Peruvian Desert and Oasis

From the moment we stepped into Peru we were in the desert. That was completely unexpected. Left and right we had tall dunes and nothing else in sight. We were in a rush to get to Mancora, a beach town where we could relax a bit after our border crossing. Unfortunately we hit a town […]

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Colorado is closed. Part 2

Closed campgrounds, closed roads, closed parks, closed mountains, closed shops. Seriously Colorado! What is open? Great Sand Dunes National Park. That’s what. And it was spectacular. Not even closed a little bit. The dunes were huge, the tallest in North America apparently. Colorado does appear to like having ‘the tallest’ and ‘the highest’ of everything. It […]

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An oasis and desert drawings in Peru

After 3 days in Lima we keep moving south. Paracas National Park on the coast sounds incredible but there’s not a lot of roads there and the sand riding sounds like way too much work for me and my heavy… Read More ›

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Big Red Dunes of Sossusvlei

Day: 123 KLMS 19,226 We left Luderitz in shock, not quite believing what had happened. Did we really just blow the engine up in the desert? And did the one mechanic who would see us, just so happen to have the part we needed to fix the car? We were too nervous to celebrate, it […]

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