Wandering the Peruvian Andes
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Tuesday, 26 May 2015
Lobo da Estrada na terra do Tio Sam
Uma coisa é certa: O Lobo está adorando as terras do Tio Sam!!! Esta foto foi tirada quando fazíamos o Shafer Trail, uma estrada de terra que acompanha o Rio Colorado e adentra o Parque Nacional Canyonland. ANIMAL!!!
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Cooking with Steam: Pressure Cooker lovefest
Cooking on the road is one of the areas that consumes a lot of mental and real time. It’s easy to initially eat at the road side taco stands or other quick eats, or splurge and be a foody at a hip restaurant in a capitol city. But ultimately the more you can shop local and cook your own food, […]
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Canadian Club
After a bleak week at work I decided to call a holiday on Friday to welcome our friends Dan and Sara (www.worldwideride.ca) to our humble abode on Friday. I must say it was weird, here are two fellow travellers (still travelling unlike us!) who we first met for a beer in Panama rolling up to Casa Rondelli on the same bikes. We met them again in Vancouver when Sara was back working for a short while and Dan was…..enjoying himself. Really great to have them in our home for a few days, Friday we took them to Queensferry to see the famous Forth rail bridge which of course they hadn’t heard of. My god, what passes for education in the colonies these days? Neither had they heard of Moniaive so we headed to this bustling metropolis to the sidecar rally, Fiona bravely sitting in the chair whist a complete lunatic piloted it (me). Great time at the rally, worth a mention was the punk / ska bands whose average age was higher than mines, great crack and excessive drinking.
As we took off on Sunday, I tried the crash ability of the outfit by driving directly into some dustbin’s at the side of the road, unknown to me Dan had been up early in the morning and put a huge magnet in one of them to attract the chair to it, minor adjustments alter we were on our way having brightened up everybody’s Sunday morning (except Fiona as she was still in the chair)
Another party night Sunday with Fi’s family visiting, and then a high speed chauffeured tour of Edinburgh on Monday with Fi in the driving seat looking after us. I have to say I reluctantly climbed a mountain as well, I survived without oxygen or a Sherpa to help me and now I can claim to have climbed a small part of Arthurs seat.
Lunch in the town and then a superb dinner at Bert and Laurenne’s house topped off a great weekend. A struggle to keep focused at work today but luckily tomorrow we are off to Ireland for the Norton International Rally, life can be hard.
If you spot a couple of homeless Canadians this week on their BMW’s (the giveaway is the British Colombia numberplates) say hi, the tall blokey one is Dan and the petite girly one is Sara, they’ll be visiting a monument near you soon.
The Pederson’s arrive, both with nice new Bumot panniers
Dan’s first ever Irn Bru
It seemed to affect his riding style somewhat
Fi was sitting backwards in the sidecar taking these, very brave
The team do Dinner (very good it was too)
Helped by the wine
Fi just checking Norrie’s properly dressed
A panorama of sidecars
The ladies after climbing the mountain
Edinburgh and its not raining …superb
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Livro Mundo por Terra em Inglês!!!
O livro “Mundo por Terra – Uma fascinante volta ao mundo de carro”, que está na sua 5a. edição em português, muito em breve estará disponível em INGLÊS! O livro já está 100% traduzido e no momento passa por uma revisão final, que está sendo feita por um proof-reader americano. Quem quiser praticar o inglês, será uma bela oportunidade, hehehe… …
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Challis
Though they traveled the Pan-American on motorbikes, Paul and Camille have joined the Westy-nation. We followed them north to Challis Hot Springs (and no one broke down!) We did have to slow down through a cattle drive. Idaho keeps surprising me. We were happy to finally have some sunshine. And happy to make some more read more
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Nachtrag zu: Ardeche
Hier ein Bild für Papa:
Andreas beim angeln. Der erste Versuch an der Ardeche. Leider hat er keinen Fisch gefangen, dafür aber eine Blinker und Bleistück verloren. Pech. Wir vermuten das eine dicke Bachforelle am Haken hing und sich verbittert an einem Stein festgehalten hat, bis die Schnur gerissen ist ;-) Naja so wilde Bachforellen sind für den Anfang eben nicht leicht an Land zu holen. Ich hatte etwas mehr Glück. Ich habe im Gebüsch einen Käscher gefunden und sogar einen kleinen Stichling gefangen, den haben wir als Köder an Andreas Angel gemacht, aber auch der gute Köder brachte keinen Fisch. Wir haben ja noch etwas Zeit zum üben. Petri heil.
Dies war unser Platz an der Ardeche. Direkter Zugang zum Wasser und fast keine Nachbarn. Wunderschön!
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