Great Day For A Ride To Niagara Falls

Maid Of The Mist

Today turned out to be a great day to ride the bikes out to Niagara Falls. Joe and Howie stopped over this morning and we rode out Route 104 to the Falls. After walking around the American side for a while, we went up to the observation deck where there was a spectacular view of the entire Falls. On the way home we stopped in Johnson Creek, where Sharon met us for some hot wings and cold beer.

Announcing A New Site For My South America Adventures

Starting on January 7, 2010, the date that I will arrive in Santiago, Chile, there will be a new Web site dedicated to all my South American motorcycle adventures. All my adventures in one place. If you would like to follow my travels in South America, please go to this link and bookmark it so you can return often. Here it is: http://samotoadventures.blogspot.com/ I will be keeping you updated every chance I get.

Thinking About Next Year's Motorcycle Adventure

This is the place where Felipe went to Villa O'Higgins, and I went to Chile Chico and on to Argentina
I have been giving some thought to where I will go when I arrive in Chile this coming 7th of January. I have DirecTV here at home, and one of the channels offered is a feed direct from Chile called "TV Chile". TV Chile offers all the latest news and a great deal of programing direct from Chile. I've been watching a program that shows a great deal of the tourist attractions in Chile, and I am getting the itch to head back down to the "Carretera Austral" where I visited this past year. My thought, this year, was to go to the very end of the Carretera Austral that ends in Villa O'Higgins (Lat -48.458467, Lon -72.553602) Last January and February I made it almost to Villa O'Higgins, but because of the fact that last years trip objective was to go all the way to Ushuaia, Argentina, I had to turn east into Argentina before reaching Villa O'Higgins. (Picture above) The Carretera Austral is a rough gravel road that runs down the middle of the Andes Mountains in extreme southern Chile. It is some of the most scenic areas of this planet. Since I'm going to be in South America for almost two months, I should have plenty of time.