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This kid snuck into our room grabed my Helmet and climbed up on Matts bike. . .

The chief took my bike for a ride. . .

Nices beach of the trip in Costa Rica

Nice swim next to the tunnel the river dove into

Guy jumped on the back of Matt's bike to show us where his hotel was.

Eggs everywhere

Getting ready for Main Drain this fall

Night on the roof

Its a dangerous thing starting your motorcycle you never know where it will take you.

Every time I have had to sell one of my bikes it is a bitter sweet experience. But not today, my hole soul was relieved to see the thing drive off, over 10,000 miles and a very sore butt, I´m cured (well maybe). . . A guy found our bikes in Huaraz and wanted to buy both about a week ago, not wanting to drive another 1000 miles to meet back up with him we talked him into meeting us in Lima. Its been a long two days drive to get back here.

We are currently in Lima, should be checking out this gold museum in the morning. I´ll be home soon.

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After 60 miles short of 10,000 on our bikes, 8 days on a boat, 2.5 hours on a trian, and 26 minutes on a bus, 7 weeks later we finally made to to the end of the road (Manchi Pichu).

After talking to everyone in Cuso we were finally convinced that there was no way to ride our bikes to Manchi Pichu. We still debated riding our bikes on the rail for 30 miles and through two tunnels, but we ended up buying a train ticket. To tell you the truth it was way relaxing. Last few days we have been riding way hard. We made it up to 30 feet shy of 15000 feet.

We ran into another bad reck, a semi full of eggs had run off the road. Eggs were everywhere, and a guy was laying on the ground not moving. Us and one other car came were the first on the seen. The guy had hit is head but seemed all right. He was just lying down. . . We gave him some advil and some pop.

I'll post pics later.

MACHU PICHU

So we finally made it to the end of our travels all in one piece! Bikes are still in good shape and we have got a buyer for them in Lima on Friday!!!Even made a little dinero on the bikes too. Hopefully this guy won´t back out. getting to Cuzco and Machu Pichu took a lot longer than planned. We drove for 2 days straight and only stopped for church in Nazca. The members there were very, very kind and the branch president kept thanking us for coming all the way from Utah just to visit his little branch. We assured him that was the only reason that we had driven 10000 miles across 2 continents, and then we gave him our ties. He was so grateful and kept giving us hugs.(I think he really believed it). On the way to Cuzco we hit 15000 ft and once again we froze a little.and the bikes did not like it at all. Kinda like pushing a couple of donkeys up a hill, but we made it to the summit and then ran into a bad truck accident. The driver was hauling a semi loaded with chicken eggs and ran off the road and so there was omelet for about 100 yards all over the road. Somehow he was OK, but the truck and the eggs were toast. Machu Pichu was everything it is cracked up to be and more!! We left our bikes in another town and took the train up the canyon and spent the day touring the ruins. Just as we were finishing up checking the place out, DEVIN SPOTTED GOLD!!! Soft serve ice cream in chocolate and vanilla!!! I named it INCA ICE CREAM and had to go back for 2nds. If nothing else the whole trip was well worth the ice cream at the top of Machu Pichu. No kidding they had an ice cream machine up there!! It was like a big trophy at the end of the race!!!! Well it has been a really good trip and if I had to do it again I would buy a better seat to save myself a little pain. Other than that I wouldn´t do a whole lot different. We got to see way to many waterfalls to count and indian ruins in more than one country and the people we met were too kind to express in words. We stayed with strangers and were helped countless times by people curious in our little expedition and the language wasn´t as big a barrier as it should have been. The best part of the trip was all the people we met and made friends with along the way from Mexico to San Blas Islands to Columbia and Peru, people really have been way to kind to us. I never really felt in any danger and the occasional police road block that left us without gas money for a few miles was really more entertaining than hazardous. So there you have it, If anyone is thinking of making the same trip.........they have really good ice cream at the top of Machu Pichu.

Had to bribe the cops

So on our way to Huaraz the cops waved all coming traffic over so I pulled over and the cop turned his back from me and I crept forward and slowly kept going not sure what was going on then just kept going, The cop didn´t say a thing, thinking back on it that was a bad move. they came and got us. It was looking like a very big ticket for not stopping. . . . we showed them we did not have that much so they grabbed our money and said no problema and left. We´ll they didn´t get that much, a lot less then what we really could of gotten with a ticket. I still feel stubid for not stopping but it´s not the first time there is barricades every where and after pulling over or slowing down they wave us on only interested in the other cars. Oh wells.

The problem was, that it left us with no money and out of gas with no gas station that would take a visa. We had a few coins in our pocket to put a little gas in our tanks to get to a bigger town. Happens that only one out of the many ATMs in town worked and there was a big line. Finaly got gas and kept going.

Peru turned into Mongolia! We must have passed through a weird land bridge, its barren, cold and way windy near the coast with a lots of dunes. but not far to the west are the mountains.

So having an obsession with the mountains I have read a lot about the corrdilla blankas. I talked Matt into drive a two hour detour to see this town called Huaraz. Well two days later and a flat tire we made it back to the main road. However, the long drive did pay off, way cool town as well as huge mountains.

North America has a few mountains with a lot of hills but Peru has the real deal. there was several peeks surrounding the town over 20,000 feet. Dang, I will have to go back. It is not far from where the book and movie of touching the void happened. We did dinner with a climbing guide for Acanquagua. I lined up a trip for next Jan. . . He is the 2nd person only to have climbed Acanquagua from car to car in one day. He saw my bike on the street, he has the same bike. He had a friend who wanted two KLR, so I think we have a buyer. So someone has been saying their prayers, works out perfect.

So there was a big market and we saw lots of ginny pigs on a sack found out soon that the town had a taste for ginny pigs. Matt had to try one for dinner that night.

So today we drove all the way to Nazcar. Found the church, and will be headed to Cusco sometime tomorrow.