About 5 months on 2 wheels

Welcome to this resurrected 2001 travel log. The text and photos you will find here are extracted from the website I created and maintained in 2001 when Enric and I traveled by motorcycle the entire length of the Pan-American Highway.


We love to travel, and our 2001 adventure confirmed that you can learn everything you want to about life if you want to.

• How to fit 5 months of clothes into 2 side panniers
• What attitude to adopt when being pulled over by the military a minimum 2 times/ day.
• Surviving uncertain tense moments like challenging Colombian bureaucracy at the hostile Venezuelan/Colombian border crossing.
• Developing patience and faith when it takes 7 days to find a boat willing to take us and our motorcycle from Colombia to Panama (you can not drive across the isthmus)
• Growing even more patience when their is no wind to blow the sail and 200 short kilometers require 7 days of navigation.

For those of you who are re-visiting, or new ones who are just curious, I hope you find this site engaging, and with any luck, inspiring you on your own adventures. Here is the basic sketch of our trip:

• 26.000 km. Santiago, Chile to Ushuai, Tierra del Fuego (the southern most highway on the globe), and back north again.
• January 2001 we flew ourselves and our motorcycle to Santiago, Chile
• February-June 2001: We drove through: Argentina, Uruguay, Southern Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Western Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicercagua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico, and the US States of (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and finally Southern California).
• Thousands of experiences.

This blog is ordered chronological with more background information and photos at the end, which marks our trip's beginning.

Happy Birthday Enric! I wish you many years of travel!
Kelly