| Nov 05 2013: Tayrona Rex trampling through the jungle Meanwhile in the ever-frightening darkness, we could hear sounds of animals moving around close to the trail we were on. A bat flew past my head brushing past my hair. We saw glowing points of light that looked like the nocturnal eyes of beasts that prey on lost hikers in the northern Colombian forest. That freaked us out plenty...
— in Tayrona National Park, Santa Marta, Colombia
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| Nov 03 2013: Permanent Residency in Taganga I race downstairs to see that a fire has started in the dry grass on the front yard, not 50m away from our parked bikes. I tell Neda to be ready to move the motorcycles in case the blaze spreads, and I rush outside to help put the fire out.
— in Taganga, Magdalena, Colombia
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| Oct 31 2013: Melting in Cartagena The little kids were captivated with pictures of Toronto and wanted to see more. So I brought up our wedding photos. They loved it! They said Neda looked like a movie star. Then they looked at me. Nothing. And then pictures of Neda... "So pretty!" Then me... confused silence.
— in Cartagena, Bolivar, Colombia
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| Oct 27 2013: Postcards from a Pirate Ship Another extra-special video blog post about shipping our bikes to South America by Pirate Ship!
— in San Blas Islands, Panama
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| Oct 23 2013: Panama Canal Private yachts typically pay around $1,000-$2,000 to cross the Panama Canal, while commercial ships and tankers are charged up to $150,000. However, the lowest toll ever paid was 38 cents...
— in Panama Canal, Panama
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| Oct 20 2013: Painama-ass As we got closer to Panama City, Neda started developing a very high fever. By the time we checked into our hotel, she had a full blown flu and was bed-ridden for a few days.
— in Panama City, Panama
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| Oct 18 2013: Monkeys howling at Antonio Banderas Neda said that it'd be pretty cool to have fruit being thrown at you by a monkey, and I replied, "You mean, like a coconut?"...
— in Miguel Antonio National Park, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
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| Oct 16 2013: Costa Rican Thanksgiving Yanil told me that he was going to try to score us some local admission tickets instead of having us pay the full tourist price. All I had to do was convince the guard at the gate that I was a Costa Rican.
— in San Jose, Costa Rica
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| Oct 12 2013: Landslides on the way to Arenal There was a dirt road to our left and it looked like we could have detoured around the roadblock, but the construction guy told us two people just died in a landslide in that area earlier. Because that was quite the opposite of what we wanted to do, we turned back towards Nuevo Arenal.
— in La Fortuna, Alajuela, Costa Rica
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| Oct 09 2013: Costa Rica, beach! Tamarindo is a great beach-side town on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Beautiful sandy beaches and lots of tourists flocking to the surf lessons and snorkel tours.
— in Tamarindo, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
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| Oct 07 2013: I'd catch a Granada for ya Granada is deserted during the weekdays on the off-season. The heavy rains in the afternoon deter many tourists from visiting Central America, but if you time your excursions right, you can get a lot of sightseeing and traveling done and not get too wet.
— in Granada, Nicaragua
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| Oct 04 2013: Batman & Robin cross the Twilight Zone Neda has given me the UberImportant task of keeping guard over the bikes while she attends to business. This is the action-movie equivalent of being told to stay in the van during the exciting fight scenes.
— in Honduras
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