"As any adventurer knows.....once you've mouthed off to all your friends, you have to go!" So here we go. We leave tomorrow. Bruce says it feels like we are standing at the top of a double black diamond expert ski run with cliffs and wondering if we’ve bitten off too much. We will find out. My philosophy is, “One day at a time”. Joseph Campbell says that “the cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”

Our first leg is Mexico and Central America. We have 30 days to go about 4,000 miles. On November 26, we have to be at the port at Carti, Panama to catch the sailboat that will take us from Panama to Cartagena, Columbia. There is no road that crosses from Central America to South America. Hence, the boat.

This first 4,000 mile section of our trip will take us down the Pacific coast of Mexico and then through Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and finally Panama. As our motorcycle parts guy recently advised us, “Just keep heading south and you will eventually get there.” I like his simple philosophy.

Bruce is getting one last round of golf in today. I am cleaning and finishing closing up the house. Bikes are packed. The moment we gear up and fire up the engine tomorrow morning may mark the start of one of the stupidest or greatest adventures we will ever have. I expect that riding away down our street in the morning, an act we’ve done hundreds of times on our bikes, will feel so banal and yet momentous at the same time.

VAMOS!!
MB