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We had breakfast at our hotel in Cotacachi Ecuador and then checked to see our line-dried laundry was ready. It was still not dry so we walk...

After the bizarre foul-up at the Ecuador border yesterday, we decided not to return back to the border to be entered into the computer until...

It was cold when we left Popayán Colombia this morning but as the day progressed it warmed up. The roads were not good and Jordan was const...

We left Jorge's finca in Colombia today under cloudy skies as we had decided it was time to start heading south and for hopefully le...

It had been recommended that we check out a not too distant town called Salento, so with cloudy skies and rain gear, we headed out from Jorg...

We had time for a walk through some of Marta's property at Casa Jardin Zen (Armenia Colombia) before leaving. During the last 20 years, ...

We travelled from Popayán Colombia to near Armenia, also in Colombia. We passed by a lot of places making bricks and noticed many of the nu...

We left the outskirts of Tulcán Ecuador bright and early at 07:00 this morning. It was pretty cold out being on a motorcycle with an elevat...

Early in the morning at 03:00 in our Santa Domingo hotel, we were awoken by loud knocks on our door by someone demanding "Documento...

We left Puerto Amistad at Bahía de Caráquez (Ecuador) on our motorcycle Ruby today with a northern destination of Armenia which is about ha...

On a beautiful day, we decided to take a respite from boat jobs and take Ruby, our iron pony (motorcycle), out for a run. Jordan found a roa...

Time for boat jobs - repairs, installations, and cleaning. During our absence, poor Sea Turtle became coated with layers of grimy, dusty di...

After a tiring trip back to Quito Ecuador, we decided to spend a couple of days resting and touring around on the iron pony some more. We ro...

The Huasi Hotel that we were staying at in Old Town Quito (Ecuador) allowed us to store our motorcycle in their lower level garage for $0.50...

Quito lies in a valley oriented north to south. We entered from the south, labouring through stop and go traffic until we arrived in Old Tow...

On the road again... With Ruby (Jordan named her) our little iron pony all saddled up, we started our inland journey today, riding from...

Jordan and I celebrated our 7th anniversary in a unique way. Tripp of the Puerto Amistad Marina held a "crawfish bake" that we at...

We are moored at Puerto Amistad Marina (Bahia de Caraquez) in Ecuador. The town of Amistad has all your basic needs covered, but to do a maj...

Winds throughout the early hours were very light and changeable. Going was slow with a lot of tacking and a bit of back tracking. Started ...

We had a visitor today - 1 lone dolphin. This is unusual as most dolphins travel in numbers in a pod. We also had a wakeup call today. You...