Hi Scooper,

Glad to hear your motorcycle airlifts have all gone smoothly. There have been other posts about multiple trips back and forth to arrange shipment or release, but I may be thinking of posts about the release of a bike(s) that were shipped to Colombia by sea container. I think it took the guy three trips to complete the process. There may have been a holiday thrown in for good measure.

Welcome home and back to Honduras. Traveling is a lot of fun, but it feel so good sleep in your own bed, eat your regular diet and catch up on that which went unattended. Tell me if this happened to you, when you wash your clothes from the trip, did you have the urge to pack them on your bike? I happened to me and a SlowPhil47. It might take a full month or two before the itch to travel starts up.

I was planning to visit Roatan on my last ride through Honduras. Either leave the bike on the mainland or try and take it across on a ferry. In the end I rode quickly through Honduras (for the third time) to get to Panama and a sail date with the Stalhratte. On my way north I sail with them again, from Colombia, Jamaica, Cuba, getting off in Cancun, MX...skipping all Central America. Not sure when the next trip will happen, but eastern Honduras is on the list.

I have been enjoying your blog. You and Scotty blasted through Guyana in near record time. I rode the section from Lethem to Linden over three riding sessions. Two of the rides went onto the night. You wrote about the sandy sections south of 58...I did that stretch of after dark. In fact, I think I would have freaked out more if I was looking at the sand during the day.

One day you will have to tell me about the insurance papers that got you into French Guiana. They let me in with the promise that I would get insurance. I tried and failed to find affordable coverage. It may have helped me get in the country when I rattled off the names of all of the insurance companies in Suriname, then produced a business card from the French Guinean Embassy in Suriname where I stopped to ask for advice on buying insurance. Someone else behind me wasn't asked for insurance at all. Go figure.

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Peter B
2008/09 - NJ to Costa Rica and back to NJ
2012/13 - NJ to Northern Argentina, Jamaica, Cuba and back to NJ
2023 - Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia...back to Peru.

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