
the falls are a little bit over commercialized but so are a lot of other beautiful places in the work. If you want to see them, I would say, try and go for it. I believe that anyone can go and pick the things and activities he likes to do and make the most of a place.

Cheers from Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego

[GuateRider]

Originally Posted by AnjinSan

Dear friends, we've made it. End of the road, but for sure we hope not end of the trip! So stick around!

It only seems like a few weeks ago that we met that night on the campground in Tok, Alaska ...and now you are at the other end of the continent .
Glad to see that you made it all the way down and that you keep on smiling

[AnjinSan]

Current state: "not the best day for science"

- high winds in Tierra del Fuego make motorcycle travel unsafe
- Andreea has a cold
- from all the shipping agents contacted in order to sort out the shipping of Gunnar back to Europe, only one replied and with a prohibitive price. That won't work... :(

Hopping tomorrow will be a better day!

[AnjinSan]

Originally Posted by GuateRider

It only seems like a few weeks ago that we met that night on the campground in Tok, Alaska ...and now you are at the other end of the continent .
Glad to see that you made it all the way down and that you keep on smiling

Yeah you are perfectly right! I feel that it passed so little time since that night in Tok :) Makes me want to get back to that place. But unfortunately we will have to go back home soon.

How's Guatemala? Figured out where are you going next?

Saludos!

[AnjinSan]

The New World IV.16 - Atacama

We’ve been in Argentina for only one day and here we are, already going for a heist escape towards Chilean border, across the Jama mountain pass.

This is not because we were not enjoying Argentina but just because we decided to save it for later and try to see how Atacama desert in Chile is. I must admit I was a little bit anxious to cross Atacama desert, one of the driest places on Earth (annual rain is 1 millimeter).


Read it further on Micadu, here.

[jbcaddy]

still following your journey, I am enjoying the ride! photos of the canoe shortly

[AnjinSan]

Originally Posted by jbcaddy

still following your journey, I am enjoying the ride! photos of the canoe shortly

Thank you :) And I am looking forward for the canoe photos. In about 3 weeks I should be home so just in time to use them :)

[AnjinSan]

On our journey, we crossed paths with many other travelers, using all kinds of transportation means. From the simple hitchhiking to bicycles, tricycles, motorcycles and all the way up to caravans. Different people on different journeys. But all of them had something in common: they were smiling!