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Hi! Please leave a note, let us know you’ve been here and what you think. Any requests for what you would like on the website, we’re reading.
November 22nd, 2006 at 7:30 am
Hi Josh - Great to see this is all becoming a reality. Looks like you guys have put a lot of time and energy into it and I am sure it will be a once in a life time experience. May catch you before you go but if not have fun and say hi to Bob and Arne for me.
Craig : )
ps: and keep in touch.
December 1st, 2006 at 3:11 am
Josh,
You are one brave Loopie Lad but I wish it was me! Heading off on a brand new adventure is always scary but that’s half the rush, without the leap….the fall is far less sensational! Anticipation is half the buzz.
Go well! May the force be with you!
December 4th, 2006 at 2:46 am
Hey Josh, sorry I didn’t get to wish you mucho luck on Friday. Have an awesome time and take care. Looking forward to the updates on the website.
Gus
January 1st, 2007 at 10:41 am
Hey Guys,
Just got off a plane from Auckland this morning (or is it afternoon?) Anyway, I was honeymooning in your fine country for the past few weeks.
I heard about your ride in a San Francisco rag called Citybike. Check it out at www.citybike.com The mention of your ride probably is not on line, but if your click on “recent articles” “our hero in darkest africa” you can see one of the things I wrote for them.
I live in Berkeley, which is on the east side of the san francisco bay. I have ridden around the world including the route you are planning and I would be happy to help. Drop me a line if you need anything, or if you would just like to hang out.
If you are still looking for bikes, go to www.craigslist.com. IF you need help registering them, let me know ( you need a local address and I have one).
January 12th, 2007 at 9:26 am
Hi Johnny
Well The Street will not be the same without you. Craig, Claudia & I wish you all the very best for an adventure filled, life altering, mind expanding journey of discovery! Keep safe, if only for the mental health of your family and friends!
We are looking forward to the updates of your amazing experiences over the coming months. We too shall keep you informed of exciting developments including such things as Street gossip, when Claudia starts walking and if she gets any more teeth. Aaah, the slow steady pace of domestic bliss!
TTFN
The Wgtn Woodburys
January 20th, 2007 at 1:40 am
Hey Fat man that hell scooter sounds awesome, it was probably way faster that that shitty echo anway. Hope you have sorted a bike by now as otherwise it’s going to be a very long walk. Maybe a Britton would go nicely. Im back on the task in the big red once again trying to find a spot to dig a big hole.
Good to see you are keeping your soul safe by going to church although Mike may stab you for going to a church which welcomes gays, ill let you off though.
Keep safe my man and have fun
And stay away from those brazilian bed hopping men
Kiran
January 21st, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Hi godboy
Lucky sods - weather the like of which we never see in the Hutt and lots of new events. Hope the food matches the scenery.
keep us posted on the bikes. meredith now has a scooter - what is it with these junction St people and two wheels.
February 13th, 2007 at 7:53 am
hey guys!
its martin tall, the swedish guy that stayed at the banana bungalow while you were there. following your trip and it seems so far so good.. since you’ve left I’ve moved to a hugh 6 bedroom house up in la jolla, just couldnt take bunkbeds anymore. way to busy at UCSD and that comes first. however, this is the spot. nice crew and facilities, great area, closer to uni..
hope everything is working according to plans and that the bikes are holding up, is the mexican roads as evil as the tale goes?
take care,
/marty
February 18th, 2007 at 3:52 am
Hi Josh/Jonno. I met one of you…don’t which one…just north of Loreto. I was part of that group of off road dirt bike riders on the side of the road taking a short break. You were heading south and your buddy was behind you taking care of some sort of business.
Anyway, hope things are gong well for you. What a great way to spend your life.
Our ride finished up in San Ignacio. We also had a great time and saw some spectacular sights.
Scott
February 21st, 2007 at 8:50 pm
Hey Jonny!
Hope every thing is going well! Just thought I would say Hey!
Updates are good reading/viewing GOOD STUFF.
You have that camera down brother! Good shots!
Keep on truckn !
February 28th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
It was great hanging out with you for a bit in Zacatecas. Have lots more crazy advendtures. I keep updating the goings on in Zac in my blog. Don’t get lured in my any more crazy old men along the way.
Peace,
Matt
March 5th, 2007 at 1:03 am
Hi Johnny
We were so sorry to read of the demise of your tiny (but much loved)guitar! How awful it must have been for you to witness its painful death by multiple cactus stabs. By the sounds of it you are lucky not to have lost some fillings as well as your saddle bag on the ‘Road’, and also lucky it sounds not to have lost some skin to it as well…… You do worry your mother with these stories!
Claudia started walking on her birthday eve (10 Feb) and has not stopped since, I will ask your Mum & Dad where best to email you a photo, she is just so delicious!
I have not finished your latest entry but it certainly makes for interesting reading. Of course once I finish work for the day I will find myself a nice comfy couch and a TV and will sit my butt in front of it for a while, safe in the knoweledge that someone out there (you) is living an adventurous life. Take care.
TTFN
The Wgtn Woodburys
March 6th, 2007 at 6:46 am
Hola Josh
Saludos desde Cd. de México
Soy Francisco, nos conocimos en la tienda donde compraste la pila
para tu motocicleta, he visto tu pagina web, felicidades, buen viaje
y surte para tí y John.
Francisco
March 28th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Josh and Jon,
Well this is your Baja Mom …remember me? We met you the first time in Puertocitas (out of San Felipe) , then in Bahia De Los Angeles…San Ignacio, and last Mulege. We were the motorcycle group from the states I was the “old gal” on the KTM that had a hole in the side case…( it’s fixed now and I am ready to ride)
I have been thinking about you two and just now got around to reading your journal…wow what a trip, sounds like you are doing well. Has the guitar made it??
I hope the remainder of your amazing journey finds you safe….I am sure you Mom’s are really missing you!
take care, just wanted to let you know I was thinking about you kids!
I will have to go to Dave’s (dietan) web site and see how his journey ended and who was the lucky person he gave the jeep to.
take care and be safe
Jody (Auburn WA USA)
March 29th, 2007 at 10:10 am
Hi Guys, I received an e-mail from Travina and the chapliancy team at Kohanga way back in November informing all on their mailing list of your planned adventure. Good to see that you’ve lived the dream. Thought i’d finally take a look at your adventure and pleased I did. With an interest in that part of the world and a younger brother who studies spanish at college, your journey has been really interesting to read and view.
Take care and keep up the spanish (like you have a choice!!)
Matt
March 31st, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Jonno,
Mañana = sometime in the future… not necessarily tomorrow and almost guaranteed not to be early tomorrow morning
Intelligent conversation does not seem to originate from Oklahoma.
Hammock-a-tron 7000 is brilliant.
Flor de Caña is delicious and the reason why mañana only has a vague definition here.
Nouns = verbs… magic. I’m going hammocking. I have to go burger.
11pm is bedtime… lights out kids.
Clutch cables and slow leaks.
Cold pizza… breakfast of champions????
Telecommuting. Hell yeah.
Will keep my eyes on the blog. Enjoy.
Cheers,
Gerry
March 31st, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Hey Gerry, you stole all the comments I was planning to write BUT you forget to say….
SWEET AS!!!!!!! (or like I would say SWEET ASS….
)
Anyways, was nice meeting both of you guys! Good times hammocking and burgering, for sure.
Deeeemaaaaciiiiiaaadoooo seeeeññooor!
Hasta la pasta (you never know when we will end up together in an Italian restaurant),
Mattijs
April 9th, 2007 at 6:44 am
You’re not in Guetamala any more Dr Ropata
May 6th, 2007 at 4:03 am
Konnichiwal! Oh, I am so jealous. I wish I was there with you… of course.
I’ve wanted to go to Colombia for ages, and you know it. I can’t wait to catch up with you some day and hear all about it.
Take care!
Joelle
May 31st, 2007 at 11:27 am
You guys have only clocked up 375MB of photos so far - the server will be able to take another 500-plus-loose-change MB before it starts groaning, so keep the entries and the photos coming!
It’s been great reading your blogs, hearing about all the nooks and crannies that you’re discovering, the people you’re meeting… Gets me thinking I should head off for a odyssey like this myself. So instead I brought a house… Oops?
Cheers!
-Trav
June 16th, 2007 at 1:44 am
Thanks for the entry in our guest book. Glad you enjoyed the “Model tasting”with Ricardo! If you plan to come to Banos..take care as there have been large mud sides temporarily closing the main road. We have been stuck here for a day. Heavy rain and chilly!
Take care and keep the black stuff down and shiney stuff up!
Les+Nick
June 22nd, 2007 at 1:24 am
Hi Josh, Met you in Ibarra, Ecuador when your bag got knocked off. They didn’t seem to care much at the Hotel when I asked. Anyway, been really looking into the Vstrom, think that’s the one to get. Still here in Quito learning Spanish.
Enjoy the trip, heard the weather’s bad, lot of rain.
Cuidate
Vern
June 25th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Good stuff lads. I am super jealous of your trip! Make the most of it while out of “normality” Peace.
July 13th, 2007 at 4:10 am
Met Jonno in Nice airport on his way to Frankfurt. Nice to yarn to a kiwi in transit. There you go - checked out your blog - good luck with the rest of your travels.
July 22nd, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Hi Mate, great read and great photos, Ive been to most of those countries and from that experience Im sure you had a heap of challenges!! I did it in a plane though.
Take care and look forward to hearing about your next adventure (now you got the bug and all)
Quasi
(Bret)
July 24th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Hi, Josh. I am heading south by bus on Sunday from BA to Ushuaia to collect my bike. Then taking the ferry from Puerto Natales to Puerto Montt before riding to Santiago and across northen Argentina to Uruguay. Good if we get to meet.
simon
July 25th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Planning a trip once i graduate from University in England (although I’m Northern Irish)(and work to get some £££) possibly thinking either UK to Cape Town or North to South America not sure yet!!
Your site and journey has been amazing to read guys - one of the best sites ive been on yet for updates and pictures - really enjoyed reading through the ones I could. Im at work and its wasted a good 2 hours before I get to ride home! Very inspiring to see two relatively young (I’m only 22) guys undertaking this sort of thing and reassures me its still possible!
I see you met two people recently on XT660R’s - what did they think of them? At the minute its top of my wishlist for bikes - how has your experience been of the KLR’s?
Again guys - amazing - INSANELY jealous and I will be back again.
Thanks
Ash
August 16th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Josh,
How you doing. Keep on rollin, but remember to stop and smell the roses. Cali to Ecuador in one day, man, that was crazy! Maybe I´ll catch up to you, because I am about to enter Peru. Then again maybe not.
Ride safe.
Jacob
August 21st, 2007 at 2:42 am
Hi kids,
Have been meaning to look at this thing for a while now but have been a bit of a slack tart…. The stories and photos are amazing and am more than slightly jealous of your adventures.
Am so proud of you both!
Anna
September 3rd, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Hey man, it’s Willy, I was gonna put a post in one of your other areas even tho i’m uncilivlised and can’t read spanish. i guess it’s spanish.. i’m not really that uncivilised, but it’s down i think. Anyway I was always gonna check your site out, I chatted to Chan and he reminded me so i’ve been reading some of your later posts in the mornings at work, which is boring (work that is), and, hopefully, of some comfort to you haha (since you out and about everywhere living it up!) your posts are very descriptive and I can imagine you in some of these situations, I love how all the directions you get are dodgey, instinct and intuition sounds like a must. I checked out your naked pic in the salt lake flats, i hope I don’t get in trouble at work here hehe, nah I thought it was very appropriate and funny. If you get down about the weather too much just remember the wind in Welly, oh gawd! Anyway keep writing stuff because presumably nothing will change here much and I require it, oh and for yourself too.. Anyways i’m saving up to head to Sydney in feb next year with Lynch and James, oh it’s an adventure, just the first step, perhaps I will follow in your footsteps, perhaps I will do something else too. I like what you’re doing, keep writing and have fun, all restrospect is fun I think, i think it is.
Willburger
September 12th, 2007 at 8:19 am
Hi Josh,
Got word from Patrick M from Rafael California that you may be selling your bike. I’m heading to Argentina 1 Dec and will be looking. Patrick P from Cairns Australia patandbin@yahoo.com
September 13th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Hi Josh:
Always enjoying seeing all you are going through during your fabulous journey. Your notes are excellent, you should publicize a book afterwards, you have the gift to write beautifuly and extremely interesting. I have been thinking of you, perhpas I will return to South America in October-November and meet you there. All the best, your friend always,
Jorge
October 12th, 2007 at 12:10 am
Well that is one amazing story to be able to tell for years to come. Congratulations on creating an idea and taking it through to the end.
Good luck and see some stage in the future somewhere interesting
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Hi Josh, well we read your journal! Good luck for the future! We had a look when we followed the same road than you to have an idea of what to expect! My bike is now ready (after it was stolen, recovered and fixed!) and we can continue our journey south to Tierra del Fuego. Shame we missed you in Rio!
Maria (aka Maria41 in the HUBB)
December 2nd, 2007 at 5:30 pm
¡Hola Josh!
i was going to facebook you, but just read you´d like comments, so here i am… Nhuan Ha just gave me this website and i´m speechless… MUCHAS GRACIAS!!
let´s start for the beginning: when i told Nhuan my intentions of travelling to Latin America nxt year, he told me about you… i´ve met a few guys who´ve done the trip on a bike too and they always said how great it is, never mentioning the exhaustion… thanks for your honesty here…
I chose Latin America because my first language is Spanish (by the way, sorry about spelling and grammar mistakes :-/ ) and i´m doing my MSc in developing studies (”3rd world” issues). But being a girl travelling on my own, i really cannot take many risks, however easy it is for me to communicate there….
I guess you are busy now back in crazy London, but if you have time to give me some tips about the trip, pls get in touch. Also, i´d like to know how you set up such an amazing website… are you an IT guy or sth?
anyway, mucha suerta con todo y un beso muy fuerte
gxx
February 11th, 2008 at 12:31 am
Josh,
What an account! I know that feeling of not feeling anymore. My son (17) and I rushed Peru-Brazil-Bolivia-Peru this summer on 2 Brazilian XR250s and did not leave enough time (total 6,000 km in 42 days) to see anything off the path, much less fix the bike, but WOW was it an experience!
I particularly read of your loop into the Yungas (which we were not able to do tho we did go the back way around lake Titicaca because we “ran” out of Peru without the proper documents and had to “sneek” back into Peru by a back way). As we passed the mountain the wind was howling down on us causing us to drive in a 30 degree position from vertical. And YES, that was the most dangerous section of the whole trip as a “combi” coming towards me at 100 kph swerved into my lane at the last second to miss a hole and did not even see me as I “ditched it” into the ditch!
We were in Cuzco at the time you were in the Yungas as my son turned 17. The guys took him to Norton Rats for his first drink, then threw him in the fountain in the plaza at midnight!
Yes, you missed some great places thru the middle of Brazil. We came over from Cuzco to Inapari/Asis, then to Porto Velho and south to Foz. We tried to get to the “Lost World” plateau near Vila Bela from the north, but were chased off by “pistoleros”….
Where are you now? Drop me a line and take a look at our website if you wish…
Toby
March 22nd, 2008 at 4:53 pm
favorited this one, dude