Inspiration & Reviews for Moto-Adventurers
Chapter 5: March 28th, Tacna, Peru. I ended up making pretty good use of the medkit I had been urged to bring. I popped a couple of pills and by morning my intestinal situation had been… contained. I rushed out of my tiny room at 8am to a cloudy sky. I skipped breakfast dreading a repeat of the previous night’s misery. My meal that morning consisted in a packet of oral rehydration salts that I had dumped into my water bottle....
Chapter 4: March 27th, Ocoña, Peru. Getting the bike out of the Walk On Inn wasn’t as easy as getting it in. The single step up the front door was too steep and the little wooden board they brought to serve as a ramp only got the front wheel up. It split in half when the back wheel went over it. In the end, I was able to get it out with the help of the hostel’s manager and a Finnish guy who...
Chapter 3: March 26th, Ica, Peru. I was in the middle of the Paracas Natural Reserve holding the broken brake handle that I had unsuccessfully tried to repair after a tumble in the sand dunes. I didn’t have a spare for it with me and I knew that this particular model was hard to find. However, my best bet was to try to find some sort of replacement in Ica. I nearly tossed out the broken handle but decided to...
Chapter 2: March 25th, Paracas, Peru. The first stop on the long road south was a camping site at a beach called Puerto Viejo, some 70km outside of Lima. I hadn’t been to this beach since the previous year and it was a great way to kick off the journey: camping out but somewhere familiar. Upon arrival, I quickly set up my tent and tossed my bags inside. I took the rest of the afternoon to relax and walk around. The...
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