I had a plan to do something similar - motorcycle up the pan-american highway. Unfortunately every time I think I have a friend or two sold on the idea they drop out...
Last time it got as far as the planning phase and the Darien Gap came up, and there was a real moment of "WTF? There actually is no road between Central and South America? How can there not be a road?"
It was only a few months after I'd completed a driving circuit of the Australian coastline and I'd assumed if there were roads there then there would be roads everywhere...
I'd still like to go to South America, but the tales of kidnappings in remote areas do still stay my hand.
I had a plan to do something similar - motorcycle up the pan-american highway. Unfortunately every time I think I have a friend or two sold on the idea they drop out...
Just go do it. You'll make some friends on the way...
I'm very good at not doing that! In Australia I managed three weeks without speaking to another human being beyond ordering food and checking in to hotels. I'm not really the talks-to-strangers-easily type.
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I had a plan to do something similar - motorcycle up the pan-american highway. Unfortunately every time I think I have a friend or two sold on the idea they drop out...
Last time it got as far as the planning phase and the Darien Gap came up, and there was a real moment of "WTF? There actually is no road between Central and South America? How can there not be a road?"
It was only a few months after I'd completed a driving circuit of the Australian coastline and I'd assumed if there were roads there then there would be roads everywhere...
I'd still like to go to South America, but the tales of kidnappings in remote areas do still stay my hand.
Just go do it. You'll make some friends on the way...
I'm very good at not doing that! In Australia I managed three weeks without speaking to another human being beyond ordering food and checking in to hotels. I'm not really the talks-to-strangers-easily type.