Heya victorWP

Not on this round, this is purely the Americas, next one will be back over to Iceland, Scandy, EU, Stans etc but need more money in the pot before going there or somehow need to earn money on the road.

Cheers Andi

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Heya Noel

Thanks mate, Brasil has lots to offer you just gotta get out there and find it.

Now into Uruguay so will catch up with RRs today after a dry spell of wifi

Cheers Andi

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Heya David

Great to hear from you mate.

Yes it has been a while but still all good good, just confirmed our flights home so on 14th May 2015 it is back to work for us.

Say hi to the boys and your good lady too, Ellen being rich ... I wish!!

Catch up again amigo

Cheers Andi

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Tuesday, Ellen and I surfaced about 10 am.....our plan was to see the last of our want list before heading back toward Porto Alegre, we enjoyed a short lunch at the river side and a swim before it turned black, looked like it was going to rain so we decided to pack it in and head for home....then it hit and hit it did, within 5 minutes the road was flowing like a river, branches were flying .....seen this before.:rofl

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Hmmm ...wet! :evil ... someone that looks like me left the vents open too :lol3 ..ouwh no!

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We ended up riding some 25-30 km in these conditions, normally these are short and sharp and gone but this went on for a long time, the water spraying up off the road up my trousers and into my boots and water filling my sleeves from the front, Maya being waterblasted and all of the days earlier mud wash and gone.

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Jet boatin :clap

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With the road flowing like a river it was nice to be a newish rubber which was accepting of the deeper water so no aquaplaning :clap

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Finally nearing town it settled back to normal rain then when nearly home it was spitting/dry, by this time we were soaked through for everything, I had also left my vents open accidentally so….yeah. :deal

Our plan was to head off Tuesday but we had not tried the local cheeseburger so were not allowed to leave before trying it, this turned out to be a godsend as our gear was soaked and very dirty, Leticia insisting we finish the washing process started by mum nature which we duly did but it rained during the night and was pouring in the morning so it was nice not to climb into soaking wet gear and ride off in the rain.

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The Burger, chicken hearts for Ellen, normal beef for me!!

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A small psycho vid we made of our mum nature prewash of gear, bike and humans :rofl


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Great down pour Andi, is that the cleanest the bike has been in a while?
Don't think there much chance of rain where I am
Go steady

Wayne

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Heya Wayne

Yeah it was refreshing mate, when it rains there it does it properly eh

Maya certainly got an epic clean.

Cheers Andi

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Keep it coming. The envy is un contamible. I check in every other day to see what new adventures you are having. i have been to New Zealand once in the 60's but would like to go back and tour the country on a bike.

Good afternoon all

We now have wifi after a dry patch of a week or so, new ride reports coming out tomorrow.

We are now in Buenos Aires, Argentina and will have Christmas here before heading across with the Dakar (in part).

Merry Christmas to all you guys and girls, thank you so much for your support, friendship and giving us crap

Hope you and your families have a well deserved break away and remember to make the most of every day :clap ...remember Christmas is about family, friends and holidays (ouwh and motos :evil).

Love to all

Andi & Ellen

Picture with Argentinian riders :rofl

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Heya lectron, been without wifi for a few days, more updates tomorrow.

We head back to New Zealand 16th May 2015, any time after that our door is open, you would be welcome at our home in Wanaka.

Cheers Andi

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Mery Christmas to you too, Andi and Ellen. Did I understand that you are going to the Dakar next year?
I know that you and Ellen a a tight couple, Andi - but competing in the Dakar two-up? Are you mad? And is Ellen?

Rob Hall

Heya Robb

We will be at the Dakar yes BUT we are armchair racing .... I don't want to show them up. ...we do have the sticker tho

Looking forward to seeing the moto and big trucks Rob should be cool.

Ouwh and yes we are mad too

Cheers Andi

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Andi , Ellen
Merry Christmas to you both thank you for the gift of your RR and best wishes for the rest of your travels.

john

Heya John

Thank you so much for your props and Merry Christmas to you.

Travels continue and more reports up today ... finally

Cheers Andi

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Just a boring writing one this time guys.

Caxias do sul, meeting Duda & Elle and Mauricio & Leticia was very cool, our 7 - 10 days away waiting for our new charger turning into good times and great places to see, there is always more and so much you never get to see it all, thank you to Apple for making shitty chargers that allowed us to make new friends and see new places

Having planned only a coupla days we headed away 10 days later having seen our wishlist, enjoying local hospitality and having our gear washed accidentally by mum natures little tantrum that we got caught short in....all good tho .

Saying farewell to them all was the not so great part but it is part of travelling , at least with the net, FB (in part) etc makes the world much smaller and with an explosion of information available it is much simpler....well...to a point anyway.

Mauricio and two other friends are planning a trip about 20 days long through to Atacama Desert etc so they asked many questions to lay some fears to rest so for us it was great giving them real life information for their travels, just do it guys it is easier than you think and the good will far outweigh the bad if any and your memories and stories will last a lifetime unless you have a memory like mine....then in that case for Gods sake take photos

My advice, don’t watch the news and don’t listen to scare mongering as is it only designed to keep people at home spending money on stuff, having over 2.5 years being outcasts looking from the outside in it is easier to see.

Ciao amigos see you again!!

We hit it out of town opting for a back road, I thought it would be gravel but it was sealed the whole way and loaded with twisties, we saw two cars on the entire road…. what a treat.

Getting back into Novo Hamburgo we meet up with Luiasa and Remi, it was moto meeting night so Remi jumped on Maya and we rode to the meeting to meet the lads.

Churrasco and Guarana …. what more can a man want, good times, difficulty with language overcome with pointing, pictures goggle and smiles, sorry no pics cos some unforgetful bugga forgot the camera.

Farewell to Novo Hamburgo for the last time, again was hard, Remi watch out for the famed blue T shirts in Ushuaia mate!!!

Thank you guys for an awesome time.

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Back into Porto Alegre to meet up with Augusto and Michellé with our flash new charger....thanks guys for your premo effort in helping us:clap, time to meet up again with Francisco again (met him in Florianolopis on the Big Trails ride) and also Dioni and Luana.

Saturday we had organized to meet Rafael, a fell KTM rider too, we contacted him and he said well lets see the city from the lake….good enough I reckon.

Meeting him at his shop we left Maya there and headed out to the boat ramp and store.(Insert picture of grubby KTM in special lighting shop here)

Arriving at the boat store it was clear our view of what we thought we had got ourselves into was not quite what we had thought ... actually not even close :eek1

We thought some kayaks or something or maybe a small boat, instead we were greeted by the HMS Rafael ... :eek1 :eek1 :eek1

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Hmmmm

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Champagne :eek1 with KTM colour cups :clap

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Thinking up ideas on how to get a boat :evil

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We parked up with a couple of other boats for a swim

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These poor girls spent all the money on the boat and couldn't afford much clothing :wink:

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Thanks for an epic day out Rafael, see you in Kiwiland mate :clap

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