Well, I haven't updated this is ages, have I? Let me summarize it in a few short paragraphs. From Perth, Australia...

In the morning, after I had my revenge against the annoying teenage kids by stealing their shoelaces and locking them...

Australia is a larger country than most people realize. I considered it would take at most just three days to reach...

Because of his bruised and broken ribs from his motorcycle crash, Wayne stayed behind in St. Helens as Bob and I went...

In the couple months after dropping off my motorcycle in Long Beach to be shipped to Melbourne, Australia I mostly...

In mid November I flew to Phoenix, Arizona where my friend Bob lives. Bob is a 70 year old retired airline pilot who I...

Patrick and I spent one more day in Florianopolis hoping for the sun to blast through the soggy clouds, but we waited...

Twenty minutes after being back at the Clan Hostel in Buenos Aires I was introduced to Patrick (22 - we're the...

 This weekend I took the new BMW Dakar motorcycle to Bob's place in Phoenix, Arizona for two reasons. First,...

On Wednesday I woke up very early to catch the sunrise, too early actually, 5:45am. I didn't realize that the sun...

Yesterday, September 1, the weather didn't change. In fact it actually got worse than Sunday. I saw, when I woke...

Yesterday I took a direct flight in the morning from Denver to Missoula Montana to pickup my new bike - the '03...

So, here's what I did throughout the rest of July. I had moved into the home stay, which turned me into a...

On the evening of the sixth I ate dinner with my host family. The entire household sat around the table and talked in...

  Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Partied a little too hard last night. At the hostel I just met person after...

The tow driver was to arrive at 4pm or so and I was biding my time until then. I went over to an internet café...

Last night I met an Aussie girl, Nav, who was sharing my room at the hostel in central Buenos Aires. It was around 1...

Written 6:45am June 29th

One of the best days that I have had was the same day I had the flat tire on the 27th. The...

 I had a lovely start to the day - woke up refreshed at six-thirty am and it was still dark out. Last night the...

The cold and my motorcycle simply do not get along. This morning I had to poor three buckets of hot water on the...

 I got a needed ten hours of sleep last night and awoke refreshed at eight thirty this morning. Potosi is...

Didn't sleep well last night; I felt pretty sick plus last night there was some kind of festival. I awoke every...

I've just ridden the "Most Dangerous Road in the World" - the road from La Paz to Coroico. Dangerous? Relatively....

I went to a club last night (recommended by LP) and it was fairly nice except for it was completely dead. It was only...

I have made it to La Paz already but last night at the bar in Puno I met another motorcycle guy. He just came over to...

I feel like my energy has returned a bit but that might be because I actually have something to do today. I woke...

I have fallen into a bit of a slump. I was awake at six in the morning but slept until nearly nine simply because I...

I decided to leave Arequipa today; however I got a late start at it. I awoke a little after eight and spent some time...

Sunday June 15, 2008

Lima - Nazca 298 miles

This is the first day back on the road and the first day of beautiful...

The papers were, in fact, sent on Tuesday from the border to the hostel but on Friday it was supposed to be delivered...

I just picked up my motorcycle from the BMW shop two days ago. In the garage I put on all my gear and started her up....

I wanted to leave by Sunday but Francis (my friend who's handling my paperwork) told me the motorcycle documents...

Andrew and I split ways earlier last month. We had been traveling through the UK, Ireland, Spain, and Morocco for six...

 Well, it's been a while since I've written in this Journal. It's hard to sum up a month of traveling...

The flight from Denver left about 20:00 and, after a stopover in LAX and San Salvador, landed in Guatemala around...

At two in the morning on the fourth of Jan we boarded our seven-hour bus to Punta del Este with a stopover in...

January first we woke up at around one or two in the afternoon. After routinely eating bread for breakfast and...

The storm that passed through Denver a couple days before hit Chicago on the day of our flight. Alex was scheduled for...

Sorry I haven't been keeping up with the Journal lately. I'll try to recount everything briefly.

In Bogota I...

While on my motorcycle cars have hit me six times, I've hit three cars (one parked), I have wrecked once and I...