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December 20th, 2012 | Africa

Tomorrow’s the day…!!

I have spent the last few evenings sorting through the many files on my laptop in order to save stuff I wanted, and delete the stuff I no longer felt I needed…

After so many years on the road, I have accumulated reams of notes about things I either wrote about or places I had […]

June 13th, 2012 | Mexico

Hot Ride to One Hundred…!!

Today has been a very special day for me on my journey around the world…

Knowing that the border was not too far ahead, had me grinning into my helmet, but I would be entering the USA through neither of these two points…

Despite this being the Sonoran Desert, large tracts […]

June 12th, 2012 | Mexico

The Juaria of Hermosillo…

There was just the one road running north towards Hermosillo, and it led through the hot and windless Sonoran Desert…

Out of Sinaloa and into the state of Sonora, the final Mexican province I would ride through before entering the U.S.A. …

But this was not the typical desert that i had expected… […]

June 11th, 2012 | Mexico

Los Mochis and the Baja Bikers…

The media attention I received in Mazatlan had taken up much of the morning, and I had left the city at noon… You know…, the coolest time of the day…!!

Culiacan, the capital of the Sinaloa state, and a city you might do well to avoid…

With the sun burning my […]

June 11th, 2012 | Mexico

More Media in Mazatlan…!!

I had originally planned to make a big ride from Mazatlan to Hermosillo, but when I explained my plan to Paulo and Ismael, they first looked at each other and then peered closely at me to see if I was kidding or not…!!

“It is possible….”Paulo said at last, “but only for the very crazy…!! […]

June 10th, 2012 | Mexico

“Chico…!! Give dis man a gon…!!”

While Mexico has become synonymous with violence and drug wars between Mexican drug cartels, I had not seen or experienced any activities that made me believe I was in any danger…

The Remada Resort Hotel, on whose grounds Joe’s Bar and Grill is situated, was right across from my hotel…

The many people […]