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Ride report posted on ADVrider. Had some interuptions for refitting and refunding but started in Aug 2009 heading up to New Foundland, far North of Quebec to the Trans Tiaga and back home to get little bike ready for Central and South America. Left again in Nov 2010 went through Central America left Panama on boat and went to Colombia. Got back on said boat and took bike up to Jamacia, Cuba, Jamaica, Providencia, and back to Panama and finally back again to Colombia where I'm refunding at the moment. 33 1/3 NCS or what I figure as 33 and 1/3% or the world-The Americas plus some Caribbean.

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Great Thread

Thanks Scooper

We are travelling from New Zealand To Anchorage, up to Deadhorse down to Ushuaia then zig zagging our way back up starting April 2012, looking to be on the road for 1.5 - 2 years ish so these links are great.

We will in turn be doing ride reports, photos and info as well for those later down the track.
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Thanks Scooper

We are travelling from New Zealand To Anchorage, up to Deadhorse down to Ushuaia then zig zagging our way back up starting April 2012, looking to be on the road for 1.5 - 2 years ish so these links are great.

We will in turn be doing ride reports, photos and info as well for those later down the track.
Will be following you, thanks
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Ride report posted on ADVrider. Had some interuptions for refitting and refunding but started in Aug 2009 heading up to New Foundland, far North of Quebec to the Trans Tiaga and back home to get little bike ready for Central and South America. Left again in Nov 2010 went through Central America left Panama on boat and went to Colombia. Got back on said boat and took bike up to Jamacia, Cuba, Jamaica, Providencia, and back to Panama and finally back again to Colombia where I'm refunding at the moment. 33 1/3 NCS or what I figure as 33 and 1/3% or the world-The Americas plus some Caribbean.

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Very interesting report, good reading
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Although we don't leave until April 2012 we have our blog page up and running now, we will have all the fun stuff, prep pics etc on there until we get to Alaska then we will divide our trip blog into North America, Central America and South America

Our site is on our sig, Two Moto Kiwis

We welcome feedback for ideas, readability etc to make it easier for readers/followers, first blog we have done so please be patient.

WOH HOH game on!!
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Mine in my signature...
As well as some people I've met on the way...

southandback.blogspot.com Three Canadian lads, unfortunately their trip ended sadly.

Will post more later when I find the cards.
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Mine in my signature...
As well as some people I've met on the way...

southandback.blogspot.com Three Canadian lads, unfortunately their trip ended sadly.

Will post more later when I find the cards.
Thanks, getting pretty interesting!
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Although we don't leave until April 2012 we have our blog page up and running now, we will have all the fun stuff, prep pics etc on there until we get to Alaska then we will divide our trip blog into North America, Central America and South America

Our site is on our sig, Two Moto Kiwis

We welcome feedback for ideas, readability etc to make it easier for readers/followers, first blog we have done so please be patient.

WOH HOH game on!!
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Thanks for putting these links together. I think that I've read through a few of them, but often have trouble finding them when I want to refer back. I'll be heading south in September, so I have some reading to catch up on.
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nice blog

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south america on a 200cc chinese bike

i bought a 200cc chinese bike from another traveller in Santiago de Chile about 6 months ago - and have since spent about 2 months more in Argentina and Chile, and 3.5 months in Bolivia.

I have a blog that is more of a travel commentary rather than a play by play bike focussed blog, but if anyone needs info on places to stay/repair shops/road conditions on any of my routes - please drop me a line

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lots of pics at: Picasa Web Albums - FatMeercat
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looked at these links before and read most of them related to South America, but they are not ongoing and that is for me important
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http://horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/cyclingchile

(Hope lack of an engine doesn´t disqualify us.)

Will become more ongoing if we ever find parts for our Coleman stove out here...

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ongoing trips in south america

Hi we are still going around south america in our truck NESSIE.
have info on each country and are in equador now and heading north to colombia,venezuela,brasil,and then guyana,suriname,fr guiana and then back into brasil for the trans amazon highway.
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Hi we are still going around south america in our truck NESSIE.
have info on each country and are in equador now and heading north to colombia,venezuela,brasil,and then guyana,suriname,fr guiana and then back into brasil for the trans amazon highway.
will reply to all emails for upto date info sights and border crossings
Monster ... pretty neat put together, lots of good info
my own blog I lost last week by playing with it and deleting by accident my Google account and not realizing my blog was part of it
Trying to recover, but no success, any google insiders here, with some ideas
My blog was http://ronald-janssen.blogspot.com/
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Thanks, I'm new to blogging. I'm starting to feel more comfortable writing. I've been thinking about experimenting with my story telling by combining text, photos, audio and video. Traveling by bike is such a full on sensory experience. Sometimes I feel like my words and images just don't tell the story adequately.
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