8pm, Santiago, bus station…..located in the middle of the city down some back street, it’s definitely not located in the nicest part of town, but hey… it is a bus station….To save a few bucks and to see a little of the countryside (more to save a few bucks), we decided to take the 10 hr bus ride to Puerto Varas instead of hopping on a plane…the savings, $49 for one way bus ticket to Puerto Varas versus $200 for the one way flight…I think worth the bus ride…

10 hrs on the bus...at least it was during the night and I managed to get som sleep...

Puerto Varas is one of Chile’s most charming villages, located on the shore of  Lake Llanquihue (one of South America’s largest lakes). It is an adventure travel hub, and it is also the  gateway to the Parque Nacional Vicente Pérez Rosales. Unlike its neighbor  Puerto Montt, 20 minutes away, it is a spruce little town, with wood-shingled  homes, a rose-encircled plaza, a beautifully designed casino (btw. this casino sucks…they charge an entrance fee to gamble!!) and a distinct “German” feeling.  This is probably because in the 1800’s, the Chilean government encouraged German immigration and set aside land in Puerto Varas to be farmed by the new immigrants. The city was  built by the sweat and tenacity of these German immigrants, and later it became a port  for goods being shipped from the Lake Llanquihue area to Puerto Montt (mostly  timber).

Walking into town along the shores of Lake Llanquihue...

Map of the town....not a whole heck of a lot!!!

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Osorno Volcanoe in the background of the lake...they say it's still "live"

Now back to the food part of this blog….so far, the food during this trip has been pretty average at best (once again, this could be cause of the places I’ve been eating at) with the exception of some great beef in Chilean Parrilla house (grill restaurant)…sorry, forgot to take some pics of that…until we found a seafood shop in Puerto Varas!!! The name escapes me right now, but it is an old seafood restaurant that is styled after an old German couple’s basement (if you have any German friends and been to their parents house, you know what I’m talking about). Although the decor left something to be desired, the food was amazing (and I don’t even like seafood!!)…I had the corvina (which is sea bass) with a shrimp sauce which consisted of a ton of shrimp loaded on top of a huge chunk of corvina…It was awesome!!! But I gotta say what Adriana ordered stole the show…crepe de la centollo (I’m not sure if this was the correct name as I’m going off memory) which amounted to a massive mound of king crab smothered in a buttery creme sauce covered by a crepe. i don’t even wanna know how much butter they used in this, but with every taste, I could feel my arteries harden, which in this case, happens to be a good thing!!! Needless to say, this was the best meal we have had so far and probably the best deal as the whole bill with drinks, appies and dessert was about $50….If you ever go to Puerto Varas, I’ll dig up the name for you, it’s a must do!!

Fried corvina (sea bass) with a shrimp sauce....look at all that shrimp!!!

The pic may not do it justice, but this plate was huge!!! and most of it was king crab!! Best meal we had so far...

Ok, done with the food and also done with Puerto Varas….one of the main reasons we came here was to take the bus/ferry tour across the Andes mountain range into Argentina….It’s another 8hr trip and begins tomorrow morn….

Back to the mainland and Santiago, Chile….we are here for a couple days before we are back on the road heading south again…Never thought I would ever be standing in the middle of Santiago, but here we are!!!….It’s amazing what a little time and a Visa card can get you!!

Santiago de Chile is the capital and economic centre of Chile. With its many museums, theaters, restaurants, bars and other entertainment and cultural opportunities, it is also the political and cultural center of the country. The metropolitan area has about seven million inhabitants. The climate is cold and rainy in the winter.  It only snows up in the Andes, which are an hour and a half from the city.   Temperatures at night fall to around 0ºC.  and it gets progressively hotter towards the summer.  Summers are fairly dry although you may experience some humidity at times.  The temperature can reach as high as 35ºC. It is springtime now so the temps are pretty moderate, highs about 22 and lows to 12 and mostly cloudy with some sunny periods, perfect for touring the city….enough with the weather report…we really only had a couple of days in the city, so we really got to it in the morning…10 am, meet by the big Chilean flag in the center of town for a walking tour of the city…10am rolls around, no guide…10:30, still no guide…luckily the brochure we had for the tour included a map of the actual tour, so off we went doing our own solo walking tour…FYI, we weren’t the only ones waiting for the tour so it wasn’t a mistake on our part…the tour guys just didn’t show!!!…we spent about 3hrs walking about the city visiting various prominent sites, the only thing missing was the commentary!! It actually was a great way to see the city at our own pace and there was usually some info explaining the different sites, so a guide really wasn’t needed, just a map…

The Big flag where the walking our was supposed to start....no show guide!!!

La Moneda Presidential Palace...we just happened to catch the "changing of the guards"

Changing of the guards at the Presidential Palace...it was quite an intricate ceremony!!

Inside the main Cathedral....one of many!!!

More Cathedral.....

When you go to Chile, as when you go to the Okanagan, one thing you must do is a winery tour!!! The next (and last) day we hopped on a bus one hour south of Santiago towards Concha Y Toro winery, the second largest producer of wine in the world (second to E&J Gallo). The Concha y Toro Vineyard was founded by Don Melchor de Santiago Concha y Toro and his wife, Emiliana Subercaseaux, in 1883. To start the winery, he brought grape varieties from the Bordeaux region in France.The grapes that he brought were: Cabernet Sauvignon, Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, Merlot, and Carmenère. The vineyard was incorporated as a stock company in 1923 and shares were sold in the Santiago stock market. Concha y Toro began exporting wine in March 1933 to the port of Rotterdam, Holland. In 1950, the winery began to acquire more vineyards and also began the process of adapting its business to new markets and meeting a higher demand. We spent about 2hrs at the winery touring their facilities with several samples along along the (in my opinion, not enough samples!!) then back on the bus back to Santiago…..

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Don Melchor de Santiago Concha Y Toro, the founder of the winery

The entry gate to the winery...

The original home of Don Melchor on the winery....over 4000 sq meters!!!...currently used as office space now.

Baby cabernet savingnon grapes......

The original storage cellar still used for to age special vintages...can you see the devil in this pic?

after sucking back a few samples (including a 1996 cab sav that was outstanding!!), we were back on the bus to Santiago…actually, to catch another bus, this time to leave the city and head south to Puerto Varas which is located 10 hrs (by bus) from Santiago located on the shores of one of South America’s largest lakes….10 hrs on a bus???? not exactly what I’m used to, but i’m willing to give it a shot…..

I know you’ve seen them before, these crazy little (actually quite large) elongated stone heads carved by some Polynesian natives a long time ago on some island in the middle of the pacific….Well, it’s Easter Island and the stone statues are “moai”…..The name “Easter Island” was given by the island’s first recorded European visitor, the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who encountered it on Easter Sunday 1722, while searching for Davis or David’s island. Roggeveen named it Paasch-Eyland (18th century Dutch for “Easter Island”). The island’s official Spanish name, Isla de Pascua, also means “Easter Island”.

The current Polynesian name of the island, Rapa Nui or “Big Rapa”, was coined after the slave raids of the early 1860s, and refers to the island’s topographic resemblance to the island of Rapa in the Bass Islands of the Austral Islands group.

It’s actually quite a ways from Lima as we had to fly Lima to Santiago, Chile, then spend 8hrs at Santiago airport to catch a 5hr flight to Easter Island….phew!!! Another long travel day (and night)…but we made it!!

Arriving on Easter Island...it sure is windy out there....

We arrived on Easter Island around 1pm and were met by our hostel host to drive us back to the hostel. Easter Island is not that large (kinda reminded me of Koh Samui in Thailand) with a population of approx 4000 and the whole island can been seen in a day with a vehicle…we settled into our room and then went off to explore…the whole island is pretty much a national park with stone statues scattered all over, some destroyed during tribal wars, some restored by archaeologists and all quite large in stature…The guide books and Internet blogs said 3 days were needed to explore the whole island and it’s sights….we rented a scooter and did the whole thing in a day!!!

Our ride for the day!!

Needless to say, we had some spare time as we had planned to stay for 3 nights….unfortunately, on an island this size, spare time is not what you want!! Other than the main attractions (which we had already seen), there was not much else to do…The main town on the island (the only one) Hanga Roa has but one main drag with the usual tourist amenities, souvenir shops, a few pubs and restaurants and a number of tour agencies…all in about 4 blocks…once you’ve done the “strip” a few times, that’s it!!!

Literally, these moais are all over the island...

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The "boys"

Me with the "boys"!!!

This guy is a little worn....

A couple of things that stuck out during this visit (other than the amazing moais)….this town is expensive!!! I guess cause this island is in the middle of nowhere (some Polynesian called this the “belly button” of the world) and everything has to be flown in, the prices should be a little higher, but $100 cdn for lunch for 2 seems a little out of whack!! We stuck with makin our own sandwiches a few times…… and dogs…dogs everywhere!! Not sure where they originally came from, but the island is crowded with stray dogs just roaming the streets…most seem pretty friendly lookin for a hand out, but there are a few you gotta watch out for….

Our new friend....this stray just started following us all day long...

As usual, these are only a small sample of the pics I took. To upload them all to this blog would take weeks!!! So, if you wanna see some more (and they are pretty good), just give me a shout….

Easter Island done!! It’s time to move on to Santiago, Chile for a couple of days….

After experiencing Machu Picchu, it’ll be hard to top that in terms of things to see….Lima didn’t even come close!!….We decided to venture back to Lima for a few days  after Cusco and Machu Picchu since we didn’t get to see much (just the airport) on our way through the first time….a 90 minute flight later, we were back at Lima airport in a cab heading towards Miraflores ( where our Hostel was)….Lima is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima Metropolitan Area. With a population fast approaching 9 million, Lima is the fifth largest city in Latin America, behind Mexico City, São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. Miraflores is a district of the Lima. Known for its shopping areas, gardens, flower-filled parks and beaches, it is one of the upscale districts that make up the city of Lima. The district is full of hotels, cafés, pubs, restaurants and shops, which is a draw for a large part of the Lima population on Sundays. Parque Kennedy, Miraflores’ central plaza, regularly has flea markets and art exhibitions. Larcomar, a shopping mall overlooking the Pacific coast, is located in Miraflores, and is very popular among tourists, young people, and the middle and upper classes. They have restaurants, stores, a food court, ice cream shops, arcades, bowling alleys, nightclubs, bars, and the most modern cinema in all of Lima.

We spent the next few days hopping around Lima visiting the usual tourist spots and trying to get a feel or the city, we skipped all the “ruins”, churches and temples…we already had our fill of those in Cuzco…One thing I do have to mention is the food…I’m not sure if it’s just me or the establishments I ate at, but I was certainly not impressed with the food. It all seemed a little bland to me… I guess it could be cause I’m a salt feind and with everything I eat, I gotta load up on the “white death”…none the less, if you ever go to Peru, lemme know what you think of the food…..

One other thing that stuck in my mind when we were travelling from the airport to our hostel along the oceanfront….they seemed to use the beach as a dump!!! It was amazing (in a bad way)…piles of garbage and construction waste just piled up along the shoreline…I guess these peruvians don’t like to live along the ocean???

Oceanfront in Miraflores was treated as a dump in most parts....seems like a perfect waste of real estate...

Looking up to Miraflores from the beach below...

"Dudes" surfing out at the beach...

Pacific oceanfront looking out from the cliffs above.

Not sure what this is, but I took the pic anyhow...wW

One of the many fountains lit up!!

If you look closely you can see the people caught in the middle of the fountain...water just shoots up randomly

The "tunnel" of water...a whole lot of water jets shooting streams to form a tunnel...very cool!!!

On our last day we went into “old” Lima to view the colonial architecture, Presidential Palace and the Plaza de las Armas (the main square)…all of a sudden a parade popped up!!!! Little did we know that it was a national holiday in Peru, Combate Naval de Angamos (Battle of Angamos), which was fought on October 8, 1879, during the naval stage of the War of the Pacific (Guerra del Pacífico)….. there were marching bands and crazy costumes all over the place!!

Pretty much the main reason to come to Peru….Machu Picchu, “The Lost City” of the Incas…Agua Caliente is the closest town to Machu Picchu and can only be reached by train. Depending on where you catch the train, the ride lasts about 3hrs and snakes along the Urubamba River through the Urubamba Valley…..The Incas started building the “estate” around AD 1400, but abandoned it as an official site for the Inca rulers a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, it was unknown to the outside world before being brought to international attention in 1911 by the American historian Hiram Bingham…..

Train to Agua Caliente....closest town to Machu Picchu and can only br reached by train...

The train runs right through Agua Caliente, the closest town to Machu Picchu only to be reached by train

The Urubamba River running alongside the train tracks

Beginning of the 4 day Inca Trail Hike....if you look closely, you can see some hikers just starting out....

When we arrived at Agua Caliente, we were ushered to the bus area where a constant stream of buses take visitors up the windy 5km dirt road to Machu Picchu….this is one busy place…and we aren’t even in high season!!! At the top, with ticket and passport in hand (no one told us you needed your passport, but fortunately we had ours with us…) we filed through the entrance gate and were finally rewarded with an amazing view of the Lost City!!!

Looking down onto the Lost City...

After entering the gates, you are pretty much assigned a tour guide which will take you around the site and give you a little history about each site. The tour lasts about 2 hrs, some pretty interesting, but mostly boring, so much so that we decided to dump the tour and just explore on our own….there were a lot of tours around and if we found something interesting, we could just listen in on whatever tour guide was there…we spent about 1.5 hrs exploring the whole site and right at the end we sat down for a little break before exiting…2 minutes after sitting down, one of our guides came around the corner and shouted “Adriana”….apparently he had been looking for us soon after we left the tour group and finally found us just as we finished…we were not supposed to separate from the group and they had thought we were lost in the site somewhere!! Oh well, for those of you that plan to tour Machu Picchu, don’t leave the tour group….
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Just hanging out in the ruins!!!

Huayna Picchu...this is the peak behind the Lost City that can be hiked to the top...If you look closely, you can see some hikers winding their way up...apparently some people die on this one...

The Lost City with Huayna Picchu in the background

That’s it for Machu Picchu…we hopped on the bus back down to Agua Caliente then caught the train back towards Cuzco…All in all a great day trip to this historic site and next time maybe I’ll do the 4 day hike in….

Tomorrow we leave Cuzco and catch a flight back to Lima for a couple of days….See ya in Lima!!!

After a “lovely” night in the Lima airport, we caught a 7:45 am flight to Cuzco and luckily it was only about an hour long…24 hrs of travelling with little or no sleep doesn’t make for a “happy” camper, but we made it, got picked up at the airport and made ou way to the hostel….first thing I noticed…shortness of breath…the elevation in Cuzco is approx. 3400 meters or about 11,000 ft above sea level and altitude sickness definitely comes into play. For the first couple of days it almost seemed like I was 70 years old!!! shortness of breath, aches and pains….couldn’t even climb a flight of stairs without taking a break….ok, it really wasn’t that bad, but you could definitely feel he affects.

One of many sets of stairs to get around Cuzco....at this altitude, it took a while to climb...

The plan was to spend a few days in Cuzco, tour the city, acclimatize then take the train to Machu Picchu and tour the “Lost City” of the Incas…

"Plaza de las Armas" the main square in the center of town surrounded by churches, fountains and the requisite tourist shops....our hostel was 50 meters down one of the side streets...

Courtyard in our hostel....the place was a little old, but the price was right!!! I was told the original building is about 400 years old....

Phew!!!! there are a lot of dam hills in this city!!! it is steeper than it looks.....

"Temple of the Sun" one of the many historic temples to see in Cuzco.

anyone that knows me will know that I like to eat (as the size of my gut will attest) and I am pretty much open to trying anything at least once…so while I am travelling, I want to try something that is “unique” to that country…for Peru, it was Alpaca meat (domesticated camelid similar to a llama) and Cuy  (South American Guinea Pig). First off, there were a ton of restaurants around the main square all of which were average at best…although we only got to try a few of them, Cuzco didn’t seem like a city known for it’s cuisine (I hear Lima is much better!!)…just a lot of bland food or the usual North American pizza and burger joints (perhaps catering to the young backpacking tourist, of which there were many…), but we did mange to find a few “Italian” restaurants with a few Peruvian dishes on the menu…so first off, Alpaca, kinda reminds me of lamb with that gamey after taste…wasn’t one of my favorites, although it didn’t help that the chef (???) over cooked it and made it a little chewy…second off, Cuy (pronounced “cooyee”), it didn’t looked to appetizing as it was the whole roasted guinea pig, head and all, presented on your plate. It reminded me of a roasted suckling pig without the meat!! Guinea pigs are not that big and literally, mine was all skin and bones…the taste was nothing to write home about and it was a little daunting having this thing staring at you while you rip a leg off…

Lets eat!!!! Roasted Guinea Pig......mmmmmmmm.....well, maybe not...

How would you like eating with this guy staring at you???

Alpaca steak with some kinda sauce....the sauce was tasty, but he meat was overcooked and kinda gamey

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A couple of days in Cuzco was more than enough to see the city sights…we spent day 3 hiking in the hills up to some ruins and Cuzco’s version of Christ the Redeemer (Brazil’s statue of Jesus Christ)….

Some ruins on the way up to the "Christ the Redeemer" replica....

Adriana striking the "pose"

Day 4 we decided to rab a taxi to a small town about an hour outside of Cuzco called Maras which is known for its salt ponds that have been used since the days of the Incas. It is quite a site to see as it is an “old school” salt operation with white salt ponds terraced on the mountainside…it was a great place to visit as anyone was allowed to pretty much go wherever they wanted…..at least that’s what we did…

Since pre-Inca times, salt has been obtained in Maras by evaporating salty water from a local subterranean stream. The highly salty water emerges at a spring, a natural outlet of the underground stream. The flow is directed into an intricate system of tiny channels constructed so that the water runs gradually down onto the several hundred ancient terraced ponds. Almost all the ponds are less than four meters square in area, and none exceeds thirty centimeters in depth. All are necessarily shaped into polygons with the flow of water carefully controlled and monitored by the “farmers”. The altitude of the ponds slowly decreases, so that the water may flow through the myriad branches of the water-supply channels and be introduced slowly through a notch in one sidewall of each pond. As water evaporates from the sun-warmed ponds, the water becomes supersaturated and salt precipitates as various size crystals onto the inner surfaces of a pond’s walls and floor….Then the “farmer” carefully scrapes the salt into bags and carts it away….

Salt ponds of Maras

the "walls" of salt a farmer would carefully scrape then bag all of the salt to cart away

Tasting the goods!!!! Hmmmm....a little salty!!!

Tommorrow…Machu Picchu!!!!

It’s 5:30am and pouring rain in Vancouver….a perfect day to start a month long trip to South America!!! You guys feel sorry for me yet??? haha….just a little “spendin the night in the airport” humor….We left Vancouver at 7:00am Monday October 3rd for Toronto, where we then catch a connecting flight to Lima, Peru….pretty much a total of 15hrs travelling time with basically no sleep ( I can never get any sleep on a plane)… the “plan”…fly into Lima for 11:30pm, stay overnight at the airport for a 7:45am flight to Cuzco, arrive Cuzco at 9:00am, check into the hostel by 10:00am, spend rest of the day exploring the city….sounded great when we made up the plan a couple of weeks ago….not so much now….it’s about 4:30 in the morning and I’m plunking away on my keyboard with about 45 minutes of sleep waiting for this dam flight to Cuzco!! The whole idea was to save a hotel night by connecting to Cuzco when we arrived at Lima….not sure if we will ever do that again to save $100….anyhow, you live and learn and at least I have time for an entry in my blog…..

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When we do make Cuzco this morning, we will spend 5 days exploring the city and Machu Picchu, then it’s back to Lima for a few days and see what that’s all about…..now it’s time to see if I can get a little more “shut eye”……

So, for those of you who know me…or at least heard me babble away for a little while, you would know that one of my “goals” was to ride up to Prudhoe Bay in Alaska (northernmost town in North America accessible by road)….Well, I planned on and was pretty much ready to leave right after the Labour Day long weekend… after spending the long weekend in Victoria (a little golf trip), I was gonna take a couple of days to pack up, then hit the road north…..it didn’t quite work out that way…..for the previous few months, I had been casually searching for a new motorcycle…BMW F800GS…as you may or may not know, there are not a lot of these bikes for sale and they are relatively hard to find, at any given time, there may only be half a dozen for sale throughout North America (usually on the east coast). Keeping my eye on Ebay, Craigslist, Kijji and other Internet classifieds , I was always on the “look out” for any F800’s in Canada or the US but there just wasn’t a whole lot out there…I even started checking out Ebay UK thinking there may be more over there….no luck.

The Labour Day weekend I was going with a few buddies to Victoria for a couple of rounds of golf and a little bit of debauchery in the city of Vic!!! We have been doing this trip for the last few years and has now become sort of a tradition, so if you’re looking to golf on the Labour Day weekend, you’ll know where we could meet….anyhow, the Wednesday before the weekend, while doing my usual online search for BMW’s, I came across Island BMW’s (Victoria BMW dealer) website that listed a 2009 F800GS with 7800km still under warranty!! To make a long story short, I gave them a call, we worked out a price, dropped a deposit and arranged to pick up the bike the following Saturday…..It worked out perfect!! I was already going to Victoria, I would pick up the bike before our round of golf on Saturday and ride the bike home on Sunday…It was just that easy!!!

My New Baby!!! It took a little searching, but I finally found one

This thing is great!!!! The KLR is still the best “value for dollar” adventure bike out there but it still has it’s limitations….The BMW is just a better more advanced overall bike, better power, better ride and better accessories. Of course, the bike choice for Alaska would be the BMW, but to get it ready for the trip, I would still need to add a few things….crash bars, new seat, windscreen etc…so back online and ordering up all the needed parts. By this time, we are looking at middle to end of September before all the parts arrive and get installed…checking the weather patterns for Alaska, Yukon and NWT for that time of year, it didn’t look good…although though the daytime highs looked ok, it was the evening lows (below freezing) and unpredictability that really had me worried…the decision was made to postpone Alaska (believe me, I will get up there some time) until better weather.

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Yeah I know…..I have been lazy again and haven’t updated this blog for a long time!! After San Fran and the races at Laguna Adam and I parted ways….he had to get back to home and I was on my way to San Diego to do a little golfing…. I was going to meet a few friends in San Diego for a golf weekend but I had a few days to kill….so whenever you have a few spare days, what do ya do??? Vegas baby!!! So off I was to San Diego via Las Vegas and I decided to get to Vegas thru Death Valley…never been there before and decided to sweat my a*** off and check it out….

One of the many never ending roads......I think it was about 110 degrees out!!!

Went over a few sand dunes to get this one......now thats a desert!

I reached the hottest point of the valley at about 200ft below sea level and it was HOT!!!! I was surprised at the amount of traffic travelling through, but I guess it’s one of those places that you just have to see at least once….Off to Vegas now…usual Vegas stuff except I stayed on Fremont Street (Golden Nugget) instead of the strip….It was actually a lot of fun and much cheaper that the strip!! I also got to sample the famous $1.99 shrimp cocktail (used to be 99cents)…not bad at all.

Stayed in Vegas a few days then back on the bike pointed towards San Diego for some golf…a few buddies were flying down and we had tee times at Torrey Pines and Steel Canyon….Usual guys golf weekend debauchery with no pics….that’s the unwritten rule amongst my friends…Had a great weekend, spent a lot of cash and lost a lot of golf balls!!! The boys flew out that Sunday and I was back on the bike headed north…time to go home…Pretty much just headed north with no planned destinations or stops other than Crater Lake in Oregon, It had been a while on the road and it was time to get home…..

Tight single lane road following Salmon River in Northern Cali...Believe it or not semi trucks travel along this road as I found out coming around a blind corner and saying hello to one of their grills....it was a close one as I was almost forced off the side of the road...whew!!!

Crater Lake in Central Oregon......

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Still snow in middle of July...I think the elevation was about 8000 feet....

After Crater Lake, it was pretty much 12hrs on the bike to get home….it was a loooong day, but I was glad to be home!!!!

I have been back in Vancouver now for almost a month now and it has been beautiful here!!! One day of rain in all off August!!! Sunny and hot the other days…..so it’s been kinda tough to leave on my next trip…Alaska is (was??) the next destination and I was planning to leave after the Labour Day long weekend…That got pushed back cause I ended up purchasing a new motorcycle…BMW F800GS….much nicer that my trusty KLR, but also much more expensive. Anyone wanna buy a KLR????

So the plan is to take the BMW up to Alaska, but I still need to add a few parts to get it ready for the trip. They are all on order now and I am waiting for delivery, but the problem is that it is starting to get a little late in the year and I am not sure how the weather is going to in Alaska for end of September…..hmmmm, so right now I am gonna fix the bike up and get it ready to go, then check the weather in Alaska and make a game time decision….If I don’t end up doing Alaska, I have another option of heading to Peru and Machu Pichu in October…..so only time will tell!!!!

San Jose to San Fran….Adam is a huge Sound Garden fan and found out that they were gonna play in San Fran wed night, day before the races start…he had to go, so we hit the concert wednesday (my ears were ringing for days after) and went for some seafood on fisherman’s wharf…

Bib on, drink in hand.....Bring on the crab!!!!!

a little race action going on...

I had a few pics from the concert, but they didn’t turn out very well, I guess it musta been all that jostling in front of the stage….The next day, we made the 2hr trek to Laguna Seca, set up camp and got ready for race weekend…

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Home sweet home...for the next couple of days...

Morning breakfast of champions...in the beer tent

View of the track from our camp site...notice the fog rolling in...even though it was end of July, it was still gettin cold at night...

The races were awsome!!! I’m not a race fan, but being at the track with all the people, race bikes screaming around and the demos they had going on was incredible…I would go back in a second, except maybe skip the camping…races ended on sunday around 5pm, we packed up everything and went to go find a hotel with a shower and nice bed for the night….tomorrow we part ways!!!!