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 […]
Eagle Pass, Texas – Two Miles to the Mexico Border
1950 miles from Ace Adventure Resort we spend the evening in the Camino Real Hotel in Eagle Pass, Texas, two miles from the Mexico Border. The last two weeks have been incredible, dodging from small town to small town across the back roads of America. There are no words to describe the feeling of tooling […]
Motorcycle to South America–The 1600 Mile Report
I’ve done a my share of multi-day motorcycle trips in the past, mostly around the Southwest. I’ll be the first to tell you that nothing can prepare you for a motorcycle trip in the 5-digit mileage range. It’s hell on the body. Combine it with tent camping most nights and the toll just gets higher. […]
Hudgey’s – A Family Restaurant – Soul Food!
You know what’s going on in downtown Jackson Mississippi on a Sunday afternoon? Not a damn thing. The place looks like a ghost town. We got off in downtown Jackson hoping to find a little hole in the wall BBQ joint or something to satisfy the soul after a few days on the road camping, […]
Motorcycling the Great Smokey Mountains
Just because you don’t know where you are doesn’t necessarily mean you’re lost. In fact, sometimes it lands you in the best of places. The qualifications that accidently lead us to the Smokey Mountains were simple: It has to go South or West and it can’t be a highway. We used these qualifications to pick […]
Motorcycle to South America – And We’re Off!
There comes a point when preparing for every adventure that you just have to call it good enough and go. I remember getting the VW Bus ready to drive up the Alaska Highway it was the same thing. At some point you just have to call it good enough and do it. Today is that […]
Cheap Hotels of Mexico and Central America – Sjoerd Bakker
Every once in a while in the midst of what seems like endless and sometimes fruitless research you find the holy grail of information that you have been looking for in the oddest of places. Piecing together the details of a motorcycle trip to South America can be a frustrating endeavor. There’s a tidbit here […]