After breakfast on Tuesday morning, we took a shuttle from our hostel to Semuc Champey at a cost of 120 GTQ (~20 CAD) for a round trip for the both of us. The shuttle was actually a pickup truck and the ride was almost an hour of being thrown around in the back while traversing […]
Tim and Marisa met us at our hotel on Sunday morning to ride to our next stop in Chahal together. The ride itself was around four hours long, not including our lunch break at a small restaurant along the way, and was quite scenic. We had a short ride through a dirt road that the […]
On Friday morning, we left San Ignacio and headed to the Guatemalan border with team Notier’s Frontiers. The crossing was fast and easy for team Riding Around the World as we had made photocopies of all our documents beforehand. I had actually copied the wrong page of Phil’s International driver’s license (oops!), but the border […]
We bid farewell to Belize City on Wednesday and rode towards San Ignacio, a town close to the border of Guatemala. The ride itself was just under two hours, but we stopped for lunch in the capital and had a delicious seafood pizza. We didn’t ride around Belmopan to see what the city looks like […]
On the morning of Monday, January 8, we woke up earlier than we would have liked, thanks to the blaring trumpets that seemed to be right outside our window. We later found out that the noise was thanks to the local police celebrating their ability to make noise at an ungodly hour without consequences because […]
We have added a Guides section to our blog where we share some handy travel information (based on our experience and Internet research) for each of the countries we have visited. While these guides are specifically targeted at overland travellers, we included information that should be useful to anyone interested in travelling to the listed […]
On Sunday morning, Tim and Marisa met us at our apartment, packed and ready to hit the road. After we loaded our bike, the four of us said good-bye to Playa del Carmen and headed towards the Belizean border. The plan was to visit the Mayan ruins at Chacchoben on our way, stop in Chetumal […]
Our last few days in Playa del Carmen were very low-key, probably because we needed our bodies to thaw from snowshoeing up a snowy mountain. I have decided that Canadian winters are awesome as long as I have a blanket, a hot beverage, and am sitting in front of a fireplace. We rang in the […]
So, I learned on Tuesday that an American biker and his recent Mexican wife, Donnie and Modesta, died the day before in a motorcycle crash in Honduras. I didn’t know them personally, but had recently been in touch. Donnie, 62, was a long-time and experienced biker and had crossed North America, Mexico, and Central America […]
We spent all of Wednesday in our apartment and then on Thursday evening, we flew back to Vancouver to spend the holidays at home with the family. Our first day back happened to be my brother’s birthday so we had some decadent chocolate cake, rested up, and took care of some mundane, but necessary tasks. […]
