It was Kawasaki doing a promotion allowing riders to go around the track a couple of times on the Ninja 250s. But I still got to go!

El Salvador played the USA in the world cup qualifier today and I got to see it from the hill outside the stadium. It was a good view as well as a band and hotdog stand just behind where I was standing. It was a very exciting game with El Salvador leading until [...]

Mario and JC picked me up from the lakeside and we went to see a volcano and then took my bike to get new tyres and have the throttle fixed.
Carlos who allowed me to stay at the cottage also has a tyre and mechanic shop so I got the tyres at cost and they fixed [...]

Today I spent most of the day reading my camera manual which was good as my little camera is on it’s last legs from being dropped one too many times. One of the reasons I like the Canon is that can stitch photos together which I can now also do with my Panasonic.
I [...]

About two years ago I invested and helped set up a men’s skin care company. Just before I left in November my business partner and principle shareholder decided that she wanted full ownership of the company. Due to the extended length of my trip I am going to let her buy me out. [...]

Today I did absolutely nothing. I read three books, watched two movies and canoed for an hour.
I have done some videos. This is what a big part of my trip is, riding around looking at the scenery while listening to music.

When I was a the bmw breakfast Carlos one of the bikers kindly offered to let me stay at his lakeside cottage for me to stay in for a few days. I have always wanted to have friends that have waterside batches so I took him up on the offer as I also need [...]

On Sunday I went diving in a crater lake, Lago de Ilopango. The second half of the first dive we got to see the fissures in the lake bed where hot water was coming up through the rock and the area around the rocks looked like abandoned fireplaces.
It was well cool and I wish [...]

One of the joys of motorcycling is doing a ride out with a bunch of other bikes. I was lucky enough to be invited along to the regular breakfast ride of the BMW bikers. We met at a service station at seven and Mario and I headed out first so that I could [...]

Mario’s beautiful partner Fernanda had a couple of school friends she was showing around so I tagged along for a couple of days and we saw Suchitoto a quaint town on a picturesque lake, a volcano and Joya de Cerén, a Mayan settlement found intact in the volcanic ash (most Mayan ruins are the royal [...]

I wish I had realised how expensive it is to maintain a bike before I decided to do the trip. Actually the cost of the amount of work I needed to do to my F650 when I had it was one of the reasons why I needed to delay my trip. Today I [...]

There are two New Yorkers staying with Mario so we had to go out for St. Patricks day to celebrate by drinking vodka and singing Spanish karaoke. I did a couple of English songs to add to the mix. Apparently there is picture evidence somewhere but I am not sure if I want [...]

I am not really good at the girly things and other than getting my flatmate to cut my hair in London in October I don’t think that I have had it done since my sister’s wedding in March 08. So Mario lent me the biggest truck I have ever driven and the girls and [...]

FMLN won by a 3% margin. Most of the people that I have met in El Salvador wanted the current party to remain in power because they are worried that the FMLN will be too extremist.
I thought that they might be exaggerating until I went to the winning street party and realised how Che [...]

As everyone in the family rides they also have the classic motorbike literature and videos so I watched MotoSiberia about four Polish guys who rode to Magadan and I got all excited about doing some off road. I almost went with the two younger family members off road until I saw pictures of the [...]