So I got tired of working and thought, hmm, I think I'll quit my job and ride my motorcycle around Latin America for 6 or 8 months. Naturally there was some planning and saving involved, but basically that is what happpened. The general plan is to leave my home in Seguin Texas (near San Antonio) about the 1st of August 2006 and ride south all the wayto the southern tip of South America. I left my job on the 9th of June and am currently doing a little tune up ride on my Kawasaki Concours to visit family and friends in Wisconsin, Montana, Oregon, and if the planets line up right, make it to the Horizons Unilimited meet in Leadville Colorado on the way back to Texas. There, I will switch bikes to my Kawasaki KLR 650, do some final prep, and head south.
So I got tired of working and thought, hmm, I think I'll quit my job and ride my motorcycle around Latin America for 6 or 8 months. Naturally there was some planning and saving involved, but basically that is what happpened. The general plan is to leave my home in Seguin Texas (near San Antonio) about the 1st of August 2006 and ride south all the wayto the southern tip of South America. I left my job on the 9th of June and am currently doing a little tune up ride on my Kawasaki Concours to visit family and friends in Wisconsin, Montana, Oregon, and if the planets line up right, make it to the Horizons Unilimited meet in Leadville Colorado on the way back to Texas. There, I will switch bikes to my Kawasaki KLR 650, do some final prep, and head south.

So as long as you found my blog, I hope to keep you entertained and informed on my progress. I hope some aspiring travelers get something useful, since I have got so much out of this site over the years. I'm going to try to give some general info on what it costs to do a trip like this, but I'm not going to list every bottle of beer and bag of chips I buy.

The bike I'm taking is a lightly modified 2000 KLR 650 that I have owned since new. It has 29,000 miles on it and is a veteran of three trips to Mexico, Moab, Big Bend, and several of the 4WD passes in central Colorado. I still wonder if I should have got a newer bike for this trip, but I know this bike so well and it has been so reliable that I figured why not take it. Besides I am taking a few wrenches and some duct tape, so no worries. Hopefully an older bike attract less attention from thieves, and people in general, it also gives me the option of selling the bike at the end of the trip if I decide it's not worth shipping back.

So check back when you get a chance, or sign up on this page for email notification when I post a new entry. Let's go for a ride.

In the meantime, I'll work on my packing technique...