Showing posts with label The bike. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The bike. Show all posts

Tuesday, 14 July 2015

Coming home



A short post about our trip home followed by a few photos from the trip …….. After endless discussions we decided that Seattle was a good place to bring our journey through the Americas to a close. Various options had presented…

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Monday, 15 June 2015

The Arctic Circle – Our final frontier …….



For over a week we had been waiting for the Dalton Highway to re-open after the flooding and finally we were in Fairbanks, the jump off point for the Highway. Jim went off to see Dan Armstrong at Adventure Cycleworks click…

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Thursday, 21 May 2015

Are we now on a holiday?



  After a few days of chores including washing our riding suits in San Diego and Los Angeles, we made use of the excellent interstate highways to move on to Las Vegas to meet up with our Italian friends Max…

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Thursday, 7 May 2015

Culture shock USA



  Bowling down the freeway today from San Diego to Los Angeles we were momentarily in the shadow of a passing pick-up truck. I say pick-up truck but this thing (a Dodge I think) was called a ‘Big Horn Heavy…

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Sunday, 26 April 2015

Sunday, 19 April 2015

Picking up the pace in Central America



Entering Costa Rica through the northern border we noticed an increase in the temperature and a rise in humidity together with an abundance of banana plantations and a change in the vegetation and flora. The road took us along the…

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Wednesday, 8 April 2015

Quite a week…. Colombia to Panama



Our last week in Colombia was spent in the atmospheric city of Cartagena. The old historic and preserved quarter rubs shoulders with the not so well preserved quarter of Getsemani, which we had made home for the week. It was…

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