Mollydog and Warin

Thanks for the excellent information. Never had thought about wrecking one i.e. selling the parts off.....but a good option....

Saturday I am checking on tickets from here to Barcelona (cheapest place to fly from Ecuador) with the idea of buying a bike somewhere in Europe and from there, the rest of the world pretty much is accessible. I ve been to Europe once to help friends bring a boat from the med back across the Atlantic many years ago. So it was get off the plane, get on the boat and go (late in the year for a crossing due to hurricane season so we didn't fool around). So theres a lot to see and a lot I have not seen so far.... at 64 better get on with it. Right now its winter very much South of here, I have a fair amount of time here in Latin America- although its unfair to lump it all together like that....but I don't want to sit around for 6 months until Patagonia warms up to the point where open spaces and camping are not miserable wind blown and cold as hell. So yeah.... time to move continents. I am even thinking...and will do some searches here- about heading for Asia on the bike, have no idea what that might entail.....one wonders if one shows up at the border of India on a bike they wouldn't issue a temporary importation permit...... ran into a couple from Oz a couple of years ago when I was in Colombia, who were just clearing their bike off the boat from where they had crossed the Darien Gap. They came to the US, bought their bike, spent 6 months or so in the US, Mexico and Central America and were headed for Patagonia..... they several years before,spent a year in India touring 2 up on a British Enfield.......

Thanks for the great information. Took laundry down to the girl here in the neighbourhood, does wash for everyone this morning. She has an old fashioned world map on the wall and I was marvelling at how much there is to see once one is in Europe. From there maybe China....unless foreign policy screws that up some way( can you say South China Sea). I sure hope not. Then there is Mongolia, Morocco, Turkey, India, all sorts of exotic places with exotic names and people. Good reason to stay on the road until ya can't

Expat