All done

As noted on our last blog post, it’s time to shutdown the JustGiving page for Shelterbox. Nearly £1,200 was raised so a huge thank you to you all. When will motonoodles ride again? We don’t know yet but we will…

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Coming home

A short post about our trip home followed by a few photos from the trip …….. After endless discussions we decided that Seattle was a good place to bring our journey through the Americas to a close. Various options had presented…

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School Report – The Arctic Circle then Home

Dear Children As Mr Pygott has already told you, Grumpy and I have ridden Bertie up to the Arctic Circle in Alaska. From the bottom of the world to the Arctic Circle we have ridden 40,000km which is like riding…

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The Alaska Marine Highway – The Inside Passage

Alaska motto – North to the future. One of the many highlights for us on this trip has been the various ferry journeys we’ve undertaken with Bertie. They’ve all been memorable for one reason or another but none have been…

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The Arctic Circle – Our final frontier …….

For over a week we had been waiting for the Dalton Highway to re-open after the flooding and finally we were in Fairbanks, the jump off point for the Highway. Jim went off to see Dan Armstrong at Adventure Cycleworks click…

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Alaska at last

  Our trek through Canada has taken us through Alberta, British Columbia and the Yukon, all vast open spaces. Taking the eastern access highway,  2 days riding from Edmonton saw us reach the official start of the Alaska Highway at…

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Travel Flexibility……

  Flexibility is vital when travelling for a prolonged period of time. We knew this before we left, had discussed it endlessly as we are both ‘green’ in personality we normally like to be organised, have an idea as to what will…

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School Report 10 – Canada and the Bears

Dear children We have now entered country 15, Canada. If you have a look at a world map or the globe you will see that Canada is joined to USA and has the longest international border in the world. It…

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Are we now on a holiday?

  After a few days of chores including washing our riding suits in San Diego and Los Angeles, we made use of the excellent interstate highways to move on to Las Vegas to meet up with our Italian friends Max…

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School Report 9

Man Made and Natural Wonders of the World There are things in our world that are truly amazing. They may be something that man has built or they may be something natural. Grumpy and I have been lucky to see…

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Time zones, Mexico and the Baja Peninsula

Firstly, apologies to our readers. This post should have gone up before ‘Culture shock USA – whoops, out of sequence, slap on wrist Jim ! Day 189…30,045 kms (by Jenny) Mexico has 3 time zones. Somehow we missed that bit…

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Culture shock USA

  Bowling down the freeway today from San Diego to Los Angeles we were momentarily in the shadow of a passing pick-up truck. I say pick-up truck but this thing (a Dodge I think) was called a ‘Big Horn Heavy…

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6 months

26/4/2015 – six months ago today we left the UK to start this trip. We are currently in Mexico and today we travelled from Zihuatanejo a pretty seaside town to Zamora, further inland, where the 2nd largest church in Latin…

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Bordering on insanity?

(this post is a little longer than most – just in case you want to make a coffee before reading it) It is well known amongst overland travellers with vehicles that Central American border crossings are a challenge. There are…

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Picking up the pace in Central America

Entering Costa Rica through the northern border we noticed an increase in the temperature and a rise in humidity together with an abundance of banana plantations and a change in the vegetation and flora. The road took us along the…

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Quite a week…. Colombia to Panama

Our last week in Colombia was spent in the atmospheric city of Cartagena. The old historic and preserved quarter rubs shoulders with the not so well preserved quarter of Getsemani, which we had made home for the week. It was…

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