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Argentina through Brazil, Amazon to Manaus, Venezuala to Colombia??
I am in Argentina after over 3 months on the road from Canada, now looking at flying me and bike home from BA May 19, or possibly riding back as far as Colombia at least if I can find a riding mate...though I have been riding solo mostly so far. Right now I am mending my body a bit after taking a spill on bad mountain road in Bolivia.
Anybody interested in this riding north through Brazil idea, at this time?
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I'm already riding north through Brazil at this time, but I'm not hard to catch, given I'm mostly bobbing and weaving in any direction but north. The general idea is Belem, then the Guyanas, Venezuela, Colombia, homewards....in that order, I think.
Currently a month/five thousand miles out of B.A., but am again heading south not too far from Rio.
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I'm already riding north through Brazil at this time, but I'm not hard to catch, given I'm mostly bobbing and weaving in any direction but north. The general idea is Belem, then the Guyanas, Venezuela, Colombia, homewards....in that order, I think.
Currently a month/five thousand miles out of B.A., but am again heading south not too far from Rio.
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I wasn't quite sure where you were? When do you plan to hit Belem? How are roads, and is it the rainy season? So you going Belem to Manaus on Amazon and to Guyanas? I thought the roads to Guyanas non-existant or bad, at best seasonal. What you riding?
If I do this I would want to make relative haste and be in Venezuala/Colombia a month from now, or from my tune-up in BA.\
What you think?CHeers
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I'm already riding north through Brazil at this time, but I'm not hard to catch, given I'm mostly bobbing and weaving in any direction but north. The general idea is Belem, then the Guyanas, Venezuela, Colombia, homewards....in that order, I think.
Currently a month/five thousand miles out of B.A., but am again heading south not too far from Rio.
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also how are the Brazilian gals?
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also how are the Brazilian gals?
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Worthy.
I'm in Minas Gerais, heading south towards Rio (though I'll probably get distracted and turn northwards again before I get there). Then Salvador (and other Bahia), Belem, French Guiana, Suriname, British Guyana, back into Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia..... It's all just a concept until it happens.
Roads are mainly quite paved, hence fine. When not paved, they get sloppy when it rains, which it very rarely does. Maybe it's rainy season elsewhere, but not here. Big country. Seen quite a bit of dust, and have been wreaking havoc with nice, white hotel towels. Trucks clogging the roads throughout the sugar cane-producing areas in the south. Etc.
A month seems like more or less my schedule, too....but I've already made my pit stop in B.A., and I'm definitely planning the roundabout route back to Colombia. It sounds like some of it might be miserable, but it's a good kind of misery, sez I--most of the miles are paved, and what's not can't be any worse than we've all seen before, can it?
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Worthy.
I'm in Minas Gerais, heading south towards Rio (though I'll probably get distracted and turn northwards again before I get there). Then Salvador (and other Bahia), Belem, French Guiana, Suriname, British Guyana, back into Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia..... It's all just a concept until it happens.
Roads are mainly quite paved, hence fine. When not paved, they get sloppy when it rains, which it very rarely does. Maybe it's rainy season elsewhere, but not here. Big country. Seen quite a bit of dust, and have been wreaking havoc with nice, white hotel towels. Trucks clogging the roads throughout the sugar cane-producing areas in the south. Etc.
A month seems like more or less my schedule, too....but I've already made my pit stop in B.A., and I'm definitely planning the roundabout route back to Colombia. It sounds like some of it might be miserable, but it's a good kind of misery, sez I--most of the miles are paved, and what's not can't be any worse than we've all seen before, can it?
Famous last words.
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maybe we could meet in Belem when you have done Guyana's....
then boat up the Amazon to Manaus and up to Venezuala. What think? Sounds like you still have some wandering to do.
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No; I'm going from Belem to French Guiana, then Suriname, then (British) Guyana, then back into Brazil, then Venezuela. Like that. It's a semi-circle, and obvious on the map.
Too damn much wireless internet here in Brazil. I need sleep.
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