Riding my motorcycle onto the ferry to Baja was a bittersweet moment for me. On one hand, I was very much looking forward to being in Baja. On the other hand, being on the peninsula meant that I was on the final leg of my trip. After six months of travel, I was approaching...
Sure, I did go pretty quickly through Southern Mexico, so I am by no means an expert on the place. But, right or wrong, the impression I got was that most of it was quite impoverished, hot as hell, frequently dirty, unmaintained, rainy and sporting something of a bad attitude. I had some of...
I entered Mexico at a relatively new border crossing near a town called El Ceibo. Upon arrival I discovered that had to pay a $400 deposit as a guarantee that I wouldn’t sell my motorcycle within the country. Somehow, in my minimal preparations, I had missed this large fee. Initially, I was quite suspicious...
Some of you may have noticed, NBM has not been updated in real time during this trip. I am currently in the mildly boring cowboy town of Durango, looking at my remaining route on a map. As rumor has it, all good things must come to an end. So, I’m planning to cross the...
After staying a bit longer than I should have in Antigua, I made my way to Lago Atitlan. The lake is one of the biggest and the deepest lakes in Central America. It’s located in an enormous volcanic caldera and surrounded by high escarpments and three volcanoes to the south. Mayan towns and villages...
I started my trip without a GPS, not really wanting to bother with an electronic item on my handlebars, electronic maps for each country and another potential theft item. I bought quite a few paper maps off the internet before leaving home and figured that this would be adequate. Then, I discovered quickly how...
After getting my fill of the odd pharmacy filled town of Santa Rosa de Lima, El Salvador, I began my trip across the small country, with the goal of making it to Antigua, Guatemala that night. Before long, the skies began to darken. Not too long after, it started raining. It would rain on...
