Tue 12 Feb 2008
An interactive map that combines a road map and satellite images and gives distances between cities. Click on the hybrid option and zoom in. You can see volcanoes and azure blue lakes, deserts and tracks across them that aren’t marked as roads. This begins to give feel of all the terrain I’ll be crossing. The image to the right is of the Peru/Chile border. In Peru there seem to be almost no roads, but you can see tracks that fade in and out of marked roads. “here there be monsters” YAR!
Shannon will ride to Panama with me – here’s the breakdown for that leg – and a bit more. When we arrive in Panama City Shannon will head home and I’ll ship my bike around Darien Gap to Quito. From there I ride south. My hope is to meet some other bikers through the ADV message board and ride with them. I’m not overly excited about doing this leg alone. In Peru the the roads peter out to almost nothing, and in Chile they are more like compass points and cairns in the desert. Be good to have a group of three or four for this leg.
Mileage:
| From | To | Miles | Depart Aug. 31 |
| Atlanta | Brownsville | 953 | Arrive Brownsville Sep. 14 |
| Brownsville TX | Veracruz MX | 470 | |
| Veracruz MX | Guatemala, GT | 487 | |
| Guatemala, GT | San Miguel, ES | 107 | |
| San Miguel, ES | Managua, NU | 226 | |
| Managua, NU | Puntarenas, CR | 180 | |
| Puntarenas, CR | Santiago, PA | 293 | |
| Santiago, PA | Panama, PA | 91 | Arrive Panama, PA, Oct. 8 |
| Totla distance | 2807 | ||
| Fly to Quito, EC | |||
| Quito, EC | Cuenca, EC | 187 | |
| Cuenca, EC | Piura, PERU | 196 | |
| Piura, PERU | Trujillo, Peru | 230 |
More to come as I get it sused out.
