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Trip duration: 225
days
Trip miles:
20,877
TRANS-AMERICAS
2005
OK,
so I'd done a few trips before but they'd left me with an voracious appetite for more. This then was the main-course, the
entree, the full roast beef with yorkshire pudding, the daddy, the main-event.
The concept?
Ride to the end-of-the-world (Tiera-del-Fuego), turn around and keep heading north until I burst.
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THE BIKE
Subject: Which bike was chosen,
why and what modifications were carried out.
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THE ROUTE
Subject: Which route was planned and
why...
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Update 2 : 22-Jan-05
Subject: Arriving Buenos Aires and reclaiming
the bike from customs
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Update 3 : 01-Feb-05
Subject: Departing Buenos Aires, staying
at the La Poste del Viajero en Moto in Azul, spotting fellow Brit motorbike in Rio Gallagos
Countries: Argentina
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Update 4 : 08-Feb-05
Subject: Arrive Ushusia, climb small
mountain overlooking Beagle Channel, arrive Puerto Natales
Countries: Argentina / Chile
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Update 5 : 17-Feb-05
Subject: Trekking and climbing in the
Torres del Paine National Park
Countries: Chile
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Update 6 : 01-Mar-05
Subject: Puerto Moreno glacier, heavy
crash on the Ruta 40, Carratera Austral and arrival on island of Chiloe
Countries: Chile / Argentina
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Update 7 : 17-Mar-05
Subject: Arrive Santiago, bike repairs
and long weekend in Valpariso
Countries: Chile
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Update 8 : 24-Mar-05
Subject: Navigate the Attacama
Desert, cross the Tropic of Capricorn, bed down in San Pedro de Attacama
Countries: Chile
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Update 9 : 01-Apr-05
Subject: High altitude entry into Bolivia,
cross the Salar de Ulyni and visit San Vicente (where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were killed)
Countries: Bolivia
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Update 10 : 15-Apr-05
Subject: North to Potosi, Sucre and
Cocochamba and La Paz - climb the 20,000ft Huyani Potosi
Countries: Bolivia
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Update 11 : 11-May-05
Subject: Ride the world's most dangerous
road, take a canoe into the Amazon basin, relax in Choique and tend to the bike
Countries: Bolivia
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Update 12 : 23-May-05
Subject: Cross into Peru, visit
Machu Pichu and meet up with fellow travellers, fly over the Nazca lines and head north to Quito
Countries: Bolivia / Peru / Ecuador
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Update 13 : 12-Jun-05
Subject: Fly myself and the bike to Panama,
speed through Central America and deal with a $9,000 ATM fraud
Countries: Panama / Costa Rica / Nicaragua
/ El Salvador / Honduras / Guatemala
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Update 14 : 24-Jun-05
Subject: Traverse Guatemala, ancient
Mayan ruins at Tikal, cliff divers in Acapulco and ferry to Baja
Countries: Guatemala / Mexico
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Update 15 : 07-Jul-05
Subject: Ride up the Baja pennisula,
enter the US and visit the Grand Canyon - small crash in California
Countries: Mexico / USA
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Update 16 : 29-Jul-05
Subject: Watch US MotoGP at Laguna Seca,
visit friends in San Francisco, engine problems in Seattle
Countries: USA
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Update 17 : 01-Sep-05
Subject: Transport the bike to the east
coast of US, repairs and family holiday
Countries: USA
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Update 18 : 12-Jan-06
Subject: Wrap up and current status
update
Countries: USA / UK
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