[26/06/2024 – 03/072024[ Our Last Week – Whenever you read it On the 26th of June, no document appeared in my inbox. I even wrote an email to the guy from EPA, and while he was rather responsive the last time I wrote this time no response whatsoever. 27th of June in the morning and still no movement on my inbox. Knowing that Michigan (supposedly where the EPA guy is sitting) is 4 hours to the east, we decided to…
[19/06/2024 – 26/06/2024[ Our last week – whenever you read it As Stefan pointed out, the first part, which for quite some time now, is called “Intro” is no intro anymore, it is the text. So it needs a new title. Here you go, borrowed from John Oliver, with slight adaptions, and at least in my mind it makes sense. So where were we, ah yes Ciudad Madera. Pretty place, on a plateau at around 2000m elevation. The one day…
[12/06/2024 – 19/06/2024[ Intro New day, new week, and the waiting game is young. So the plan is, to continue with the routing we had up to Novojoa. So let´s have some dirt roads first and then get to the Carreterra National 16. The routing went up towards Rosalia, and then we need to reconsider. Anyway first real dirt road in Mexico, and I was both excited as well as a bit anxious. Turns out it was fun. While we…
[05/06/2024 – 12/06/2024[ Intro Idiots will be idiots. As you may have seen on the Instagram reel, letting my tumbling while already standing still, idiot move. However this week, closed with an even bigger misfortune, as we discovered on Tuesday, that you need an EPA letter of excemption to temporarily import a vehicel into the United States. This particular document can take up to 21 days to be processed. Our plan was to cross the border into the U.S, on…
[29/05/2024 – 05/06/2024] Intro This week started of with a cultural walk through Oaxaca´s garden. Only 30 years in existence it holds a wide variety of plants indigenous to the state of Oaxaca. All plants have been transported there (with a 90% success rate) and among other plants, they have the great great (many greats) grandparent of corn there. Sadly I did not ask if, and if so, how long it would take to regrow the wide variety of corn…
[22/05/2024 – 29/05/2024[ Intro 52 weeks in a year, 26 weeks traveled. Even though after 6 months of travelling we have established a certain routine, this undertaking feels as enormous, ballsy and to some insane as when we jumped on the plane on 29th of November. Well halftime now. but only from a time perspective, from a distance perspective we are about 4´000 km short, estimating the overall journey to encompass 60`000 km and currently we are at a little…
[15/05/2024 – 22/05/2024[ Intro This again was sort of a slow week, as we spent two nights in Copan Ruinas, to visit the Copan Mayan site. as well as three nights at lake Atitlan. One border crossing between Honduras and Guatemala and honestly crossing into Guatemala was the least exhausting border crossing we did thus far in Central America. True usually the hard part are our bikes, but Guatemala was really quick. Again SOAT was not sold at the border…
[08/05/2024 – 15/05/2024[ Intro As written in the other post, without further adue we made for the border towards Nicaragua, and I have to admit it did and still does feel very strange. While the Costa Rica exit was not a problem – sometimes bureaucracy´s snail pace does work in your advantage – the entry was a bit more troublesome then usual. Up front, it is forbidden to bring drones into the country, which is why we decided to send…
[01/05/2024 – 08/05/2024[ Intro This week I did want to bore you with some thoughts about planning, but like so often plan met reality and things changed. On Tuesday the 07th of May I was involved in an accident, where i got rear-ended. My speed was roughly about 50 km/h, the other guy most like some where between 70 and 80 km/h on a 80 km/h stretch of road in Costa Rica. I was driving about 50m behind Stefan when…
[24/04/2024 – 01/05/2024[ Intro So I was looking for an ebook, and I was unable to find that particular book without a DRM component. This is know the third time this happened to me.–The first book was the ninth and last book of The expanse – I bought it as i really wanted to know how the story ended.The second book (series) was Altered Carbon, the netflix series was quite good, so naturally I wanted to read the books –…