There’s no need to interfere: the road does the work for you.
Nicolas Bouvier
the southern way
San Francisco → Bogota
2017
We depart with the belief that the best routes and the best sites are discovered along the way. We have mapped out some general plans, but we will ask a lot of questions as we go and stay open to adaptation. We will ride South from San Francisco through Baja California and, when the road ends, take the ferry to the mainland of Mexico. We plan to ride to the Caribbean coast and visit Belize and then westward through Guatemala and southeast through El Salvador to take the short trip through Honduras. Following that, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. From Panama we’ll take a boat to Colombia. Once in Bogotá, we plan to take a long break, assess our progress, repair the bike, and find some work.
bogota → ushuaia
2018
We tentatively plan to leave Bogotá in the summer of 2018. From there, we’ll travel down the western coast of South America to Ushuaia, Argentina, the southern-most tip of the continent. We plan to arrive there in the summer months, thus avoiding the harshest weather.
the northern way
san francisco → prudhoe bay
2023
In the winter of 2019, we completed our trip to Ushuaia and, with Horace, flew back to California from Santiago, Chile. We had always hoped to complete the Pan-American highway by riding the northern portion, but COVID 19 put our ambitions on pause. In 2023, we plan to make those dreams come true. Nathan has rebuilt Horace with an R100 engine, DRZ front forks, and a 21” front wheel replacing the old and dented 19” front wheel we used in South America. We depart in early June and plan to arrive in Prudhoe Bay before July.
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