Category: United States
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Day 10 – At the Border of Mexico (Presidio, TX)
We spent the majority of the morning taking care of final preparations to cross into Mexico tomorrow. We shipped a few more items that we though may attract the unnecessary attention of Mexican military and got a small amount of cash in small denominations for food and gas. Instead of taking the major highways to…
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Day 9 – Approaching the Mexican Border (Fort Stockton, TX)
In the morning, we went to the local post office to mail a few items to lighten our weight. We mailed approximately 4 lbs, which made our side cases weight about 39 lbs each. After riding for about 2.5 hours, we stopped in a small town in the middle of nowhere – Roosevelt. We took…
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Day 8 – Easy Ride (Austin, TX)
As we exited our hotel and started safety checks of our motorcycles, a gentlemen walked up to us and said that last night he went to our website (our side cases have a map of what we are doing with the link). His name was Ted and he asked us if it were really the…
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Day 7 – Good Bye New Orleans – Hello Texas (Houston, TX)
We left New Orleans around 9:30 after performing the daily bike safety checks. For lunch, we stopped at Lake Charles in Louisiana at a cozy restaurant – Steamboat Bill’s on the Lake. We ordered the Captain Platter, which had shrimp, oysters, and fish. We enjoyed the food, and especially the cold drinks as the weather…
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Day 6 – Bikes Fixed – Ready To Go (New Orleans, LA)
We drove to Hammond, LA early in the morning where we met with the salesman for the helmet Contour HD camera which we purchased over the phone yesterday for Gintaras. Now both of us have a helmet camera. After that, we drove to Baton Rouge to pick up our bikes from Hebert Cycles BMW dealership.…