Reflections from the Road
Jim posting. I have read comments and observations in a other trip reports and blogs, related to "life on the road", that have really resonated with me. Things I think you probably have to have been on the road to…
An Eventful Day
It was a border crossing day, which is always stressful. You know it will be eventful – you just don’t know the full extent of the events! We had decided to cross the Guatemala/Honduras border at a relatively quiet (we thought) crossing on Central America Hwy 13 (CA13), near the Caribbean coast. We were both hoping it would be simpler and quicker than the Mexico/Guatemala crossing we experienced three weeks prior – that was a nearly five-hour ordeal.
The Bad and the Ugly
Jim posting. Social media venues such as Facebook or travel blogs tend to highlight the positives. They make every birthday party look perfect, every vacation a dream come true, and every dinner a culinary masterpiece. Instagram is almost defined by this phenomenon! It is just the nature of the beast – we tend to post what we would like people to see, and I think it is fair to say that for the most part we see what we want to see, even if we sometimes complain about it. We share the “good”, but less often “the bad and the ugly” (old western movie pun intended).
People
Carol writing
A few weeks ago, I mentioned in a Facebook post the delightful conversation we had while we were in Paso Robles, with Neeta the owner of LXV winery (recently rated #7 of top ten wine tasting rooms in the country by USA Today). After hearing about our planned year of nomadic life, She asked us some great questions.
- What gave you this dream?
- What is one thing you are most excited about regarding your trip?
- What is the one thing you dread the most?
Still in the USA
It has been a week and a half since we pulled out of Hollister in that horrible rain storm, and we are still in the USA. We had planned all along to take some time visiting family in Southern California before we headed across the border, and we have another week or so until we leave the USA.
Preamble and Beginnings
The picture above is of Carol and I on our epic ride across America in 1982 on our 1970 Honda CB750. We’ve waited a long time to replicate a trip of that magnitude – now it is coming to fruition! After years of planning and dreaming, we are finally leaving for our trip by motorcycles from California through Mexico, Central America and South America, with our goal to reach Ushuaia in the southern tip of Argentina in about a year.