It always starts with obscure sign on the side for road with an unmistakable pictograph. In this case a waterfall. The road you turn onto seems nice enough. Then, of course, you encounter a giant pile of dirt in the center of it blocking your path. We just want to look at the waterfall. Okay, […]
Motorcycle to South America – Interactive Map
Want to know where in the world we are? Check out this Google map of our 2013-14 transcontinental motorcycle trip. This is Google’s newish map engine lite. If you’re familiar with any of the areas that we are in or in the vicinity of please feel free to use the comments section to make […]
Motorcycle to South America – The 3000 Mile Report
That’s exactly 3,172 miles from Ace Adventure Resort as I write to you tonight from the state of Veracruz, Mexico, about 100 miles from the gulf coast. We’ve got scratchy eyes, sunburnt noses and windblown faces, but things have gone relatively as planned. Before I go into a page long assessment of the trip, we […]
Motorcycle to South America – Thanksgiving in Mexico
It must have been under 40 degrees all morning climbing and descending in and out of the clouds. It’s the moisture that does you in, frozen little fingertips and toes. A little after noon we dropped off of the lush green mountain tops and back into the high desert headed down 85 South towards Mexico […]
Las Pozas, Xilitla, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Where do you even begin with something like this? Sometime in 1945 Edward James happened upon the Mexican town of Xilitla in the search for a location to “express his diverse esoteric interests.” I’m not going to try and give you some kind of fluffy artistic evaluation or insight as to what we saw today; […]
Sights From the Road – Matehuala, Media Luna, Xilitla, Mexico
This is just a collection of interesting and narrated shots traveling by motorcycle through northern Mexico. They are mostly Keli’s “drive by shootings.” We decided to get haircuts in Matehuala. As a rule of thumb, you and your stylist should speak the same language. That’s the Spanish / English dictionary in her hand in case […]
Lago de Media Luna – Half Moon Lagoon – Mexico
It seems all the best things in Mexico begin with an arduous journey down a long, vaguely marked road. Chances are the road will be marginally passable in spots and you are surely to encounter any manner of moving obstacles, human powered, mechanical, animal driven and or inanimate. Such was the case with Media Luna. […]
Riding Real de Catorce by Motorcycle – A Photo Essay
This was surely one of the riding feats of my existence. I can’t say I didn’t feel envious of the few guys we saw on $15,000 BMW Enduros. Talk about having the right tool for the job. Either way, we did it on a 2001 Honda Shadow. It’s not what you ride. It’s what you […]
Motorcycle to South America – Real de Catorce, Mexico
While sitting around in Matehuala, Mexico we kept hearing of an old silver town from the 1700’s in the mountains to the West called Real de Catorce. After some research the major monkey wrench in our plans was the 20 miles of cobblestone road that lay between our current position and what promised to be […]
Motorcycle to South America – Mexico – First Impressions
Whooped. We’re pulled into a roadside hotel in San Rafael, Mexico, about 300 miles from the border at Eagle Pass / Piedras Negras. It’s the end of day two South of the border and it’s been the coldest two days riding we’ve seen this far. I thought it was supposed to get warmer as you […]