Random pics and captions

These first 2 pictures are with my new camera I had to purchase while on the trip. I have really gained some photography knowledge while touring with Roy Bridger and Rob as they all seem to have interest. I show these 2 photos taken at the same time on same street. Bottom was with night setting the top on regular mode. Pretty cool...

This was in the town of coatzcolocolus. It was extremely rough seas because of all that nasty weather you north americanos are giving us...stop it now

This is a little place we had some lunch along the way. Really not sure of where it was.

A cathedral on a high mountain in Mexico.

Day 10 ..Bienvenidos Guatemala

This was a party we stopped in and gave the kids some candies. Ricardo and I found this small village at about 11,000 feet up mt orizaba. amazing how everything is so similar no matter where you go. We stayed and found a guy who spoke some english and leanred alot about this little village..pretty cool. Here is Roy firing up the team as we went seperate ways. Roy was certainly instrumental in setting up this great trip..thanks again Roy and stay off that foot.

A wonderful building in the square that we found in the town of Orizaba.

We finally got over the border into Guetamala. We took the high crossing and though there was alot less people it still took awhile to navigate the system to cross these borders. It is about a 4 step process that will hopefully get quicker as we get further south. Anyway welcome Guetamala.

Day 10 has brought aweosme riding and yes the elusive sunshine.

How we became the 4 Amigos

Upon starting the trip we had seis amigos as you have read we are now down to quatro amigos. How we got there. Ricardo had planned to head in another direction the whole time and has been traveling westward and northward. Good luck Amigo and have a great time with the kids.
El capitan had to make the very difficult decision to return back to the states. Hope your trip was safe. As I have mentioned we had a member injured.
In one amazing feat of moto driving Roy managed to miss a wildly running bull, 2 elder mexican senoritas, 4 motorcyclists, on a rain slicked road in the streets of Pachula. As Roy swerved his bike to avoid this disastrous road block he slid on some gravel and controlably slid out of the way avoiding everyone. The Kawa was fine except for his poor panniers as they have seen many injuries thus far. Unfortunately the weight of the bike had been a bit too much for Roys ankle and it fractured. In great spirits and determination we headed into Orizaba to later get confirmation of the fracture from the mexican medical community thru xray. Total treatment for xray, wound care, cast and crutches was a mere 2 cervesa ...yes thats right it cost about what 2 mexican beers cost...TOTAL
Roy...well miss ya and thanks a whole bunch for organizing this wonderful trip.
Hasta luega ...amigo

Day 8 and 9

These 5 pics are on our ascent to Mt Orizaba. It was a really cool drive although it rained fairly heavy.

We have settled in a town called San Cristobal..yeah my town baby. It in mountains just over the Guetamalan border. We had an awesome ride thru some of the most amazing landscape in the state of Chiapas. Cool winding roads up and down the mountians. Muy Bueno

Wow ..My espanol in coming along great. We are again at about 8-10,000 feet so its quite cold. It was near freezing last night. We are off to an active volcano in guetamala today hopefully...It seems to go much slower than expected when traveling by motos. The city of San Cristobal truly is an amazing place with its mayan culture and artisitc flare.

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Day 7

Richard and I headed up the mountain. We are staying in the town of Orizaba so we decided to head up the south side of Pico de Orizaba. We went about 15 miles north into the clouds as we continued up an amazing winding switch back road made of concrete, mud, dirt, rock and anyhting else that a road can be made of. Although the views were limited because of weather the sites were not.
One of the coolest trek you can make on a motobike.







Holy smokes we made several wrong turns because its freezing and raining all day so we must be in Canada. Seriously it was a difficult riding day with rainfall probably over an inch today. The team has had some changes today as we are down to 4 members today as we head south.
We are staying in a town called coatzocoalcots or something similar. We are hope to look around tomorrow without rain. It was kinda fun today trekking thru in the downpours. After you get that wet it really doesnt matter so i was ready to roll.
The town tonight

Day 5 and 6

This is a shot overlooking the town we stayed day 4 San miguel de Allende. Its really like the aspen of the san madre mts in this area. Unfortunately there are many European and other international residents. The town was gorgeous with amazing plaza and cathedrals.

This is a religious parade we saw at dinner one night

This is ricardo as he is now known in a small mercado in Huamantla ..i think its beginning to blend together most of the towns...

All you pharma geeks viewing this a a shot for u they have these dancing people outside on the sidewalks with music blasting to help draw customers. Maybe I can get CVS to give me a job doing this gig. Its kinda cool going in farmacias as you get get almost anyhting over the counter. We may have to hit a farmacia for one of our team members.

To the left is street musicians..quite good

Here is one of the many awesome plaza in the town we stayed. We need something like this in bloomsburg. Great place to watch people and certainly be watched by the mexicanos.

Motorcycle travel is a lot more grueling than expected. We left San miguel heading towards pico de orizaba heading thru towns of pachuca and apizaco to finally after 10 hrs travel arrive in Huamantla. It was a very traditional mexican town with centro plaza and simple yet wonderful architecture. As we arrived in town late we had our first small casualty. One member had to have Doc Rob do some patch work. He´s a bit gimpy but a tough ol Brit. We stayed the night in town then headed for mt Orizaba to clim to base camp with the motorbikes. base camp is around 15,000 feet but we been staying at around 6,000 - 8,000 ft most nights. Hoping it is going to be nice weather for our trek to pico de Orizaba. Overall awesome 2 days as we had no runnings with the federales.