[10/04/2024 – 17/04/2024[ Intro The last hours with Manuela have arrived, which basically means two things for me. First, sadness, as our time together comes to an end, for most likely another 7 months, until I finally get home. Second, Stefan and I need to go to Bogota to put our bikes and ourselves on a plane to Panama. But in order to do so we need them back first. As easy as it has been in Mendoza to get…
[03/04/2024 – 10/04/2024[ Intro Thanks to our last weeks guest editor all is said about the wonderful relaxing days at the resort in Santa Veronica. With everyone being fully relaxed and after a wonderful human size Jenga game Thursday night. We packed our stuff and made the short trip to Cartagena. The girlz haggled with the Uber driver that took them there about the return trip, and Stefan and myself rode the bikes. Leaving the hotel we were a bit…
[27/03/2024 – 03/04/2024[ Intro This week the intro got written by Ann-Kathrin. After quiet – with the exception of animals calling and sound of heavy rain on our cabana tin roof – days, we venture on to city life. In Pereira, where lonelyplanet.com promises that we have successfully left the Gringo path, we ´play house´ to quote Dominik and set up camp for day trips into the coffee region. Pereira which does not even find mention in the physical Lonely…
[13/03/224 – 20/03/2024[ Intro Before getting back into the hustle and bustle of a large city, Stefan wanted to have some peace and quiet and not much interaction with other people, which I was happy to go along with, especially since he outdid himself in finding a proper location. He is aware that he just raised the bar for himself and of course I´ll keep telling you about it. Not too long ago we got asked which of the South-American…
[20/03/2024 – 27/03/2024[ Intro Tax the rich. Yes I am fully aware that I am one of them, when it comes to income. I am talking about the whole lot, income, assets and inheritance. Wealth is not evenly distributed, and that is ok. There will always be people that have more then others. Everybody defines wealth in a different way, a consensus however should be the base amount of money that is needed to not worry about the money running…
[06/03/2024 – 13/03/2024[ Intro As I did like the intro from last week, I decided to keep this up, and start each blogpost with topics i have been thinking about. Stefan and me discussed, or there was an exchange with other people about. Digitalisation TL;DRDigitalization done right can actually reduce overhead for governments/companies, and make interactions for citizens, non-citizens or customers very smooth. However thus far it seems digitalization is most often done anything but right. With companies being slightly…
[28.02.2024 – 06.03.2024[ Intro First things first, I am missing people close to my heart and certain acquaintances. This pushed itself very much in the foreground once, I got the message that my father got checked into a hospital and the earliest i could make it home was five days from then. And the five days did not even account for finding a place to stash the bike. So why is the missing people, things, whatever important. I got asked…
[21.02.2024 – 28.02.2024[ Intro What to expect from this weeks read? Moto maintenance, the ladies needed new shoes and unimportant accessories like brakepads – you know people braking less, are faster longer. And in addition both of us needed a bit of a break. With nothing to do – well maybe except writing the blog. So we opted for a stop at Mancora, which from our previous stop in Pisco is about 1500km of road. But first … Pisco –…
[14.02.2024 – 21.02.2024[ Interlude A lot has happened, since you last read. Culture, riding, some rain and my body did not what I was expecting of him. And we need to go shopping, but to be honest, the only one doing some shopping will be me, as we will not find anything here that might fit Stefan, being 1,90m and all. We have been to some rather remote areas, but everywhere we went thus far we got thumbs up, and…
[07.02.2024 – 14.02.2024[ La Paz Getting the bikes filled, was not such a big deal after all, took us all in all 30 minutes, including a quick haggling about the price. No that was no haggling we said 6 she agreed, done deal. Operator happy, we happy, let´s get on with our business. Which for this day meant exploring more of La Paz. And we did use the Teleferic to do so. Quite an interesting way of public transportation, fast,…