Travel along with us!
Author: Daan
We zijn vandaag de grens overgegaan en zitten in Guatemala, Quetzaltenango!
Eenmaal bij de grens, wat niet meer bleek dan een paar formaliteitenhokjes en een slagboom, viel het allemaal wel mee. Natuurlijk hangen er meteen een dot geldwisselaars om je heen, en na flink onderhandelen (30% hogere inruilwaarde bij elkaar gepraat, misschien vanwege Daan z’n marktplaatservaring? 
)kun je hier een betere ruil doen dan bij de bank. Ook werden de motoren ingespoten met insecticide, geen idee hoeveel zin dat heeft met al die jungle om je heen, maar goed!
In de Lonely Planet staat al dat de mensen in Guatemala nogal relaxed zijn. Check dus al je invoerdocumenten goed, want ze vinden het niet zo ‘importante’. Dit werkte enorm in ons voordeel! Na 45 minuten waren we ‘vrij’ om Guatemala in te rijden, en ondanks het slechte weer was dit geweldig. Werkelijk prachtige rotswanden en maïsplantages, de plantages bevinden zich vaak op enorm schuine hellingen. De jungle is lekker groen door het regenseizoen en de Guatemalanen lijken nog vrolijker dan de Mexicanen. Overal een praatje, een glimlach en een opgestoken hand!
Na 160 mooie kilometers met slechts een paar druppels regen zijn we aangekomen in Quetzaltenango, waar we voor 1 of 2 weken een cursus Spaans willen volgen.
Via this website you can follow the travel adventures of Daan and Mirjam on their two Honda Africa Twins!
The journey began on March 11th 2011 in Canada, then all the way south to South America. Somewhere around may 2012 we hope to fly ourselves and the bikes to South Africa, afther which we will drive to the north for a year. Where the journey will go afterwards, is still a big surprise!
17-05-2012
South Africa, we're there! Also the bikes made their first kilometers here and had a good flight. It was a bit of a surprise that they drive on the left side of the road down here…
Hereby our movie of Argentina (mostly in Dutch though…)
12-05-2012
We are still in Buenos Aires, but the bikes are already in South Africa!
08-05-2012
We're done with the America's… with the bikes at least! They are packed and ready at the airport, after 14 months and 47.387 km's. We also managed to produce 65GB's of pictures and movies .
We'll now relax a bit and check out Buenos Aires in the coming days, after which an update on the website will follow!
29-04-2012
… still in Mendoza, still having a great time. A real update with pictures of Argentina will be online in a few weeks, but for now: the movie of Chile is finished!
17-04-2012
Still in Mendoza (after a short trip to Santiago, Chile, where we drove a Military Hummer!) waiting for our flights to South Africa, on the 13th of May we'll go there!
Hereby a small 'behind the scenes' movie of us; not only bikes but just Daan and Mirjam living their life…
02-04-2012
Argentinië, boring pampas!
Yesterday we crossed the border, and we are missing Chile already. Luckily, the skies are beautiful here…
(for the non-nerds: you can double-click on pictures to make them bigger!)
20-03-2012
We are near Osorno and will head south to Puerto Montt today where we will try to book a cruise to the south.
A few days ago an 'a33hole' courier drove over our new tent, but Cascade Designs (the company who owns MSR (of which we have a Tent, Fuel Stove and Water Filter), Thermarest (our matresses) and Sealline (our waterproof orange bag) and other brands) helped out to get some parts for our tent to fix it up.
Again, amazing service of this company. Last week they have sent out two brandnew matresses to Chile because ours were broken within the lifetime warranty; how cool is that! So, for the first time ever, me put some brands on our website, simply because they deserve it!
Their products are not cheap, but great quality and their service is worth every penny!
11-03-2012
Today exactly one year on the road; read about Faff's birthday party in the post called 'Birthday', also in English!
05-03-2012
We are about 400km's north of Santiago, after camping a lot in the desert (new record: 9 nights in a row of free camping!) Amazing place to be, and to watch the stars.We have some problems with the website behind the scenes, our apologies when things don't look perfect! We are working on it, at least a bit .
19-02-2012
Still in Iquique, Chile. Did find time to make the movie of Bolivia. Sorry, couldn't make it shorter; it is so beautiful there!
14-02-2012
We're in Iquique, we drove to the north for the first time since the USA!
Here we help someone with sending a camper and a bike and after that we'll go down south again. Iquique is beautifull, nice desert, and a few days with Wifi, warm and dry wheater is very nice!
08-02-2012
Chili! Yesterday we crossed the border after a fewbeautifull but hard days in Bolivia. Think about mud, rain, a bike that runs on only one cilinder and 6 nights of sleaping in the cold mountains. The low was a day on which we only have done 23 km… For sure it was beautifull and a challange, but we're happy to be back to civilization, with internet and shops where you can buy bread!
24-01-2012
New movies!
Ecuador:
Peru:
22-01-2012
We´ve compiled a movie of the Dakar!
21-01-2012
Bolivia! Yesterday we crossed the border, and thanks to word ´consulate´ we managed again to avoid paying a bribe! Now we are relaxing a bit in Copacabana, a nice town.
14-01-2012
Le Dakar, an event that leaves a deep impression… especially if you are ´allowed´ to have a look behind the scenes! 
09-01-2012
Huacachina, a wonderfull oase in the desert after a week of pushing on.
06-01-2012
We´re already in Peru for a few days and we´re having a good time! After a week of offroad through the Andes we are now near Lima where we want to do some bike maintanance (the tyres are completely worn, which made it a challenge driving 1000 km's through the mud…).
We have to hurry to do this maintance so we can be on time to see the Dakar Rally in Nasca. THere fore we don't have time to put un update on the site. But we're still alive and all is well! We eat, sleep and ride, that's the summary from the last few days. Tomorrow we'll wake up early again to race on to Lima!
01-01-2012
Gelukkig nieuwjaar!
Happy New Year!
¡Feliz año nuevo!
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