Looking back Central America
A chap that I met in Texas. He was and still is a bike mechanic, traveller and just the other day told me he was away on a trip for two months. Hank is a real biker. I saw him go over the front of a Taxi in Mexico. I determined that day I would buy a riding suit with padding because Hank got up, got on his bike and away we went.
There were five of us. A rancher a dentist, a pilot, me and Hank.
We set off from San Antonio straight into Mexico, aviding Mexico city.
It was a very good ride through a wonderful countryside. Coffee all sorts of horticulture including miles of pineapples and of course cactus lots of cactus and the smell of grog in the valleys and villages was real.
Very pleasant to ride in.
The whole peninsula is very attractive from the active volcano the beaches the vegetation everywhere and the history, and that was a surprise. The fact that there were pyramids in Mexico was not known to me previously.
The Borders were a test of patience. They took a while and oddy as I was NZer on a NZ registered bike I was always first through.
We missed Belize it was thought to be a bit dangerous by Hank, but Guatemala. El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica before Panama.
It was a really good interesting ride not least of all the food. I enjoyed the food a lot, especially the beef steak with chocolate sauce.
Panama was very interesting. Passports for sale and cheap houses and tax free.
The visit to the Canal was also fascinating with the chinese funding huge expansion and the fascinating thing was that the size of ships worldwide was determined by the width of the Panama canal.
A bit like the problem we have in NZ and freighting on the railway which is determined by the size of tunnels.
It is fascinating to discover what limits our world today and there are two,
tunnels and the Panama canal.
This sign on a beach caught me attention. Cant find the volcano or the pyramid among the pics...yet !
There were five of us. A rancher a dentist, a pilot, me and Hank.
We set off from San Antonio straight into Mexico, aviding Mexico city.
It was a very good ride through a wonderful countryside. Coffee all sorts of horticulture including miles of pineapples and of course cactus lots of cactus and the smell of grog in the valleys and villages was real.
Very pleasant to ride in.
The whole peninsula is very attractive from the active volcano the beaches the vegetation everywhere and the history, and that was a surprise. The fact that there were pyramids in Mexico was not known to me previously.
The Borders were a test of patience. They took a while and oddy as I was NZer on a NZ registered bike I was always first through.
We missed Belize it was thought to be a bit dangerous by Hank, but Guatemala. El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica before Panama.
It was a really good interesting ride not least of all the food. I enjoyed the food a lot, especially the beef steak with chocolate sauce.
Panama was very interesting. Passports for sale and cheap houses and tax free.
The visit to the Canal was also fascinating with the chinese funding huge expansion and the fascinating thing was that the size of ships worldwide was determined by the width of the Panama canal.
A bit like the problem we have in NZ and freighting on the railway which is determined by the size of tunnels.
It is fascinating to discover what limits our world today and there are two,
This sign on a beach caught me attention. Cant find the volcano or the pyramid among the pics...yet !
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