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Peru tour with RoadRunner Magazine
Just completed a couple weeks down in Peru with RoadRunner Magazine... Peru Motors was the host tour guide...
I rode a 800 GS while on the tour...great bike as many know.
We crossed paths and stayed at same hotel for couple nights with four guys from Alabama...they remembered me from the Chicken Rally. They where on tour doing Chile, Peru and Death Highway in Bolivia. One was swept away in rain storm into a river...it was close call for him...he was from Trussville.
We had rain and epic landslide that closed the road for two days...lucky we arrived just 14 hours before they had one lane open.. 8 of those hours we where asleep...
We encountered a gold miner's strike with the town barricaded by locals with rocks, burning tires, sticks, drums and anything else you can put in road.... the policia arrived by bus loads with guns and riot shields to free up the gas pumps....so we got fuel...Police said we needed to wait for more re-enforcements....about three hours.....to clear the barricades and lead us thru.... our Peruian guide rode ahead to talk with strikers.... they let us ride thru...we where told to give thumbs up to strikers and say some saying... I forgot so I just yelled Roll Tide Roll... they all gave me thumbs up.....but I worried the whole time that a strikers at end of town didn't have a clue about our permission and someone would start throwing rocks... AGATT... we made it without any problems....dodging the tires and drums and sticks.... If you look at pictures you will see police in shadow of bus or truck...it was hazy and the smoke from the burning tires made for a dim picture.... Contour GPS camera was set for picture every 20 seconds on this section.
I enjoyed the tour and country... the Pan American highway was boring with too much blowing sand...the cities of any size had way too much traffic and if you see the videos you will understand.... I learned to lane split to survive...
The mountians, canyons, valley and roads and people where interesting... the food was great at night in nice restaurants....but on the road during the day was package snacks...as you will see from pictures.
The Inca and Peruvian folks are amazing people...country rich in history...but very poor living by our standards...
Here is link to many some of 3500 pictures and videos... I was using a new to me Contour GPS bike or helmet mount...plus my Pentax hand held waterproof....and some pictures taken with Cannon with zoom lenses.
I rode a 800 GS while on the tour...great bike as many know.
We crossed paths and stayed at same hotel for couple nights with four guys from Alabama...they remembered me from the Chicken Rally. They where on tour doing Chile, Peru and Death Highway in Bolivia. One was swept away in rain storm into a river...it was close call for him...he was from Trussville.
We had rain and epic landslide that closed the road for two days...lucky we arrived just 14 hours before they had one lane open.. 8 of those hours we where asleep...
We encountered a gold miner's strike with the town barricaded by locals with rocks, burning tires, sticks, drums and anything else you can put in road.... the policia arrived by bus loads with guns and riot shields to free up the gas pumps....so we got fuel...Police said we needed to wait for more re-enforcements....about three hours.....to clear the barricades and lead us thru.... our Peruian guide rode ahead to talk with strikers.... they let us ride thru...we where told to give thumbs up to strikers and say some saying... I forgot so I just yelled Roll Tide Roll... they all gave me thumbs up.....but I worried the whole time that a strikers at end of town didn't have a clue about our permission and someone would start throwing rocks... AGATT... we made it without any problems....dodging the tires and drums and sticks.... If you look at pictures you will see police in shadow of bus or truck...it was hazy and the smoke from the burning tires made for a dim picture.... Contour GPS camera was set for picture every 20 seconds on this section.
I enjoyed the tour and country... the Pan American highway was boring with too much blowing sand...the cities of any size had way too much traffic and if you see the videos you will understand.... I learned to lane split to survive...
The mountians, canyons, valley and roads and people where interesting... the food was great at night in nice restaurants....but on the road during the day was package snacks...as you will see from pictures.
The Inca and Peruvian folks are amazing people...country rich in history...but very poor living by our standards...
Here is link to many some of 3500 pictures and videos... I was using a new to me Contour GPS bike or helmet mount...plus my Pentax hand held waterproof....and some pictures taken with Cannon with zoom lenses.
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