Butterflies and Flat Tyres

I had no idea what to expect in Venezuela as I’d heard such mixed things from people who have both travelled there and people who live there. So the one reason I wanted to visit Venezuela was to see it for myself. Unfortunately flying into a city is nothing like…

I am so glad I decided to stay in Curacao for the night as opposed to just doing the 11hr flight stopover and heading out. What a lovely little place. Okay it is VERY touristy but since it is the first Caribbean island I have ever been too and I…

The guides Riding KLRs: Mike – Our illustrious leader, what can I say this man was made for this job, he has an endless supply of patience and a great sense of humour. With all the truck issues he must have been stressing big time but never showed it to…

After saying goodbye to Pete in Paramaribo, as he had decided not to go onto Guyana since he could not ride anymore as his foot was in a cast, we headed to the Guyana border.  Leaving Suriname was the easy part, but on the Guyana side things took forever. We…

Suriname as a country and the capital Paramaribo are by far the best places we have been to our this tour, which is why we only spent 2 days there (one day I’ll write a proper post about the soap opera, comedy of errors of this tour , but right…

Wow what a difference French Guyana is to Brazil, to start with it is expensive ouch European prices and in Euro. As was the usual case we had to board a ferry in the morning, the northern part of S America has so much water and so many rivers, small…

Macapa was not too bad a city, it is supposed to be very dangerous but didn’t feel that way.  Since it was a Sunday when we arrived we went down to the waterfront and it was teeming with people and dogs. There seemed to be some kind of pets on…

Reunited with the group we find out about the things that happened to them. The most sever being Pete’s accident. Pete t-boned a guy on a small 125 bike, the guy got back up and just rode away apparently he was quite young so I guess just scared. Pete damaged…

At 3 am we got up and put the bikes on the trailer and left at 4 am heading to Altamira and then on to Tucurui to pick up Rick and his bike that has completely seized. So bikes on the trailer and off we go the journey is hmm…

Another day spent waiting in a hotel lobby for the truck to be fixed. However this time they have the right diesel mechanic and they are going to fix it, it’s taking a lot longer than expected. Once it is done we’ll put both bikes on the truck (so as…