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We reluctantly left Loreto this morning, amazing place to chill out and the 1697 resturant rocks, if you are in the area they have great rooms for rent and do brilliant food, thanks to Kieran, Norma and their son Patricio (Paddy) for a great time and fantastic hospitality. We had a great run up to Santa Rosalia, only around 130…
15th May 2013 N48° 24.598’ W123° 19.869’ After Medford we wanted to drop by at Crater Lake, about 100 kms NW of Medford along the appropriately named Crater Lake Highway. Everyone who knew that part of Oregon told us it was perhaps the most beautiful lake in north America and definitely worth the trip. But being quite high up in…
Nós chegamos ao Canadá em uma época do ano não muito popular para turistas: o inverno. Muita gente nos perguntou o que estávamos fazendo por lá no inverno e porque não tínhamos ido no verão. Acredito que Montreal deva ser sensacional no verão mas eu gostei muito da cidade no inverno também. As possibilidades de atrações ficam bem limitadas mas…
Not much to report from our week “off” really, had a nice ride up to San Javier (about 25 miles away in the mountains) on Saturday, this is a small misson town (very small) and Saturday was their festival, that basically meant a load of Caballeros rode into town, posed for pictures in front of the very pretty church and…
2013 brought another year of the Delameter’s dashing for charity at the Oregon Humane Society’s Doggie dash. Over the years we’ve dashed with Sophie, Maddy, and this year our new dogkids Porter & Aspen. Prior to the event they spent their time getting lots of rest in preparation for the sensory overload of coming into contact with over 3000…
Everyone warned us that 2 weeks home and we would be done… That we’d be annoyed with modern society and itching to return to the bus. Maybe because we’re twice as slow as everyone else, but it currently seems like that might take a few more weeks?? Certainly we struggle with some things. Every meal or happy hour with friends…
Last year as we traversed the Southern states of Louisiana and Texas we met up with some wonderful people. Even though we wrote about them here on our blog, for some reason we could not post videos. Well persistence has paid off and we have found a way to get it done. Please watch, share and enjoy our encounter with…
I am not the kind of person that will tell you exactly what kind of gear we bring, right down to the kind of underwear we brought. However, we do want to share those type of gear that we think is either very handy, or not at all. Gear that we use every day or that we threw out. We…
And so it begins… On Sunday Gaila and I uneventfully (for the most part) crossed the Mexican border back into our wonderful homeland – good old U.S. of A. Despite my concerns the US border guards were pleasant and efficient, if not welcoming. Once we turned the corner and started our pleasant ride down the twisty Hwy 94 towards San…
Die Niagara Fälle Ab New York ging es für uns weiter Richtung Kanada, dem Ort an dem unsere Amerika Tour enden wird. Am 13. November 2011 haben wir unsere Tour auf dem amerikanischen Kontinent gestartet und nun nach 546 Tagen verlassen wir ihn wieder. Es geht ein großer Abschnitt unserer Reise zu Ende. Ein wenig Wehmut, aber auch Vorfreude auf…
We LOVED Yosemite National Park. Yosemite is a beautiful, peaceful park, with mountains, rivers, falls and meadows. It made us think about the Austrian Alps a bit, but so much more beautiful. We camped in one of the campgrounds and as it turned out were very lucky to get a site. We arrived at about noon and got the very…
Maybe the best weekend ever. For a couple trying to soak up friends after a long period of time away, a sunny weekend comprised of two “holidays” might be as good as it gets. “Sunny” being the key word, especially after a week spent freezing in our new apartment. Our place is on the north side of the building, which…
We left the nice little town of Zamora (although even little towns are big here!) and had a great ride through the mountains to Tepic. On the way we passed Tequila (the town not the drink) and just outside we saw the cacti being cultivated which are used to make the drink (not the town) We rolled into a hotel…
First apologies for the lack of posts but when you are on the road its not always that easy. We left Catemaco and wobbled down the very pretty back road to the main road to Mexico City, now the problem is the Pay roads are expensive but after months of very wobbly back roads we were prepared to spend the…
We spent the past week in “active bear country” as it was indicated on postings all over the parks. We have been in Sequoia National Park and Forest, in Kings Canyon and Yosemite. Like in all other national parks we were given a little newspaper about the parks at the entrance. Unlike the other parks, a large portion of these…
Ahhh Portland, we have missed you. You are delightfully weird, can be incredibly cheap (unless in contrast to mexico and central america…not counting costa rica), and your aesthetic familiarity feels good. Your streets are filled with beautiful and strange and interesting people, and there are about a zillion places, old and new, that we want to experience within your city.…
We absolutely loved Zion National Park. We came in from the East Entrance and drove through until the campsites at the South Entrance. By that it had gotten a bit cloudy and we could not see all of the mountains. We decided to stay in one of the campsites in the park so that we could go back the next…
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Just before we left Palenque I noticed the dreaded topes had broken my pannier rack again in the same place it was welded before so I was quite glad when we hit the main road to Villahermosa, smooth (er) tarmac and no more speed bumps. We made great progress doing the first 230 miles in superquick time thanks to the…
Das “One World Trade Center” Jens: Auf dem Blue Ridge Parkway sind wir weiter den Verlauf der Appalachen gefolgt – grandiose Aussichten, Kurven und Natur. Dann kamen jedoch die Städte: Washington und New York. Eigentlich wollten wir uns das nicht antun, aber wir konnten auch nicht widerstehen. Es hat uns nicht geschadet und wir haben es überlebt. Wir haben…
We left yesterday morning and made our way to Palenque, a cracking road with excellent scenery spoiled by the speed bumps, several times they caught me unaware and had me out the seat, they even have them on corners. En route we stopped to speak to fellow travellers Billy & Trish from Australia, some good banter and found out Billy…
Story: Bobby “The Dogg” Miller / Photos: Bailey Masters You’re damn right I did! The Delaware Water Gap is home to some of the best waterfalls in the Mid-Atlantic and is always an exciting destination to visit. The Water Gap gained popularity around the turn of the century when Hornbecks and Raymondskill Creeks were featured in the highly acclaimed, Oscar…
MEDFORD, OREGON, USA 27th April 2013 N42° 19.410’ W122° 52.155’ No, we didn’t drive over a cliff into the Pacific, the cops didn’t arrest us and lock us up, and so far at least we haven’t suffered any crippling medical emergency. The reason we have been remiss in not getting our latest blog entry out sooner is quite simple. For…
Yesterday we left Antiqua, in the process of doing so we bumped into Julio, a well known Austrian who has lived in Guatemala for a long time, it was a fortuitous meeting as he was able to give us loads of advice on Mexico and in doing so saved us a laborious 1000 mile detour to see some Mayan ruins,…
Beautiful Baja beaches We left Suzie three and half weeks ago, it feels like two and half months. Being back in the land of overplenty has been overwhelming. Although life on the road isn’t always easy, its always simple. Wake up, make breakfast, eat breakfast, pack up and hit the road, drive for a couple of hours, park, set up,…
In the 6 months we’ve been on adventure through Mexico and Central America, we’ve been stopped plenty of times by police and federals. Here we go… prepare to do some bullshitting and strategize how not to get suckered into paying a bribe. In Honduras, on two separate occasions we were motioned to the side of the road by Federal police. …
At the time when we visited the Grand Canyon, only the south rim was open. We found a nice advice on the internet to camp just outside of the small village of Tusayan, a few miles south of the Grand Canyon. If you drive up the FR 302, just south of the village, you can camp for free for a…
Barren. The landscape before me is apocalyptically empty en route to Moab. A flash of colour from a hill lures me to trek and discover a crafted flower and a jellyfish fossil. The wasteland undulates lazily into the distance. I foresee a long, unremarkable ride ahead. I love it when I’m wrong. Adjectives begin to fail me as unimagined geographical…
Schräg geht es zur Sache in den Smoky’s Jens: Wir machen uns auf den Weg von Nachtez/Mississippi nach Asheville/North Carolina und sehen mehr von der amerikanischen Geschichte und Kultur als wir erwartet haben. Von der Zeit vor Christoph Kolumbus über die kriegerische Zeit der Besiedlung bis hin zu den Stars des letzten Jahrtausends, der Gegenwart und wohl auch Zukunft.…
Heavenly is one of the largest ski resorts in the USA covering 4,800 acres, with 97 trails, and 3,500′ vertical accessed by 29 lifts, 9 of which are high-speed. The resort averages 360″ snow and 300 bluebird days per year! With huge snow making capabilities Heavenly has a long season with lots of quality snow. With 45% of the mountain…