Our plan was to hightail it through up the US west coast in order to make the most of the Canadian summer. However, awesome people and spectacular scenery disrupted our plans. Six weeks and 5,000km later we managed to tear ourselves away and cross the border. Here are some of the highlights of this leg of the journey. Continue reading
It hasn’t all been fun and play for the two of us. We’ve been busy making videos too! Here is the preview to the third installment of our two year motorcycle adventure. This one covers the six month period from Panama to Mexico earlier this year. Continue reading
Whilst travelling in Canada, we found our man. We were on a mission to find the right person to pass on a pair of nuts. Dave, a young Aussie guy on a mission of his own, was our willing recipient. It was a perfect match. Continue reading
After 18 months of living in South and Central America, we have crossed into the United States of America.
We were prepared for some reverse culture shock as we moved into a country more like our own: paying higher prices for everything, “pumping” our own “gas”, putting the toilet paper into the toilet again and communicating in our mother tongue. But as reassuringly familiar as some things are, there are still aspects of American life that are as confounding as entering a foreign culture. Continue reading
After six weeks of enjoying the Mexican mainland, we hopped on the overnight ferry to the Baja California peninsula and into a very different Mexico.
Baja is a desert: its rugged beauty captivated us and the heat knocked us over. We had hoped that we would sneak our visit in before the full strength for summer hit, but the heat had come early. Continue reading
As we made our way from Guatemala into Mexico we expected our 15th country to largely be an extension of our South and Central American experiences, but with extra tacos. Continue reading
We loved our time in Mexico City. It is bursting with museums and galleries, of which our visit to the National Anthropology Museum (NAM) was a highlight. Continue reading
I had thought that Mayan culture was history. For me, the word conjured up images of grand but ruined temples and tombs, overgrown with jungle. Mayan rituals? A thing of the past and surely the Mayan language was wiped out by the Spanish centuries ago.
I could not have been more wrong. Continue reading
Finally we’ve been able to take some time out from enjoying Guatemala and Mexico to finish our second video, Crisscrossing the Andes, from Bolivia to Colombia. Continue reading
Our Odyssey Overland 