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Spent day getting organized!
Start & Stop: Cuzco, Peru
Mileage: 0 miles
Hotel: Hotel Jose Antonio, $100 USD, including Desayuno and parking
Fuel: 95: $11-13 Sol/gal or $5 USD/gal
Currency Exchange: $1 USD = 2.74 Peruvian Nuevo Sol
Dean: Our original plan was to get up early go to the train station (1 block away) and board the bus to Machu [...]
Huashuccasa Pass 4470m (14,665′) elevation, a beautiful high mountain plateau with snow all around us
Start & Stop: Puquio, Peru to Cuzco, Peru
Mileage: 320 miles
Hotel: Hotel Jose Antonio, $100 USD, including Desayuno and parking
Fuel: 95: $11-13 Sol/gal or $5 USD/gal
Currency Exchange: $1 USD = 2.74 Peruvian Nuevo Sol
PE28A starts from Nazca and ends at Cuzco. [...]
To fly over the Nazca Lines you need a passport, tourist ticket, $90 USD plane ticket, and a $7.50 USD airport fee.
Nazca Lines … We can now say “Been There, Done That!!!”
Flight orientation. Let's go.
Spaceman
Hummingbird
Lisa putting on her heated [...]
Start & Stop: Lima, Peru to Nazca, Peru,
Mileage: 425 miles
Hotel: Hotel Alegria, JR Lima No. 166, Nazca, Peru (Copas Waypoint), $33 USD
Fuel: 95: $11-13 Sol/gal or $5 USD/gal
Currency Exchange: $1 USD = 2.74 Peruvian Nuevo Sol
PanAm Toll: Nada for motocicletas. Bear right at each toll gate to find a narrow passway for motocicletas. Unlike Colombia [...]
Start & Stop: Barranca, Peru to Lima, Peru
Mileage: 125 miles
Hotel: Hotel Miraflores Lodge, Colon 230 Miraflores, Lima Lima 18, Peru
Fuel: Regular: $13.80 Sol/gal or $4.98 USD/gal
Dean: Quick 2.5 hour run from Barranca into Lima. Coastal cool, many long straight runs with slow sweepers. Can’t tell of the desert goes to the ocean or the ocean sand goes to the [...]
Start & Stop: Chiclayo, Peru to Barranca, Peru
Mileage: 373 miles
Hotel: Hotel Chavin, Gálvez 222, Barranca, Phone: 01/235-2358; 01/235-2253
Fuel: Regular: $13.80 Sol/gal or $4.98 USD/gal
Agriculture theme: Potatoes, Poultry & Sugar Cane
Lisa's nail in the rear tire. Notice it went through the lug and came through the lower left grove. Fixed with a DynaPlug.
A bad [...]
Border Crossing #11 Ecuador/Peru
Start & Stop: Machala, Ecuador to Chiclayo, Peru
Mileage: 400 miles
Hotel: Los Portales Chiclayo, Saenz Pena 396, Chiclayo, Perú, 0800-52-652 ~$78 USD
Fuel: Regular: $13.80 Sol/gal or $4.98 USD/gal (Yikes)
Dean: No stress border crossing. At least for me …
We're at the Ecuador/Peru border. Lisa is the shadow in the door [...]
Start & Stop: Quito, EQ to Machala, El Oro, Ecuador
Mileage: 322 miles
Hotel: Hotel San Francisco International, Tarqui E/. Sucre Y Olmedo, Machala, El Oro, Ecuador, Phone 07-930915 ~$40 USD
Fuel: Regular: $1.48/gal, Premium: $2.00/gal
Dean: Lisa is hacking & coughing worse. I think she’s sick! Hopefully she’ll figure it out.
Typical town traffic.
Those little 3-wheel scooters [...]
Border Crossing #10, Cross the Colombia/Ecuador Border AND the Equator
Start & Stop: Pasto, CO to Quito, EQ
Mileage: 227 miles
Hotel: Hotel Real Audiencia, Quito, EQ. http://www.realaudiencia.com/ubicacion.htm Parking across the street. 4th floor and no elevator! $60 USD + $5 parking
Exchange Rate: $1 USD = $1 USD but they give you small change in local coin.
PanAm Toll: $ [...]
Sorry, No Photos. Will add them later.
Start & Stop: La Pintada, CO to Pasto, CO
Mileage: 477 mile!
Hotel: Hotel Galleries,
Cra 26 No. 18-71 Third Level, Pasto, Colombia
Dean: Lisa is getting sick. She is coughing.
Lisa: I hated to leave the Dinastia- dang, it was awesome – but we don’t have extra days to burn, unfortunately. I would [...]
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