tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44535263334128309182024-02-20T03:28:41.726-08:00Travel the Road Sailed across the gulf in October 2012 on my restored 31ft sailboat. Sold it in Mexico. Bought a Honda 150cc & rode to Panama. Hired a 120' sailboat to take me and the bike to Colombia! Then rode through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Machu Pichu and into the Amazon Basin of Bolivia.. May 2014 Rode 5000 miles touring Grand Canyon and Yellowstone area of Wyoming and northern Idaho. Now Thirty Days in Asia..Thailand, Burma, Laos, and Vietnam.Dww0013http://www.blogger.com/profile/04209502811555963396noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453526333412830918.post-14029951688349233662018-08-10T03:31:00.000-07:002018-08-18T00:11:33.525-07:00Leaving the Azores and crossing 8 countries. Planes, trains and automobiles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-semibold"; font-size: 19pt; font-weight: bold;"> While waiting at the airport I trusted the ratings on booking.com and booked a hotel and ended up in a strange place the first night, called Residencial Lord. If it says residencial it’s not a hotel its a run down apartment where you can hear the person snoring in the room next to you. Luckily it was 1am when I arrived and I only had to spend a few hours there before moving to central Lisbon at Turim Restauradores where I stayed four nights right across from the Hard Rock cafe with a nice balcony overlooking the famous antique street trolly. Outstanding location and only $40 a night. The Portuguese food is incredible, the all you can eat churascos (grilled meat and veggies)for €7.5 euros (not $50 like fogo de chao in the states), and the Kebab huts are cheap and open late. The pizza is always good, but don’t get it at the Kebab place only get a kebab there but try the aioli (garlic mayo). The prices are good in Portugal by European standards. The beaches are incredible with lots of restaurants where you can sit have a coffee, people watch, and listen to the waves crash. Miles and miles of beaches. I was standing in the famous Comercio square when France beat Croatia in the World cup final. Talk about a bunch of crazy Frenchmen, the celebration lasted for days!!! Guys were climbing the lightpoles literally. Pure insanity. The next day I rented a 125cc scooter and rode the little thing on the major highway an hour and a half to Quinta de la Regaleira. <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinta_da_Regaleira"><span style="color: #e4af0a; font-size: 19pt;">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinta_da_Regaleira</span></a> weird and interesting place, supposedly part of the knights templar with ties to free masons. Made it back to Lisbon and Had a wreck on the scooter trying to visit the Torre de Belem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belém_Tower When I turned left a guy was passing on my left at 50 miles an hour. Luckily he only hit the front wheel. Said he didn’t see me. We filled out the insurance stuff and somehow no damage to the scooter. Dodged a bullet there, thank God! Needless to say I turned in the scooter called it a day and left Lisbon for Valencia Spain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-semibold"; font-size: 19pt; font-weight: bold;">Half way there the passenger car I was in had a problem. So they pulled us to a repair yard and while I was still in the car they lifted it off the track pulled out a set of four wheels, put in a new set, and lowered us back on to the tracks. Took two hours. Very entertaining. I shared a cabin with an engineer from Kiev named Sergei and even though he didn’t speak much english we had lots of communication. A picture tells a thousand words. We exchanged numbers and he put me in contact with a part time tour guide friend of his in Kiev. So After a 28 hour train from Bucharest to Kiev. I bought a sim card for unlimited everything for $4.00. Booked airbnb entire apartment for $25 a night near city center with Marina. She met me at the door showed me the amazing apartment and gave me the keys. I then called and met Lena at 6pm for a city tour. There is zero english spoken here. Thank God for Lena. Nicest person ever. She went to school to be a Kiev tour guide but works in a highrise at a bank and only guides part time. Had a great afternoon and she refused to take my money?? Today is July 8th. Have another tour scheduled today at 6pm with Lena. Having a blast here. The food is too cheap and really high quality. A salmon dinner at a restaurant is $3.50. Uber anywhere in the city is $2.00. Bought a 1 pound filet mignon and 1 pound bone in ribeye for $3.00. My apartment has an amazing kitchen, high-speed internet, a grocery store down stairs, a 5 minute walk to Guliver center, and the fountains. Weather is 70 degrees. I have friends here. I’m never leaving...it’s been a wild ride, but I have a long way to go. </span></div>
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Out of breath climbing the Caldeira in Horta</div>
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Saying good bye to the Atlantic!</div>
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Hello to Lisbon. 1€uro gets you up and down the hill </div>
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Antique trolley near my hotel to get you up the steep hill. </div>
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Lisbon tower. Nice view from the top I hear. Line was too long though.</div>
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Notice the guy climbing the light pole after France beat Croatia in the world cup!</div>
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Lisbon at the Plaza. Nice relaxing place</div>
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Castle of st. George in lisbon. I stole these 5 pics from google to show you because my phone died and I have no pictures.</div>
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Waiting at the bus station to leave for Lisbon for Valencia</div>
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Valencia - Silk trade era castle</div>
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Valencia - Old city</div>
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Bull fighting is popular in Valencia Spain</div>
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Out of breath after a 30 kilometer bike ride. My chain kept coming off every five minutes until I finally called and asked for a replacement. Took them an hour<br />
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El Trompo Dos Lunas Beach Valencia Spain</div>
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Fried cuttle fish. Not bad</div>
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Paella on the beach at El Trompo</div>
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Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona</div>
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Sagrada Famila. Began construction in 1852 and they are still working on it. </div>
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Trying Indian food in Spain</div>
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Jam Hostel in Spain</div>
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Ready to take on the Romans!</div>
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The colisseum at night was a good start to my visit!</div>
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The statue of </span><span style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "nimbus sans l" , "arial" , "liberation sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Laocoön and His Sons</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "nimbus sans l" , "arial" , "liberation sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">, also called the </span><b style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Nimbus Sans L", Arial, "Liberation Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">Laocoön Group</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "nimbus sans l" , "arial" , "liberation sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> (</span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_language" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Nimbus Sans L", Arial, "Liberation Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Italian language">Italian</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "nimbus sans l" , "arial" , "liberation sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">: </span><span style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "nimbus sans l" , "arial" , "liberation sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="it" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gruppo del Laocoonte</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "nimbus sans l" , "arial" , "liberation sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">), has been one of the most famous ancient sculptures ever since it was excavated in Rome in 1506 and placed on public display in the Vatican,</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Nimbus Sans L", Arial, "Liberation Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 0.75em; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laoco%C3%B6n_and_His_Sons#cite_note-2" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[2]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "nimbus sans l" , "arial" , "liberation sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> where it remains. It is very likely the same statue praised in the highest terms by the main Roman writer on art, </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Nimbus Sans L", Arial, "Liberation Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Pliny the Elder">Pliny the Elder</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "nimbus sans l" , "arial" , "liberation sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Nimbus Sans L", Arial, "Liberation Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 0.75em; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laoco%C3%B6n_and_His_Sons#cite_note-3" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[3]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "nimbus sans l" , "arial" , "liberation sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> The figures are near life-size and the group is a little over 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in height, showing the Trojan priest </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laoco%C3%B6n" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Nimbus Sans L", Arial, "Liberation Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Laocoön">Laocoön</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "nimbus sans l" , "arial" , "liberation sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> and his sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus being attacked by sea serpents.</span></div>
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Tapestries. One of my favorite exhibits.</div>
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Michaelangelos Cistene chapel painted in 1508. He had a rivalry going with jealous Raphael. Raphael convinced the pope to make michaelangelo paint the chapel in a plaster form in hopes he would mess it up because he was more of a sculptor than a painter. So michaelangelo hid the ceiling from the pope with sheets and scaffolds. Until he was done and everyone was stunned by his work.</div>
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Having dinner as the ferry arrives. It departed at 10:30 pm. I was late boarding and the people on the top deck started cheering for me to run. I guess I was holding up the boat. I took a bow, and apologized. Lol</div>
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Croatian word list. Which is spoken in Bosnia and Serbia so it was very useful.</div>
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The boardwalk in Split on the Adriatic sea. Beautiful.</div>
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The Roman archways still exist in the old market area.</div>
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Marina in Split Croatia</div>
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View drom my hostel Sarajevo</div>
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View from my room Sarajevo</div>
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Tunnel of Hope tour Sarajevo</div>
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Home that was the site of the tunnel entrance</div>
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Our guide explaining the land mines. He was 16 years old when the war started.</div>
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Bosnian tea and turkish delight On our tour </div>
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They used the winter olympics map during the war</div>
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Bobsled track Sarajevo 1987 winter olympics</div>
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1987 Sarajevo winter olympics bobsled track</div>
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Appetizer in Sarajevo</div>
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Dinner in Sarajevo</div>
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The different energy drink art tells a lot about a country</div>
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Bucharest Parliament building</div>
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Coffee in old town Bucharest</div>
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Bucharest historic building</div>
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Lunch at La Plaćinte</div>
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Bucharest old city stilt square dance </div>
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Bucharest old city mime taking turns doing skits</div>
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Sarurday at the old city bucharest</div>
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Bucharest bronze gypsy sculpture</div>
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Bucharest train starion mcdonalds</div>
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Desert. So hot on the train it was melting the chocolate.</div>
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My lunch on the train</div>
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Passenger car hallway</div>
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Picking up passengers along the way</div>
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Massive stork nest</div>
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Repair yard halfway between Bucharest and Kiev</div>
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The workers fed this dog a bunch of bones</div>
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The train is lifted 4 feet off the tracks</div>
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Working on the train</div>
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Repair yard</div>
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Kiev main train station</div>
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My sleeper cabin on the train</div>
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Working on rolling the new wheels under my car</div>
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Lunch at the train station while I wait on my airbnb </div>
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Famous cat mosaic sculptures in Kiev</div>
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My homemade pizza cost me $3.00. Food is so cheap</div>
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The seasonings are 10cents a piece</div>
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27 Hyvrnia per dollar </div>
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My walk to the apartment in Kiev</div>
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Lunch (hand made Ukranian dumplings) at gulliver center $4.00</div>
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Lena on the walking tour first day in Kiev</div>
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<br />Dww0013http://www.blogger.com/profile/04209502811555963396noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453526333412830918.post-23159684281796740232018-07-13T05:08:00.000-07:002018-07-18T10:16:17.761-07:00Crossing the Atlantic Finale Bermuda to the Azores
Atlantic crossing - Bermuda to the Azores
Passage Day 1
Day one was a bit of a disaster at first. We put up the main and Mizzen sails with following seas. Which made it very rolly. Then we put up the jib but the main was blocking its wind. So we steered back up wind to get the main down and strapped it down and we begin to sail with just the jib and mizzen making 5-7 knots.
I then begin to get my expected nausea. But so did Aleks and Dan. It was very rough with 20 knot winds and we were used to a protected anchorage, this caused us to all feel a bit queasy. But the boat was stable and we were headed in the right direction. I didn’t eat for the first day and took my nausea medicine. Laid down and watched the sails and listened to the sounds of the boat and waves. I like to get in tune with the sounds of the boat, so when I hear a pop or a snap or a bang or a creak, or squeak I hadn’t heard before I know something is going or went wrong. It’s like the boat becomes a part of you. I didn’t feel 100% confident in the boat. It is a 40 year old boat with no major refit ever done. The hour meter on the engine quit working at 8120 hours. None of the fuel gauges worked and there were no alarms for oil or water. The sails were in good shape but I noticed some of the cleats were wobbly and loose and the winches needed work badly. The halyards were thick and the wrong size making them hard to cleat off. Then comes the bug surprise. I first noticed Dan wasn’t cleating off the lines properly which was a bad sign. Then when I said we should tack Dan said “whats that???” My heart started racing..was this a language barrier misunderstanding? No!! He didn’t know what a tack was! And when we went to tack he oversteered and jibed the boat ripping the boom from my hand as I tried to hold on to slow it and prevent all the hardware from being ripped off the boat, I strained my right hand badly and could barely use it. I talked with Dan and realized he hadn’t sailed much more than Florida to Bermuda. On the good side he was an expert diesel mechanic and had worked commercial fishing boats. But it was a little unnerving finding out I was the most experienced sailor on the boat, which is not what I wanted to find out after we set sail. So from then on Dan gave me the helm when we made tacks and I showed him the proper sail configurations. I had never sailed a ketch but it was pretty much like having a second mast. You can’t see the masts from inside the pilot house so going down wind you risk an accidental jibe. And the helm up on the deck was too dangerous offering no protection or stability. Thank goodness we had an efficient autopilot. Dan turned out to be an excellent captain before this trip would be over.
Passage Day two
The next morning I helped Aleks attach the reel to the stansion post and we rigged up one of the lures. Within an hour I was reeling in a 75 pound marlin. I got him all the way to the boat but there was no gaff on the boat. So I tried to muscle him in by grabbing his bill but broke the line right as I grabbed it. What a beautiful fish. The adrenaline got me going and I began to feel normal again. Then we got another fish on. This time it was a three foot ribbon fish. I threw him back. We had no fish so we had beef tips, rice and corn for dinner. Dan is constantly checking the sat phone weather. You can pick a waypoint on the ipad map and get the wind speed and direction and chance of rain at that location. And you could send and receive texts. So a lot of our weather updates came from friends via texts.
Passage Day three
Its Thursday the 21st 10:00 pm everyone is asleep and I’m on watch for the next four hours. All is well. We are now making 3.5 knots SOG and the autopilot is doing its job hut Dan seems to think its clutch is getting weak. There is a heavy mist outside making the whole boat wet, and the wind is howling through the rigging. Phosphorous disburses through the waves. And a red light keeps the cockpit aglow. Outside clouds build off the starboard bow but no lightning. Yet..
Passage Day four
I did my four hour watch. Woke Aleks up at 3:00 am and I hit the hay. At 7:00am Dan was hollering David we need to change the jib to the bigger one. We are only doing 4.5 knots. So I went forward and Aleks lowered the sail as Dan pointed the boat upwind. I released all the hanks from the small jib and hanked on the big jib. Secured the sheet to the winch and cleat it and the boat took off. We Started to make 6-7 knots. I made breakfast and coffee. Always a fun task at sea. I usually try to brace myself between the galley post and cabinet. I make coffee then oatmeal and Aleks helps me serve it up. I laid back down for a while only to hear Fish, Fish !! From Dan. The reel was screaming Aleks grabbed my gloves and I started to tighten the drag. I let it play itself out behind the pull of the boat. It finally gave up and I reeled it to the side of the boat and Aleks gaffed it with his home made gaff of two large hooks, screws and gorilla tape, and a mop-stick. It worked and we landed It a beautiful 15 pound Mahi Mahi. I filleted it out. Aleks cut it up and put it in baggies and I served it pan fried with a light crust, mashed potatoes and peas. What a Day! Its 10pm now on Friday the 22nd of June and I’m whipped. Just standing up straight is a work out! We’ve averaged 110 miles per day since we left. The wind and waves have been in our favor and the outlook is good from what Dans Swedish friends have texted him on his sat phone. So we are just praying the wind holds out. 270 down 1430 miles to go!
Passage Day five
It’s 6:00am and I stood watch last night until 2:00am. Aleks hands me a plate with two huge pizza wedge shaped slices of his signature Spanish omelette. Had green beans, onion and potatoes inside and cooked to perfection. I scarfed it down and went back to bed for an hour or two. Then I helped Dan put up the main and set a preventer line on the boom. Aleks wash dishes with seawater on the aft deck. We watched dolphins swim toward the boat in some kind of feeding frenzy, that didn’t last long. Then a boat popped up on AIS named Trendy and was approaching rapidly on our stern. Dan hailed him on the VHF and he answered and they talked for a minute and asked if we had everything we needed. We said yes and they said they would be passing closely soon and give us a wave. We hadn’t seen anyone in several days. The boat was a 1/2 billion dollar mega yacht. Then the captain hailed again and Dan told me to talk. The captain asked again about our provisioning and I told him we were okay as far as we could tell. He gave us a weather update and said it would be the same for the next five days. He said they would arrive in 5 days and we told him we will be there in three weeks. Nice guy and we wished each other a safe passage. Made us all feel a little better knowing someone in the middle of the Atlantic was willing to help if necessary. I fried pork-chops and made creamed carrots and fried potatoes with onion gravy and white cheddar for dinner. We relaxed for a while. Aleks and I played go fish and crazy eight til 9:30 and I took the first night watch. I decided to put out a whisker pole on the jib to reduce the luffing, and Dan came out to help. We had it in place and he was heading back to adjust the tension on the winch when he kicked the vent box and broke his pinky toe. It was sticking out to one side. It’s also the first time I’ve ever heard Dan speak in Swedish, but I don’t think I want to know what he was saying. It’s swollen and looks bad. But he said it doesn’t hurt too bad! He said he’s going to the doctor when he gets to Horta. Its been slow going today at sea only averaging four knots. But we’re moving and in the right direction. Slowly but surely.
Passage Day six
Its 2:18 am Tuesday the 26th of June. We are in 30 knot winds and we have a double reefed main a mid sized storm sail and our mizzen out. We are doing 8-10 knots. From inside my v-berth it sounds like a war is taking place out there. The hull is jumping side to side and up and down, the spray and white cap of the 10 foot swells sounds like a tornado. Occasionally a rogue wave slaps the side of the hull and it sounds like a stay popped apart. The swells look like mini mountains as the catch the boat and lift it high into the air. The boat lays over and the white wash and phosphorous spray into the air. All while the moon sits peacefully in the distance almost like its enjoying the show. The wind howls through the stays and swishes across the deck and the vibrations of the crashing waves to the hull make you cringe. We are headed east toward the Azores. And we still have 1100 miles to go.
So I’ve skipped a few uneventful days. We are still sailing east now but we had to tack north 80 miles then go back east. Dans toe is in bad shape. He has a swelling sock on it to keep it down. We are making good time now but a low pressure area is ahead for us and the wind will drop from 21 to 16 knots by 5 pm today the 26th of June. I hope water and food hold up if we get into a headwind or a dead calm. As of right now we are ahead of schedule having come 650 nautical miles in 6 days. The boat is holding up well in the massive swells. We are mid-Atlantic now and the weather can be heavy and unpredictable.
We left at 2:00 pm on the 20th so we are three hours into our ninth day at sea today is Thursday at 5:00 pm. I taughtAlex how to make home made tortillas and we had that for lunch. He tried making rice with sea water. We all agreed it was bad too salty. We ate it any way. We’ve only mad 24 miles in as many hours toward the Azores. The wind changed directly at us. So we sailed south then back north for a full day. We are looking good now and by Saturday we should be in good position for a northern approach to the Azores.
Aleks read a book about Jimmy Buffet to learn about Americans but ended up learning more about himself. So he wrote a long letter and he plans to send it to him in admiration of the book. Dan has been focused on the navigating. He’s now started to read a book. I just read my Bible, listen to my podcasts and my music. I cook all the dinners which is nice. Having spam casserole tonight. Lol. Yummm! ( in a casserole pan, 1 layer of onions, one layer of round thin potatoe slices, 1 layer spam slices, 1 layer velveeta slices, salt pepper repeat another layer then bake 1 hour at 350). I’ve learned that comfort food makes us all a lot happier at sea!
Passage Day 12 July 2,2018
I was in a deep sleep, when awakened by Aleks voice. “Whales whales, David whales!”
I grab my Nikon p900 fling off the lens cover and run to the starboard hatch to see two huge gray whales swimming within 6 feet alongside our boat? Blowing as they surfaced each time. Beautiful creatures and so docile and peaceful. More off the stern could have been as many as twelve. It was hard to say. They stayed close for a few minutes before we slowly pulled away from them. Aleks tried to lure them back with his yukalele but to no avail.
The day was slow and we read books and listened to music talking occasionally. Which has pretty much become the routine. The wind is light and the boat is moving slow. Dans friends are telling him there is a high building northwest of us and will probably move southeast so he is concerned. Could cause a problem if it hits us. I am waiting to hear from Steve. If he tells me to be concerned then I may be but until then I am going to hope for the best. We are still 804 nautical miles from Horta in the Azores.
Passage day 13 Tuesday July 3rd
Woke up and played scrabble with Aleks. He made us oatmeal patties with egg bacon and cheese. Thats a first and a last. We struggled to keep between 39 and 40 degree longitudes, which seems to be where the only wind is at. There is a low to our north (too much wind) and a high to our south (no wind). We only made 45 miles in 24 hours and hope to be close enough on Saturday that when the Low hits us the north wind will blow us south toward the aZores. The sun was setting and Dan was smoking on the port side hatch when he said “I heard a whale”. I look over and boy was it a whale. Had to be 35 foot long and almost as big around as the boat. It surfaced 15 feet off the port stern. I was instantly nervous. This thing could sink us if he slapped the rudder off. He stayed close by for half an hour before turning off to the North. Dan was relieved and so was I. A whale that size could do some damage if he wanted to. Dan won’t let us whistle on the boat. As a Swedish fisherman it’s a superstition. When you whistle you’re asking for a wind storm.
Shortly after the whale sighting a Pod of dolphins stirred up the waters around the boat and quickly disappeared. Then a sailboat that had been following us on AIS for a while finally turned south. Thought they would follow is all the way to the Azores. All the excitement is over for now.
Passage Day 16 July 6th
What a couple of days it has been. We were being chased by a storm for the past two days. We were able to see the lightning and out run it for a while and take advantage of the winds but our luck finally ran out last night when it caught up to us. Aleks and I were playing cards in the pilot house when I noticed the lightning strikes light up the night sky. And I felt the wind pick up and instantly we hit 9 knots boat speed. We had the largest jib poled out with the whisker pole and the main was all the way out as was the mizzen. We had to get the pole off in 20 plus knot winds. It was a job even for three men. We got it and put up the storm jib up and took down both the main and the mizzen. We were hit with 30 plus knot winds. The swells increased to ten feet. There were a few times were hit with waves and it sounded like someone took a sledged hammer and pounded the hull. The boat leaned over so far I thought the mast would hit the water. Spray was going over one side of the boat to the other. It was a bad feeling. I prayed a lot. When the storm passed we sustained no major damage other than a messy salon and we had an easy day of five knots steady. We have all the sail back up and 500 miles to get to the Azores.
I have learned a lot about my shipmates on this trip. Dan is from a coastal town in southwest Sweden. He comes from a long line of ancestral fisherman although he retired as a marine diesel mechanic and traveled on ships all over the world. Even from as far as Japan to Africa. He’s never been married and he’s 49 years old and retired. He’s all business but a lot of fun to be around and knows all kinds of funny facts about things makes us laugh a lot. He’s a straight forward meat and taters kind of guy. He jokes “ My dream was to buy a boat in Sweden and sail it to Florida some day. Instead I bought a boat in Florida and I’m sailing it to Sweden”.
Aleks is from a small town in Latvia. A very smart guy. Knows a lot about everything. Having grown up in a small town and got into a few fights when he was out numbered he’s been through some rough times. He went to marine college and worked as a tanker-man and he’s crossed the Atlantic a few times on ships. He once saw a guy lose his leg when a mooring line snapped and decided at he age of 21 that it would be his last job on a tanker. So he packed up his bags and left for Spain. Nine years later and having lived in Colombia and Venezuela he is finally headed home. He is now a self proclaimed Shaman, actor, and Ukulele player and speaks Spanish better than he speaks Latvian. He married a Cali Colombian girl from New York in Cali but it didn’t work out. He has taken Ayahuasca 40 times. He carries his tobacco paraphernalia and snorts it through an antler looking thing and uses a bone to cook and pulverize the tobacco. He’s a hard worker and has very strong opinions. He has lived without money for a long time. He’s out to make the world a better place and searching for the best way. I’m glad he’s aboard the boat even if he did try to eat everything on the boat in the first week. Guess thats what happens when you’ve spent nine years on the verge of starvation. I really like him. He’s fun to be around.
Passage Day 19 July 9, 2018
Yesterday I caught a small Durango (amberjack) just big enough to feed the three of us. Aleks went out on the back deck to do the dishes and called out fish fish. We reeled it in and grilled it up with some black-eyed peas. He asked me to keep it a secret from captain Dan so he could surprise him with “the fish song” on his Ukulele as we brought out the prize catch from the galley on a plate. He made up the song a half hour before. I can’t remember the words. Dan didn’t seem impressed it, but doesn’t show emotion much anyway.
Cooking is always fun on the boat. You have to wash dishes in salt water with a bucket on the back deck. Drop the small metal pale over the side and fill the larger orange bucket. The soap really never suds up in salt water. Wash and rinse and carry them into the galley in a mesh shopping bag. Rinse and hand dry in the sink. Aleks was soaking a bread pan over night in the orange bucket. A storm moved passed and we were securing things and I tossed the water out pan and all! Oops. Down to one bread pan. That’s okay. Only 160 miles to go and motoring ... no wind. We can be there in 24 hours at this pace. What a ride its been. I’m sitting here listening to a 1991 Garth brooks CD on a 1995 laptop if that tells you anything. They say sailing is 90% boredom and 10% sheer terror and I’ve found that to be pretty accurate. Dolphins, nearby boats, the occasional FISH!, and dinner are the highligts of our day. I’ve listened to 20 podcasts watched 10 youtube red offline sailing videos, read three books, and listened to every song on my iphone four times, played 20 games of rummy, and yaniv. We even started a new way to play scrabble with the only rules being you can’t use words in the dictionary and they have to make sense. Unless the other player objects which never happens. Alohwatitititito was one word that scored triple word and Aleks claimed meant aloha in portuguese! Aleks almost lost on that word alone. The player with the most points loses and the objective is to have fun. We’ve been out here waaay too long.
Passage day 20 July 10 2018
Today was interesting. Aleks and I had an all out Christianity battle. I firmly believe we are called to be in places and situations for a reason and I will leave it at that. We are now 90 miles from shouting “Land Ho”! Ilha Do Faial is just ahead and is a part of the Portuguese Azores island chain 900 miles from the coast and Lisbon Portugal. Dan will most likely leave the boat and fly home for a much needed break, Aleks is flying to Stockholm to spend quality time with his parents who he hasn’t seen in four years and only twice in nine years. I am flying to Lisbon and then I’ll meet up with a friend in Greece. This has been one heck of a ride. I’m glad I did it! As I look of the port side down into the water I’m reminded of just how magical the ocean is. The phosphorous glows as the boat makes a gentle wake. It looks like hundreds of fireflies momentarily light up the sea as we pass by. Then they fade behind and more light our way. The fish startled by our passing dart off in another flash of underwater glow and it makes the entire sea look like electricity is arcing throughout the ocean around us in an array like lightning trickling just beneath the surface. Especially when the dolphins come at night you don’t even see them but The phosphorus makes it look like greenish blue missiles are spinning underwater all around the boat. It’s quite a show and I’m mesmerized by it.
Passage Day 22
We made it!! 22 Days at sea and 1768 Nautical miles. Thank you Jesus!! There were times I was not so sure I would be typing this message from the Horta Marina. We arrived at 3:00 Am. We tied up to a massive yacht at the harbor masters request and woke up the owner who helped us with the lines and bumpers. When I stepped only land I couldn’t stop the swaying. We slept two hours and headed to customs and checked in then went to eat at Peters sport Cafe. After breakfast We had to move our boat to a spot along the wall in the marina where a nice guy helped us with the lines who had seen us arrive at 4am. We then headed to Laundry, showers, and electrical adapter shopping. Had the best shower of my life. (We had showered with a bucket of saltwater on the back deck and sponge baths for a month to conserve water.) Horta is an amazing little flemish inspired town. Really friendly and helpful people. Around 3:00 pm we had another boat tie up to our boat and they ended up being the couple that sailed out of Bermuda the same day we did on the 20th of June. What are the odds. Nice German couple!
Looking forward to meeting and talking with other sailors who have also fulfilled this amazing dream of getting across the Atlantic Ocean on a sailboat. I’ve always had a dream of crossing an ocean, and I’m elated that we made it! Such an amazing experience. One I will never forget!
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Fill the stainless kettle. Close the lid so it’ll whistle. Turn the burner to high, light it with the lighter and hold the knob in til it stays lit. Bring it to a boil. Take out the bacon and lay out eight slices in the nonstick pan. Cook the eggs sunny side up in the bacon grease. Throw in a cut up leftover boiled potato from last night and fry it. Toast the bread in the pan. The kettle begins to whistle. Add five scoops of folgers Colombian coffee then fill the lid with cold water and dump it in and the grinds will sink to the bottom. Dan is at the table on the aft deck. Ah this looks good. I pour the coffee slowly so not too many grains go into the cup. The air is cool and the mood is tense. Dan is focused on his plan for the day. Its a big day.
We load the laundry, the water bladder, and dans bag into the dinghy. I stay at the laundry mat and Dan takes the bus to Hamilton. The machine is broke. Not taking cash. The ladies tell me to take #6 to St. Davids by the airport, theres another laundromat. I wait for the bus and make friends with a man with a beard and a cane named Mike. Said his mom was at a dance in New Jersey laughed and out he popped which is how he has dual citizenship?! I get on the bus, pay and tell the driver I’m going to St. Davids and to stop at the laundromat. He says you gotta tell me when to stop its not my job. Mike says I’ll show you. But the driver has a change of heart and stops anyway, okay go down the street. You’ll see a hole in the fence go through it and down the dirt path. It comes out at the laundromat. When you come back stand on the street below and a bus will come at 11:40. I thanked him. Laundry done and cutting it close I rush to the bus stop. A lady pulls up in an suv. Do you need a ride? Yeah! Going to st. George? I’ll take you. She says the bus is unpredictable. We chat for a while. Tell her thanks. I whatsapp Dan and meet him at the dinghy. We row back for lunch. He leaves me at the boat to go get Aleks from the airport while I take a food inventory and make fresh bread. Two hours later the dinghy pulls up and its Aleks! He had been stranded at sea with just he and an English captain in Barbados. Missed his flight and had to book another. But he was finally here. He’d been through a lot. I helped him with his backpack, made him a cup of coffee and a sandwich with hot bread fresh out of the oven. We talked a while then heard someone whistle. Dan was back and needed a row. We had a discussion about the provisioning. Then departed the boat in the dinghy. Headed to Hamilton the big city. Bought groceries amounting to $600. Packed it all in three back packs, one with wheels. Bus was an hour and a half wait. So we chipped in with some Seattle Americans and a local on a $60 taxi van back to St. Georges since the bus was still an hour wait. Got back to the boat and put everything away. Its 11pm and we are leaving in the morning.
Wow today is the day. As I type this from the deck of the boat we are waiting in line to top off the fuel and add water. After that theres no turning back. For 21 days at sea. We will be at the mercy of the wind and the waves. Its windy and the weather looks good for he next week. Zoloft and his wife are just ahead of us. He atmosphere is good. We are going to have a good trip. I’ll see you all on the other side! A dios!
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Waking up on a boat, starts your day off right. It’s 5:30 am, the sun is up and it seems later. Made my bed and my way up to the deck. Its a cool morning here in St. Georges Harbour A.K.A. “Convict Bay” where the waters are crystal clear like glass in the morning, a nicely protected anchorage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">It was named after the British used obsolete warships as floating prisons during the American revolution in 1799 and 1824 and towed them here. (I can’t think of a better place to be imprisoned). After the departure of the navy ships and felons, Convict's Bay became a residential neighborhood but kept the street names as reminders. Convict's Lane, Barrack Street, Old Military Road, Grenadier, and Red Coat Lane.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"> Most sailors here at St. Georges Harbor came from the U.S. and are also trying to escape and make their way to the Azores. All of us are awaiting weather windows. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"> I hear Dan stirring below and the coffee begins to waft through the air outside the galley. Its Sunday; as we enjoy our morning coffee we hear a siren. It a huge 35 foot trawler making its way directly at us. Would you like a blessing this morning the priest hollers from the foredeck of the boat dressed in a magenta cassock with his two clergymen at his side? Sure we said. He began “Bless O Lord this Vessel and all who sail her; may she be a trustworthy and safe servant. In the name of the Father son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.” And the holy water splashed against the boat as he slung it from the bowl. I felt safer and at peace as he said Amen. Like time stood still for a moment. It was the beginning of another good day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"> We rowed to shore got on a bus, rode to the big city of Hamilton to the Phoenix pharmacy and a couple of souvenir shops. Walking around I bought deck shoes a straw hat, and two keychains. One said “come back to Bermuda” in the shape of a boomerang. Ate a slice of pizza in the park, fed the birds the crust and bought a bus ticket back to St, Georges since the ferry was closed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"> Rowed back. Turkey sandwiches on wheat for lunch. Dan rowed off to the Canadian sailor who loaned him her rigging tensioner. “What’re you bringin her?” “Nothing” “you gotta bring her something as a thank you. Take potatoes”. Returning he said “she loved the potatoes.” She’d sailed from Canada to the Azores, Europe, back to Trinidad, up the Caribbean islands to Cuba over to Bermuda on her way back to Canada and she did it alone in a 30’ boat...I’m jealous. As darkness fell a huge motored dinghy pulled along side. Hey, I’m Thomas. “Looking for an opportunity to cross he Atlantic and heard you were looking for crew.” He said he’d come back in the morning to talk. We didn’t tell him, but Aleks is scheduled to land at 3:00pm but theres still no guarantee. So we agreed to meet him in the morning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"> Had an awesome roastbeef and potato dinner. Crashed early. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"> Woke up at 6am, took a dive into the ocean while Dan made Grüt (groot) swedish for oatmeal! It’s become a routine aboard Resö. Its not bad slathered in Nutella or raspberry jelly. Goes well with the grainy black coffee...</span><span style="font-family: ".applecoloremojiui"; font-size: 17pt;">😛</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"> Thomas arrives and comes aboard. We tell him the truth about the situation with Aleks and he understands. Turns out he’s crossed the Atlantic three times and he’s only 25 born and raised in Bermuda. Looks exactly like Riley from Sailing La Vagabonde. Cool guy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"> We Rowed to town and I bought stuff for baking bread and pancakes. Went to the museum and looked around. Everything was still closed due to the holiday. It’s Bermuda National Hero’s Day...I love these people and everyone of them and their dog was in the bay today. Yesterday all day in town they wished me happy fathers day I bet ten times. Genuinely kind and sincere folks here in Bermuda. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Came back to the boat put up the sails and inserted all the battens into the sails and velcroed them in. Replaced the sail covers Dan ran the engine to top off the batteries. Crickets are chirping sun is setting music is playing on a boat nearby, Dan is starting dinner. Tomorrow we provision the boat top off the water and fuel and meet Aleks! Woohoo! Its gonna be a good day!</span></div>
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<br />Dww0013http://www.blogger.com/profile/04209502811555963396noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453526333412830918.post-57276626340782332662018-06-16T21:30:00.000-07:002018-06-18T04:06:36.687-07:00Atlantic Crossing - Bermuda to the Azores #1<div style="color: #454545; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Woke up at 2:30 am snoozed it twice, finally got into the shower at 2:45 and realized dad was up sitting at the kitchen table. Asked him what he was doing up? He’d only slept an hour but wanted to tell me bye and see me off. Got dressed grabbed my two backpacks that looked like I put an air hose in them and blew them up. Gave dad a hug cranked the truck and honked as I drove away watching him wave me off. It was 3:00am. Made the hour and ten minute drive to the airport. Only to find that the spot two on Will Clayton was reservations only, so I headed over to Ecopark on JFK and punched the button for a ticket. Followed the signs around, parked and hopped on the shuttle to terminal E. Waited for a few others to get on the bus who weren’t sure what terminal they were flying out of, I knew it was going to be a long day. Two and a half hours wasn’t going to cut it. I’d have to sleep on the plane.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"> Made it through security and to gate E18 and checked my Pass-rider app to see if I could get on...no-way. I was number 44 on the standby list and there were only 22 available seats to EWR (Newark). So I cancelled the flight and paid out of pocket $562.00. So much for flying free. Went ahead and booked the connection from Newark to St. Georges airport jn Bermuda. I was just ready to get there and I knew Dan was ready, so I didn’t want to keep him wandering if I was actually going to show up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"> Slept a couple of hours even though the kid next to me kicked me every five minutes, at least her dad apologized about it as we were exiting the plane. Hopped on as a passrider to Bermuda with ease. Got off the plane and there was Dan saying hello with his thick Swedish accent and bright eyed smile ear to ear. Shook his hand, he took one of my two backpacks and off we went to the bus stop. I really didn’t know him at all. Seemed like a nice guy and we made small talk as we waited for the bus. He paid the fee and we hopped on. Got off ten minutes up the road, walked across the street as I was almost ran over by a car. Forget they drive on the opposite side here. So look right first not left. Dan grabbed the dingy, rowed over and I made my way down the concrete stairs and stepped in. No motor on the dinghy??? Wow. Rowed to the 38’ Nauticat. A 1979 ketch rigged pilot house motor yacht. With no major refit in the last fifteen years. Stepped aboard and I put my stuff in the v-birth forward of the galley. It’s one sturdy looking boat. Made in Sweden and known for their detailed wood work and hefty structural design and a 120 horse diesel to back up all the sail power. This boat had seen better days but it felt solid and it was built the same year as my Southern Cross and that was when they built them like tanks. This boat has potential I thought. Had a long chat with Dan ad we discussed the fate of our third crew member who was currently M.I.A. after Dan bought him a flight from Barbados to Bermuda. So we discussed all the boat features, good bad and ugly. He installed two extra diesel tanks for an extra 94 liters of fuel. The good - AIS, VHF, Sos hand held gps, EPIRB, sat phone, self steering, a dtrong motor and good rigging. The bad, non working toilet, use bucket method, no shower, and very little refigeration. The ugly. The boat leaked like a sieve when it rained as that night I struggled to find enough bowls to lay on my bed to catch the drips. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"> Then as I was standing on the deck a dinghy was heading right for the boat with two men aboard. They shook our hands and introduced themselves as Zoloft and Pascal from France. I got a strange feeling that something was not kosher between the two. Zoloft was asking if we needed another crew member as he was getting another friend as crew and didn’t need Pascal anymore who had sailed with him for a month from the Bahamas. Dan said he had a guy coming but he’d let him know tomorrow for sure. So they exchanged numbers and motored away. Dan agreed there was something not right. So we texted Zoloft to try to get the truth. He responded to the text and said he would visit us privately later on. When he arrived he said I have crew for you as his girlfriend was who he was referring to who was a stunning french girl with a golden tan and blondish red hair. Zoloft admitted that Pascal was a chain smoker who ate all their groceries and made his girlfriend feel uncomfortable. So we said thanks but no thanks to Pascal as crew. And very much appreciated Zolofts honesty. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">So early the next morning we set to work. I watched and helped as much as I could as Dan replaced the fuel filter and added a new bulb pump to the fuel line. Next we tackled the not so lovely task of tuning and tensioning all the rigging. It was a slow process but I got it done, and didn’t break any chain plates or stays. While I was working on the rigging Dan was replacing the $135.00 LPG solenoid for the stove that I had brought him from the Kemah West Marine. Got all the work done and who shows up again but Zoloft and his beautiful girlfriend. They were asking if Pascal could stay the night on our boat and would pay us. Dan said for $100 he could. Zoloft promised us Pascal had booked a ticket and was processed out of customs and definitely leaving on a flight the next morning. I didn’t want him on the boat but Dan was smart and being diplomatic about it as there was a chance that Zoloft could be a help in coordinating a caravan for us that we wanted to be a part of in a few days as we set out to cross the Atlantic to the Azores, a 2000 nautical mile three week passage. And by letting Pascal stay with us for one night was pleasing Zoloft. So Zoloft said he would bring Pascal at 9pm to the boat. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Dan and I got dressed and rowed to shore for some shopping and ran into Zoloft and his girlfriend and they informed us that Pascal didn’t want to pay to stay on our boat and said one of the customs officials arranged a room for him since he couldn’t afford the cheapest room in Bermuda at $400 per night. Shew. Glad that dram was over. Then out of nowhere Dan got a whatsapp message from Aleks. He was still in Barbados. His sail from Trinidad was a disaster. They lost both engines and had blown out the main sail. So he wasn’t M.I.A. Anymore, he was on his way to Bermuda. Woohoo. This was all finally coming together. Had a great walk around town. Had a coffee and wifi. But got shocked by the stickers at the grocery store. $16.00 for five pounds of potatoes. $5.00 for a bag of sugar. Geez. $8.00 for a bag of flour. Lol. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Headed back to the boat. Over all a great day. Ate sandwiches and $10.00 cheese and went to bed. </span></div>
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Dww0013http://www.blogger.com/profile/04209502811555963396noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453526333412830918.post-41203463679237578822016-07-17T19:48:00.000-07:002016-07-17T19:48:11.005-07:00Four Days in Bangkok
Left Hanoi for Bangkok on a quick one hour Jetstar Pacific flight. So before we knew it the stewardesses were in their jumpseats ready to give us our buh byes. No beverages were served and had to pay extra for our checked luggage, but only paid $80 U.S. per person booked a day in advance so couldn't complain. At Suwannaboom airport I had no idea where to stay in BKK mainly due to procrastination on my part. So I bought a coffee just for the free internet and found a hotel with the best reviews on T.A.
For one thing I really wasn't that excited about being in Bangkok but felt it was necessary to be in the city / country where we'd be flying home from a few days in advance just in case. So we decided to make the best of it. We hired a taxi for 500 TBH and headed south to the Bangkok-Loft Inn in Chon Buri.
It turned out to be a bad location because there was nothing within walking distance, so I asked the concierge to hail us a taxi, we want to go to the infamous Khaosan Road in Bangkok, smack dab in the middle of the craziest street in BKK...the Dang Derm hotel. With Khaosan being backpacker central I did not exactly want the night life, but decided to give it a shot for one night because I didn't know where else to go. You know its touristy when you have a McDonalds built into the first floor of your hotel.
On Khao San Road you have a huge confusing mix of travelers...families with kids, hippies with or without dreads (dreads available for purchase), backpackers galore, young couples, older couples, rich college frat boys on spring break, recent grads, honeymooners and locals...its all walks of life on one small road (if you ever backpacked Asia you've most likely been here), you know its bad when an Italian couple mistook me for an Italian asking me which way to the grand palace...luckily they understood my spanish.
So the street stays blocked off to vehicles and the Thai police have setup camp on the corner complete with CCTV (I guess things get out of control here regularly) so because of this we were dropped off at the end of the road with all of our bags and had to walk halfway down this crazy road to our hotel.
We checked in and realized quickly, this was gonna be a pretty exciting place when the front desk clerk described the balcony rooms as you know loud music "boom boom boom...no sleep til 2:00am". So we chose rooms on the back side of the hotel. At least it included a free breakfast for $42.00 (1500 baht) a night..a bit pricey when the most we had ever paid was 500 ($15.00) a night (yes I'm a budget traveler). We had a nice dinner in the hotel restaurant on the balcony of "Greens & Cheese" and did a bit of browsing in the street afterward. Got a bit annoyed from the guys on the street trying to sell you canal boat tours, a ride to the airport, tuk tuk city tours, rides to the Grand Palace, nicknacks.... light up helicopters, buckets of beer, or a silk suit. One guy with a fortune tellers cap on and long beard literally came running at me from the other side of the street and said sir sir you have a great spirit I can see it and I can tell you why would you like me to read your fortune and I smiled and said in Thai "Yee suu Koong Chan Fai". He looked stunned and took two steps back without saying a word... It means "Jesus is my lamp". I continued walking...
The street vendors were interesting also with their carts of everything from coconut ice cream, and pad thai to fried scorpions and crickets on a stick. Still no monkey meat on a stick, but plenty of squid and pork liver on a stick (I'll pass). Mai Kop Koon Kop = No thanks
So at dusk the music begins "boom boom boom..techno", and the 18 to 20 somethings go to the street and start dancing wildly to the nonstop techno music being blasted from four different clubs right next to each other in front of our hotel. And then around 2am the party ends and all those who are severely inebriated attempt to drag and claw their way back to their rooms.
There was a German girl whom, from what I could not help from hearing (outside our door) was sick and locked out by her room mate, and violently banged her head against the door as she sat against it. Then the door opened...yelling and fighting, and the sounds of things crashing echoed the halls. The fight finally ended when hotel security showed up, and this was the first night, needless to say I moved to a different room the next day...and this was supposed to be the quiet room...
The next day we decided it was a bigger headache to move than to stay and deal with the chaos. We booked a guided canal boat to the Grand Palace. The 6ft asian water monitor lizards hanging out along the banks were interesting. The trip included boat vendors and the catfish feeding frenzies, but sad to see the poverty along the banks. The tour was better than I expected, however at the palace, Chinese tourists outnumbered all others 50 to 1 and traveled in large groups by van or bus and their guides held a sticks in the air with small stuffed animals or glittery objects on the end to keep them together. The palace was impressive although no longer inhabited by the king and queen of Thailand it is now used for military and miscellaneous offices. Got to see the changing of the guard. Don't wear shorts or you'll have to stand in line and pay to rent pants.
Watch the video here:
https://youtu.be/16zOuXo1_u8
The next day we went to MBK mall which puts the Houston galleria to shame six stories of everything imaginable which was fun especially negotiating for half an hour with a girl for a fake rolex which I backed out on at $60 USD she wouldn't come down to $45. Finally found some shirts my size XXXL...lol. too bad for the big guys.
Next we went to eat the best pad thai on the planet...Thip Samai Pad Thai. If you go to Bangkok and you want to know what Pad Thai should be...this is it. Went back to the hotel and checked out the roof top pool on the 12th floor of our hotel...pretty cool to see all of Bangkok lit up at night.
The next day we booked a trip to the floating markets with taxi driver Mr. Noodet (good english) He stayed with us all day as we did a tour of the floating markets and the train rail markets.
Watch the video here :
https://youtu.be/iWwmg3K7smY
The floating markets were a blast and we all got a good laugh as our boats bottle necked and banged and wedged together blocking the river and all the time buying and selling underway. Then at the rail markets the vendors all drop their awnings to let the passenger train pass by, with vegetables, fruits and seafood just a hair from touching the wheels and trucks as it passed by.
All things must end...We packed our bags and left the Dang Derm hotel and Khaosan road at 11pm for our 2am flight back to Houston. Its a weird feeling... the trip is over. We'd seen and experienced so much...four countries, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, 12 hour train ride across Thailand, two hour jet boat across the Gulf, two days on a Mehkong river boat into Laos, three flights, cabs, tuktuks, songthows, canal boats, bicycle taxis in Hanoi, fishing trip in the Gulf of Thailand, waterfalls at Doi Luang National Park and Kuang Si Falls in Laos, islands walks at low tide, riding motorcycles in Hanoi and Luang Prabang, three hour bus from mountains of Chiang Mai to Phayou, and even an elephant ride through the river, It all seemed so surreal. This was the end of our trip ...Never in my wildest dreams ...Made even sweeter by getting to experience it with family. Thanks to all who stayed in touch and read the blog. So long for now...until next time.
Daveed
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Hotel we decided not to Stay in.
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Khaosan Road from our Hotel restaurant balcony.
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The Dang Derm Hotel
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Gotta love Thai Food
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D&D Hotel across the street from the Dang Derm...owned by the same people, but cheaper
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Thai Tea with Milk...try one!
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Back packers
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Back packers
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Bracelets?
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Dreadlocks?
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Cheap Pad Thai?
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The party begins
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Its fun to just people watch sometimes
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Worms, crickets or grasshoppers???
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I had to pay 10 baht for a photo!
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Fried tarantula or scorpion on a stick :/
Saw a guy buy a scorpion and hang it in his beard...
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Saen Saep Canal Tour photos
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Asian water monitor
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Canal catfish feeding frenzy
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Massive monitor lizard
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Our boat driver. Never spoke a word..just smiled.
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Tough job.
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Long tail canal boat
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Flower on the bow for "protection". Here many believe in tens sometimes hundreds of gods to keep them safe..to the point they seem to live in constant fear, which as a Christian gave me an erie feeling and saddened me.
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His shirt says "Hammer Strength". Lol
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Son helping mother into boat. One thing you can respect about Thailand is the family unity and loyalty for life.
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Monks holding coffers is a common sight. If you donate they say a prayer.
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Grand Palace Map...Beginning of our Grand Palace tour.
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Grand Palace
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Waht at the Grand Palace (Buddhist temple)
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Palace Guard
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Mom with Palace Guard
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Changing of the Guard
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MBK Mall. Massive mall with everything...Starbucks to fame Rolexes
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Thip Samai Pad Thai. If its the best Pad Thai in BKK its the best in the world.
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Two cool paintings at the restaurant I wanted to take home.
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The start of Bangkoks famous Damnoen Saduak floating Markets
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Mr. Noodet our guide to the floating markets and Maeklong railway markets
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This ladys smile made me want to buy from her.
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Grilled squid on a stick???
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Grilled squid boat vendor.
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Rice hat and dreadlocks...a cool look.
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Lots of smiles at the floating markets...everyone was happy!
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Take a photo with a sloth or a boa...for a fee of course.
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Rice hat boat vendor.
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Goodbye nice floating market people!👋
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Hello Maeklong Railway Markets!
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It was perfect timing...Mr. Noodet assured us we would not miss the train(which passes every three hours). And it rounded the bend just as we got there!
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Chinese tourist photo op!
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Veggies right next to the rail...wash em before you eat em.
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Horshoe crab??? Is there any meat on those things?
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Sturgeon
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Goap anyone ... Oh I mean frog anyone?
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Flounder look exactly the same on the other side of the world! Maybe they were imported from Galveston Bay??
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Yes. It is what you think it is...
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Grilled whole frog on a stick!
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the end of the railway markets
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Back to BKK airport, for our flight home
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Qatar..DOHA airport
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Doha, Qatar
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Flying over Iceland
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THE END...Dww0013http://www.blogger.com/profile/04209502811555963396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453526333412830918.post-82957725021586452542016-06-30T05:34:00.002-07:002016-06-30T05:34:31.884-07:00Four Nights in Hanoi - Days 23, 24, 25, 26
Our hotel was a block from the Ho Hoan Kiem Lake at the Diamond Elegance Hotel in "He Old Quarter" only a three star hotel but it was ranked number 8 of 547 in the city. The view from the 12th floor restaurant was amazing, 360 degrees and you could see Hoan Kiem Lake all lit up at night and the city skyline from your table. The food was top notch. The room, a huge family room with all of the amenities was a big change from our guesthouse in docile rustic Luang Prabang Laos....a bit of culture shock. But the adrenaline kicked in and we adapted.
I read P.O.W. By John G. Hubbell in college and wrote a research paper on it trying to argue that there could still be P.O.W's alive in Vietnam in 2000 although highly unlikely I concluded that it was possible mainly because I had to. In reality if they were there it was by choice because they heard the news back at home and decided to never come back and I couldn't blame them. The book chronicled the lives of several prisoners first hand recollections including John Mccain in the Hanoi Hilton who claimed he spent more of his life there than any other house. I had always wanted to visit the Hoa Lo prison museum in Hanoi or whats left of it. They demolished much of it after the war and decided to build a beautiful hotel right on the grounds of the Hanoi Hilton, but it wasn't a hilton and looks run down and dilapidated today. The room that the prisoners were kept in still exists but even to this day most of the museum is not factual. Example...the captions still don't match the photos they were staged... They were propagated to show the Americans were treated with kindness, games, good food, privileges and respect, when in reality they were tortured daily. The museum takes about 45 minutes to see and costs $5.00.
So I love the Vietnamese people and Hanoi. This is a thriving intricate world of old meets new. State of the art hotels next to families pushing portable kitchens to sell food and literally chopping raw meat on cutting boards right on the sidewalk. You will see 150,000 Mercedes and BMWs driving next to bicycle carts and electric bikes. The traffic laws are almost non existent in my opinion yet everyone seems to mesh! Every red light is more like a yellow light and it doesn't matter if there is a cop at the intersection. The motorcycles just honk swerve and dodge the cross traffic. Tuktuk drivers, scooters, pedestrians, bicycle taxis, bicycles, carriers, garbage trucks, vendors of all kinds and shapes, girls riding scooter through busy intersections while texting ...I even saw a 4 year old kid ride a small plastic car flinstone style across four lanes of heavy traffic and everyone dodged him without slowing down like it was normal as his dad laughed along cigarette hanging from his lips, even leaving him behind a time or two....!!! (see photo). I personally saw 2 small wrecks. One a taxi hit a scooter, and a big truck rolled into several parked motorcycles.
So we hired a private guide to give us a Three hour walking Street Food Tour. Her name was Sunny and she is a 24 year old student in Hanoi. WE had the best time, going to places we never would have gone to otherwise, dodging in and out of alleys and side streets, back doors and hidden stairways. We tried 7 different indoor restaurants on the street. It was so cool to spend time with a native of Hanoi and who speaks fluent English she even wrote down the addresses and food items we tried for us, and getting to know her and vice versa was cool. This was a great introduction to the city.
So I decided to rent a yamaha 125 scooter. They drive on the right hand side unlike Thailand. It was difficult at first. You want to make abrupt lane changes and casually look around as you drive. But thats not possible without having an accident. You look ahead make very slow movements to change lanes unless someone pulls out in front of you or you have to dodge a pedestrian. More than once I had to make a dead stop to avoid a head on. Most of the streets in "The Old City" are one way and some only allow motorbikes no cars. It's complicated but you just anticipate and avoid obstacles and you got it made. (See video).
So I rode out to Westlake. It takes an hour and a half to go all the way around it. I was given a tour by following one of the hosts of the hotel who happened to be on his way home said I Could follow him on my scooter to get there (which is not easy in Hanoi!, More than once he had to wait for me).
Westlake exceeded my expectations...Its one place you can have a good day. They have families flying kites, lotus flower lakes you pay to see, rows of restaurants, hotels, swan boat rides, street vendors galore, fishing, swimming, dog swimming training, the kid electric car show ( hundreds of fancy polished and souped up electric cars kids drive around next to the lake). sugar cane or coconut juice, ice cream vendors...and you are 5 minutes from the Hoh Chi Minh mausoleum where you can see his preserved body on display, which I chose not to.
But Hanoi as a whole was ten times better than I expected it would be! I asked the concierge where to get a haircut, and he said just outside follow me. I got a haircut from this guy who was a serious professional. He was spinning the comb and scissors on his finger but seriously focused on his job. Took 45 minutes to cut. Then he said go up stairs, where two ladies were doing one job...washing hair and faces, hot towel, face neck and scalp massage, ...never had this done..., half an hour later I was escorted down stairs where a third girl finished blow drying and styling my hair. All this for $10....lol. I read online where a guy stayed in Hanoi three weeks and never washed his own hair once! He paid to have it done. There is one on every corner and they are all exceptionally welcoming to foreigners and they do a quality job.
So our trip is pretty much over, not ready to go home though. I could do this forever. We have three days in Bangkok then fly home on July first. So back to Thailand it is! At least I can communicate again...I speak a little Thai!
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Captured this photo of a girl selling water bottles at Hoan Kiem Lake in the Old City
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Bonsai trees Lake Hoan Kiem
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Bonsai trees Lake Hoan Kiem
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Turtle in Hoan Kiem Lake surrounded by controversy...thought extinct. Read more here
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoan_Kiem_turtle
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Little kid flinstoning across a busy street
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Little kid flinstoning across a busy street.
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Marinated Papaya salad with goom (shrimp)
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Dinner on the 12 th floor of Diamond Elegance Hotel
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My ride around west lake ... Swan boats
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Hoan Kiem lake street at night.
Dww0013http://www.blogger.com/profile/04209502811555963396noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453526333412830918.post-44604392029685405932016-06-26T16:46:00.000-07:002016-06-26T16:48:24.684-07:00Four days in Luang Prabang Laos - Days 19, 20, 21, & 22
It was around 8pm by the time we got off the Mekhong river boat and got settled into our room. We got a room at Noknoy hotel in Luang Prabang on a street next to the Dara Market. We went to the Dara market to eat. There was a little side street with all the food. We turned down and were overwhelmed by the options, but we ultimately settled on a vegetarian buffet where you pay extra for the meat (see photos) less than $2.00. We did some browsing at the market bought two small knives then headed back and reserved a motorcycle for the next day. So the next day we ate our complimentary breakfast and the motorcycles arrived. Unfortunately the one we were offered was substandard and too small. So I refused to rent it and walked down the street and got a nearly new one for the same price ($7.00 a day) that was not all beat up and old with high mileage. So we headed off to the Kuang Si waterfalls an hour away. Spent half the day there. Went all the way to the top of the mountain on a make shift path of roots, stones, and bricks all covered by slippery algae in my Chacos (gotta love Chacos, best $100 I've spent). Drenched in sweat but well worth the effort. On the way back went to the elephant sanctuary and fed a baby elephant for an hour. Then I headed back had dinner and read a book. The next day I went to the Airport and got our tickets reserved for Hanoi. We had to buy a visa a day in advance, but my passport was being held by the motorcycle rental company. So I had to ask the lady to refund me but instead she agreed to go with us to the Vietnam Consulate because she had a friend there who would make it easier so that I wouldn't have to return the motorbike. We paid the $50 each fee for the expedited visas and were told to return the next day at 10am for the passports and visas. Next we went to Lao Airlines and paid for our tickets, they said they accepted cash or VISA but when we tried to pay with a VISA they said the machine was down. So we paid cash. They accept dollars, kip, or Thai Baht here in Laos.... 8100 kip = $1.00 and 35 Thai baht is $1.00 and it gets more and more confusing. By the time our stuff was done it was late so we went to Tamarind restaurant for dinner. The best food in town. So you get sticky rice, form a ball in your palm, then there are four pastes to choose from to dip it in. Water buffalo paste, smoked chile peppers, another pickled vegetable spicy, and lettuce wraps with a peanut sauce and dried water buffalo kinda like teriyaki jerky and a dried seaweed paper. This restaurant is owned by an American who is married to a Lao man and they have kids. She used to be a food critic all over Asia. The food is very well known, it's on the river, and the place is always busy so you need reservations $20.00 cost for two including drinks.
That evening I took a walk along the Mekhong river to check out some table tennis game I had passed on the scooter. As I passed by the gentleman kindly asked me if I would like to play and handed me the ball and paddle. Of course I accepted! I played his 14 year old son three consecutive games...two of which went into overtime and we had an audience of locals watching as some of the volleys were lengthy. They were laughing and oohing and ahing as we played and talking in Vietnamese...one guy offered me a shot of something in a shot glass which in his other hand he was holding a waterbottle with what appeared to be moonshine, which I kindly declined several times...trying not to disrespect him. We had fun and I was drenched in sweat and I had lost all three close games. Come to find out the kid was a tennis champ and had traveled throughout Asia in tournaments.
So the next day we pretty much tied up loose ends on souvenirs and revisiting places we liked, then headed to the airport for Hanoi. This is where the fun began. We got on the twin prop plane as scheduled at 5:10pm. We taxied out to the runway and the pilot goes full throttle as normal and as I thought we would be lifting off, instead the pilot hits the brakes hard! I didn't think we had enough runway left to stop. Luckily we did! We taxied back to the terminal and were told to exit the plane while the engineers checked the speed gauge. We waited an hour, and re- boarded the plane. We taxied back out and increased to half normal speed then we went back to the terminal with a different problem. At this point I didn't want to get back on and neither did any of the other passengers. I could tell it was an old plane by the ashtrays in the arm rests. So we exited the plane and waited another hour and a half, this time we were told to board a different newer plane. Finally we took off. An hour later we landed in Hanoi. So we met another traveler from Korea who spoke good English and lived in Virginia who was also trying to get to the old quarter by Hoa Kiem Lake and wanted to split a taxi with us. So we agreed to pay 25 or 30 usd not sure for the 35 minute drive over. The drive was shocking to say the least...you wanted to just close your eyes...lanes do not exist and blinkers do not exist, but horns reign supreme! No one makes an abrupt move or someone wrecks. They drive on the right like in the US and don't drive too fast but they come in every direction including the wrong way on the highway...lol. More on that later. We somehow arrived at our hotel ....The Elegance Diamond hotel and spa. We got our bags and I handed our friend $40 usd and told him to pay the driver and keep the change that was all we had. We were formally greeted by 5 very friendly staff of the hotel who immediately took care of all our needs even gave us cold water and fresh fruit, juice and cold towels as soon as we arrived, and we didn't even have reservations. This was the beginning of a great stay in Hanoi!
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This is Ben at the Noknoy guesthouse in Luang Prabang. He and his sister run the hotel.
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Noknoy guesthouse.
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Souvannabanlang rd, where our room was located.
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Buffet near Dara market...Lao street food. foreign Backpackers are everywhere here at dinner time because it costs $2.00 for this buffet.
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Grilled meat choices
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Breakfast at the hotel.
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Complimentary hotel breAkfast
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Kwang Si waterfalls
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Top of the waterfall.
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Made it to the top of the falls. They had bamboo walkways.
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Asiatic black bear rescue center in Kuang Si waterfalls.
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My two year old baby elephant friend. As we ledt the Kuang Si waterfalls we stopped to feed 5 or 6 elephants.
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Tamarind restaurant... Lemon grass chicken
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Grilled water buffalo...good stuff!
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Vietnamese Consulate where we had to purchase our Visa a day in advance
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Luang Prabang Laos airport
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Our antiquated airplane...Laoair airlines
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By the time we finally boarded (Our third try) it was getting dark...
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Elegance Diamond hotel Hanoi, Vietnam
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nice rooms
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#8 hotel of 547 in Hanoi on trip advisor.
Dww0013http://www.blogger.com/profile/04209502811555963396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453526333412830918.post-71487656437013171492016-06-21T12:22:00.001-07:002016-06-21T12:22:47.358-07:00Thirty days in Thailand- Days 15, 16, 17 & 18
Thirty days in Thailand - Days 15, 16, 17, and 18
Today we were up by 7am had our coffee and headed down stairs to load our things into the back of the truck for the trip to Myanmar. We filled up with gas, and got another coffee at the ESSO Amazon coffee shop. Every gas station in Thailand has an Amazon coffee shop next door and usually a 7 eleven. The coffee is overpriced but always good and reliable. Coffee is very popular here and anywhere there is commerce you will find a coffee shop. The menu is in english and you will find pretty much all the same options you find at Starbucks. To me the coffee is better than Starbucks. So we headed north toward Mae Sai Thailand but decided to take a detour to a village called Mae Salong Tea trading zone...a Chinese Hunan village. It was once a refuge for the Chinese who had helped defend Thailand after the war. They stayed and now Mandarin is widely spoken in this zone. We thought school was in session on a Saturday but oddly enough it turned out to be Mandarin language classes and it was a Christian church school (very rare here). It was so nice to hear them laughing and playing....that is rare here too. They were initially growing poppy for opium but the government (king) stepped in and said this is what you can grow ...so they settled with tea...a lot of tea! Everywhere you look there is tea. So we had lunch, bought tea, and headed up towards a wat our friend wanted to see. However, this turned out to be a wrong turn and a really really really steep winding road. The poor Toyota diesel four cylinder was not happy...even in first gear it started to vibrate. I am pretty sure we were at a 10% grade once or twice. Some people in the vehicle would not look up! Not gonna mention any names. But we did not fall off the mountain, by the grace of God, and made it back to the highway and on to Mae Sai which is the northern most border for Thailand and Myanmar separated by the Salween river. We got out of the truck went through customs, got our passports stamped, paid the 500 baht ($15.00) and headed into Myanmar to shop at the duty free markets. We didn't find much it was all pretty much fake name brand acessories and clothing and we were looking for souvenirs, so we decided to head back into Thailand. There was no fee for the return and we got back into the truck and headed east toward the Golden Triangle. This is where Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos all meet in the middle of the river and is very popular for tourists. We are only a few hours away from China so there are mostly Chinese tourists. We hung out for about an hour took photos and left. The one thing to take note of here is that the Chinese have invested a lot of money in the Casinos on the Laos side of the border and you can't miss them when you visit here . It was once said that you could not enter the original casino unless you had a minimum of $35,000 U.S. To wager. This was supposed to keep out the lower classes. They are also building a super highway from China all the way through Laos to the Thai border (China taking over Laos?).
So from here we drove two hours to Chiang Khong on the Laos border to prepare for our slow boat trip up the Mehkong to Luang Prabang Laos. We ate dinner at the Bamboo Mexican restaurant which was a fusion of Thai and Mexican food. The food was all homemade and turned out to be great. The best part though was when the owner "Jib" sat down at our table with his guitar and played old music for us for an hour from the Alman brothers band, The Beatles, to 38 Special this guy new them all and he was good...he was in his mid 60's and reminded me of Mr. Miagi from The Karate kid. They have a daughter lives in Berlin with her husband and two kids and they have a son in Sydney. Nice people.
From there we headed over to the Day Waterfront hotel to get a room. I met Kai the owner and I Promised him Texas and Montana plates For his collection. While there we booked the trip for the next morning on the slow boat to Luang Prabang. The schedule to meet at 7:45 am downstairs for the soengthao to pick us up and take us to the Laos border across the bridge (they wont let you walk across you have to drive) from there we checked out of Thailand and into Laos and paid the $35.00 U.S. to get our visas ( see photo of Visa costs per country), make that $36.00 on Sunday you pay a $1.00 overtime fee. This is a communist country we are entering...kinda scary. From there we were taken by a Laos guide and soengthao to a house 20 minutes away where they give you a rundown on what to expect, sell you sandwiches and try to sell you a room in Pak Beng (the halfway point...which we declined). So we were taken down to the river and dropped off, given a ticket and told to wait til 11:30 to board. We boarded and headed out. It was rather hot until we took off then it cooled down a bit. Overall it was a nice trip. The boat was overloaded by 8 people (88 total) so early seating was essential and we were there early and got a bus (cushioned) seat by the rail and near the back. This was one of, if not the best seat on the boat.
The ride was smooth and scenic all the way. There are bathrooms and they sold drinks and chips. Including alcohol which all the British took full advantage of...actually camped out on top of the beer cooler the whole 7 hours, and got really loud.
In Pak Beng we lugged our luggage up a really steep road and checked in to the DP guest house without a problem, as a matter of fact we were the only guests in the hotel...it was too expensive for the backpackers at $19.00 a night, but the AC was great and we had a good nights rest. The dinner we had over looking the Mehkong as the sun was setting was nice too, minced pork lettuce wraps, fried spring rolls, fried rice, and coconut curry fish soup straight out of the river.
The next day we set out again this time we had to be on the boat by 9:00 am. So we had plenty of time to walk around with town, have coffee, get breakfast and buy sandwiches to pack for our 8 hour trip the rest of the way on the slow boat to Luang Prabang. This leg of the journey was even more scenic and exciting. The water had a lot more rapids, and got to see water buffalo, elephants with their owners, caves, we watched all the village kids wave as we went buy, we made 6 stops along the way to pick up and drop off supplies and people at the riverside villages. Each time we would slam into the boat next to us and the roof would sway a little. Once we broke off a fender pole that was tied to the boat and I don't think they even realized it. The boat was about 80-100 feet long and 12 feet wide and powered by an 8 cylinder diesel engine. So we made it to Luang Prabang and got a nice room for $20 a night at a hotel near the Dara Market called the Nocknoy hotel, got settled in and ate street food at a buffet. I like it here. Not nearly as structured as I thought it would be being a communist country. Food is great. Can't wait to try the water buffalo, I hear its great. Tomorrow the waterfalls, more elephants, and reservations at Tamarind restaurant on the Mehkong. The Caves in Luang Prabang, Then flying to Hanoi, Viet Nam!
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Testing the Tea in Mae Salong
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Entering Mae Salong
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Entering Mae Salong Tea trading zone
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Tea growing on the hillside.
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Steamed bread at a restaurant in Mae Salong.
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Breakfast in Mae Salong
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Restaurant in Mae Salong
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Testing tea in local tea store
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Local Tea vendor with all the selections.
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Church that was teaching mandarin and had all the kids laughing and playing
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Golden triangle Buddhist artwork.
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Budddhist stuff at the golden triangle.
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More statues and stuff...Golden Triangle.
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Ancient artifacts.
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Ancient pottery at the Golden Triangle.
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Urinal option A...western style minus the lid...bucket flush...spray clean.
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Urinal option B undress and squat unless you wear a robe or a dress...bucket flush
Spray clean...toilet paper extra...cost 5 baht.
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Chinese casino across the Mehkong in Laos...Golden Triangle.
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Buddha be happy...if you put money in the trough and listen to it roll into his belly.
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The gong show
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Another Golden image!
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Saved by the bell???
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Directions.
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More art.
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Beware the Snakes.
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Tilapia...salted, stuffed with lemon grass..and charcoal grilled...mmmmgood
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Welcome to Myanmar.
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Welcome to Myanmar.
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Salween River border.
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Mae Sai road to border.
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Sausage salad with chilli sauce. Perty good stuff.
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Bamboo Mexican food restaurant. Chiang Khong. Enchiladas Thai style.
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Jib serenading us at his restaurant.
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AKA the "Jib the Ninja".
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Our room at Day Waterfront hotel in Chiang Khong.
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View of the Mehkong from our balcony in Chiang Khong.
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View from breakfast terrace at Day Waterfront Hotel in Chiang Khong.
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Kais license plate collection at Day waterfront hotel Chiang Khong.
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Map of points for immigration and slow boat departure into Laos.
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Itinerary for the trip to Luang Prabang.
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Visa fee chart by country...interesting...signed off by the prime minister 2006
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Laos border gate.
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Overtime feee! Lol
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Welcome to Laos.
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Where the soengthao dropped us and our luggage off and gave us our boat ticket.
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Beware the bed bugs and mosquitos. Note to self...Cover ankles or use a net.
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Boats lined up and ready to go.
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8 cylinder diesel. Plenty of power.
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Water buffalo. Docile creature.
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Our hotel in Pak Beng Laos ... End of day 1
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8100 Laos Kip to one USD
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Laos convenient phrases.
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Forget Thai. Only Laos spoken here.
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Lots of bread in Laos....almost none in Thailand.
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About to slam into the boat next to us thanks to the strong current kn the Mekhong.
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Locals watching all the excitement.
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Riverside stop.
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Riverside stop.
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Riverside village locals waiting on friends and family to arrive or depart.
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Where the boat dropped us off in Pak Beng at the end of day 1.
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Dropping off and picking up in riverside village.
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The same type of boat we were on.
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View of the boat inside and seating.
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Captain of the boat on day 2
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Pak Ou caves and buddhist wat.
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Passing by the Pak Ou caves on the slow boat as we arrived.Dww0013http://www.blogger.com/profile/04209502811555963396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453526333412830918.post-2480489370404327082016-06-18T16:26:00.001-07:002016-06-18T16:52:43.491-07:00Thirty days in Thailand - Days 11, 12, 13, and 14Thirty Days in Thailand - Days 11, 12, & 13
So we stayed another day in a Phayao (payeow) rice farming village. We borrowed the neighbors motorcycle and rode out to the Champa Thong waterfalls about an hour away.. I climbed to level five and iI have to say it was a challenge. We then rode over to a market and an ancient wat had lunch shopped and headed back to the house...mission accomplished! Later that evening we aired up the tires on the bikes and rode meandering through rice fields until we arrived at a small wooden house where a mother and her little toddler lived with her husband who was apparently working in the fields. My Thai friend asked her if we could purchase Thai sky lanterns or khom loi as they are called. There are different sizes and we bought five medium size for 20 baht each (60 cents). She put them in a trash bag for us because it looked like it might begin to rain on our 15 minute bike ride back. Apparently she made them by hand which consist of a couple strips of bamboo, transparent paper a thin wire, and an igniter which is a section of toilet paper soaked in a flammable wax like substance. When you are ready you wire the wax ring to the bottom of the lantern two people hold up the top and one person lights it from below and wait 60 seconds and let it go. Its pretty cool the first time you do it. When a Thai person dies one khom loi is lit for every year that person lived. https://youtu.be/N9Ko-yvJzHU
So we had a nice dinner of fresh local tilapia (a native fish to Thailand) salted, stuffed with lemon grass and grilled, deboned with lettuce, basil, mint, cilantro, culantro, and spicy Thai peanut sauce prepared into a lazy susan...aka lettuce wraps...out of this world good! Then we set off the lanterns talked a while and went to bed.
The next morning we set out in the truck for Chiang Rai about an hour and a half away. We stopped off at the White Palace (see photos) and another wat / buddhist temple (more photos) then we got to the river and hot springs. The water is boiling hot and they sell three eggs in a basket you can buy to boil yourself complete with instructions on how long to let it soak for level of doneness. You pay to sit in the hot springs and cycle the hot water in with a valve at your leisure. It is said to cure pretty much any illness if you visit often enough. We then headed over to the restaurant that sells the best chicken in town, had a great meal by the river. Then we set out to the Doi Hang elephant park where you can ride elephants through the river for 300 baht ($9.00)for half an hour for two people. We fed them two stalks of bananas and two bags of sugar cane before our ride through the middle of the Mae Kok River. It was not a smooth ride but very entertaining. We then headed on to Chiang Rai and had dinner and checked in to our hotel. We then took a ride over to Harrys Lounge and no its not a bar. He is a guy who has lived in Phayou for 36 years and was quality control over the building of more than 20 US embassies around the world including Moscow, Saudi Arabia and Egypt...wow what a resume...and the nicest guy in the world. He showed us his new electric three wheeler..pretty cool (see photo). Our friends returned to Phayao. So we stayed two days in Chiang Rai and just relaxed. The Fun-D hotel had a great restaurant and very friendly staff. We only paid 200 baht a night each ($6.00) and had a great time see video of Thai elvis singing here ...
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We also did a lot of shopping and went to the night bazaar in Chiang Rai. Tomorrow we meet back up with friends and head to Myanmar for duty free shopping at Mae Sai border crossing, then to the golden triangle, then on to the Laos border in Chiang Khong on the Mekong river. Say prayers! We are taking a slow boat two days up the Mekong into Luang Prabang Laos.
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Map of the area.
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View of the rice firelds from our homestay in Phayao.
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Trip to Champa Thong waterfalls
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trip to Champa Thong park
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Honey combs and lots of them in the trees at Champa Thong national park.
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Scary ancient Wat near Phayao
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Scary ancient wat near Phayao.
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Amazing home made fish lettuce wraps with spicy Thai peanut sauce
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Preparing the lanterns for lift off.
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Dww0013http://www.blogger.com/profile/04209502811555963396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453526333412830918.post-89685805608567181002016-06-13T07:39:00.000-07:002016-06-13T08:14:53.119-07:00Days 8, 9, & 10Days 8, 9 and 10
Woke up and got our things together for our bitter sweet departure from Cococape, the "Happy Boat", and the island of Koh Maak. No more beaches! The cococape driver picked up our bags and took us to the pier so we could board the Lalawadee speedboat back to Loem Ngop in Trat province. It was a smooth 1 hour ride, and we got a ride to the parking lot to where the rental car was located, loaded our bags and headed north back to Bangkok for a 5 hour road trip. We stopped at Burger King and I bought a small dish of a flan type desert for the train ride to Chiang Mai. Everything is so cheap here a little $$ goes a long way. I can eat a meal for under $2.00. A 20 oz. bottle of water is .20 cents. Chicken on a stick is .40 cents and it comes with sticky rice. Sorry haven't seen monkey meat yet, although the chicken balls may have contained an unknown conglomeration of animal tissue (very tasty). See photos.
So we made it to Bangkok Suvarnabhumi (Soo wanna boom) airport and dropped off the rental and hired a taxi for the ride to the train station and we paid 295 baht plus a 100 baht tip so 400 baht at 35 baht per dollar = $11.43. At the train station we had a 4 hour wait for our 7:30pm departure time. Our friend had booked the tickets at a train station in another city a week prior and was assured that we would all be in the same room with two sets of bunk beds even going as far as showing him a diagram, however when we boarded we realized we were separated by a wall, needless to say he was upset and insisted we stay in the same compartment and hope that who ever had those tickets would be willing to swap with us, but that was not to be. The Thai girl who was holding the tickets was not only unwilling to swap with us but she was furious that a falang was in her bunk. So we just moved without arguing, but they never used either bunk all night long...lol.
So we arrived in Chiang Mai after a 12 hour train ride of which I slept almost the entire trip. We arrived at 7am in Chiang Mai and stayed at a bed and breakfast on Loi Krau street near the old city and downtown where all the tourists stay. The room was nice and cost $15.00 a night. I rented a motorcycle for two days at a price of $7.50 for 24 hours. It rained in the mornings but was over all pretty good weather. The area where our friend had prebooked the room there was a travel agency, next to a restaurant, next to a massage place, next to a suit or clothing store and repeat this for two miles and thats Loi Krau avenue.
I couldn't walk down the road without being harassed to come in for a massage, which I would just say sa wat dii kap mai kop kun kop. Hello, no thank you. Very annoying to the point I took the motorcycle everywhere. That evening a friend asked if we all wanted to go get our feet chewed on by fish, yes we were the bait for a change. You pay 150 baht for 15 minutes and they wash your feet and you sit down and dunk your feet in a tank full of sucker fish. It was like being shocked by a low level current, you wanted to jerk your feet out of the water, some people would let out a scream, it was hilarious to watch peoples reactions. So from there we left for the night bazaar. They had everything you could think of. See photos. Like nothing I have ever seen, really cool.
The next day I decided to ride around the city in the rain. Eat chicken on a stick, and that night we all went to Miguels for really good Mexican food then back to the night bazaar. Kind of a boring day as our original plans had fallen through. The next morning I decided to go to doi suthep wat (budhist). and the Bhubing palace...weekend home of the Queen of Thailand. I rode the motorcycle for an hour up a winding mountain road to get there. The palace was nice but hard to see as it was in a cloud. I was the only falang (barbaric frenchman as we are known), and you will hear this everywhere tou go. Doi suthep had a great view of the city, but was not my cup of tea.
Around noon we packed our bags and got on the bus to Phayou. We rode three hours to get there and it was winding mountainous roads the whole way. We arrived a the bus station and a relative of my friend picked us up and we headed to the house where we are now. Its a nice place and a beautiful view. Tomorrow we head to Chiang Rai to ride elephants ...without our interpreter. Should be interesting.
Photos are of:
1 Bangkok train atation
2 Antique rail buggy
3 BKK train ready to go
4 train station
5 window view on way to Chiang Mai
6 inside of passenger car
7 another rail car at train station
8 view from hotel
9 where hotel was located on map
10 hotel sign and name
11 ivy plant growing down from balcony
12 typical wat in Chiang Mai
13 Chiang Mai business
14 typical street in city
15 famous hand made ice cream cups
16 seabeans and pod, large cup for reference
17 more ice cream
18 Thai tea with milk
19 putting chicken balls on a stick
20 grilled chicken balls on a string
21 chicken ball griller guy
22 Thai feet eating fish
23 people getting there feet eaten by fish
24 Bhubing palace of queen
25 Bhubing palace
26 Bhubing palace
27 Huge Buñion tree
28 palace official
29 palace official
30 rose garden
31 view of Doi Suthep from above
32 palace guard shack
33 stairs to palace
34 golden statue
35 bike riders rode all the way up
36 soengthou
37 huge gong
38 huge statue
39 Doi Suthep
40 Doi Suthep
41 Doi Suthep
42 Doi Suthep
43 Doi Suthep
44 Doi Suthep
45 Doi Suthep
46 Doi Suthep
47 food noodles and curry
48 red curry Doi Sutep bought smoothy
49 house where I am staying Phayou
50 8 inch gecko called a docktoe
51 same same house
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8 inch long Gecho called a tockto
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House where I am staying in Phayou.
Dww0013http://www.blogger.com/profile/04209502811555963396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453526333412830918.post-63017696183421369072016-06-11T05:49:00.003-07:002016-06-13T08:54:04.163-07:00
Thirty days in Thailand - days 6 & 7
It rained really hard this morning, a storm with plenty of lightning moved through then it rained til 9am or so. Then we jumped on the scooter with umbrellas in our left hands to go eat breakfast at Nuch's place. I had the Cow tome goom or shrimp soup with rice and cilantro, a common breakfast item here, kinda like frosted flakes because it comes in a bowl. So we set out to find a fishing opportunity once again. No luck. So we toured many of the resorts on the island and took photos. Then around 2:00 the phone rang. I was supposed to be at the german restaurant by 3:30 to go fishing for $2000 baht or $58.00. So I show up there on time and I was to follow a guy with a pony tail on his scooter to the rendezvous point somewhere on the island. So We finally get there...in the hood..lol and we walk down this trail to the ocean and way off in the distance is this guy crabbing. 10 minutes later I was shaking his hand "Taan" was his name And the pony tail guy was "Kay" and together we launched out to start fishing. We had to catch at least four squid so we headed over to island Koh Pea, no luck then to Koh Kahm, caught four squid on this weird lure with 20 points on the tail like a bunch of gaffs. We cut one squid up and saved the rest. We caught 5 small sized snapper looking fish. The best part was as the sun was setting the sky turned a dozen different colors and It was hard to realize I was in the gulf of Thailand fishing between a dozen tropical islands with two guys who spoke no english...and it was an amazing experience, one I will never forget. I have a translator app that translates english to Thai and pronounces it so I could communicate to them but all they could do was say a few words. One we all understood was Fai, which means lamp (my energizer 250 lumen head lamp), which they both were in absolute awe over. So I decided this may be an opportunity. So as we got to Taans house his wife asked me if I would like her to cook the fish for me in good English. I told her no but thank you. I told her we planned to have a good meal back at the German restaurant and I would have them there. So, I started to drive away on the motorcycle I called back to Taan to come down from the porch and I gave him the head lamp. He immediately put his hands together and bowed down to thank me. I Said something to him in Thai...That I had prepared...he smiled, nodded we shook hands and I Drove away.
Fast forward to today. We had breakfast with Nuch and went over to the place we stayed the first two nights at to plan a final dinner of crab and the fish and squid I had caught. We had a great day riding around and going to the island of Koh Kham on the boat and walking around the island. Then we came back to the restaurant for dinner, and we had a table twenty feet from the crashing waves...the most beautiful plate of crabs I have ever seen, and I was told that they were from Taan. So I must say it was one of he top five greatest dinners I have ever had. Afterward my friend played his harmonica as we listened to the waves crash, and the dog howled along to the music...as the three of us rode home on the scooter we stopped on the red clay road, turned off the motor and lights and the forest around us was lit up with thousands of light bugs...tomorrow we catch the boat to the mainland at 7am.
Stay tuned for a video of the fishing trip. Its done, just can't get it to upload.
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Dww0013http://www.blogger.com/profile/04209502811555963396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453526333412830918.post-36899180897967113432016-06-06T23:34:00.000-07:002016-06-07T00:17:21.219-07:00Thirty days in Thailand - Day 3, 4, & 5
Sa wat di Kap ! Chai, Chai, Chai. Dii kaap kaap Thailand!
Hello! Yes Yes Yes. Thailand very, very good!
Recap >>>>Today is Monday, two days ago on Saturday, We took a two hour drive in the rental car (a Toyota Vios) from Kleang to make it to the pier at Loem Ngop in Trat province where we had prepaid for a speed boat to take us to Koh Mahk, a 6 square mile island in a group of maybe 50 small Islands which are mostly uninhabited. We had to be to this pier in Loem Ngop by 2pm and park the rental car, which we made it just in the nick of time. We put our stuff on the boat and loaded up with 30 Thai people on this speed boat with three 250 hp engines and set out across the Gulf of Thailand for Koh Mak. We made it and little did I know that our friend had made a friend while on the speed boat with the chef of a resort and asked us to stay at a very reduced rate (700 baht vs 1800 baht per night). and she would take us in her truck from the dock to the resort. So we accepted. This resort was percect. From my room I could throw a stone into the water and it included A/C. An amazing restaurant and It was very close to all the stores ( all three of them). We unpacked and rented motorcycles. Rode around the island, then had a phenomenal dinner. So many things to say, bit I will let the pictures do the talking. Today we moved to a resort (which is fully booked) we had booked with a credit card and right now I am in the "Happy Boat" at the coco cape resort (see photos. Its an old Chinese junk remodeled into a hillside bungalow still has the rudder attached. We have a pier that goes 600 feet out into the water. At the end of the pier they have music, a bar, free snorkeling, wifi, and at night they give you a pole to squid fish (actually caught some), and all day long they take you to nearby islands on a speed boat for a small fee.
The Thai people are super friendly and out going. Sa wat dii kap is the common greeting and means hows it going but the way Thais used to greet people was to say "have you eaten today". And boy do they love to feed you. Its a good thing the meals are low carb. 100 baht 3$ will get you pretty much any seafood dish on the menu. 200 if its in a resort...avoid them if possible. Food is a lot better at restaurants outside of the resorts in my experience and much cheaper. Our new friend Nuut is in her late twenties early thirties, thin as a rail and has a warm perpetual smile, and humble as a person can be, and she cooks for us at her restaurant which she recently opened. We exchanged numbers and she will call and ask if we would like crab or snapper or prawn or what ever specialty the locals offer to sell her that day. If we like it we say yes...and She buys it and has it ready and presents it before she cooks it. Today it was a large snapper, Tomorrow ...jumbo crab...looking forward to that one. Gotta love Nuut.l!
This is the low season (due to all the raining) so we pretty much have the whole island to ourselves. It hasn't rained much at all, so far. The downside is most of the boating excursions are shut down and the boats are trailered. But...That will not stop me from Snapper and Baracuda fishing on Koh pah the day after tomorrow but the storms might. I searched the whole island today for a fisheman to take me out, but no one wanted to. One lady even made me follow her to a fishermans house only for us to find that his boat too was trailered in his front yard...bummer but she gave me her number and said to call tomorrow.
So besides stuffing ourselves to the hilt three times a day, we have rented motorcycles, walked to islands, taken boat trips, snorkeled fished...and explored he whole island. Tomorrow I take a boat to Koh Chiang to ride elephants and scooters around the island. So looking forward to that. Then Wednesday its off shore fishing ... Weather permitting!
This time of year they have really low tides, so today I saw that a land bridge had been exposed at low tide to a nearby island. So I walked over to it and found an octopus had been stranded by a fast moving outgoing tide. He was all covered in sand from his struggles and being baked in the sun he had I believe pretty much resigned to an inevitable death. So I picked him up and he puffed up a little and carried him over to the water, and gently rinsed the sand off of him, but I could see he was coming alive and starting to move so he appeared to be okay. (see video).
So thats it for now. Hopefully the rain is at night and we can continue to enjoy paradise on earth and these beautiful people. Say prayers for them they are not treated well by many. I have heard some bad stories by a guy on the speed boat on the way over. Blessings! Pictures and videos should be in a chronological order. Cut and paste link to your browser. its the only way to access photos and videos
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Dww0013http://www.blogger.com/profile/04209502811555963396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453526333412830918.post-25161311827190703912016-06-03T13:50:00.000-07:002016-06-03T14:46:08.671-07:0030 Days in Thailand Day 1Thirty days in Thailand > Day 1 and 2:
I am not gonna lie, this was not an easy trip. 32 hours on planes and airports and 6 hours driving. I was tested on a couple different levels.
The driver picked us up with no problems and got us to the airport three hours early. We checked in one piece of luggage willingly but I wanted to keep my backpack as one of my two carry ons but the Qatar airlines attendant with her cute little Qatar hat with gold wings covering her hair bun and her bright red lipstick (Signature for their attendants), informed me it was overweight by 6 pounds... uggh! The main reason I wanted to keep it was I know there is always a chance for a flight change for unforeseen reasons on a trip to the other side of the world. If you drilled a hole into the earth at IAH intercontinental Houston it would come out on the other side in Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok BKK. So I tried to do a little pleading with her which seemed to work at first but in the end I lost that battle...let the mullygrubs begin. So after sulking for a few minutes I decided to not let it get me down and said a little prayer that we would not have an issue there. Then I looked at the radar. Bad bad weather ... Really bad heading toward the airport. We ate at Rubys diner then boarded the plane. Taxied out to the runway...then the dreaded announcement. The flight will be delayed for 45 minutes due to weather and add the 30 minutes we were already behind... 1 hr 15 was lost. So our 2 and a half hour layover cushion at Doha Qatar was starting to dwindle rapidly. Then as we started to move again I got all excited thinking we were ready to take off, we would not miss our connecting flight after all, but instead the captain pointed the 777 back toward the loading terminal and parked it and came on the air and said .... Its gonna be another hour. The test plane (that checks the weather from above) can't even take off. It was storming buckets of rain and lightning. So our 7:05 departure became a 10:30 pm departure.
Arrived at Doha an hour after our connecting flight had departed. Doha was not prepared for the onslaught of unhappy arrivers at 11:00pm so we had to wait an hour to get a new flight and boarding pass. I verified with the attendant that my 2 carry ons would make it to the new plane and she assured me they would. Luckily Qatar airport "Gateway to the world"... in Doha had free wifi so I could send and receive emails to let our friends in Bangkok know we would be several hours later than planned (and they gave us a free 30 Qatari rial food voucher), and 4 hours later at 1:45 am instead of the original time of 8:30pm we were taking off for Bangkok. I was very impressed with Doha airport...never seen anything like it...Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Porsches on display huge statues, an indoor subway system massive duty free shops massage spas, food courts restaurants galore sprawling airport people literally from all over the world like I have never seen. Definitely saw a few cases of racism and chauvinism. I thought one guy was gonna be arrested for picking up a display plaque and threatening to hit the little flight attendant with it because he blamed her for his missed flight..unfairly, it wasn't her fault. About ten others gathered around her and stopped the guy. Then I saw some Saudis all in white with sandals shove some Asian guys out of the way and laugh at them for no reason other than they could..$$$$. They stopped a guy from praying to Allah in the aisle of the airplane on his hands and knees not allowed on the plane, and another Thai guy was harassing sleeping women on the flight to Bangkok, He would get up and go sit next to them in an empty seat until they woke up and called the flight attendant to have him moved or they would move. I saw it happen three times to three girls and I actually saw him sit in 7 different seats on the plane! Can't believe they didn't do anything about it.
Okay so this blog is long enough already. To make a long story longer we got to Bangkok. Got our visas rather quickly, got our luggage off the carousel and trotted through customs without a glance or a missed step. So no luggage issues after all. And there were our friends waiting for us. Got our rental car, exchanged dollars for a huge bundle of Thai Bahts and headed south.
Whew steering wheel on wrong side of car...car on wrong side of road...motorcycles driving wrong way on wrong side of road...no driving rules other than don't wreck...note to self never drive in Thailand! Made it to Klaeng...they threw me the keys and said find us a hotel!!!!! Friend couldn't drive at night. You Gotta love driving in Thailand...Dutch guy gave away our room cause we didn't call by 5pm...gotta love Dutch guys!!! God bless McDonalds Wifi and my Thai speaking/reading friend and google maps. We made to the palace hotel, checked in, and drove a mile down the road to have the best food I've ever had in a restaurant next to a busy street whole fried fish, calamari, rice, soups, vegetable dishes etc.. Stuffed ...Its 2am Friday night here, and watching it lightning out the window, its raining and I'm laughing at the sounds of all the different mufflers outside at this intersection...heading to the lobby for the wifi password and upload this ...good night! Only 29 more....Hello Thailand....Island Koh Maak tomorrow.
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Dww0013http://www.blogger.com/profile/04209502811555963396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453526333412830918.post-36085411928111384472014-06-19T19:11:00.000-07:002014-06-24T18:16:39.618-07:00Off the road again :(<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.09375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;"> Howdy, </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Homeless indigenous people who get brought down river to trade stuff.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pampas market in Rurrenabaque. This was like the Walmart of Rurrenabaque.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jello eating monkey. If you give him a jello cup he can peel the top off and suck out the jello. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pet monkey at the corner store. It was a baby and didn't bite...yet.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pet monkey at the corner store. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Itzhak checking out the motorcycle.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is Izhak from Israel who I sold my motorcycle to for $350.00 and a set of Judaica kosher collectible antique knives. He is married to a Bolivian woman and they have a baby on the way. So this was more like a gift to him as the motorcycle was worth $1500.00 approximately</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">TAM is the airline that I used to fly to La Paz. They are cheaper and have better planes than Amazonas airlines.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The plane taxing to the loading ramp.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two friends from New Zealand. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The plane taking us to Trinidad then on to La Paz. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last sight of the Beni River leaving Rurrenabaque. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the twin engine prop plane back to La Paz, where I will book a flight and get a ticket to Houston., which cost me $1250.00 last minute.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My last supper in La Paz at a restaurant called Casa de Argentina for $7.00</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">La Paz airport coffee shop.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waiting at the La Paz airport</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful snow covered Andes mountains. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last images of the Andes. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Airplane food.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Main course. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flying over Cuba. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flying over Cuba I think</td></tr>
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August 1, 2013</div>
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Shopped La Paz for things I still need. Walked with my new plastic gas container<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"> to the station for spare gas. Should have been hassle free to buy gas without the motorcycle with me and the mexico plates. The station attendant wanted my ID and made a big deal out of it, but the manager ended up letting me have it for the 3.75 b's instead of the 9.75 b's, which was nice. Carried the gas can back to the moto at the hotel, tomorrow I will head out. I know the bike is overloaded, hope I don't break any more spokes. after talking to a tour guide the road is partially paved. that's good news.</span></div>
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August 2nd, 2013</div>
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Packed the bike. The lady said I didn't pay for one of five days so I just paid the 50 B's, and she let me store my spare tire in the garage. Nice lady, owns savoy hotel, spoke great english...rare. Took off and my map app sent me to a closed road. Had to back track. After 20 km and getting stuck on the xpressway, finally got on the road to Caranavi, a roller coaster ride. In the mountains everything was frozen including my fingers. Waterfalls cascading fully frozen on the roadside. An hour later I was pouring sweat and had to shed all but my foul weather gear, and still hot. Learned Bolivian sign language ....they love their road signs. I can breathe again after two months of thin air. Road was closed 2&1/2 hours outside Caranavi..road work 8km past Villa Marka population-28...until 5pm, it was 2:45 Grrrrr The road worker said if I came back at 4:45 he would give me a 15 minute head start on the<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"> 50 or so smoke bombs, I mean vehicles lined up, on the 80km of unpaved dust bowl, and mud pit, hanging by the seat of your pants cliffside turns, washboard, creek bed, rock raining road. Guy comes and asks if I had an extra pair of glasses. You know it's gonna be bad when a local guy asks a foreigner for some riding glasses...But after loosing 5 pairs and just buying the ones I was wearing I wasn't about to give em up. So I ate lunch with the 28 locals back in Villa Marka. Made it back to the road block right at 4:45. The attendant said on your marks, get set, inhale a bunch of dust...just kiddin, but he did say stay to you left...What??? This ain't Australia...stay to your left??? 80 km on death road on the wrong side of the road?...great. At least I wasn't in a car. So I let the guy with no glasses go first, and the race was on. The road work was still going, but we flew by and weaved in and out and dodged potholes, cranes, and dumptrucks,. New mud tire worked, but the front tire was still slick and with clay it was like ice skating. The front wheel goes without notice. So kept it in check. The surface changed every mile. Dust, mud, rock, gravel, wet, paved, dirt, clay, mud with gravel, mud without gravel, creeks, small ponds, caves, tunnels, trucks watering the road, blind cliff side turns, collectivos and big jeeps whipping around dusting you out, reminding myself "stay on the wrong/right side of the road" with a bus coming at me...not easy getting used to. So I stayed behind my friend and soon traffic increased and so did the dust. I rode up along side my new friend and took off my glasses, whistled and passed the glasses over, he kinda smiled. He stopped ,I kept going. I didn't need em, I had my face shield and felt sorry for him. He caught up with me. I had stopped to take a picture, he stopped. I got a closeup of his mud and dirt covered face, one swolen and red eye bloodshot. Glad I gave him the glasses and I'm pretty sure he was too. We continued. He waited for me in Caranavi. He was gonna give them back but he was driving another four hours and it was already dark. I told him from one brother to another "keep em". He offered to buy me dinner but I wasn't hungry. We said our goodbyes. Found a hotel. I was covered in dust and mud, and I swore I was gonna give a couple of collectivo drivers some of it back, but decided to let it go, it's part of the deal.... It was a prep course for the 250km of the same on Sunday to Rurrenabaque...I hear it's beautiful riding. Don't know how it could get any better. I guess if I wiped off my visor. Bike held up, and no broken spokes. $6.50 hotel, $2.00 dinner, parade in the street, arroz y leche, subtitled Armageddon, 10 pages of "lost in the Amazon" , dog barking outside,...time to saw some logs.</span></div>
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August 3rd, 2013</div>
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Chairs a slidin' on the floor in the room next door, eyes a openin', "will the real slim shady please stand up" a playin', chicken a cluckin, sun a shinin' through the sheer curtin', birds a chirpin', parrots a cawin', rooster a crowin', bed is comfy', man a clearin' his throat, time to rise n shine. It's gonna be a nice day. Crazy day of drums, brass instruments, bells, twirlers, marchers and tons of food and games in the plaza. 182 years of independence It's "national Bolivia Day" which they celebrate for a week. Changed my oil. Used 20w50...instead of 10w30 for the first time. Filled both gas tanks, and got the subsidized price..$2.00 a gallon. Aired up the back tire. Had them reweld the stainless steel saddlebags where it broke yesterday. Ate the best tenderloin I've ever had, or at least it seemed like it, so I ordered a second, and three glasses of fresh squeezed lemonade. It takes two Bolivian portions to equal one TEXAN. Satisfied, I hit the hay.</div>
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Took off around 8:00 am. Messed around trying to find clear glasses then I headed on to Rurrenabaque. The road was like soft baby powder in places and the bike says Oh this feels nice and soft I think I'll lay down here...not good. After only 38km there was a traffic backup, the road had caved in and all the vehicles were waiting. A bulldozer and a bucket loader were making a new road. It was still caving in when I arrived so I knew it would be a while and it was already 9:30. I was told this slide had started two days ago and was still not done sliding! I had 212km to go on "death road", (one thing I figured out and should pass on to other future "death road" riders or riders of Bolivian mountain unpaved roads in general. When you are leaving Caranavi and you pass the 20km mark, the gas station and the little bridge across the river, you have to start driving in the left lane. Yes, in general if the mountain rises to your right and the road is on the left you have to drive in the left hand lane, if not you will get plowed by a collectivo while coming around a blind cliffside turn like I almost did. I knew that, but I had slept since then. The collectivo had to swerve to the other lane, honk and flash his lights and I was doing the same wondering why he was upset with me. ). So, back at the rockslide a couple of British guys pulled up riding a dirt bike with a backpack bungeed to it. I was talking to a Bolivian doctor at the time so I didn't get to talk to them. I turned around and there was the same jeep with the German couple I had waited in line with back at the Copacabana border 7 days ago in Peru. (small world) Then 3&1/2 hours later around 1:00pm they finally got the dirt cleared from the road (a huge waste of what little time I had...not good) We all took off and only 12km later the doctor and the two brits who were ahead of me had stopped for lunch, and had a bowl of soup in front of them. They invited me to join, but I just needed water. I didn't have time to eat. I was not gonna make it to Rurre before the sun went down...so, I had no time to waste. I kindly declined. Turns out the two British guys had rented the powerful dirt bike in La Paz. I said bye, and they said they would see me again when they passed me up, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">I said you probably will, I go slow :). So I took off only stopping for a few photos, water, a tangerine (i had 4)and bathroom. So the road was hard on the bike to say the least. There was so much "river rock" that it was like driving in a dried out creek bed...I had to be constantly on alert otherwise I would go down or hit a big rock and pinch the tire or worse. I rarely left second gear for the next 80km. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Then there was the deeep powder which if it were wet would be a foot deep of mud, even dry it was hard to drive through, it would part like water when I drove through it and splash up in my shoes, so my shoes were full of dirt. Then it started to rain, but not that much, and the sun was going down. The road got muddy but not too muddy that I had to slow down unless there was a mud hole full of water. I weeble wobbled at least five times but DIDN'T fall down! The temperature was perfect. I stopped once to adjust my backpacks about 50km outside of Rurrenabaque and 3 giant Macaws flew over making their loud calls. Then I turned to see four toucans fly right over my head, also all day I had been seeing a bird that looks like a small turkey, I forget the name of it, but I call it a Chacalaca. I am glad I chose a Sunday to ride because there was little traffic and no roadwork other than the rockslide. The drivers that I did pass were in general courteous, except for a few station wagon collectivo drivers. Closer to Rurrenabaque there were sections of road that were paved but interrupted by muddy creek beds (hadn't built the bridges yet) every 1 to 5 km you were diverted right or left down into a creek bed which was usually just a muddy water hole. The paved road sections were heaven sent...Made it to Rurrenabaque a little after dark, and it turned out to be 260km instead of 250km of "dirt" road. An 11 hour trip for 260km. I could have easily made it if it had not been for the rock slide, but you have to factor at least one delay into the equation. If you say I am going to average 40km per hour 250km thats 8 hours, no problem...WRONG! It's not gonna happen. I could see something really going wrong...ie. heavy rain, wreck, road cave in, or worse..etc and causing an overnight stay in the jungle. They tell you the buses take anywhere from 18hours to 6 days from La Paz to Rurrenabaque and I can see why. But there were a few places to get gas along the way and I really didn't need the spare jug I carried after all, I still had half a tank (3 gallon tank) when I arrived. "Super Honda" surprisingly held up well, no broken spokes and the new tire was definitely worth the cost, and trouble. I put "Super Honda" to the test on this one. 16,000km and no trouble. Compression is strong and I was still doing 105km per hour (67mph) on the straight aways. Never saw the two British guys again, hope they made it. This may have been my last trip on Super Honda, but we'll see. So I found a cheap hotel 40 b's a night $5.40. Very touristy here, more than I thought, and in touristy towns the cheap restaurants (the ones that cater to the locals) don't like tourists in their restaurants in general. So I found a nice a la parrilla grill and had a "steak" but not nearly as good as the one in Caranavi...too tough...still drooling over the other one.. The couple running the restaurant were very nice even to a tourist. Dropped all my dusty dirty laundry and emptied my backpacks to be washed at the front desk for 7 b's a kilo and I had 8 kilos. Still parading through the streets each morning at 7am so I need to get to bed early before my parade alarm goes off! Ready to go into volunteer mode again.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">August 5th, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Woke up to the beating of drums and symbols crashing in the street parade outside my window. Went across the street to check email. Andres had asked me to call him in an email and left a number. I called and he answered and within 5 minutes I was staring at him. Venezuelan guy who grew up in Spain and speaks great English. Absolutely the nicest guy in the world. We talked a while then </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">agreed to meet back in 30 minutes. So I went for one last ride on the moto for breakfast of an omelet and bread. Parked the bike in the hotel then got my clothes into the direct sunlight for faster drying. Then started packing. I was waiting on the hotel owner to return to see if she would let me store the bike there. She was gone for over an hour which gave me time to pack and talk to Andres, but he needed to get back. After she returned she said yes I could keep it there for .75 cents a day, and I agreed because it would be indoors and very secure. So I went next door and bought three meters of plastic and covered and taped it. I said bye to my two new Canadian friends who were very cool as all my Canadian friends I have met along the way have been. Wish I could have gotten to know them better. Definitely going to Canada on my next vacation! Then Andres had bought a water tank and had a man with a cart wheeling it down the road and asked me to grab my bags and follow him to where the pecky-pecky was. A pecky-pecky is a small canoe like boat about 25 feet long and 3feet wide with a motor and a very long shaft for shallow water. The locals call them this because of the pecking sound the motors make. We tossed everything inside and took off pecking up the Beni River. Can't express how cool this was...my heart was thumping with all this adrenaline. This is what I came here for! This is where I knew I was meant to be! Wow what a beautiful place. The Bolivians swimming in the river turned out to be one of Andres helpers and after a short conversation we continued on. Twenty minutes later and just through the canyon and on the other side of the mountain was Andres and Vanessas place, a 125 hectare Amazon Basin Camp on the banks of the Benis River where we parked the boat and walked up the muddy banks of the river to where I met Vanessa his girlfriend, Andres parents from Spain, and all the workers who are working to complete an animal rescue center which is almost completely constructed. Andres is an educated and certified animal care specialist and Vanessa from New Zealand has worked with animal centers for more than ten years</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">. The camp had several cabins to choose from and since I am the only volunteer I got my pick. The first cabin we looked at had a cat inside that looked to not be alive. Andres was afraid to touch it at first then after further investigation Vanesaa found two puncture wounds on it's front right paw from a snake, the cat was fine the day before, but Vanessa took the dead cat down to the river and tossed it in. The next room had too many bats on the ceiling, so I passed on it too. Chose the Charo House, rustic but nice and Amazonian and right on the bank of the river. Andres talked about all the things he wants done and we had a nice chicken and rice lunch. Then Russian salad for dinner. Watched a movie together on the office computer while Vanessa nursed a baby mouse back to health with a serenge of milk and sugar. There are four geese, four dogs, two cats, twenty chickens and the mouse for now. I've got a feeling I will see lots of animals before this one is over. Boat motor pecking in the distance, drums thumping faintly in Rurrenabaque town, crickets a chirpin, time for bed.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">August 6th, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Woke up to a grapefruit crashing on my tin roof, like a gunshot, no more like a canon. Vanessa said the mouse died in the night, and she was cleaning out his box sadly. Hung out with andres, vanessa, maria and alfredo (andres parents) mario, alex, dixon, & Floriano. We sanded the rescue house a little to prep it for paint, and maria made the best smothered ribs i've ever had, yucca patties w/cheese, salad w/ fish, and rice. Mario said they had seen the 12 meter anaconda in the river again. Hmmm??? Set the nets in the river for bait using the boat while dixon yelled from the cliff where to put it...his dad is a local fisherman. Helped Vanessa cut down an oversized stalk of bananas. Hundreds need to be cut. Then Andres yelled for Mario to come down from the hill to take us to his communal land to a creek where we can catch "sardines" we will use for bait. So we walked for 4km through the forest until we came to this picturesque creek in the mountains, where we took turns using the net to catch these large bait fish with a cast net. It's like Jurrasic park here. We were seeing huge Puma tracks everywhere probably 150 pound cat. After twenty or so sardines we hiked back and stopped in their village to say hi to the families. Mario and alex asked to go with us. So after dinner of spicy thai noodles we headed to the river. We fished at first from the bank, then paddled over to the island. I caught one catfish about two pounds weird looking with a mouth three times as long as a normal catfish. Then we got low on bait. I had one left and walked all the way to the end of the island casted and got in some rocks, not hung up, but it pulled my last sardine off. So I laid down and put my head on a log and fell asleep listening to the rapids flow. Andres found me, and asked if I had any bait left, and groggily I said no, he threw one down to me as he walked by. So I followed him, where we fished a while longer, but it was 2am at his point, so we went back to the boat and paddled back across the rapids to the beach and climbed up the embankment and went to bed.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">August 7th, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">I woke up at 8:30 to Andres parents talking as they arrived on the boat from Rurrenabaque. Got a slow start. Had breakfast of leftover spicy thai noodles and toast with tomato, cheese and olive oil. They eat well here. Helped tear down part of an old cabin, then started to build a big shed to keep the fire wood dry. Picked two yellow grapefruit and two ruby reds from the tree and ate them with my pocket knife. Played pelota with Baco the german shepherd guard dog...we are buds. Had a homemade fried chicken nugget and fries lunch with a salad. Continued with the shed, had a little help from dixon. Said buenas noches to maria and alfredo hasta mañana. Picked 3 enormous lemons from the tree, then juiced them with the lever and made fresh lemonade. Had a shower from the water running out of the side of the mountain, which is also our drinking water. Staying clean is a constant issue here. No washer drier either, so I hand wash all my laundry. Fried the fish I caught for dinner, and watched Oblivion with Tom Cruise in the office on dvd, and from what I hear it's still in theaters. The dvd cost 5 B's or .75 cents. There is a bat in my room flying around as I type this and a river mouse right outside my room. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">August 8th, 2013 Thursday</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Worked on the wood shed. Ate good cheeseburgers for lunch bolivian style. Andres made oven roasted pork chops for dinner. Went to bed early.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">August 9th, 2013 Friday</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Went with vanessa and dixon to town to buy supplies and use the internet. She couldnt start the boat so 15 year old Dixon had to drive us. Watched a guy feed a pet monkey in his lap in town. Disagreed with the lady taking the plastic off my bike in the hotel. Worked on the boat motor with Dixon then filed down a small propeller to fit the shaft. Ate a fat juicy grub worm out of a palm nut...tastes like chicken...i didn't realize they pop when you bite them. Dixon laughed at me. Caught sardines for bait with Dixon. Walked deep into the jungle with two indigenous guys Alex and Mario and I used the throw net to catch more bait in their creek, but it got dark and they were worried about the Pumas cause they are more dangerous when they have babies which he said they had a litter and we saw the tracks by the creek. Good enough for me. Ate beef tips with rice for lunch. 4 of us Fished til 3:30am and only 3 catfish. River rose 5 feet while we were fishing, the island we were on started disappearing and the boat got stuck in the shallow rapids on the way home. A little scary at night. Thought we were gonna flip the pecky pecky. Caught a catfish with no eyes. Passed out at 4am.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">August 10th, 2013 Saturday</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Slept til 10:40am, too tired from fishing til 3:30am. Andres said a big catfish pulled him into the river at 5:30am and he lost his pole, the river was rough but got it back and the fish was still on, then it broke the line. I laughed. Worked on the woodshed all day. Killed a viper by accidentally stepping on it today while getting charro down by the creek. Said bye to Andres parents. They are flying back to Spain after spending 6 weeks at the camp. His amazing mom made us one last amazing meal before she left of roasted chicken, rice w/ gravy, broccoli a salad, and Marios wife's homemade bread. Then we had shredded chicken, soup and fried corn fritters for dinner. Andre is leaving in the morning for La Paz for three days to see his parents off. So it will be just Vanessa, me and the workers who are building a new kitchen. I couldn't imagine living here for two years like they have. The animal clinic is amazing and it's hard to believe it is even here. Vanessa said she spent 2&1/2 months here completely alone with the Jaguars and pumas and oscelots and vipers, while Andres was in Spain recovering from his arm injury.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Vanessa and Andres left early for Rurre. She came back at 10:30 and I helped her pull the boat around on the muddy bank. Worked on the woodshed...cut charro, twisted it together with tie wire. Cracked 3 palm nuts and found three grubs inside. Got 3 grubs out, and caught three sardines in the creek with my handline. Used the three sardines to catch 3 catfish, used the three catfish to feed two people...lol. One was a Tao weird spotted, yellow and gray with an elongated snout and eyes on top of the head. They said it was the best to eat of all of them. Weighed about 7 pounds. The other two were two pounders...i found a honey hole!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">August 12th, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">I sleep like a baby here. Woke up at 8am to two wild turkeys outside my cabin door. Ate breakfast, and washed dishes. Worked on the woodshed. Read in the hammock then passed out on the cliff overlooking the river listening to the water rush by down below with a cool breeze in my face. Woke up 30minutes later melting with sweat in the beaming sun. My belt buckle was so hot I couldn't touch it. Mario, Alex, and Jorge showed up and built a makeshift kitchen in twenty minutes out of balsa like it was nothing. Moved everything out of the kitchen and set it up under the new tarp covered kitchen, even the stove and icebox, which are propane running. Then they tore all the walls down on the old kitchen to prepare to build the new one tomorrow. Saw two toucans hanging out in the yard. Tana and Missy showed up after being gone two days chewed up, bloody and swollen from a fight with some kind of animal. Vanessa said it was a Tyra (like a badger) put them on antibiotics. Pan seared the catfish encrusted in fried garlic and scotch bonnet, in our new make shift kitchen with whipped potatoes and a blanched carrot and onion salad with cumin. Vanessa had seconds. Washed dishes, and hit the hay.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">August 13th, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Andres showed up in the morning back from La Paz. I painted the rescue center and worked on the trap. caught bait with the hook and handline. Then fished til midnight with Jorge and Roberto, it was slow and only caught one small catfish which pricked me a little and injected some venom in my fingers which burned for several hours. It rained in the night and water was dripping on my face and woke me up. I covered my face with the pancho and went back to sleep.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">It was pretty cold last night and I had to throw on my hoodie in the wee hours to stay warm. Andres went to town to finish his residency visa. I Finished the trap and tried it, but no luck. The water started rising and I had to pull it out, or it would wash away. Fished for thirty minutes. No luck. Went to bed after a freezing cold shower.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">August 15th, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">I decided to stay here another 8 days. Went to town with Andre and Vanessa and Baco and Negro the dogs in the boat. Alex came along as well.  When we were done shopping Andres told me we had an invitation from the community boss of ssn luis chiko to go into Laja National Park to fish that part of the river there... we dindnt need a guide... but we had an official confirmation from the authority to go there. but it was more than 60km up river and would take four days in the boat. I am all in and pumped. I even bought new fishing tackle. Read my book next to the river on the hammock. Put the trap in a new spot. Waiting for Andres to yell lunch-is ready. Fished til 11:30pm. Two catfish. Woke up at 4am to a chicken screaming for it's life. We think a Jaguarundi had it. Vanessa and I scared it way. It was right outside my cabin. She caught the hen after pulling all it's tail feathers out by accident and put it back on it's nest if ten eggs. It was freezing outside in the low 40's and my room has no windows only screen. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">August 16th, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Mom's birthday. Happy birthday Mom! Woke up to missy and Tana trying to push my gate open to get into the forest, they had the scent of an animal and it was probably what got the chicken last night, but I stopped them. Then I painted the rest of backside of the rescue center. Vanessa asked if I had seen the dogs and we assumed they had found a way and gone into the forest. So I hand Washed clothes then went hung them and went down to check the fish trap. To my shock there was Tana down by the cliff stairs lying on her side in a pool of blood. She was conscious but couldn't walk or raise her head. When she saw me she whined so I picked her up and carried her back to camp and yelled for Vanessa to meet me in the office. She had eight gashes in her neck and several blood clots. She was in bad shape. We cut way the hair and cleaned her up and when Andres got back from town he decided to go get a veterinarian to come out which sewed her up and gave her antibiotics and anti inflammatory pills. She will most likely survive, barely. The guys got the roof up on the new kitchen. Walking to bed tonight I smelled cat urine and called Vanessa over and she confirmed. I hope it's a jaguarundi and not a huge jaguar or puma. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">August 17th, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">The dogs went crazy last night and the cats were fighting with something, but no dead chickens. It could be anything from an ocelot, jaguarundi, tyra, puma, jaguar, the day was uneventful. While i was fishing, huge bats were flying out of the trees on the mountainside. And right now as i type this there are three flying under my bed. Yes flying under my bed, not the huge ones though. Thank God for mosquito nets. Don't want any guano on my sandwich or in my lemonade. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">August 18th, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Went to town. No internet in town. System overloaded. Moved my motorcycle from the hotel to Jorges house. Isaac from Israel came back to fish with us with his new spinning reel. I showed him how to rig it, then bait the hook and where to cast and he caught a nice 5 pound Tao catfish. We fished til 4pm. Then we went back to town and he showed me his house and restaurant where he and his new wife live and where he will sell kabobs. He also showed me his kosher knives worth $1400.00 for sacrificing cows and lambs. Offered to cook me the fish and have dinner next time a came to town. Nice guy. Came back to the house and Fished til 12:30. Huge capibara in the creek next to us, and Andres saw a Cayman (alligator) Caught one keeper out on the island in strong current.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">August 19th, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Made plantain Lasagna, for the seven of us and as usual they were skeptical, but after lunch they were licking their plates and begging for more. Hauled rocks from the creek to the other cabina to prepare it for cement. Fished til 10:30. Cracked twenty grubs out of the palm nuts. Caught 15 sardinas with a hand line at the creek a 1/2 mile away. Had 15 sardinas and my bag fell and all the sardines went into the river but two. Jorge and roberto were 1/2 a kilometer away so I went to bed rather than walk to ask them for bait.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">August 20th, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Painted the rescue center. Andres helped when he got back from Rurrenabaque. Then I put up new mesh to keep the bats out of my room. We were eating spaghetti and Vanessa made fun of American food when I jokingly asked her if she had never tried a spaghetti sandwich. She made fun of pbj's. Then i told her she should try grape jelly and eggs, it's good too.lol. full moon. River is low. Going up river in Dixons boat on a 5 day round trip to Lajas tomorrow with Jorge, Andres, and Dixon. We spent a couple of hours planning the trip.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">August 21st, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Went to town early to buy supplies for the fishing trip. Bought all my stuff and paid for half the gas. Then we packed and Dixon got the boat together. Dixon is 15 years old yet knows how to fish and navigate the river better than all of us put together, but I did not have confidence in him or the boat, and I let him know that. So Andre and Dixon went back to Rurrenabaque to pick up Jorge, but I had a bad feeling as they rode away and the motor died for ten minutes he tried to start it. Then I started thinking four people...five days with all our stuff, and having to carry the 400pound boat around a dozen shallow rapids. Right then I decided I was not going. So i went to my room and packed my stuff and asked Vanessa if she could get one of the workers to take me to Rurrenabaque when Andres returned from town. They were all shocked that I was backing out, because they know how much I like to fish, and as Terribly bad as I wanted to go my gut was saying don't do go! Grrr. It was hard to say no, and Jorge literally begged me to go. I told him I would wait for his return and we could fish with Dixons dad when he returned, but I felt it was safer for just the three of them to go. So as they loaded the boat and put in all the ice chests and supplies, I noticed the boat was just a couple of inches above the waterline and I knew I had made the right decision. I could just see all my stuff floating away down river when we flipped over. So Alex took me to town and I got my old room back at El balasero. My volunteering here was done. Told everyone goodbye.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">August 22nd, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Went to get my motorcycle from Jorges house, and talked with his mom and wife a while, as he is still on the fishing trip. Had the motorcycle washed for a dollar, which took an hour..it was dirty. Rode out to the airport on the outskirts of town. It's literally a dirt and grass runway in a field. I inquired how much in advance I would need to buy a plane ticket to La Paz...two days. So Sunday I will buy my ticket. I should be back in Houston by Next week. Wow! That's a hard pill to swallow. Not ready for this to end. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">But ready to see my family and get back to work. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">I've seen a lot, and learned a lot. I speak fairly fluent spanish. I had three volunteer experiences and volunteered in three countries for six and a half months of the eleven months of traveling. In 2008 I graduated with a bachelors degree from The University of North Texas in "Organizational Development". The ideal job with this degree would be director of a non-profit. Using my volunteer experiences and the contacts I have made I would like to start a small non-profit where I would distribute small donations to the certain countries to help families living on the sidewalks and streets. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"> More than anything though, I think I learned what a loving relationship is about. It took me traveling 600 miles across the Gulf and 17,000km and 12 countries </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">to figure this out. The people here in South America and in Central America struggle, but they really love each other. I have lived with them and spent a lot of time in their homes and businesses, and I have seen see moms playing with their kids, and dads working hard to provide for their families and some working literally til they can't work anymore to feed their families and to provide for them, they are working far away from the family home for weeks at a time. And here in the Amazon there are places just 30 miles from here where money has no value. They live on what they grow or can make with their hands and trade. There is value in this which most Americans have abandoned! It's not all about the money! It's not about living in a country that is the financial capital of the world. It's not about interest rate, stocks, bonds, equity, inflation, investments, profit margins, etc. It's about relationships, and friends and family working together to survive in an unforgiving world, and taking small moments to laugh, play, and enjoy discovering life's many simple gifts. While this world is hard and our time here is limited we are all meant to enjoy it. We have a God that TRULY Loves us. Through this love he molds us and shapes us into who we need to be through trials and hardships and tough times. It's during these tough times that good things happen. I think I've been changed by my endeavor here, and many other hardships I have endured, and all along this was God's plan a revelation, to show me what a true, loving, and unconditional relationship is like. It's not about lawyers, and manipulation, and not about who can get the advantage or the upper hand, or who has the most money, the bigger house, the nicest car, or the fanciest diamond ring. These things will turn to dust one day. It's not about how many good deeds or favors you've done, or even how much money you gave away. These are by-products. If it's not a sacrifice it doesn't matter. It's all about sacrifice and giving all you have even when it inconveniences you or places you outside your comfort zone, messes up your busy schedule, or puts you in a position of uncertainty...this is where love is...this is when we have to rely on faith, and hope. This is what will last forever. It's about not taking more than you need. It's gonna hurt, it's gonna be painful, but there was one man sent here before us who sacrificed it all and was hurt...So we need to put aside our selfish, self serving, holier than thou attitudes and humble ourselves and be practical. Where we have to work for a living and rely on each other for help. Where all men are created equal, where there are no borders, where we are no better and no wiser than the indians in the Amazon jungle. And I know some "indians" who would be just like any other American working and living along side you in any town in the USA, and who if the tables were turned would be more than willing to share their knowledge willingly and without hesitation. This being said we are all connected. We are all related. And in some way we are all one big family...of brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers, daughters, and sons. We need to reunite and come together. While we are here we should make the best of our time because when we leave this earth it will continue to spin and life will go on without us, the sun will rise each day and the birds will sing each morning, but we have to ask ourselves "is the world now a better place because I was in it?"</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morales was in La Paz the same time I was getting on a plane to Moscow to rescue Snowden. They diverted his plane to Vienna though.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dried llama fetuses- To protect the house. An estimated 99% of Bolivian families have a dried
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">my friend, who I dropped a couple of B"s in her cup every day I was there. one day I asked if I could take her photo and she said yes. She wasnt doing too bad though. you can see the coca she is chewing in her cheek.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the main tourist drag, and this bridge crosses the expressway and connects two popular shopping areas.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Santa hanging from the side of a building. not sure why.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My amazon survival pack.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another view of downtown LaPaz as I was leaving.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One hour outside LaPaz I was at 4500 meter elevation.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">more snow</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">frozen waterfall</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anti-narcotics checkpoint. They just waved me through.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tunnel in the mountain. you can see there wasn´t much traffic.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">one last photo of a nice clean motorcycle.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This area reminded me of the Machu Pichu area.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This tunnel was over about a mile long, and well constructed with lights and all.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">when I got to the other side the view was beautiful.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The photo doesn´t translate here, because the incline is very steep and you are expected to make a hairpin turn in gravel at the bottom.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The nicely paved road to Caranavi didn´t last long.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lunch table in Villa Marka</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tourist bus carrying bicycles back from the old death road</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lunch with some of Villa Markas 28 inhabitants</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The dust was almost unbearable</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Remember drive on the left not the right especially on blind cliffside turns...always blow the horn just in case.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I was dusty then it started to rain. I am sure I was a sight to see.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My bags when I finally made it to Caranavi where filthy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If they spent a little more on asphalt and less on signs Bolivia would have great roads..</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This area had a sign for everything.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">more signs</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and more signs</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My hotel in Caranavi. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The celebration begins.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Savoya...onion</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">oca, like a potato</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Escaveche, only sold on Sundays</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caranavi parade</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">parade in Caranavi Bolivia</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They love the drums.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Main street was packed for the parade</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These poor kids had to march all day in the hot sun.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a common sight in central and south America. These kids learn to hang on at an early age.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">future soldier</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The park in town square Caranavi</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The people here love Morales</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Parade continues</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The roads all had steep drop offs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The view here was scenic, and the weather was nice.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">clouds rolling up out of the valley.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And then the road had to cave in.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">we waited for 3&1/2 hours</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The terrain was constantly changing as you an see here.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A very small community on the way to Rurrenabaque</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful waterfall. wanted to go for a swim, but daylight was limited because of the delay.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Autobus dusting me out.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sun is going down.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It had recently rained.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Buena vista.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And the sun sets</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the terrain got very flat in this are and the road was straight.. the weather was much warmer.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">House not far from Rurrenabaque.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The baby powder road.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the muddy road</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the paved road</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the creek bottom diversion where they hadn`t built the bridges yet.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">giant macaws overhead</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">had to keep the moto in check here so I didn`t fall down.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ah finally made it. although it was dark I took this photo the next day.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">downtown Rurrenabaque is about ten square blocks on the banks of the Beni River</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">my hotel</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">view of the surrounding mountains.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">main street Rurre. If you say Rurrenabaque to a local they will correct you its Rurre.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fivo2nsElvg/UhWHeKHw1_I/AAAAAAAAMf0/PSMRTG1ul4A/s1600/IMAGE_749DAB65-74E9-410F-9F22-D3AC687A79CA.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fivo2nsElvg/UhWHeKHw1_I/AAAAAAAAMf0/PSMRTG1ul4A/s320/IMAGE_749DAB65-74E9-410F-9F22-D3AC687A79CA.JPG" height="320" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">this was some kind of house boat barge, but I never see it move.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The pecky pecky boats lined up.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andres boat</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">on the way to ONCA</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It`s Andre!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My new house.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was made mostly of Charro, similar to bamboo.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charo House.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mosquito nets over the bed</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">this stuff came in handy.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">chocolate bean fruit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">view from my room... you can barely see the river.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The kitchen and offce. which was about to be torn down.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">another view.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The mean old Geese always trying to bite me.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rooster a crowin`</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vanessa with a fresh stalk of bananas</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">view of the river from the yard.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The welcome sign</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">¨negro¨¨</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marias ribs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the two cats sleeping</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The old kitchen., which is being rebuilt.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">one of the other cabinas</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">taking my after lunch break.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the sweetest grapefruits I have ever tasted. no sugar needed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">my room floor.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The swolen river.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sink area</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the shower</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the wood shed I built</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a different viw</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">my room again</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the temorary kitchen supported by balsa posts.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">my shelves in my room.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the old kitchen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the old kitchen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">my good friend Jorge getting ready to take off the door.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">one last photo of the old kitchen.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">every morning thre is a fog over the river.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">there goes the kitchen.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">this kitchen was built in 1976 and had never been touched since. it was held together with strips of bark, tougher than leather.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">this is the view from the new power station being built.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the animal rescue center. I painted almost the whole thing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">my fish trap and my best friend...my fishing pole.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the new kitchen begins.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">they added the roof supports. the entire building is held together by thin strips of bark soaked in the creek.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">heading to Rurre</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alex taking me to Rurre for the last time.</td></tr>
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<br />Dww0013http://www.blogger.com/profile/04209502811555963396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453526333412830918.post-16478535739711993172013-07-30T21:50:00.000-07:002013-07-30T21:53:32.867-07:006 days in Puno, a day in Copacabana and now in La Paz<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.09375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;">July 23rd 2013 Tuesday</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.09375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;">Woke up in Puno, Peru at Brisas Del Lago Hotel. There are a lot of tourists because there are so many attractions, but the main attraction is the floating islands of lake Titiqaqa. So I had signed up for the four hour tour for $7.00 leaving <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://2" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2" x-apple-data-detectors="true">at 9am</a>. The tour guide met me in front of the hotel and we rode in a nice bus down to the docks where 12 or so other foreigners joined us. The boat was nice, fully inclosed and the guide talked for 20 minutes then we could climb up to the roof of the boat. These islands are very interesting, because they make them by hand with reeds and it takes about a year to build one island. Lake Titikaka is <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">280 meters deep and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">165 km by 60km. But where the islands are located is about 20 feet deep. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Aymara is the islanders language and is one of three official languages in peru...spanish, quechua, aymara, and there are 48 dialects in Peru. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Casimaraki - hello and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Waliki- hello in response, is what you have to say upon greeting the family on your island. There are 72 man made islands for a total of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">1,500 people. E</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">ach island is one family. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Baza de totoa is what the boats are called that are made out of the same reeds the islands are made of. Also they use the reeds to eat and to cook with. The base of the island is a dried out root system and then they lay several layers of reed on top in a criss cross until it gets 6 feet thick, 4 feet below water and two above. Then it is achored in 8 locations. Very nice to walk on. Juan was the president of the entire area and we just happened to be taken to his island. He was hillarious, and spoke 7 languages, he took us into his house to sit and talk and see his baby that was wrapped in blankets lying on the bed. It was truly a unique experience. His wife Marta was just as nice, and so were their parents. They had several kids, but they were on another island at school. We then got into the boza de toa and were paddled to the town square where we could buy lunch, coffee or pastries and mingle with other tourists. I met 3 people from LA and a couple from Ireland. Juan wanted to know why I had chin hair..I told him it was to keep me warm on the motorcycle. It was a great experience and the best $7.00 I have spent in Peru.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">July 24th, 2013 Wednesday</span></div>
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Third day in Puno. Trying to make plans to enter Bolivia. They are strict on Americans more than any other Foreigner entering the country. They charge a reciprocal fee for entering which is $135.00, by far the most I have ever spent to enter a country. They also make you buy a 4cm by 4cm foto with a red background. And you have to have a hotel reservation and proof of finances. Took care of all these things.</div>
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July 25th, 2013 Thursday</div>
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4th day in Puno. Took care of more business. Preparing for an Amazon tour in Bolivia. I have become addicted to the chile rellenos and chicken tamales or empanadas. I buy them every day day for 1 sol from the ladies near the Plaza de Armas, so for 3 sols I can fill up ($1.00) There is some serious price variances in the tourist streets, where you have to spend 30 sols easily on a meal not quite as good as my chile rellenos and tamales.</div>
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July 26th, 2013 Friday</div>
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5th day in Puno. Packing to cross the border. There is a restriction on gas in Bolivia. You can't buy gas at the subsidized price if your vehicle has a foreign plates so you pay $7.00 a gallon instead of $1.75. So I filled up in Peru. If you see a big yellow gas can on the side of the road you can stop and get it from the pitcher and funnel method from the guy, usually it's their house and the gas is in a can in the back yard.</div>
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Juy 27th, 2013 Saturday</div>
6th day in Puno woke up and left <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://11" x-apple-data-detectors-result="11" x-apple-data-detectors="true">at 10:30</a> crossed border into Bolivia and drove to Copacabana. 6days in Puno is waaay too long. The border was so easy and really they just wanted the $135.00 they told me to keep the foto and didn't ask for the reservations or financial proof. They just made me get a copy of the document I had made back in Costa Rica. It's the third time that document has worked in my favor. I made really good friends with one of the Nacional Policeman Vladimir Flores who offered to let me keep the bike at his house if I choose to fly to the Jungle instead of ride. Spent the day in beautiful Copacabana on the lake...walked around town, visited the church. Had dinner. The locals are gearing up for a Sunday celebration where they decorate the vehicles to be blessed by the Padre and they sling water on them as they drive by the Cathedral. They take this very seriously and spend lots of money on the decorations. <div>
July 28th, 2013 Sunday</div>
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Woke up in Copacabana and rode to LaPaz 3 hours away. Took ferry in Ecofuturo, Bolivia to get to the otherside. There were two kids running this ferry about 15 and 16 years old. There were about 12-15 ferrys and they all looked the same but it was kinda rustic to say the least. It took about 15 minutes and when I got to the otherside I had the best fried trout and minnows, hominy, and new potatos I think I have ever had. Shared with the dogs in the town square. Watched the people, unload from the ferrys as I enjoyed my lunch. Then took off for La Paz. But just as I left the ferry I went through a small town and there was a huge party in the street. It was pretty obvious there was alcohol involved you could smell beer and they were dancing in the street and I had to steer in and out of them they didn't even move and these were Quechua people, they are always so serious, and straight. They were all dressed up and celebrating something. I could really smell alcohol and I am pretty sure a lated urinated in the middle of the road as I went by. Then it was back to normal,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"> a very nice ride along the cliffs of the lake with the peaks of the snow covered mountains in the background. Then La Paz. Wow what an enormous city. I could spend a year here and not see it all. Very nice area where I am staying. Several burger kings, subway, artesans, anything and everything you want times ten.</span></div>
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July 29th, 2013 Monday</div>
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Second day in La Paz. Hunting supplies for my jungle experience. Mosquito net, raincoat, rope, hammock, machete, new back tire for the moto, spare tube, wrenches, two 1 gallon gas cans, etc... I will be taking "death road" 450 km to Rurrenabaque, Bolivia and I need to be prepared for anything. No gas and the ruts in the road can be impassible. Luckily there has been no rain. If it rains I will have a HUGE problem. Most likely won't make it in one day.</div>
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Woke up today and started working on finding more stuff for the Amazon trip. I bought a new chain for the motorcycle $20.00 and tried to have two sprockets replaced but once they got it all taken apart they realized it was the wrong parts and I wasn't about to wait for them to put it back together then drive across town again up the crazy steep hills, so I told them just replace the chain. While they replaced it I had a great lunch upstairs at a family run restaurant for 12 bobs or $1.75. They charged me <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">$13.00 labor or 80 bolivian bolivianos, then I found a mud tire for the back of the moto $36.00 or 250 bolivianos then $2.00 to put it on. Replaced the tube also. I went to get a drink while I waited for the tire guy to finish and as I was coming back a taxi turned hard and going fast and hit me but I put my hand on the car with a thud and kinda spun away. He just kept going. Then the guy finished the tire but I noticed a bolt that had lost the nut and almost worked it's way out and it is one that holds the engine to the frame, so I had to go back to the shop buy a washer and nut and borrow a wrench to tighten it. I rode around and took photos. I think one more day here then off to the jungle. I am currently 115 miles as the crow flies from Chile and I think this is as close as I will get on this trip anyway. After some research I decided there are other endeavors that I will pursue. I like La Paz, but I am not sure if La Paz likes me, but I am making the best of it. There are some really nice people here and some not so nice. Tons of Americans and tourists from all over the world. I am specifically avoid the "bash and crash" hostals which there seem to be a lot of here. Had a couple drunk guys follow me around, harmless though not sure what they wanted, to beg or steal? Lots of very old Quechua indian ladies begging..hundreds. So I like to take a pocket full of bobs then drop them in their little gray hats one bob (.14 cents) at a time. I am ready for the road again.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My hotel in Puno, Peru</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The area near the docks in Puno, Peru.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The inside of the boat that took us to the floating islands.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> The guide giving us info and instructions on the boat.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These people were collecting entrance fees. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Approaching the island where Juan and Marta live. (their personal island.) </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Stove on the floating island.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Juan and Joe doing the presentation on how the island is built. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Juan and Martas mother or mother in law</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Small fish that they catch and eat regularly. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our guide explaining in English and Spanish. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our group getting ready to row to town.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The family singing row row row your boat gently down the stream in English..</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Juan made us laugh the entire trip.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joe paddling the baza de totoa </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Another view of the floating town square.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Town square in the floating islands. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Another view of town square on the floating islands of lake Titikaka in Puno, Peru.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gathering reed in the marsh. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Heading back to Puno docks. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The line at the border to Peru, there was a German couple in front of me and you can see their jeep behind my moto in the background. For some reason the Aduana moved us to the front of the line ahead of everyone else.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the lobby to my hotel in Copacabana, Bolivia where I stayed for $7.00 a night with breakfast included, hot water, and wifi.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> The beach in Copacabana, Bolivia. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Some of the food vendors along the beach in Copacabana. While I was taking this a transformer exploded and the line broke and almost landed on a lady under it.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I was walking in the mercado snapping photos with the ipad just to get candid photos of the town and it's people.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These ladies sell home made, crafts, drinks, and food of all kinds. They even had dried llama babies for sale.??</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another photo of a local lady in Copacabana.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> The backpacks hold food, supplies, or babies.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was the mercado right across from the church in the town square.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> This car was next in line to get a blessing by the Padre. The traffic was backed up for more than two miles in Copacabana.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This car had a small store and home set up on it.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> The procession of decorated cars was endless, and slow. I had a hard time getting my motorcycle past them, as I left the hotel. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Copacabana as I was leaving. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A view on the cliffside of lake Titikaka before I got to the ferry. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Another scenic view outside of Copacabana with the snow covered mountains in the background.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> The ferries are in the background, and this is the short ride you take to the other side.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These two kids ranthe ferry</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Got off the ferry here and had lunch and watched all the locals and tourists. It was a beautiful day. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> This is the fiesta going on in the middle of the road. At first I thought it was a road block. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> La Paz 80km to go </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Just before La Paz there were small streams where the locals washed clothes, bathed, washed their cars , and watered their animals all at the same time and in the same area.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is on the outskirts of La Paz. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shining shoes by the roadside.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">La Paz, my first view of the city.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> La Paz near my hotel. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The main street in La Paz. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> My hotel in La Paz. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This restaurant had a salad and soup buffet, before the main course. All for $1.85. But the peach soda was an extra 75 cents. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The typical "trucha" or local food ... Soup is almost always served.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside the restaurant where I ate while I waited on the moto to be repaired.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bolivian carne guisada</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sprockets that I was going to have replaced til I was told they were not the right ones. So I took them back for a refund and kept the old ones which looked to still be good.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> The motorcycle repair shop, in the street.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">photos of the city streets. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The work bench of the tire repair man. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> This type of dog is very common here.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Just about done adding the new mud tire for "death road"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bolt that had worked it's way free.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The buses are popular here. I am a little scared of the police here. They seem to target Foreign drivers and I was harassed by a policeman for going into a gas station against the arrow next to the pumps??? He then reminded the attendant to charge me the 9.75 bolivianos per liter as opposed to the 3.75 the locals pay. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Main street in La Paz...from what I gather American influence is heavily rejected here. In part due to the ex-president who was from America but really took advantage of Bolivia before he was thrown out of office and replace by an indigenous Quechua president who seems to be doing a great job. Even McDonalds could not survive here and after 14 years of losses finally pulled completely out of Bolivia. </td></tr>
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Second night in Abancay. Had to wait on my foul weather gear to finish washing at the laundry (covered in dust from the dirt roads) so I stayed a second night, and she sewed part of my jacket where it ripped. Ran into the french guy again Jango and we talked a while at the ladies lavanderia. Then hung out around town. It rained on and off so there was no one out and it was a Sunday, so everything was closed. Went to bed early for the ride tomorrow to Cusco. </div>
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Abancay to Cusco. Woke up, packed the bike, and headed to Cusco. Nice ride as usual. Leaving Abancay a truck forgot to turn, see photo. Rode the 200km ride easily with nice roads. Got to Cusco at around <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://2" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2" x-apple-data-detectors="true">3pm</a>. Looked for a hostal. Found one near Plaza Armas, and talked him down from 100sols to 40 sols and he ended up giving me a room upgrade because the bed wasn't made. Then they tried to sell me a package to Machu Picchu but after some serious consideration I declined. I am here for the adventure, not to ride a bus and a train and have someone tell me what to do all day. This would turn out to be one of the best decisions I've made. Ate the best pollo ala brassa, away from the touristy centro for 6sols, it was so good I had a second...I was hungry after riding all day and not eating, and they kinda laughed that I had two plates. Walked around the square and went to starbucks for a coffee. It's funny to me the tourists don't know what they are missing in the "bad parts of town". I have gotten to where I despise the tourist areas all together. This is where all the greedy Peruvians go to separate the rich tourists from their money. The kind and genorous Peruvians are not here. The best meal I have had in Cusco was on the street this lady was selling stuffed chile rellenos with a side of new potatoes for one sol...that's 40 cents. They were so good I walked back and had three and was stuffed. Then next to her I got hot flan in a cup for another sol, the best flan I have had in Latin America so far. These people are willing to accept foreigners if you are willing to accept them...They sometimes get excited when I walk into their out of the way restaurants and smile and laugh among themselves, and I get really good service for the most part. This is what I am looking for in my experience...it's the best part. And they usually want to know everything about me and ask me before I leave where I am from, been, and going.</div>
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Cusco to Santa Maria. Woke up early for my ride to Santa Maria. I was a little aprehensive about this ride because I had heard so many conflicting stories. Got my motorcycle out of the building and headed off. I asked for directions a couple of times and ended up on a dirt road which wasn't supposed to happen. Apparently I went the wrong way. Luckily the road wasn't too bad and I got to see some really nice lakes in the valleys, see photos. This road got me there and eventually I made it to Ollataytambo, cool place, then to Santa Teresa, even cooler, really small, and the ruins are right there in town. Got gas from a kid with the funnel and pitcher method. Didn't have time to see these ruins though, just wanted to get to Santa Maria. Then the road was paved the rest of the way and had a great ride. Found a great family run hostal for 15 sols a night. Walked around town had dinner and asked anyone and everyone of the locals if I could make it to Hidroelectrica with the motorcycle. They all confirmed it...no problem and there was a cochera at a mans house where I could park....34 km one way of unpaved roads though. There were two guys I was talking to about it, but they couldn't understand what I was saying when I say "tren" which means train, so I made the chookachooka sound to describe it. Then he made the chookachooka sound and we all three cracked up and from then on we just made the chookachooka sound to say train. Bought my food for the trip then went to bed.</div>
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By <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://6" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6" x-apple-data-detectors="true">7:41 am</a> I had parked at hidroelectrica 10 sols fee. Then started the 2 and 1/2 hour walk to Aguas Calientes. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Arrived in AQ and bought tickets at Aguas Caliente ticket office <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://8" x-apple-data-detectors-result="8" x-apple-data-detectors="true">at 9:41 am</a> 128 sols $46.89 to enter park. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Bought bus ticket $9.50 or 26 sols. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">On bus leaving up the mountain by <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://11" x-apple-data-detectors-result="11" x-apple-data-detectors="true">9:54am</a> after taking 5 minutes to watch parade (see video)</span></div>
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<a href="x-apple-data-detectors://14" x-apple-data-detectors-result="14" x-apple-data-detectors="true">10:21</a> stamped passport with machu picchu stamp but turned back and exited when I realized no food allowed inside, went around to the tables to eat. ( 7 bananitas 1 sol, 1 large avacado 2 sols, w<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">edge of local cheese 1 sol, 1 sol worth of purple olives, 1 - 625ml water 4 sols, 1 chocolate bar 1 sol, 3 breads .5 sols total =10 sols) Ate lunch - 30 minutes.</span></div>
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By <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://15" x-apple-data-detectors-result="15" x-apple-data-detectors="true">11:55</a> I was done and was leaving the ruins. Hard to breathe! Too much walking, beautiful place (see photos) </div>
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Started walking down from the entrance <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://16" x-apple-data-detectors-result="16" x-apple-data-detectors="true">at 11:59am</a></div>
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Arrived back down the mountain to Aguas Caliente <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://17" x-apple-data-detectors-result="17" x-apple-data-detectors="true">at 1:10pm</a>. Walked too fast and missed one short cut costing me 10 minutes.</div>
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Bought water and power aide 5 sols in town. Then <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Another water and icecream 5.5 sols... At this point I was Sore...many blisters</span></div>
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Met a guy on the 2 and a 1/2 hour walk back named Adam, from Lithuania who plays accordian and rides a unicycle simultaneously...was on Peru's got talent and currently advancing for this ability and asked if I had an extra helmet and if he could ride. (he also did this for money on the streets in Peru) I said absolutely, but we had to go slow. So it took until <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://21" x-apple-data-detectors-result="21" x-apple-data-detectors="true">6:00pm</a> to get back to Santa Maria. Scary ride in the dark with dust, headlights, fast drivers, huge deep water running across the road. Scared I would pinch the back tube. Made it, and Adam was able to get a taxi back to his friends house in Ollataytambo. I thought I had walked a lot...he had walked from Ollataytambo 35km one way down the tracks, wow!</div>
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Had Dinner in Santa Maria 5 sols icecream 1.5 sols</div>
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Total for the day 207sols or $75.82 not too bad considering some spend over $1000.00 for the day to stay in Machu Picchu. An amazing day, I will never forget it, like no other experience ever in my life. Well worth the pain, and effort.</div>
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Santa maria to Cusco. Took my time riding back to Cusco. This time I stayed on the paved roads. Found a hostal, had dinner, walked around. Met a guy at another Hostal who offered me a great deal, so I told him I would stay <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://26" x-apple-data-detectors-result="26" x-apple-data-detectors="true">tomorrow night</a> there. Took my laundry to be done. Then took the backpack to the seamstress to be repaired in several spots.</div>
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Woke up and told the front desk girl bye we talked a while...she seemed sad. Gave her a bit of encouragement then left. The hotel was cheap and they were nice here, but I needed wifi to plan my trip to Puno on my way to La Paz. So I took off and had the oil changed, then had it washed. Then I took the guy up on his offer at the other Hostal. I didn't realise it was a dorm bed. Oh well, couldn't be that bad. So I chatted with some Americans and really enjoyed the atmosphere. I asked Fred the host where I could get a Chuleta (a very thin cut t-bone). He said the mercado. So I bought enough for the both of us, for $5.00. Then I came back and prepared everything and Fred was busy the whole time until it got time to cook the steaks and he did that part. But I decided to invite the other two workers to join us because we had plenty. The meal was good, and we had a great time...Fred likes to joke around and he told me his name was Goliad (goliath...) when I told him my name was David, til I finally figured out his name was really Fred. Then he made a proposal. If He printed some stickers would I let him put them on the moto, and I said yes. So he let me stay an extra night free while we wait on the stickers to be printed...pretty good deal I thought. Then bedtime came...i was in a small room with four beds, all alone at first. Then two Brazilians showed up and we talked for a long while in their portuguese/english/spanglish...it was great. This was the first time I had met a Brazilian. There was also an Irish guy who was in the room who told me he was going out and would not be in til very late. So I went to bed and then the older Brazilian comes in and when he snores the walls vibrate, and so do I....wow! Then the other guy comes in and when the bedroom door opens it's like an old Castle door in an old horror film...he goes to bed. Then <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://29" x-apple-data-detectors-result="29" x-apple-data-detectors="true">1:30</a> in the morning these two spanish girls come in half drunk I think and the hostal was full and so was our room, bit I guess the front desk clerk got confused, and told them they could stay. They were laughing the lights were on, music going...really frustrating, then they went to bed without turning the light off. Then around <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://30" x-apple-data-detectors-result="30" x-apple-data-detectors="true">2:30 am</a> the Irish guy shows up knocks several times, then the Brazilian opens the door and the guy doesn't turn the light on, he goes straight to the bathroom. Then he comes out, sees all four beds are full and I look at him and kinda hold up my hands like I don't know man, and his jaw is hitting the floor. He leaves through the dracula door, and the lady comes back and all this commotion ensues. I don't know what happened. i heard salir and then maybe they got him a bed, not sure...I am still in bed typing this listening to the Brazilian rattle the walls <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://31" x-apple-data-detectors-result="31" x-apple-data-detectors="true">at 8:30am</a> on the 20th...what a night...no sleep at all.</div>
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July 20th, 2013</div>
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Got up and had breakfast with a Canadian guy from Montreal. We talked a while, then Freddy came over and said that the stickers couldn't be printed. So I hung out all day and went to the mercado and bought some fish. Then Lucy and the other two girls cooked lunch with me of fried fish, potatoes and salad. Then all seven of us sat down and ate lunch. Fredy jokes around alot and we had a great time. Lucy even told me they would be my family away from home, which was the nicest thing anyone has said to me in a very long time...pretty cool people here. Then I walked around Plaza Armas and found two more flag stickers, and put them on the bike. Leaving in the morning on my way to Puno.</div>
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Woke up packed the bike, and tried to finish the blog. Internet too slow. But I had to get on the road and it was <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://34" x-apple-data-detectors-result="34" x-apple-data-detectors="true">9:30 am</a> and I had 389km to go to get to Puno. I exchanged info with Lucy, the nicest person in the world. Then called Fredy on his cell and told him bye. Then they waved me off as I headed down the road. I would highly recommend INKASPACHA HOSTEL in Cusco. Cook them a meal and you don't know what will happen with this family. Then I was in the high plains, headed to Puno. The ride was straight and flat which makes for easy cruising. The moto does not like the high altitude though and spits and sputters every now and then. Also there are quite a few cyclists because it is so straight and easy riding. I always honk, flash my lights and give them a thumbs up when I see them because I admire their stamina. Like my friend Billy who has cycled from Alaska to Colombia last I heard and is still going. So I made it 340 km to Juliaca and stayed one night in a 10 sol hostal, near the dustiest mercado in the world. </div>
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Woke up with an altitude headache, cold and wanting to go, so I pulled myself up by my bootstraps and took off around <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://36" x-apple-data-detectors-result="36" x-apple-data-detectors="true">11am</a> for Puno. I really like it here and found a great room at Brisas del lago with everything for 25 sols even breakfast, "Way fee" (wifi - the girl had wifi written as "way fee" couldn't help but laugh so I explained it to her), but no heater in any of the hostals, and it drops into the high to mid 30's at night. Oh well. Finishing up the blog although it's so cold in my room I am shivering and blowing smoke, and that's with my stove on! Now going to find pollo ala brasa. People seem really friendly here. May take the floating islands of lake Titikaka boat tour.. Tomorrow, as a last event since it will be my last day in Peru hopefully....heading to Bolivia and the Amazon day after tomorrow. Stay tuned.</div>
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Here is a link to my friend Tony's video. This video includes part of our travels together.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This helicopter was next to the river in the middle of nowhere. I guess they search for cave ins and rock slides along the highway </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a photo of my first sight of Cusco. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a street in Cusco, made of brick and rough to ride on with the motorcycle. The buildings were all historic and nice.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is my hotel in Cusco where I talked him into giving me the room for 40 instead of 100.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is where I had dinner my first night in Cusco. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Typical peruvian attire.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These were local people taking their goods to sell to tourists.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was the lobby to the Hotel in Cusco my first night. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was on the dirt road where the locals side tracked me. Here in Peru more likely than not they will give you directions even if they don't have a clue of where it is you want to go. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was the backway to Ollataytambo on my way there when I was off the beaten path, on a rural road.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another view of Ollataytambo.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ollataytambo, Peru from the hillside.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was the river Aobamba in Santa Teresa.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In Santa Teresa part of the town was built on a historic site.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is more of Santa Maria</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is Santa Teresa where they had plenty of Tuktuks. I had to buy gas fro m a kid at a convenient store here.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walking sticks, and colorful incan purses for sale, in Santa Teresa.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> This is the tourist mercado in Santa Teresa </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Santa Teresa bridge and you can see part of the ruins on the hillside.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jewelry stand for all the tourists.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is for all the future tourists that like to shop. Santa Teresa had a great selection. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is another little stand to buy stuff at in Santa Teresa. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is more of the shops in Santa Teresa which I rode through twice on my way to and from Machu Picchu.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the Santa Teresa mercado for tourists.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think this was a practice ring for bull fighting in Santa Teresa. Wish I could have spent more time in this town. Seemed pretty cool.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was a small town outside of Santa Teresa.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This dog was wondering what the heck I was doing. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Loved this photo. The lady was here to pose for photos I am thinking, but not positive. There were lots of people walking along the roadside, but most will avoid you if you approach them.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> This lady was truly living in the mountains. She didn't want her photo taken, but I offered her 7 sols and she agreed. She seemed so sweet and kind.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was a ranch style home leaving Cusco...it was miserably cold and damp here. Wouldn't want to live here in the winter.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another view in Abra Malaga. Many tourists would buy mountain biking trips here. The minivans would put the bikes on top and drive the tourists and bikes here where they could pretty much coast 30 km down the mountain. I was running low on fuel so I shut the engine off here and coasted 28km without the engine, and never turned it on once. I had to hit the breaks a few time though.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> My favorite spot on the way to Santa Maria. This is where the terrain changed from dry to </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I had to just sit here for a while to saok it all in. An amazing place on the earth. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another view of my favorite spot.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The wild flowers here in my favorite spot were stunning.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another roadblock. There must have been 5 a day on average where I had to stop and wait.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> This was the bridge from Leaving Santa Maria on my way to Hidroelectrica. The town on the otherside was literally a ghost town of the old Santa Maria due to a 1998 flood that put the old town under water. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rafting in Santa Maria on river Urubamba.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was taken from the bridge in Santa Maria. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was a huge waterfall on my ride to Hidro and gushing from the cliffside. Not sure if it was man made or not. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> In hidroelectrica there is no town, it is just a bunch of workers that go into the mountain through tunnels. However there was this shack where all foreigners had to sign in to walk or take the train from here to Aguas Caliente or Machu Picchu pueblo.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is where I parked. On the right you see a driveway uphill. It was actually a mans house. Really nice guy. He charged me 10 sols, and he kept some of my riding gear so I wouldn't have to lug it along. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the mountain tunnel I parked next to in Hidroelectrica. I am not sure what they were doing down there. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Train is waiting to leave for Aguas Calientes with passengers aboard. The cost is $15.00 from here to Aguas Calientes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the ticket office at the train station in Hidroelectrica.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is where the walk to Machu Picchu began from Hidroelectrica.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a series of 11 photos I took as the train crossed the bridge right next to me. If you scroll down fast enough you can watch it go by.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A tunnel I had to walk through on my walk to AC. Just glad no train came when I was inside, because there was not enough room for both of us.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of my first views of Aguas Calientes. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My first sight of Aguas Calientes. I had no idea of what to expect and I was shocked. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was what I first encountered when entering Aguas Callientes after a two and a half hour walk of forest and mountains. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This train was ready to go, but it looked older than the other perurail train. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I really thought Aguas Calientes was a nice and clean little town, but definitely a tourist trap. Once you are here they have you. They won't even make the tap water drinkable. They want you to buy the bottled water. I asked one street sweeper girl if I could drink the water here. She said "you can't buy it?" i said why buy it when I can get it for free?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Where you buy the entrance tickets to Machu Picchu in Aguas Calientes. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was a local dance and song presentation that was going on as I exited the ticket booth. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bus ride to the top. The buses were nice and plush. But for $9.00 for a twenty minute ride you would expect that. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was my view as I had lunch right outside the entrance to the ruins. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> My first view as I walked into the ruins. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Another nice view. Although the photos don't capture the full view.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the entrance where the well worn dirt path is to the left. The lady with her back to me was from Australia and I asked her to take my photo. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is probably the best view you will get of the entire site.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I would like to have seen this structure with a roof. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As you can see here there was a bit of math involved in the construction.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This room seemed to be the penthouse suite in it's day. With nothing blocking the view. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ruins were well maintained. These are not the only ruins in the area. Apparently the son of this king had ruins built nearby that are not as impressive but very similar. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> This mountain in the background had a flag on top and there were people who had climbed it but I could only see them with my binoculars.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> I got a guy to take this photo for me here, because it looks like I'm on the edge of a cliff. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think this is a duplicate, but you can't have too many photos of MP..lol</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Llama at Machu Picchu, apparently they were allowed to roam the site. Beats buying a lawnmower! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Llama Llama! This girl was hiding in the ruins, but I found her.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I like pitting my sticker in random locations. This one is on a sign you might see walking back from Aguas Calientes to Hidroelectrica.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> This was Adam from Lithuania who rode back with me from Hidroelectrica. He had lived in Peu for two years making his way by riding the unicycle and playing accordian, and ended up on Peru's Got Talent. Cool guy. </td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZZ4dzgRodnY/UetSdZVhgDI/AAAAAAAAKjc/x2vepG63rMU/s1600/IMAGE_A006AED1-6E11-462A-A8A9-49D79BFEF4AA.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="239" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZZ4dzgRodnY/UetSdZVhgDI/AAAAAAAAKjc/x2vepG63rMU/s320/IMAGE_A006AED1-6E11-462A-A8A9-49D79BFEF4AA.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">This is the main entrance to INKASPACHA HOSTEL in Cusco. Loved the ping pong table, but too many good players kept beating me. So I bowed out. I didn't mention I was in a league, except to David an American from North Carolina who was hilarious and we laughed about so many things. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> This is the main entrance to INKASPACHA HOSTEL in Cusco</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was the view of Puno on lake Titikaka, where I will spend my last night in Peru. Hopefully. This photo is a little out of order. Should be the last photo for this post.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Welcome to Puno!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the highway in Juliaca. Dirty, dusty, and chaotic. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The high plains on the way to Juliaca and Puno, leaving Cusco. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I was bored. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Llama llama near Juliaca. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Llamas on the lake.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the typical adobe brick home in this area of the high plains.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another ranch style home of adobe brick in the high plains between Cusco and Juliaca. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Almost to Juliaca. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A cool photo of "Super Honda" which is about to roll 15,000 kilometers.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Super Honda" in the middle of the Panamericana Highway on the high plains of Peru. I wish I could get her to "pop a wheelie" but no chance... :( </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Where I parked the moto while at hostal INKASPACHA in Cusco. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A photo of my cool new stickere I bought in the souvenir shop after a lengthy search.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was a photo on my way back to Cusco at Abra Malaga from Machu Picchu after the shroud of clouds around it had cleared. It was sleeting on me as I rode up. Luckily the ice wasn't sticking to the road. By the time I got to the bottom it was back to 65 degrees. I coasted 28 kilometers on the way down with the motor off from this point.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A living statue in the Plaza de Armas near the cathedral. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the main street near the mercado in Cusco. Where all the Peruvians do their trading. This is where I like to hang out, eat buy stuff and donate money occasionally. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> This was the highest altitude at over 13,000 feet that I rode through on my way to Machu Picchu.</td></tr>
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<br />Dww0013http://www.blogger.com/profile/04209502811555963396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453526333412830918.post-69094436136428969892013-07-15T06:58:00.000-07:002013-07-15T06:58:19.675-07:00Lima to Abancay July 8th-13th<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.09375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;">July 8th</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.09375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;">Drove out of Lima around noon. Stopped in Chaclacayo for an oil change. The lady wanted my story and then put my sticker on her glass display case. Cool. From a gallon jug the nice lady had her boys pour what was supposed to be a quart into a metal pitcher. It looked like too much so I intervened and stopped him from using all of it, because too much can cause problems in a motorcycle. Then they wash your vehicle for free. The kid blew off half my stickers with the over-pressured sprayer before I realized it, them laughed at it. 28sols $10.00 can't complain. Decided to head further out of Lima to Chosica to position myself for a jaunt to Huanacayo (420km) My room for the night, stayed at Paraiso Hospedaje...good choice...good food....good people 20 sols $7.00. Started a new trend. Leave a hand written spanish bible verse in the room...see photo.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.09375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;">July 9th</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.09375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;">Drove 420km to Huanacayo. Beautiful drive. Many tunnels, and railroad bridges. Followed a beautiful river rushing clear blue water. Freezing cold, and snow on the mountain...! Thought I was gonna lose consciousness while driving and go over a cliff, going from the sea level to 5000 feet so quickly. Nervous about my newly discovered four broken spokes, found a mecanico in Huanacayo, and he said come at 8 am en la mañana, so I will stay here two days to get them fixed. Cheap room. Great economica food just outside the hostal.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.09375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;">July 10th</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.09375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;">Woke up and showed up exactly at 8 am to get the four spokes replaced. He wasn't there. Went for breakfast, returned by 9am, and by noon he had it done and cut a link out of my stretched out chain. Adjusted breaks too. 15 sols $5. New oil... Good to go. They have 97 octane gas here...! But I use 90, but it costs about $6.00 a gallon. Got bored so I had Burned up my little electric stove from leaving it on all night as a heater. Searched the mercado til I found one..haggled from 42sols down to 23 sols $8. Bought 3 oranges, 3 peaches and 3 avocados for $3. Got stared at the whole time in the mercado...not many gringos here. lol.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.09375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;">July 11th</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.09375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;">It's tough to put what I see each day into words on this trip or even give a sense of what it's like to experience what I am experiencing with both people and places. Unless you are on the motorcycle doing it and seeing it and meeting the people I am meeting for yourself it just doesn't translate. I can only thank God everyday for giving me this gift of an experience and allowing me to do this, to see some of His most magnificent creations and meeting some of the most amazing people I could ever have imagined. This has truly been a once in a lifetime experience and I am blessed. As I ride all of these thoughts run through my head and I forget most of them by the time I make it to the keyboard, but I specifically wanted to put this down on paper today. It is difficult at times to leave my family behind for this journey, but I firmly believe that if I am doing this for all the right reasons that they will be abundantly blessed by it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.09375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;"> So back to the story... I got a late start leaving Huanacayo, not too worried because I thought it would be an easy day. My ipad maps said 213km from Huancayo to Ayacucho. I could do that in my sleep. Bad miscalculation by my imaps...i guess i am confusing it with these remote destinations. The guy at the mechanic shop I made friends with yesterday said it was a difficult 300km, beautiful ride, but I thought he was exaggerating. He was right. Where should I start, ... Almost ran out of gas...no stations for 200km, had to buy it from a convenient store and they use the old pitcher and funnel method...then it was one lane for two way traffic, you had to honk as you came around blind cliffside curves or you get plowed by huge buses, which I almost did twice, I crossed six creeks running over the road, three significant rock slides where I had to dodge large rocks, then the road actually caved in and I was told I would have to wait two hours which turned into three hours ..almost dark (luckily it was next to a nice waterfall, but I had just given all my food to a broke down trucker), at least ten dogs attacked my motorcycle and came at me, six herds of goats in the road I had to drive through, at least twenty speed bumps to stop for, then the last sixty kilometers was a bumpy dusty caliche dirt road and the sun had gone down (two of my dislikes...night driving, and dirt roads, I avoid these), oh and the kids in the small towns throw things at you, a five year old threw and hit me in the head with a stick...it was good throw..., and another kid threw a large empty peach can at my motorcycle same age.. he missed, then a twelve year old threw a small rock near my motorcycle missed though I don't think he was aiming! I made it 220km by the Grace of God and stayed the night in Huanta. And no broken spokes! Nice town, and the nicest people thus far. I love the Peruvian farmers and mountain folks...they are really kind. Got a room for 20sols. Had a nice pollo a la brassa..brazed, glazed, and rotissified. With papas fritas, and ensalada. 12 sols...$4.. Way too much. In my room...kids a squallin...church bells ringing...cafe con leche....night night.</span></div>
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So the Ayacucho taxi driver said pura "pista" pura "asfalta" which means the road is paved all the way from Ayacucho to Abancay. WRONG! Of the 285km ride 120km was the worst road I have driven on yet. There was a river bed for a road at one point, at other times; a washboard, pot holed, caving in, muddy, blind cliffside one lane turns, caliche dust in your face behind a bus, collectivo buses running you off the road, honking at you...I could go on and on. But when I look back, it was pretty exciting, and exhilarating not knowing what to expect next. I was just glad the moto made it. After all a Honda 150cc street bike loaded down with 300 pound is not exactly the ideal bike for these conditions. Most people doing this trip have Kawasaki KLR650's or BMW 1200 or 1400, or llamaha 1000's. I just rolled 14,000 kilometers on the old Honda with no mechanical problems what so ever. I change the oil every 1500km, replaced broken spokes twice, adjusted the chain a few times, adjust the carburetor for high altitudes, had the saddle bags repaired from my two wrecks, but overall this has been a great bike. So I didn't make it to Abancay. It was late so I holed up here in Andahuaylas for the night 10 sols...the cheapest yet. So I underestimated the difficulty of getting to MPichu, but I have a plan to get there..."the backway". Ride to Santa Maria and leave the moto..taxi to Santa Teresa...hike 2 miles through the forest and across a river....then pay to climb MP. we'll see.</div>
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Got a late start, told Elmer bye the front desk kid...he wanted a sticker and a photo on my bike... but I made it to Abancay, Peru. Slow going. 195 km of dirt mountain roads, rockslides mud holes, and road construction. Witnessed my first rockslide. Story of the day...</div>
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I saw 2 girls and a boy gathering a type of grass like stick by the road to make money. They were filthy dirty looked like they had been playing in ash. Hair all awry clothes filthy. The one girl was about 12 the other about 10, and the little boy 5. I passed them at first, then thought about it, stopped gathered some change and headed back. The older girl had stopped working and was standing there with her hands on her hips, wondering what the heck I was doing. I said here is some money. She opened her dirty hand which was pruny and wrinkled from the hard work and cold, did not look like the hand of a 12year old, and I dropped the 7 coins in her hand with a ching. It was freezing and they had no jackets. She smiled the sweetest smile, and you could see her pretty white teeth behind her dirty face, kinda turned her head to the side and said gracias, muchas gracias, and her voice cracked as she said it, like she was gonna cry. I looked at the other girl and said muchos bendicciones (many blessings) and she said loudly "gracias". I was thanking the Lord for that opportunity when I looked back as I headed around the bend to the otherside of the mountain I could see them, and the girls were dancing in circles with their hands in the air. I immediately started to tear up, because I had only given them 9 sols or about three dollars. I then went around another corner about half an hour later and there was a teenage boy with his two 5 year old brothers...and when they saw me they literally ran to me. They were filling pot holes in the road with dirt. They each had a pick or shovel. The little boys asked me for money. I only had 20 sols left to my name and a long way to go. So I told them I couldn't give what I had away, I needed it and I started to take off. Then I saw the sadness in the two little boys eyes, and the dissapointment. Then that verse came into my head "give to the poor all that you own (luke 18:22). And I stopped and thought about why I was here in the first place, opened my wallet and gave them the twenty sols bill. Their eyes lit up. Then I noticed the 13yer olds feet. He had the feet of a ninety year old man toe nails black and thick, and flip flops in freezing cold weather. I was glad I gave them the money. I started to think...the bible says in Matthew 5:5 that "the meek shall inherit the earth" so that means one day they will own it in its heavenly state, so I see it as an honor and a privilege to be able to give them something now. (you can put this into the bible reader to your right to read it for yourself) Later up the road I came to two more groups filling potholes with shovels...no labor laws here<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">, but I had no money, so I offered them prayer in my broken spanish, one kid really seemed to appreciate that quite a bit. It was later I passed a group of ladies and girls under tarps that I realized they were living under tarps on the mountain side...unbelievable! It was just about the same time that I passed this beautiful cross on the mountain side. It's hard knowing and thinking they they are still there right now.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My new tradition of leaving these hand written verses in spanish in the rooms at the hotel or giving them away to people. Many people here would love to have a bible, but can't get one for one reason or another. There is not a Christian bookstore on every corner like in the US.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The railroad bridges are impressive. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After this photo I started drinking San Mateo water</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another interesting set of railroad bridges and tunnels.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The road followed Rio Mantaro which turned from dirty brown to crystal clear the further I got into the higher elevations.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lima to Huancayo route</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another cool RR bridge </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another view of Rio Mantaro where between Lima and Huancayo.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> This nice lady selling snacks offered to take my photo at 5000 ft elevation. Too cold for me. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can see the snow on the mountain. And this lake was the bluest lake I have ever seen. Two geese landed on the ground just behind me while,I was taking photos, but it was too far away for,my camera.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> These little tombs marked many graves on the road side reminding me of just how dangerous these roads can be. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The plants here are all desert type plants and shrubs, and cactus, the Amazon is still about 1500km from here where it gets thick and green.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> This bridge was one of many walking bridges along the river. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was my favorite restaurant in Huancayo where I stayed for two days. The meals were economica and very tasty. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> This was my one of my $1.80 meals. It also came with warm green tea and a bowl of soup.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These three waterfalls had obviously been there a long time...there were crystalized formations hanging from the cliffs downtoward the water. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the many amazing view between Lima and Cusco</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This bridge was one lane...my first of many experiences with one lane roads. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> The river was dammed and turned into a hydroelectric plant here. It was quite a drop down inf the canyon below. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was the gas station where they used the old pitcher and funnel method. Here they call it "grifo" when you get gas this way or if you are close to running out. You will see signs along the way that say grifo and show a gas pump, but there are no real "bomberos" or gas stations for 200km in the next large town so this is your only option.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> If you look closely here you can see that the truck is having to back up to let the huge bus get by because there is only one narrow lane, more like a sidewalk at times. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> This looks like the Texas valley. Kinda...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> The horses grazing down below next to the river made me this look like a scene from an old western movie.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Yes this is the "highway" with a creek running through it. Not the worst one though. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> The camera zoomed in nicely for me with the river in the background made this a nice photo I thought.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> They build houses from bricks made of straw and clay with a clay tile roof. Unfortunately the high rain and winds <br />
deteriorates them </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A picstitch of some of my favorite scenic views.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> The treacherous one lane roads I was driving on </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> This is where I waited for three hours while they finished fixing a cave-in . The superintendent actually got mad at me because I had driven past the attendant and near the work and he was kinda grping saying "you are an intelligent individual you can see that this is dangerous, I have the engineers here working and trying to fix this why did you pass and come here.". Then I explained to him that the attendant radioed and asked The foreman for me to pass and he ok'd it. But when I got there the crane was already putting the outriggers out so I couldn't pass.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> The cactus were huge here and the red clay mountains made this area nice, but the sun was going down and I needed to get to a town quickly. Ayacucho was four hours and Huanta was just one hour so I stayed there instead.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Picstitch of bridges</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> My hotel in Huanta. The people were nice here. And theroom was 15 sols . $5 .50</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> My hospedaje in Huanta </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> The high mountain meadows had these circular fences made of large stones . Not sure why</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> The elevation was getting up there. Not sure what it was though, the views were enjoyable. Had a hard time breathing. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> A beautiful day to ride in Peru, getting colder!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Its hard to tell but I bet this is a 100km view.or more </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Nice road...for a while..</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a close up of the clay bricks they use in the inca villages. You can see the guy in the background making them.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Where I had lunch. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elmer who worked the front desk on my bike at Hotel San Juan in Andahuaylas. This town and it's people were great...wanted to stay longer.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Andahuaylas mercado and main street, while I was heading out of town to Abancay. The street signs hardly ever give distances just arrows pointing the way like this one. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> This lady is dressed in typical Peruvian fashion. Almost all the traditional ladies wear a hat of some sort.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Potatoes for sale in the mercado. They don't get any better. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Onion for sale in the Andahuaylas mercado on a Saturday morning. Saturdays aree busy days here in South American markets.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> The ladies herding sheep' goats, and cows was a common site here.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> A nice house of clay brick in a mountain meadow. Can't imagine what it would be like to live here.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> The view was being blocked by the clouds. This was at the peak of the mountain befor I started my three hour decent to Abancayo.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Another one of Gods amazing creations. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Thes stacked stones meant something, not sure what though.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I came across this cross which was in the middle of nowhere, but there was something about it. There was a well traveled path right down to it. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> This is a different view from the road. I came across this just after I had met some of the poorest people on my entire journey. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Tranquilo!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> A Peaceful place. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> House on the mountainside with an amazing backyard view. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> This was a small village just before Abancay</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> One of myfirst views of Abancay from the mountain top. It doesn't look like it's three hours away, but it was. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> So this is Abancay where I will spend two days. One to wash the dirt and dust out of my overalls riding jacket and backpack the other to catch up on my blog, upload photos and videos, and make a plan for Cusco. Almost there! </td></tr>
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July 1st, 2013<div>
Stayed in Riobamba, ecuador a second day. Got my saddle bag rewelded for $2.00. Shopped in the mercado. Made a nice lunch. Walked around town a lot. Had cafe and dulce de leche from the Nescafe shop.</div>
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July 2nd, 2013</div>
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Cuenca, ecuador. 253km said by to my Riobamba host family. While leaving town went to pass a collectivo minibus and he decided to turn...no signal.. I hit the both brakes hard fully loaded, and started skidding for 20 or 30 yards and I was behind him and actually touched his back bumper with my front fender as I was sliding it was that close...but I never stopped, just kept going...shew, another close call. Went 253km to Cuenca and Went to Papa Johns for free wifi. Found Hostal Alternative on trip advisor.com. Best Hostal yet. Even changed my oil for free. See my review here. http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g294309-d3194198-Reviews-Hostal_Alternative-Cuenca_Azuay_Province.html. Made a great meal after a trip to the mercado. Talked to an Australian doctor and a motorcyclist 10 months on the road from DC. Great stay.</div>
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Loja, ecuador. 195km Panam hwy to loja, ecuador. Beautiful ride, and best roads yet. Cold, but a hot bowl of amazing Sancoche (yucca, chopped chicken bone, culantro, rhubarb, maiz on the cob...) at a roadside shack from the sweetest lady cured that for a while. Loja, Not so lovely a place. Although I got a room for 4$ a night on the square. Built in 1900 and never remodeled. Squeaky floor. Interesting. Nice family that operated it though. Cheap and good food on the corner.</div>
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July 4th, 2013</div>
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Sullana, Peru 311km. Crossed the border in Macara. 3 hour delay...Aduana were at lunch? So I had lunch back in Macara. Insurance (SOAT) was expensive, and the guys pitbulls tried to bite me in the back yard. Made it to Sullana and found a room at "hospedaje sucre" for 20 sols for a room no hot water, internet, but at least I was in Peru. Tuktuk's everywhere. Not so nice drivers here. People rude and arrogant on the road and at the shops. Not impressed with Peru. Very dissappointed. Hard hearted people.</div>
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July 5th, 2013</div>
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Chiclayo, peru. 260km Had to wait for stickers to be finished printing, I had made for 10$. Didn't turn out that great. Left for Chimbote. Desert sand wind, sand dunes, sand covered mountains, trash everywhere blowing in the wind all along the Pacific ocean. I feel like I am in the movie with Mel Gibson called Mad Max road warriors. I am waiting for some kid to pop out of the sand with a boomerang...strange place. More of the same with the people here. Guy wouldn't even serve me food from his street cart. Hmmmm? He just ignored me. The lady next to him did though. Strange mix here. Watched an awesome band performance at a park near the hotel as the sun set. Guy playing a flute and drums in the background. Very cold here..nice room for 30 sols. Getting lots of strange looks. But some folks I talked to were nice. The lady at the hotel put my sticker on her hotel front doors...cool.</div>
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Chimbote, peru. 350km Finally found a room for 15 sols and had to park around the corner at the owners lot. Didn't realize it til later, but I was two blocks from the pacific ocean. Crazy place...very busy city. Seemed okay though. Ate chinese, and while there a young American girl with her Peruvian boyfriend just stared at me, never said anything. Weird. It's not like central America where you see tourists everywhere. To see an American here is very unusual, or any foreigner at all for that matter. Walked around the city alot. Once I get to my room and park the motorcycle I never use it to ride around...too dangerous. I see wrecks happen most every day. The roadsides are more like cemetaries with all the crosses marking vehicle deaths. It's pretty scary. They don't even hesitate to pull into your lane to pass, and then they swerve at you once in your lane...frustrating. Flashing your lights only makes it worse.</div>
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July 7th, 2013</div>
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Lima, Peru 440km. had the best Tamales in 10 countries this morning with greek olives and chicken inside. I ate three and bought 3 to go. Here they premake the espresso and serve hot water. No milk ever. Made it to Lima after a cold, foggy, overcast day of riding. Lima is a nightmare for traffic. I made it here, just hope I can make it out. Hotel for 40 sols. Mcdonalds for dinner. Made friends with a lady and her daughter. Wanted to know my story. Exchanged info. Checked out of hotel late. Going only 30km to the outskirts of town to prepare for my trip to Cusco, and into the cold mountains. Hmmmm. Ready for the warmer amazon in Bolivia.</div>
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<br />Dww0013http://www.blogger.com/profile/04209502811555963396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4453526333412830918.post-85014040347910404722013-07-01T19:08:00.001-07:002013-07-01T19:08:37.660-07:00Pasto Colombia - Tulcan Ecuador - Quitos - <br />
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Miserable day out...cold, damp, and began to rain on me. But I got the insurance really early. Took 45 minutes and $5, 4 blocks from the hotel. Stopped for gas in Tulcan. They could only sell me $3.00 worth of gas to a foreign vehicle in this province, due to problems with Colombian illegal imports??? Which gas was only 2$ a gallon and I only needed a dollars worth. So no problem. Guy was rude, poured gas all over my bike then wouldn't wipe it off and told me they do things differently in Ecuador. There were armed guards all around the gas station, so I tried not to make a scene though I was furious. Told him he needed help. Then he shewed me away. I think people see my as a bad guy on the motorcycle....I have been called everything from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Renegado and Desperado to Bandito, and Vaquero. Oh well can't change what other people think about me. So I </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Left out and rode 270km to the south side of Quito...great roads. Stopped for a pic and a Kid popped out of nowhere while I was taking a photo, told him my story. He wanted a photo..they all do, gave him $5.00 Made it to the south side of Quito around <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://7" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7" x-apple-data-detectors="true">3pm</a>. Quito is the capital of Ecuador, and the second largest city to Guayaquil it is a city 25 miles long a population of 3 million people. Quito lies between two mountain ranges and its altitude is 9,200 feet second highest capital city in the world. It may take you a couple of days to get accustomed to the altitude here..and crime is on the rise here, due to a slump in the economy. But I found a hotel for $13 a night with 1.80$ fried chicken, fries, salad, soup and drink. First time I've eaten chicken foot soup. Bought groceries, went to hotel and went to bed. Karaoke across the street kept me up on and off all night til the police showed up, I woke up and witnessed it. He started by drawing not his gun but his camera and snapped photos of everyone and everything. It was funny to watch everyone run away, you would have thought he had his gun drawn. After that it got quiet enough to sleep.</span></div>
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Woke up and had to wait for my clothes before I could leave. I would compare prices here to Mexico. Not too cheap, or too expensive, and in the right parts of town you can live really economically. The hotel was 13$ but for a small load of laundry it cost $10.00, which she said she had to wash twice cause they were really dirty...oops grease from the moto i guess. Then I finally left around <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://11" x-apple-data-detectors-result="11" x-apple-data-detectors="true">10:00am</a> after having my usual coffee and oatmeal in the room on my electric burner. Great way to save money. I also only eat dinner usually so I can afford to splurge a little. It started to rain on me about halfway through the ride, then began to pour down and it was cold. It was a high of 53* and a low of 37* today, and I was soaked on the outside, but my foul weather gear did it's job and kept me dry underneath. My shoes and gloves were leather and eventually the moisture penetrated them to my skin....everyone was giving me that "this guy is crazy" look as I rode through town after town....longest 80 kilometers of my journey, I was counting every mile. But I came around one curve on the mountain and there was a broke down car with a family of 5 inside, I almost hit them, and so did everyone else. So I kept going, but my heart went out to them, and my conscience told me to do something. so I saw cones in the road, did a 180 and without stopping grabbed a cone from the middle of the road almost as tall as the bike and laid it across my legs. All the cars slowed down behind me to see what the heck I was doing cause we were on a four lane highway. Then I went down to the curve did another 180 and with out stopping put the cone in the middle of the lane 30 feet behind the families car. I saw the wife smile with a look of relief and the man kinda looked concerned to see what I had done, and I honked and waved and kept on going. Then I got to Riobamba in the pouring rain. Asked twice for directions to the hostal finally found it and it is great here. It's a families house and they rent private rooms for 13$ a night, and no loud karaoke bars... Ate rotisserie chicken at gus's and a slice of flan from the Nestle panaderia. Hoping my shoes and foul weather gear dry by tomorrow, need to get to Peru.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was the beginning of a protest where the indigenous block the roads with boulders and trees when the government does not give them fair or timely consideration. It apparently works because they do it a lot. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Road from Pasto to Ipiales and the Ecuador border </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anoher photo of the roads leaving Pasto to the south. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was a scenic waterfall that everyone was stopping to take pictures of. Mine don't turn out that well without the high dollar zoom. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waterfall next to the road </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another scenic waterfall shot </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another scenic view in Colombia on my way to Ipiales. It is only 85 km from Pasto to Ipiales, but had some of the most amazing views.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mountain roads from Pasto to Ipiales </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Can you see why I broke 14 spokes?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I asked this Colombian family if I could take their photo while they were weaving the baskets on their front porch.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was a garden of corn and beans between Pasto and Ipiales. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wouldn't you like to have a farm here. If I was gonna retire abroad it would definitely be in Colombia. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Same garden, but you can see the other houses on the otherside of the river</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Colombian river</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Waterfall through the trees. I forgot to enhance theses photos before I uploaded them. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> This guy was blind, but he had no trouble playing the guitar. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Goats in downtown Ipiales. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Riding through Ipiales </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is how you roast a guinea pig! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My guinea pig lunch</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carlos and Yuselis from Venezuela. Also fellow motorcycle viajeros. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Posing for photos is fun. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I had to turn Carlos down when he asked me to trade bikes...lol</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Saying buy is always haard. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The after photo of my cuy lunch...not bad. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They really love their guinea pig here in Ipiales, Colombia.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Llama llama ! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was where I parked. I was shocked because I was allowed to drive almost a kilometer down the cobblestone street past all the people who had to park and walk. I just asked and the lady said yes and the policeman put down the chain for me to pass through. Otherwise I might not have been able to see the church because I couldn't leave my things unattended for that long. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These plaques were all imbedded into the cliff wall. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of the Las Lajas Cathedral from the stairs where you enter. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of the first sanctuary below. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The waterfall in the canyon near the cathedral. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The stained glass artwork was nice.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cascada (waterfall)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another view of the river below and second sanctuary</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Las Lajas Cathedral view from the sanctuary</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is where they light the candles. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">The present church was built in <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_revival_architecture" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Gothic revival architecture">Gothic Revival</a> style between 1916 and 1949. The name <i>Laja</i> comes from the name of a type of flat <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedimentary_rock" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Sedimentary rock">sedimentary rock</a> similar to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shale" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Shale">shale</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This waterfall was in the canyon right next to the church </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ipiales really is a beautiful place and Las Lajas was a beautiful way to end my trip, even though I am not catholic. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I asked this lady to take my photo so she went and got her husband and he took it. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside the Cathedral</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The policia here don't like their picture taken. I have even heard of rumors of retaliation fines if you take their picture. This guy kinda smiled because he was unsure if the ipad was a camer and if I was using it to snap his photo. But I couldn't resist with that huge gun. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They dress up the llamas and charge you to sit on them and have your photo taken.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Standing in line at immigracion</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the guy that accidentally stamped my passport "salida" witch means leaving ecuador . He chased me down and fixed it otherwise I would have had major problems. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The vehicle Aduana window where I stood for two hours. The papers are the requirements for entry. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They let me put my bike in the hotel in Tulcan, which they do quite often. There are times when I have even driven it into the room. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My hotel in Tulcan for $6 a night. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the guy that spoured gas all over my tank then told me he wouldn't wipe it off cause Ecuador is different than the states. I told him he needed help. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the kid who worked the farm in the background with his family. He wanted to know all about where I was from and what I was doing. He had never met an American. I gave him $5 </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Made it to the Equator. Still havn't seen the Southern cross constellation though.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The city is 25 miles long, pop. 3 million, elevation, 9000 feet, and is the capital of Ecuador. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The city went on forever</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of Quitos was pretty shocking.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My view as I entered Quitos. I never thought I would get there because the city is on top of mountains so you see the city then it dissapears then you are below it then you are above it and I was unsure where to actually turn to enter. But after asking a guy he led me to the perfect spot.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I didn't even have to pay extra for the chicken foot. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My dinner in Quitos for $1.80 soup and drink included </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the hostal I would have to find. It had good reviews on trip advisor. Gotta love trip advisor. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">159 kilometers to Riobamba, Ecuador along the Panamerican highway 35 </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These tolls were every 40km or so and they cost me .20 cents, but they were a pain, cause I had to take off my gloves unzip my pocket dig for twenty cents then put everything back. While trying not to hold up traffic. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes this usd per gallon. Don't you wish it was that cheap in the US </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My burner making coffee. I gotta have my stove. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bathroom </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My cozy room in Riobamba. The family here is so nice. Glad I stopped here.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The courtyard at Oasis hostal in Riobamba </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hostal Oasis in Riobamba, Ecuador.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This picture is out of order. Bit since it's here....</td></tr>
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Rode from Cali to Pasto through some of the most beautiflul mauntains, my first glimpse of the northern most part of the Andes mountains. roads were horrible, and drivers are getting a little more aggressive and scary. Hotel is very nice for 35,000 pesos. People not as friendly, though.</div>
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the roads were bad in some areas from Cali to Pasto</div>
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The Colombians have to wear their license plate numbers on ther helmets and special made vests and they can't drive after 11pm in certain areas. this was the result of several vicious motorcycle gangs in Colombia.</div>
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when you stop at the construction zones to wait for the traffic these kids try to sell you all kinds of stuff.</div>
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the traffic going one way passes while the opposite traffic waits.</div>
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another beautiful view of a mountain town outside of Cali.</div>
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a typical small town outside on the way</div>
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I timed this just right. One of my favorite photos.</div>
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These buses fly down the mountains and they are as wide as the lane.</div>
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Cow and calf enjoying the view. there had been rain this morning so it was a little chilly</div>
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It was a total of 385km to Cali and Pasto was still another 650km away</div>
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This kid was selling pancake cornbread stuffed with homemade cheese, so I bought one for 1000 pesos. we got to talking and he was infatuated with my story and told me he wantedd a motorcycle someday. So I gave him a $20 and he had never seen american money and I told him it was 40,000pesos and he was kinda shocked I think and said Gracias I said put it in your pocket it's for you and your family, and I took off.</div>
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These trucks were pulling 5 trailers...sugar cane </div>
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tunnel in Popayan</div>
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the ride was beautiful</div>
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the mountains went from plush and thick to dry and kinda deserty</div>
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all the tunnels had names this one was called "tunnel de penalisa"</div>
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the sign holders were all pretty colombian girls.</div>
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downtown Pasto one block from my hotel. this guy had no legs so he rolled himself on this cart.</div>
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June 24th, 2013 Monday</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;">woke up packed went downstairs with my coffee cup and got a refill. Then i packed, went across the street to the other hotel so the lady could unlock my moto from the room it was locked in next to the street. This was downtown Medellin, so I was blocking the sidewalk while loading my moto. So i hurried and in the process forgot to look at my map before I left wifi range. So i took off, got lost really bad and it was Monday morning rush hour traffic, and it's just a complicated city to drive in of 2.5 million people, so 30km, yes 30km later I was on my way out of town. The mountains came quickly, and the ride was simply amazing...you can't come close to understanding the experience with a camera. So I had reset my odometer knowing I had 425km to get to Cali...well there is a song, by LL Cool J I remember from junior high school. It goes "Going back to Cali, Cali, Cali, I'm going back to Cali..huh, I don't think so!". Is how the lyrics went I think. And that's exactly what happened. Right at 100km my bike began to wobble in the back really bad and I was in winding mountain curves and just before this happened at times I was hitting 100km/hr. I pulLed</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"> over at this restaurant hotel and asked a guy to spin the tire and sure enough I had a problem...13 broken spokes!, yes, 13 of 24 were broken. I could go nowhere and I was stuck there in the middle of nowhere. The lady at the front desk had no suggestions and I was 10 miles from anywhere. So I decided to eat lunch, yes eat lunch that's what I do when I'm depressed...eat. But I had the best meal ever. Catfish head soup for the first time too! And it was good. I booked a room for 15000 pesos or 7.50$ Then I worked to see if it was possible to remove some front wheel spokes to the back wheel...no chance, you gotta remove the rubber tire. So I struck up a conversation with a guy eating and he decided to help me out...thank goodness. He tried to help me get the back tire off so we could carry it on his scooter into the next town, 9km away...no chance, no tools. So we took off and went to the moto taller(shop) and a guy showed up and my friend shook my hand i thanked him and he left, then me and the mechanic got on his moto and went to the hotel to take the tire off. 5 minutes later we were headed back to town with the tire. Then we stopped at the tire shop and removed the tube and tire, wrapped the rim in paper and took off 25km to the next town. The nicest people ever were there. We actually went to a bicycle shop where a little old man said he would have it done in 1 hour for 14000pesos or 7$.. Thats with all of the broken spokes replaced with new ones and tuning. I felt like I was back in my Baytown in 1982 at Delgado's bicycle shop. So alvaro took me to change $40.00 at a grocery store for 1800 per dollar. Then we went back and watched the old man finish working and talked to him and a cycler. Then we went back to the tire shop, put the tire back on the rim $5000 pesos, then rode back to the hotel and Alvaro finished the job and even adjusted the breaks and tightened the chain 40,000 pesos. In all it was a great day, and I got to meet all kinds of new people and experience the lives of the Colombian people, it was worth the $34.50 it cost me to fix the moto. Plus the hotel turned out to be really cool. It's on a river bank with rushing rapids surrounded by mountains. But I gotta move on, Tomorrow...I really am going to Cali! Lord willing.</span></span></div>
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