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Re: Preparing To Leave Paula's niece, Josephine, turned five years old in April. Paula's sister and brother-in-law, Maryline and Dennis, have four children in total. Paula's niece, Madison, is one of twins. Sophia is the other half of the set of twins. In April, Paula's friend...

Preparing To Leave Autumn of 2012 - June 9, 2013 It took over four months for the motorcycle to arrive. That ruined any plans to leave that summer. Rocky was eager to start the repairs and fortunately we were offered a place to fix the bike at Dual Sport Plus. It's a local motorcycle shop...

Coming Back To Life Completion in November of 2012 Shipping The Bike Back To Canada Before leaving the shipping agency in El Salvador, we were told that the motorcycle would ship within a week and that, after it had, it would take around thirty days to reach port in Canada. Almost two...

Trip Expenses & Statistics August 20, 2011 - January 7, 2012 Budgeting In order to travel the distance and for the amount of time we had planned, it was important to maintain a strict budget. Food, lodging, parts and repair expenses, along with fuel costs and efficiency were monitored and...

Re: Back In Canada Paula, Brandon and Giovanni (in the background). Before we knew it, the summer was over and autumn had rolled around.

Re: Back In Canada In August, we went camping in Six Mile Lake Provincial Park with my brother, Jason, his wife, Andrea, and is daughter, Maddy. Jason is a master carpenter, taking after my father. Also like my father, Jason enjoys a cold beer or twelve, and that's just before breakfast...

Back In Canada January 14, 2012 - Fall of 2013 It was mid January when we had reached Toronto, Canada. We were immediately reminded of the freezing cold winter. We had contacted Rocky's brother Jason and his wife Andrea to pick us up from the airport and we were extremely excited to see them...

Re: The Accident After peeking between its legs, Paula informed the family that their cat was actually a male, and not a female as they had thought. After about a week of making arrangements, we found a shipping company that were willing to ship the motorcycle back to Canada. We rented a...

The Accident January 7 - January 14, 2012 When we left the beach, our first mission was to ride through San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador. It is known as one of the most dangerous cities in the world but it didn't feel scarier than any other city I have been to. We continued riding...

Re: El Salvador We stopped at a local corner shop so that Attilio could buy some cigars. The shop owner was this beautiful little old lady. Walking through town, we passed this interesting rammed-earth home. On our way back to Attilio's, we saw this guy sleeping in the streets. He was...

El Salvador December 30, 2011 - January 7, 2012 It was a really damp, cold ride through the mountains. We were on our way to El Salvador, but first, we had two quick stops to make. Antigua was a beautiful city and appeared to be upscale. It is a very popular tourist area because it is...

Re: San Pedro La Laguna Night time on the streets of San Pedro A corner shop in San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala We saw this child sitting in a tuk tuk at the side of the road with his older brother. Paula handed him the flower. Two sisters walk through the town square and turn heads...

San Pedro La Laguna December 30, 2011 - January 3, 2012 We left Guatemala City and we planned on bringing in the new year at Lake Atitlan. Just as we got into the outskirts of the city, we found ourselves in an interesting town with many steep streets. I only realized that we were lost when...

Guatemala December 22, 2011 – December 30, 2011 Our paperwork was organized and we were ready to cross the border. I wasn’t sure what to expect because entering Mexico had been so easy but entering the motorcycle was a bit more complicated. We were given some documents and a receipt when we...

Siro and Kim, an engaged couple from South Korea, arrived at Maria’s shortly after Paula and I. They had travelled all over Canada, the U.S. and Mexico by car. Robin (the backpacker from Canada whom we met in San Cristobal) and Stav (a backpacker from Israel) arrived at Maria’s shortly after...

Nearing Palenque, the land flattened out as we descended the mountainous region of Chiapas. We met Jelmar at the ruins of Palenque. He is from The Netherlands, and was backpacking across Mexico and Guatemala. Paula at the ruins of Palenque (another model pose) Palenque Tourists Flora...

The Yucatán (November 10 – December 21, 2011) We rode through lush mountain scenery for approximately five hours until we reached Palenque. Its a good thing that shopping isn’t practical on our trip, because Palenque is a really cute town with many shoe stores. More importantly though...

Jonathan usually started the morning with a either some form of alcoholic beverage, a marijuana cigarette and some yoga – sometimes all three. In the middle of changing the chain on my motorcycle, my chain press tool broke (probably my fault). I rode on the back with Oliverio to his friend’s...

San Cristóbal de las Casas (November 23 – December 10, 2011) We left Mazunte and planned on riding in the direction of San Cristobal de las casas, located in the state of Chiapas. After an hour and half of slow, windy roads divided by small towns and villages, the roads finally straightened...

After arriving in Valle de Bravo, we found a spot down by the lake to set up our tent. Paula and I watched the sunset and spent the night in this beautiful location. The sun setting on Lake Avándaro, in Valle de Bravo, Mexico After searching for a place to camp in the dark the night...