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A restless, poorly timed decision that led me to buy a cheap Chinese copy of a small Suzuki motorbike in Santiago, Chile and take it over the Andes in the height of Winter and then a few miles more on the other side
A x-country tour of the United States from New England to the deep South, Great Plains, Rocky Mountains , Pacific Northwest, and Pacific Coast. All done on a 150cc scooter at 35 mph.
One happy go lucky former full time backpacker with next to next to no experience buys a cheap chinese motorbike in a half pie attempt to tame the Andes on a bike designed by someone who doesn't know where they are.
Challenge number one, getting a licence in Paraguay, Follow me in my adventure while I'm making it up on a motorbike!
We are taking a Trans-African Honeymoon two-up on our 150cc Big Boy Pizza Delivery motorbike. We have made it all the way to northern Kenya from South Africa, added extra kilometers by traveling full circle around Lake Victoria just for kicks and for the next 6 weeks we’ll struggle through Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt. It’s no BMW GS joyride but we get there Pole-Pole (slowly slowly in Swahili) and make sure to have ridiculous amounts of fun along the way.
Blogspot site about riding Honda Elite 125cc city scooters from Buenos Aires to Bariloche, and back in December 2010. We finished 2 years of Peace Corps in Paraguay and headed south on this 3,200+ kilometer, 3-week adventure in Argentina and Chile.
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