The best 80 bucks we’ve ever spent!

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The best buy of our entire journey has to be the (aptly named) America the Beautiful Pass. A mere US$80 gave us and our two motorcycles entry into every US National Park, as well as many Federal recreation areas, for a whole year. We managed to visit 14 of these gems in the three months we had available. Continue reading

Take a ride with us through Central America and Mexico

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The long awaited third instalment in our video series is now complete. So grab a tequila or cerveza, kick back and watch as we ride through Central America and Mexico over the first six month of this year (condensed down to a convenient 12 minutes). Continue reading

Touring the US West Coast

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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

Preview for our third video

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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

The story of two nuts and one nutter

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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

Our Odyssey Overland American Style

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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