04klr
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you had a box spring! big spender. Some of the beds on this trip have been real special one of the beds i slept in was much like sleeping in a hammock! we've camped about a weeks worth in some pretty nice spots, perhaps not as much as initially planned, but there was no plan to camp in central am. as it is so cheep anyways, and in south america it just didn't happen often, we've run some pretty full days and the shower and pita factor (pain in the a,,) made staying in a place with a room more attractive, a longer trip would make the camping more of a requirement to keep costs down.
We're in Puerto Montt now on a rare day off, seems odd, not right somehow, did some bike mntce. the other day and the bikes are showing the miles now and by the time they get home tlc will be required, tires, chains and sprockets, valves, brake pads, fork seals, steering head bearings to name a few parts, routine maintenance after a trip like this.
I found a few more mud pics from the same road in columbia, floyd has better ones and some good video but here they are, there was one slope that actually had moving oozing mud flowing down it.
we followed that monster truck on the left out down the road riding in its huge deep ruts, at times dragging the panniers deep stuff.
here's a couple of fun pics the first taken in a hotel lobby in Bolivia, wierd or what?
a wall of masks for the new years celebration
and now or everyones favorite, pictures of food eaten while on holidays, yum. For me food and the different tastes are a big part of any trip, this one was fairy bland overall but there were a few standout meals. the first was a terrific shrimp (prawn) soup in columbia with fried almost candied plantains on the side, we went in for the carne turns out we went into the wrong place, lucky for us, one of the tastiest meals of the trip.
dont remember where but the fried fish including a little head with a cristal beer, was muy bueno
more fish different beer
ok brace yourselves, this was taken at at what turned out to be a chain steakhouse type of place in equador where food is very cheap, this is floyds dinner and there was a choice of sizes and this was not the large one, two plates, one just for the spuds and vegis! and meat meat meat! no Crystal he did not eat it all.
my plate is the one at the top of the pic., the one with meat hanging everywhere off the edge of the plate.
while not exactly food, here are some coca leaves out to dry on the side of the road of death in bolivia
and to round out the food pictures we have food on the fly, what's more fun than a barrel of moneys, a van load of live sheep thats what!
that van was west bound, this van was east bound, as we rode up to pass the van i was wondering why the side door was open, turns out it was so stuffed to the brim with meat the door wouldn't close!
thats all for now, Macch Picchu pics next, and perhaps some more boring old scenery pictures.
Our time is running out on this adventure, we're barely two weeks and a thousand kms left, hard to imagine or remember all that we've seen so far, and only several thousand pictures to sort out at home.
all for now Wayne
We're in Puerto Montt now on a rare day off, seems odd, not right somehow, did some bike mntce. the other day and the bikes are showing the miles now and by the time they get home tlc will be required, tires, chains and sprockets, valves, brake pads, fork seals, steering head bearings to name a few parts, routine maintenance after a trip like this.
I found a few more mud pics from the same road in columbia, floyd has better ones and some good video but here they are, there was one slope that actually had moving oozing mud flowing down it.
we followed that monster truck on the left out down the road riding in its huge deep ruts, at times dragging the panniers deep stuff.
here's a couple of fun pics the first taken in a hotel lobby in Bolivia, wierd or what?
a wall of masks for the new years celebration
and now or everyones favorite, pictures of food eaten while on holidays, yum. For me food and the different tastes are a big part of any trip, this one was fairy bland overall but there were a few standout meals. the first was a terrific shrimp (prawn) soup in columbia with fried almost candied plantains on the side, we went in for the carne turns out we went into the wrong place, lucky for us, one of the tastiest meals of the trip.
dont remember where but the fried fish including a little head with a cristal beer, was muy bueno
more fish different beer
ok brace yourselves, this was taken at at what turned out to be a chain steakhouse type of place in equador where food is very cheap, this is floyds dinner and there was a choice of sizes and this was not the large one, two plates, one just for the spuds and vegis! and meat meat meat! no Crystal he did not eat it all.
my plate is the one at the top of the pic., the one with meat hanging everywhere off the edge of the plate.
while not exactly food, here are some coca leaves out to dry on the side of the road of death in bolivia
and to round out the food pictures we have food on the fly, what's more fun than a barrel of moneys, a van load of live sheep thats what!
that van was west bound, this van was east bound, as we rode up to pass the van i was wondering why the side door was open, turns out it was so stuffed to the brim with meat the door wouldn't close!
thats all for now, Macch Picchu pics next, and perhaps some more boring old scenery pictures.
Our time is running out on this adventure, we're barely two weeks and a thousand kms left, hard to imagine or remember all that we've seen so far, and only several thousand pictures to sort out at home.
all for now Wayne
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