Prequel

Ready to Rock n' Roll (3200 miles)
I started this blog to keep in touch with family and friends during a motorcycle trip to Costa Rica. My plan is to try and update it every few days as I travel, and post pictures along the way. Although others who've done this seem to find Internet access quite readily, I really don't know how available this will be for me on my particular route. I'm not bringing a laptop so will need to rely on Internet cafes to make this happen. Thus, there may be several posts or few to none . . we'll see.

I'm traveling with two other guys whom I've not met, but who seem like quite good companions. We've been in touch for several weeks via e-mail and telephone. Mauricio is Peruvian, lives in Bullhead City, AZ, will be shipping his motorcycle from Costa Rica to Columbia and vacationing with family several days in Costa Rica before flying home. Kevin lives in San Diego, CA and is engaged to be married to a Tico woman he's known for some time. He is on the cusp of leaving his life in America to move to Costa Rica permanently. I'm doing this for 1) the adventure of it all and 2) to deliver a KLR650 dualsport to Costa Rica as I am building a house there and will use the bike for transpo when I visit. House isn't done as I'd planned, but the window for riding-in-the-dry closes in a few months and I don't want to do all this planning again next year. Besides, I've got two good amigos to travel with, and that ain't easy I can tell you. (Many, MANY false starts along the way these last six months!)

I will be leaving Chico, CA Tuesday March 20th, to rendezvous in Yuma, AZ with the others and enter Mexico the 22nd. 2400 miles later, we'll cross into Guatemala, then El Salvador, cut a small tip of Honduras above the Golfo Fonseco into Nicaragua then on to Tico country.

¡Vamonos!