On a solo mission....

It was a sad thing to say goodbye to my girlfriend and riding partner in LaPaz...
We have been riding together since El Salvador, over a year ...
what happened... yes.. we are still together!
After buying Angela´s motorcycle, we didn´t really think importing her bike into Chile would be any problem. But we soon found out it was impossible. So our only choice was to sell her bike somewhere down the road. We tried to sell it in Cusco Peru. It wasn´t easy, as no one wanted a bike without papers.
Bolivia was our next option...
As we rode close to the City of La Paz. I noticed a bike repair shop and stopped. ¨why don´t you ask these guys about your bike?¨
The guy was psyked... he liked her bike, little bargaining for a while...we agreed on a good price... good for him but not for us! ¨We come back tomorrow¨
So we came back, the guy had the cash, handed the keys over, - that was the end of Angela´s riding... It was sad to see the Yamaha XT225 off our hands... but it needed to be done.
Angela also needed to go back to Chile to help her dad with business. There was too much work to handle and Angela was the only one that could do it right.
Also without her bike, it would of been too hard to ride both of us on my bike with bad roads coming up thru Bolivia.

So from now on... I will ride on solo thru the Salt Flats of Bolivia via Laguna Colorada and Laguna Verde, On to San Pedro de Atacama Chile, across the Paso Sico Pass to Northern Argentina and fallow the route 40 south to Mendoza before crossing back into Chile to make my temporary final stop (while waiting for winter to be over...) and hopefully continue on into Ushuaia ... the very southern tip!

Stay tuned for crazy road stories of the ¨camino de la Muerte¨ - road of death! in Bolivia, to riding along 1000 kms of isolated desert land to Chile, Argentina...