Riding across Alberta

Canmore is in a stunningly beautiful part of the world, the front range of the Rocky Mountains.  We take advantage of the time we have here to go see Banff and Lakes Louise and Moraine.  Nevil suggests we take the… Read More ›

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Concluding Colombia

Heather We had arrived in Colombia during their wet season and we were getting a real mix bag of weather. […]

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Walter and his 2CV

As we ride out of Asuncion the hovering storm clouds finally break open and spill out onto the land, drenching us completely at the edge of the city, and then for the next two hours.  Water creeps into absolutely every… Read More ›

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A Ferry Good Experience

Dan   Panama wasn’t greeted with the same excited expectation as all the other new countries we have visited. I […]

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Motorcycle Maintenance in Santiago

Several thousand miles of dirt, dust and sand, and some bad batches of fuel somewhere between Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and northern Chile have given Betty (my bike) a terrible cough.  She struggles to get up hills and has developed a… Read More ›

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If you’re tired of Buenos Aires, try harder

Villa La Angostura, Argentina [by Paula] We arrived in Buenos Aires on an overnight ferry, bleary-eyed and begging for more sleep, and things pretty much continued that way until we left a month later. BA is the kind of city that you gorge on until you feel a bit sick. So many atmospheric bars, quality […]

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Brian and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Brian does some much needed work on the bikes while we are staying with Roberto and family in Cuenca – including changing tires, changing brake pads, changing spark plugs, etc. He spends parts of 3 days changing all the tires… Read More ›

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Home from home

By Jeremy Put a few travellers in a room, add a beer, rum or vino to the equation and talk always turn to it. Could you live here? Everyone has had the feeling at some time or another, be it whilst whiling away the days in a hammock on a golden sandy beach, atop a […]

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Road days of our lives

La Paz, Bolivia [by Paula] We often berate ourselves for forgetting to properly record one of the most significant parts of this trip – those days on the road that, periodically, take so much of our time and energy. We’re not exactly rapid travellers – our daily average mileage over the last three years is […]

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Over the top

Cusco, Peru [by Paula] There was a time in our lives when we thought we were beach people. From our London desks we used to dream of building some little cabañas in Zanzibar or on the Pacific coast of the Americas, and living out the years with the sand between our toes. But one thing […]

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Boa Vista

If you want to learn a new language there’s no better way to do it than by taking a Kombi to a foreign country. You’ll find yourself in lots of long descriptive conversations and interactions with mechanics, auto part suppliers, tow truck drivers and other Kombi owners. Brazilian Portuguese is ridiculously hard for a non […]

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A transmission tragedy – abridged

by Paula You might have wondered how a broken van could possibly take 11 months to repair. We’ve frequently pondered that too. Now that we’re happily on our way again, lazing on a sun-kissed Peruvian beach, let’s have a little flashback. If you are not remotely interested, step away now because it’s not going to […]

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There’s no place like home

The beach, Peru [by Paula] When we blogged last week, to say that our van was back in the game after 11 months off the road, we mentioned that we had another enormous challenge to face before we could really get back into the road trip part of this journey. We’re over the moon to […]

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The post you thought we’d never write

Quito, Ecuador [by Paula] We’re back on the road again. No, we can’t believe it either! After 11 months off the road, the van is finally purring away happily and getting ready to turn south again. Having our home back is an incredible feeling. We’ve had some great digs while waiting, but we’d be lying […]

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Strictly come dancing

Cuenca, Ecuador [by Paula] A great many things have happened on this trip that could not have been predicted. In fact, the majority of happenings were not foreseen, but some are more surprising than others. So when I was standing watching Jeremy change from his jeans and t-shirt into an 11-piece Bolivian dancing outfit, including […]

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Rock ‘n roll nights

Jupapina, nr Mallasa, Bolivia [by Paula] We spent a day trying to decide where to go for the last portion of my brother’s visit. We could still make it to Peru for some trekking? Maybe pop over to Argentina? After Derek left, Jeremy I were either going to be scooting back up north to...
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Plan Z

Arequipa, Peru [by Jeremy] Travelling South America’s coastal highways and precipitous mountain roads, you experience a series of dizzying twists and sharp turns. Our own journey over the past few weeks has been more a series of switchbacks, diversions, u-turns and a few dead-ends. Next...
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Getting a life

Quito, Ecuador [by Paula] We’ve been getting a life recently. The more and more time we spend in Quito, the more it starts to feel normal to be living here. When we finally get back in the van there’s going to have to be a period of re-adjustment, but it’s one we’ll...
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Getting a life

Quito, Ecuador [by Paula] We’ve been getting a life recently. The more and more time we spend in Quito, the more it starts to feel normal to be living here. When we finally get back in the van there’s going to have to be a period of re-adjustment, but it’s one we’ll...
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Chasing robbers

Quito, Ecuador [by Paula] In the last couple of weeks, we’ve been chasing two types of robbers. The first, Ecuadorian customs, we are trying to outwit using the powers of logic, justice, and tenacity. The second, an actual daylight robber, we chased off a bus, down the street, then pinned...
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