As far as border crossings have been on this trip, it seems like the forces of the universe saved the best for last; the crossing from Uruguay to Argentina on December 19 took about five minutes before we were riding into Argentina to finish our journey. Details are on our Border Crossings page for all […]
The border crossing from Brazil to Uruguay was reasonably fast, but we did lose more time than needed because we accidentally entered Uruguay before exiting Brazil so we had to go back before proceeding. Not that we have any plans to return to Brazil in the near future, but we did get a visa for […]
After four laid-back weeks in Chile, we crossed the Paso Cardenal Antonio Samoré border and entered Argentina on November 15. This was our easiest crossing yet with both sides taking a total of 15 minutes and quite scenic as it was in the north of the Patagonia region. Details on the procedure are on our […]
On Monday, August 20, we crossed the border from Ecuador into Peru. It was a bit long because we had to wait in a relatively slow-moving line on the Ecuador side, but the process itself was straight-forward. Details are on our Border Crossings page. Our first impression of Peru was far from good, to […]
On July 31, we bid farewell to magical Colombia and crossed the border into Ecuador. We used the Rumichaca border crossing, which was fairly straight-forward and fast at around an hour and 15 minutes. For details, refer to our border crossings page. Our first stop was in Ibarra, a charming little town around two hours […]
Our last week in Panama was a rainy one (surprise!), but we didn’t have much planned in the way of sight-seeing. A few visits to the mall and a date night was all we did aside from packing. We planned to put the bike on a plane and fly over the Darien Gap since we […]
On Monday, April 2, we bid farewell to San José and started to make our way towards Panama with our first stop being in San Isidro de El General, a small city that was a three-hour ride away. This was one of our less enjoyable rides as we had a scare with the bike early in our […]
We met up with our friends, Tim and Marisa, on Friday for another border crossing day. It was time to bid farewell to the heat of Nicaragua and journey to the cooler weather of the lush mountainous regions of Costa Rica. Beaches are nice enough, but the accompanying temperatures are not so comfortable. Time for […]
Tim and Marisa met us at our hotel on Thursday morning and the four of us rode towards the border to Honduras. As we got closer to the border, we came to a line-up of cargo trucks that was about three kilometers long. After dodging some insistent “helpers” and weaving between the trucks, we were […]
On Monday, February 19, the four of us loaded all our worldly belongings on our respective bikes and said goodbye to Antigua Guatemala as we headed towards the border to El Salvador. The ride was just under three hours and the border crossing was surprisingly painless. We have added a Border Crossings section to our […]
