I have to admit I am finding it really hard to continue. I don’t have much desire to see anything anymore. And even thought it has been absolutely incredible it has been almost a year since I started out from LA and I am rapidly getting over traveling so I have decided to [...]

On Monday morning I got up at 3am and caught the ferry to Buenos Aires. I somehow made it through the maze of highways to Dakar Motors and rushed into town to meet up with Aga and her friend who were also visiting Buenos Aires. They had found a lovely cafe so we [...]

On Sunday morning we packed up the tents and I headed back into Colonia to do a bit of sightseeing with some of my new friends. Including an old disused bull fighting ring.
I have never had a weekend where I have come away with so many new friends. Uruguay has been great and [...]

Asado’s are the name they give to bbq’s down here. Which they take pretty serious. A cow was killed and I watched them stripping the intestines to make the sausages.
During the day we all biked to this cool old museum where they smelter iron parts including a part for the BSA they [...]

In Colonia (Uruguay’s main tourist town and a ferry ride from Buenos Aires across the Silver River) I stayed with Arnaldo and was invited to join his bike club the Colonia Cruzados meet up. It was brilliant. Patrick finally showed me how my tent is suppose to be put up and everyone was [...]

Thanks to Carlos and his partner for letting me stay with them for a few days even if Carlos did say that I looked like a big black bear when I headed off to ride to the other side of the country.

The coolest thing I heard while I was Uruguay was these frogs that sound like cats mewing.

Montevideo is the capital city of Uruguay. It seems like it would be a nice place to live but didn’t have many touristy type buildings. There was a couple that was dancing tango outside a restaurant, the schools were all wearing these painting smocks for their school uniform and the beer bottles were [...]

Uruguay is a small country to the south of Brazil, and north-east of Argentina. It has a population of 3.5 million. Capital city Montevideo (population 1 million). It’s green rolling farmland reminds me a lot of northland in NZ. It is a wine producer being at the same latitude as Chile, [...]

After not seeing many travel bikes my entire trip while riding out of Brazil I had hundreds pass me. It turns out that there was a bike meet up in Uruguay that had about 5000 bikes of all types at it.
I won’t miss border crossing when I finish this trip. It took me [...]

Pelotas in Southern Brazil is on the edge of a huge lake that is fresh water part of the year and salt water the other part. It has great beaches and is famous for it’s deserts (postres in Spanish – though it has a different name in Portuguese) which Beatriz my host kindly bought [...]

I swear that every car and truck driver in Brazil thinks they are trying out for the formula one. I had a 500 mile (800km) ride and it was horrible. It rained for the first 200 miles, drizzle for the next 200 miles and the road was in a really bad condition [...]

Florianópolis is a beautiful city on an island just off the coast of Southern Brazil. The island is 50 some kms long and has 40 some beaches. I stayed with Cristiano and his fiancée Alexandra which was really interesting as they also lived in Europe for a while. One night we went [...]

The next day we went sightseeing around Curitiba the only big city in Brazil to have been settled by the Portuguese and has a wire Opera house. Then we rode to a neighboring town to visit Mario (a Londoner who has just moved to Brazil with his Brazilian wife and daughter). I contacted [...]

I rode down to Curitiba (population 2.5 million) to stay with Reginaldo who has ridden twice down to the bottom of Argentina on a DR650 (bike like mine). We took my bike to a mechanic that used to own a DR650 for him to ride my bike and make sure the suspension was ok [...]