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INSERT INTO `phpbb_posts` VALUES (2,2,3,53,0,'206.174.199.138',1173455552,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','First blog post!','SO!\n\nBig news.  First, this is the first blog post of the NobleQuest trip.  I promise i\'ll update it as exciting things happen, or once a week, whichever comes first.\n\nThis weekend, my brother Rob, his friend Rob Evans and i spent all saturday and sunday getting our bikes ready to ship to Argentina.\n\nHere\'s the story.  We started this whole journey thing last February, while discussing what kind of epic adventure we could do for my brother\'s graduation from Engineering at the U of A in Edmonton.\n\nYou see, my brothers, father and I have done \'extreme\' kinds of trips, almost always a hike of some sort, every summer.  For the past ten years or so.  For example, we\'ve done the Grand Canyon, the West Coast Trail, and the Chilkoot Trail (among others).  Last February, we were planning on hiking  Mt Kilimanjaro, in Africa, for my brother\'s graduation ceremony.  My father is retiring this year, and this will likely be one of the last times we\'re all able to go on an extended journey of some sort.\n\nMy father had gotten us all into motorcycles in the summer of 2001, when he purchased his first motorcycle as part of a fledgling motorcycle club with some of his co-workers.  I managed to snag that first bike (a 1977 kawasaki KZ-400 that fired on only one cylinder), and we\'ve all become enthusiasts.  Rob bought his DR650 in 2004.  Justin really dived into the motorcycles, and decided that he loved them so much he was going to make them his lifes\' profession - in 2005, he took a year off his engineering program to enroll in the Motorcycle Mechanics\' Institute in Phoenix, AZ.\n\nRoll forward several years to our discussion of our celebratory graduation trip.  Rob does some digging on the interweb, and decides that it would be incredible awesome of us to do a \'round-the-world motorcycle journey.  My father does some further digging, and realizes that it would take absolutely every penny he had to finance this journey.  He told us that, while possible, if we did this round-the-world journey, all of his sons would have to pay him $3000, each, every month, for the rest of his life.  \n\nJustin suggested a hunting trip the following year.\n\nBarring that, Rob did some further digging, and came up with an epic trip that would take us from Alaska to Argentina, and that perhaps we could clock ourselves against a Guinness World Record.\n\nHow exciting!  After some preliminary research, and some input from Justin\'s friend, Amandha Richter, we decided to go after this record.  Amandha\'s a childhood cancer survivor, and has been heavily involved with the Kids\' Cancer Care Foundation of Alberta ever since her sickness.  She organizes a kids benefit golf tournament, as well as a \'Shave Your Lid for a Kid\' benefit.  Based on some suggestions and encouragement from Amandha, we decided that this could be a really great fundraising opportunity for the foundation that had been so much help to Amandha and so many others.\n\nOur trip is 27,000 kilometres long.  Time four riders, gives 108,000 kilometres.  Our fund-raising goal is $1 for every kilometre we ride.  \n\nAnyways, I digress.  This stuff\'s all on our website.  When we first started planning this trip, we were in discussions with a company called Panalpina that was going to ship our bikes from Alberta to Argentina.  For a whole year.  We were counting on them, and had planned on the ship dates they had provided so that we\'d have some time to break the bikes in and get everything set up properly before they shipped.  \n\nLate January 2007, with four months to go before we leave, they kindly inform us that they\'re no longer doing business with individuals, solely with corporations.  Rob and Sean scramble for the next month, and found us a shipper that came through, but without the time cushion we\'d been expecting from Panalpina.\n\nWe got the last of the bikes three weeks ago, with components like crash guards and luggage systems arriving last week, and a cut-off ship date of this Tuesday.  Rob, Rob and I worked most of this last weekend getting all our stuff put together.  Unfortunately, I had to be back at work Monday morning, so Sean and Rob finished the bikes up and stuck them back in the crates, and loaded them on the truck.  At 5am Monday morning.\n\nMonday afternoon I take off from work early to help dad and Rob unload the motorcycles at Nippon Express Canada, and say goodbye to them.\n\nWe hadn\'t yet received everything we\'d ordered for our bikes, and were anxiously awaiting the packages\' arrival.  Fortunately, they showed up on Tuesday, and dad was able to enlist a co-worker to drive them down to Nippon Express and sneak them into our sea crate.','961856f61e21efe98971b4fcb4fcadb7',0,'','886c3',1,0,'',53,0,0),(3,3,3,2,0,'69.156.209.39',1178075508,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 1st, 2007 - Finally on our way, and Killing time in Toro','Was some tearful moments in Calgary today as the Noble boys said their goodbyes to girlfriends, nieces/daughters and mom.  When I say \'tearful\', I want to stress that the Noble boys were _not_ crying.\n\nWas a bit of an exciting time today, when we initially weren\'t allowed to check our bags \'cause one of them was around 90 lbs, with a max limit of 50 lbs.  After some frantic reshuffling of cargo, we were able to get the bags through the checking system.\n\nUnfortunately, during the mad rush to get everything together and the bags all underweight, much of our stuff was tossed around, and now we\'re no longer absolutely certain which bag has what in it.  \n\nRob has been instructing all of us on the use of our GPS systems - most enthusiastically, too, although he was a bit choked when he found out that I wouldn\'t let him have the window seat - and, no, you can\'t borrow my gps, not even for a minute.  Show me how to poll everybody else\'s location, rob.  And get me some water.\n\nThe plane has already started boarding, so i\'m gonna sign off and let Justin and Dad check their email while I go stand in yet another line.\n\n-Ryan','7c86e7f9acbce4dd5189051f8a519a83',0,'','3dc14',1,0,'',53,0,0),(4,4,3,53,0,'200.61.174.205',1178138498,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 2nd, 2007 - Traffic laws?  More like traffic suggestions','May 2nd, 2007\nGPS:\nS17 24.655\nW075 38.557\nOff the coast of Peru\nAir Canada Flight 092, Boeing 767-300\n\nEight hours so far on this plane. Thanks to gravol and ear plugs, though, I\'m actually feeling pretty good.\n\nThe last few days have been a rush of last-minute preparations and contstant \'did I forget something?\' and \'i should get X\'. However, now that we\'re on our way (and, now, mostly there) we\'ve all breathed a collective sigh of relief as we settled into our tiny airplane chairs.\n\nI posted a short update yesterday from the airport in Toronto, but i\'ll rehash what we\'ve got so far.\n\nUpon attempting to check baggage yesterday at the airport in Calgary, we found out that one of our bags was forty pounds in excess of the maximum allowed weight. If we decided to keep it overweight, it would have to be shipped \'air cargo\'. On a different plane. No thanks. Mad panic ensues as items from all bags are redistributed and repackaged. Rob and Justin, most likely because they are engineers, managed to get everything packed properly, but now we\'ve got no idea where anything is.\n\nCarry-on luggage was repacked at this time, as well, which caused some problems getting through security. Apparently we had some glue and a tent, both common terrorist apparatus. Sean rushed back to the check-in counter with the dangerous bag outstretched in his arms. Speaking of security, i\'ve never had such a hard time getting through the metal detector. Justin turned out to be the smartest of us four – he was the only one to wear sandals instead of heavy, metal-reinforced motorcycle boots. We were all forced to remove them, and were all patted down and repeatedly had metal-detecting wands run over us. Rob, with the metal plate in his leg, seemed to fascinate the security guard, who insisted upon seeing the surgery scar repeatedly.\n\nA very pleasant surprise was waiting for us when the drink cart came around (with the first of our two meals) – on intercontinental flights, booze is free. With a couple shots of rum warming my belly, and generic gravol kicking in, i managed to sleep for six or seven hours.\n\nThe plane we took on the jaunt from Calgary to Toronto was pretty swank – each seat had its\' own plug-in for both standard AC and USB. I was really hoping to find something like that on the thirteen-hour marathon from Toronto to Santiago, Chile, but – alas, I have only battery power.\n\n9AM MOUNTAIN TIME, SANTIAGO, CHILE\n\nThat was a brutally long flight. Ten and a half hours with no real activity. Once we landed here in Santiago, we had to get off the plane, walk around the terminal and go through security once again, in order to get back onto the same plane.\n\nSo far, nothing much seems too different from, say, the airport at Calgary, or Toronto. Walking up to the gate to get back onto the same plane, we passed a Ruby Tuesday\'s, and i\'m currently sitting next to a Hugo Boss store, with a Starbucks immediately behind me.\n\nI guess we have left the land of the free wi-fi behind. Either that, or this BIENVENIDO page is hating on me because I don\'t have flash installed. Hmm... looks to be just a web proxy – looks like other traffic can get through without any filtering going on.\n\n2PM MOUNTAIN TIME, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA\nGPS:\nS34 36.435\nW058 23.072\n\nI had to leave that last part un-posted, \'cause Rob decided to wander off about ten minutes before the plane took off. Nothing makes you feel grown up like wandering around an airport terminal looking for your twenty-five-year-old brother.\n\nUnfortunately, I haven\'t been able to get onto the interweb and update our journals as often as I\'ve been writing in them. Turns out to be harder than anticipated to find a proper outlet (there are four different plug styles in my hotel room alone) but I was able to find a standard 220-outlet, and finally have a full charge on the laptop again.\n\nGood news, everyone! Every single piece of our luggage arrived and was waiting for us on the baggage carousel. Customs was also a breeze – guess the language barrier is working in our favour, here, \'cause he didn\'t seem to want to ask us any questions.\n\nTraffic lanes here are more of a suggestion than anything else. Several times during our taxi ride from the airport to the hotel here I was forced to close my eyes as, say, a bus wandered into our lane with no warning, or the several kilometres our taxi drove along straddling two lanes, seemingly unaware of the traffic closing in on all sides.\n\nWe made a promise, today, to stay the heck out of cities whenever possible. Speaking of traffic, though – what a difference from Alberta/NA vehicles. Puegeots, BMW trucks, Mercedes busses, other symbols on cars that I can\'t place – a lion rampant? Hardly any trucks, too – and what trucks exist are very small. Only once did Justin manage to spot a full-size dodge pickup, but none of the rest of us were able to confirm the sighting.\n\nThe hotel dad managed to get for us is actually pretty nice, considering how scary the streets and traffic is. After hooking up the interwebs, our #1 priority was to grab a shower. Everyone\'s feeling much better, now.  One thing that I found a little bit weird.  I have heard about, but never quite believed the stories of The Bidet.  There\'s a funny one involving my grandfather thinking it was a water fountain.  I tried it out.  I mean, i turned it on.  I didn\'t actually _use_ it.  I can see using it if you didn\'t have time for a full-on shower, but other than that, I think I\'ll pass on those bits.\n\nWe fly out to Ushuaia tomorrow (early) morning, taking off about 4am. Apparently Ushuaia is, contrary to my own personal belief, fairly large – a tiny bit smaller than Red Deer. There are four flights every day, but when the tickets were booked, we\'d planned on having our bikes there. Waiting for us. Instead, we get two days to kill – perhaps to grease the skids of customs – before our bikes even get there and we can start putting them all together.','9a1bb2f28dc2e6ca0149827c13b5a884',0,'','1c09d',1,0,'',53,0,0),(5,5,3,53,0,'200.61.174.205',1178150628,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','end of day one in Buenos Aires','Evening of May 2nd\nHotel Tribeca,\nBuenos Aires, Argentina\n\nIn order to celebrate just a little bit, the boys and I went out tonight to try to find a fancy restaurant.  What we got would rank among the best meals that I\'ve ever had, for an unbelievable price.  Rob, Justin &amp; Sean each got a magnificent piece of prime rib perfectly cooked in gravy and stuff, while Ryan got some chicken &amp; cheese (also excellent).\n\nI was going over my earlier posts, and i realized that I haven\'t really given any descriptions about what we\'re actually seeing here.  Well.  Landing in Santiago we came in over these mountains that appeared to give the Rocky Mountains a run for their money.  At 25,000 feet (we checked on our GPSs) it looked as though we were flying between the mountains.  I guess this would be the famous Andes mountain range.  We were a bit confused when the pilot mentioned a sunny day, \'cause from what we could tell, it was 100% overcast.  The confusion was sorted out when we actually left Santiago and realized that the \'overcast\' layer was actually a thick blanket of smog.\n\nParaguay and Peru were both kinda desolate-lookin\' places.  Miles &amp; miles of desert, with saskatchewan-like roads.  Then we lost the entire continent behind many white cloud-like things.  They were probably clouds.\n\nBA is a different place.  Narrow roads that would have one lane assigned in Alberta have three lanes of vehicles jockeying for position in a space that has room for perhaps 2.5 lanes.  The air is humid and thick with the scent of diesel exhaust and women\'s perfume.  Seriously.  It\'s everywhere.\n\nIn other news, we just received an email informing us that some money has been donated in our name (NobleQuest) to a charity called Kids Alive, based out of Lima, Peru.  Which is pretty cool.  We\'d like to give a thanks out to that anonymous donor, and wish all the best to the people involved in Kids Alive.\n\nThink that\'s about it.  Rob\'s frantically trying to locate the charging system for our GPS systems, which he thinks was in carry-on, but has been misplaced due to the frantic shuffling that occurred when we had to get our bags underweight for check-in.\n\nAnyways, we\'ve got to get up in like five hours.\nGood night,\nRyan Noble\nBuenos Aires, Argentina','d7bb04d174e67115bfc776bd0cb56507',0,'','dd63b',1,0,'',0,0,0),(6,6,3,53,0,'168.226.145.206',1178227591,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','It\'s the end of the world, man!','Thursday evening (6pm Brasilia time)\nMay 3rd, 2007\nGPS: S54 47.494, W068 18.944\nUshuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina\nEnd of the world\n\nI am so sick and tired of airplanes.  I don\'t think Rob and Sean are as badly off as Justin as I, simply because they have seemingly adequate legroom.  \n\nIt feels like my legs go crazy and i have to move them and i can\'t move them and they get mad at me and say \'hey move you moron\' and i can\'t and i get all jittery.\n\nAnyways, we\'re finally (almost) done with the airplanes – just the one from Cartagena over to Panama City, and we\'re all finished.  Of course, i\'ll probably be saying this in a few weeks about the motorcycles, but at least I can pull over if i really need to.\n\nI don\'t know if anybody else has ever had to do this, but it really sucks to get up at 3am.  I used to have to do it when I worked at IBM, and I never wanted to go back to it.  Even with the earplugs, I was unable to sleep on this flight, and I crashed, hard, for about four hours when we finally got into our (again, very nice) hotel rooms.\n\nWhen we landed in Buenos Aires, we had a real hard time finding the taxi driver that our hotel had sent over.  He did show up, but then took off again when he saw how much stuff we had, to find a bigger truck (we weren\'t really sure, though, that this was where he had gone.  All we knew was that he had told us to wait, and then he took off).  What a relief, then, when we landed here in Ushuaia, at the end of the world (here there be monsters), and our guy was waiting for us.  He even spoke fluent english, and gave us some pointers on restaurants and electronics stores.\n\nApparently the whole continent of South America is under cloud cover, and threatens rain everywhere.  The weather here is about 3 degrees, windy, and alternately rain, hail and snow.  The roads are covered in a slick skim of black ice that had us slipping most of the way (we were walking) down the driveway to the hotel.  The forecast for Tuesday, our projected date for departure, is much the same.  Yay.  Landing in Ushuaia was a little nerve-wracking.  We hadn\'t been able to see the ocean, or land, since we took off from Buenos Aires – just clouds from horizon to horizon.  \n\nWhen the plane started to descend to Ushuaia, we sank into the clouds what seemed like almost immediately, and stayed in them for almost 20,000 feet.  Didn\'t come out until about 3400 feet above sea level, and it was a surprise when we finally did, to see the ocean suddenly almost close enough to touch.  Ushuaia is a coastal town, and the airport is immediately on the coast, so as we descended closer and closer and closer to the ocean, with still no land in sight, i began to panic just a tiny bit.  Not to worry, though – we came down on the suddenly-not-ocean runway just fine.\n\nJustin made a post earlier to Facebook, saying something along the lines of \'Ushuaia is like Banff, on the ocean\'.  Very true.  Just up the street from the ocean are snow-capped mountains, and snow-covered valleys \'tween them.  Which we will soon get to ride through.  Apparently the first 150 miles or so are really terrible – muddy (icy) gravel roads, potholes big enough to hide in.  After that, though, the Pan-Am highway is mostly comparable to a secondary highway in Alberta, so pretty high quality roads after that.\n\nRob and Sean did most of the unpacking and sorting while Justin and I took it easy and slept most of the afternoon away.  Thanks, guys.  They also managed to rent a little (very little) car, a Chevy diesel Corio or something.  Tiny little car, has metal studs screwed into the tires.  There are also apparently some drivers here from Buenos Aires.  We were cut off, honked at, and forced to swerve out of suddenly shared lanes multiple times.  We decided to park, and hoof it the rest of the way.  Cause it was safer.\n\nHaven\'t found any naphtha for my stove, but we all did get some extra gloves, balaclavas and neck warmers.  Rob also managed to pick up a sleeping bag, \'cause he hadn\'t planned on needing one.  We (all) corrected him.  Good news on the Rob front, too – he was able to find the charging system things for our GPSs.\n\nHave I mentioned that I love the beer, here, in South America?  For eight AR Pesos (one peso == ~1/3 of  $1 USD) we each got a 1 litre beer with lunch.  And that\'s restaurant prices.  Went to a real liquor store, and picked up six bottles for about 3 pesos each.  It\'s just slightly more expensive than bottled water.\n\nThe internet connection here in Ushuaia is by far the slowest we\'ve experienced yet.  Image uploads keep timing out, and what does manage to make it takes forever.  Augh!  It\'s almost as bad as having NO interweb!\n\nOh, for anyone that\'s reading this off the website, and was frustrated by the inability to make a comment without creating an account – that\'s been fixed.  Anonymous posts are now accepted (sorry \'bout that), and we\'d love to hear from ya.  \n\nMore pictures uploaded.  More news as events warrant,\nRyan Noble\nUshuaia, Argentina','41b6d26a616e2de4ef215e758f63c4c7',0,'','c0e11',1,0,'',53,0,0),(7,7,3,53,0,'190.48.154.162',1178238199,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 3, 2007 - Backgammon &amp; the end of day one in Ushuaia','Thursday evening (9pm Brasilia time)\nMay 3rd, 2007\nGPS: S54 47.494, W068 18.944\nUshuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina\nEnd of the world \n\nI suck at Backgammon.  I\'m not even kidding.  Used to play with Dad all the time, but when Justin picked up the board for the FIRST time today, he kicked my ass three times in a row.  What a jerk.  \n\nSomething really funny happened earlier today, at dinner, and i\'m a little sore at myself for not repeating it.  After we\'d had our supper, Robbie (our spanish \'expert\') told the waiter that he was very talented.  Then he corrected himself, and said \'talento\'.  We questioned his logic with this, and he replied that you can basically speak spanish by adding an \'o\' to the end of any english word, and that this would be correct and accurate “at least eighty percent of the time”.\n\n“Are you sure-o?”\n“Boy, I can\'t wait to get the cheque-o”\n“I hope we have breakfast tomorrow so I can get some Cheeri-o”\n“Robo iso ano idioto”\n\nOur cousin, Casey recommended to us that we try an Argentinian beer called Quilmes.  In the picture section, you\'ll be able to see some images of us enjoying this fine Argentinian beer.  Actually, I haven\'t had a beer here that i haven\'t enjoyed.  They\'re all pretty light, though, and i usually go in for beers like Guinness and Kilkenny.  Anyways, not too shabby.\n\nI\'ve heard about siesta-time before, and always in a context that made me think that people in very hot countries would take the most uncomfortable time of the day off, and go home, coming back to work later in the day.  Let me set this straight.  Ushuaia is in NO way a warm place to visit.  But good luck shopping between the hours of noon and four pm!  At least some restaurants were open.\n\nTomorrow the plan is to get up bright and early at 10am (7am MDT) and head on over to the customs agent that\'ll be handling the release of our motorcycles.  Dad\'s got the contact info for him, so yeah.\n\nWe just found out that the engineering on our GPSs, while amazingly good with the handheld unit, is sorely lacking when one tries to use both the charging station and the handlebar mount at the same time.  We\'re gonna have to drill some holes and cut some plastic on the mounts.  \n\nIn other news, Rob found a fancy place that advertises \'Tierra del Fuego King Crab\', so we\'ve got tomorrow night\'s dinner set.  \n\nI would be really sad if i made it all the way down here WHERE PENGUINS LIVE and didn\'t get to see any.  We\'ve discussed the idea of hopping on a tour plane or something to buzz over the antarctic, but apparently there may be a place on this side of the ocean where penguins kick it.  Magellan penguins.  Sweet.\n\nIt\'s practically 9:30pm now, and none of us have had much sleep in the past few days, and practically none of it horizontal (airplane seats are the suck).\n\nGood night, everyone!\nRyan Noble\nUshuaia, Argentina','86166c00f2f54dc7b5d27a921d73583d',0,'','72bb4',1,0,'',53,0,0),(8,6,3,1,0,'129.128.86.182',1178238398,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Great Adventure','[color=#BF0040:f0051]Hey Nobles[/color:f0051]\n[color=#4000FF:f0051]I can tell you that we are watching your travels with interest and great anticipation.  Ryan - your journals have been excellent, and really give a perspective of things.  I could say &quot;wish I was there&quot; - but I don\'t.  When Sean (dad) and I went to Alaska a couple of years ago, we had our share of bad weather, but nothing like you will experience.  \nHaving driven some of the Pan-American highway in Chile, I can say that you should be in for a good road.  You just have to brace yourself for inhaling diesel fumes for thousands of km., but that just goes with the territory.  \nIf it\'s any consolation, in Edmonton it\'s cold, rainy and windy.  \nKeep up all the information on your &quot;great adventure&quot;, and we hope that your bikes arrive very soon and in good order.[/color:f0051]  \n[color=#BF00FF:f0051]Alan and Sharon Cooper[/color:f0051]','e80c2c1149f21d2582bbe05b8c940115',0,'Ag==','f0051',1,0,'',0,0,0),(9,6,3,1,0,'207.200.116.8',1178239839,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: It\'s the end of the world, man!','I should have never said to Sean:  &quot;There is no way in &quot;Hell&quot; that you can make the trip from Argentina to Alaska on a Motorcycle&quot;......and maybe you would all still be home in sunny warm Canada....Oh wait, Canada isn\'t all that sunny and warm at the moment.  Any word on the bikes and when they will arrive?  Will Justin be able to retrofit your bike tires with studs so you can ride on the black ice?  Glad I am not with you and look forward to seeing your bug splattered faces as you roar into Las Vegas.  \n\nUncle Jim','02a660626bacba9dc8e94123f864c774',0,'','0ae13',1,0,'',0,0,0),(15,7,3,1,0,'190.48.141.144',1178328618,1,0,1,1,1,0,'Rob Noble','Re: Backgammon &amp; the end of day one in Ushuaia','Ryan had it set up so that people were unable to post.  He has fixed it.  Good to hear from you Tiberio.  We are looking forward to getting to Colombia. \n\nRob','2024afdf301a63623fa3c3101a501631',0,'','bb3f5',1,0,'',0,0,0),(12,6,3,1,0,'70.65.42.232',1178294134,1,0,1,1,1,0,'Mike','Re: It\'s the end of the world, man!','Glad to hear you Boys have made the flights down there. Sounds like the weather is pretty much the same as when you left. Sean, I see that greater judgement took over when you decided to park the car and walk. I\'m not sure how they would take it in Ushuaia if you were to park your car in the trunk of another while you were sightseeing!!!. Anyway, enjoying the blog immensely. Take Care all.\n\nP.S.  Beware of Penguins with Ice Cream on their faces.\n\nMike','befb0a151e84b10a2cb6723d881dd004',0,'','d51a0',1,0,'',0,0,0),(13,7,3,1,0,'200.116.150.12',1178306834,1,0,1,1,1,0,'Tiby','Re: Backgammon &amp; the end of day one in Ushuaia','Hi. i see that you are getting ready for your trip, we are working in our part of the world to help you and probably ride with you some Kms.\nTiberio\n\nNote: I have not been able to send you a post with my nickname from this forum, I do not see your postings, I have look around and nothing <!-- s:D --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif\" alt=\"Very Happy\" title=\"Very Happy\" /><!-- s:D --> \n\n<!-- m --><a href=\"http://www.darienmototours.com\">http://www.darienmototours.com</a><!-- m -->\n\nMedellin, Colombia','521689bb5dee7d3461702a2c25a435b9',0,'','ebd57',1,0,'',0,0,0),(14,9,3,53,0,'190.48.156.124',1178313836,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 4th, 2007 - Good Fettuccine and Bad News','Friday evening (6pm Brasilia time)\nMay 4th, 2007\nGPS: S54 47.494, W068 18.944\nUshuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina\nEnd of the world\n\nI lied last night when I said that we were all going to lay down for some sleep.  I wanted to, but nobody listens to me.  Ever.  \n\nRob did a bit of a cool thing last night.  He took the info we collected from our GPS units on the flight down here, and threw it into GoogleEarth.  If you have Google Earth installed, and go to <!-- m --><a href=\"http://noblequest.org/route/NobleQuest-Flight_South.kml\">http://noblequest.org/route/NobleQuest-Flight_South.kml</a><!-- m --> , you\'ll be able to see just where we\'ve been, on planes.\n\nDad got a bug in his butt about going out for a bit on the town, and dragged us all along with him.  Drivers here in South America are slightly less crazy when traffic is lighter, but not by much.  Additionally, between siesta-time and closing early, there are many places here that don\'t seem to want to do much business.  We got kicked out of a restaurant \'cause they were closing early, and had a hard time finding another place open that didn\'t look like it would kill us.\n\nAnyways, managed to find a place that had a decent fajita (but only ½ litro cervesas) and let you make your own chip dip – they\'d bring out a bunch of plain chips, a bowl of sour cream w/ chives, and a bucket full of different sauces.  Neat-o idea, but I detest sour cream &amp; onion.\n\nFeeling a bit lethargic from dinner, the closest place open was a casino across the street.  We\'re pretty sure it had a cover charge, \'cause we all bought these tickets for $2AR ($1AR==$0.33USD).  Neither Rob nor I are very good gamblers, so he and I sat behind Justin and Sean.  Justin\'s got a pretty good eye for the blackjack – he ended up coming out $80AR ahead, while dad was quite a bit in the hole, but wouldn\'t tell me just how much he\'d lost.\n\nI made everyone leave about that time, and we came back to the hotel and this time we did go to sleep.\n\nWhenever I\'ve stayed at a hotel in the US or Canada, and they\'ve advertised \'continental breakfast\', it\'s pretty much been doughnuts, coffee &amp; cereal.  That\'s what I thought we\'d be getting here.  I guess we ARE on a different continent.\n\nFresh-baked bread &amp; croissants, fresh-squeezed orange juice, the best strawberry jam i\'ve ever tasted.  Everything was amazing, and the coffee kicked butt.  There was also this pink milk-like drink that we all figured was strawberry milk, but it turned out to be more like a strawberry yoghurt drink (think yop).  Which tasted really bad at first, \'cause we\'d be expecting strawberry milk, and it tastes nothing like that.  Once we figured out what kind of taste to expect, everything went much smoother.\n\nAfter breakfast, we headed out on the road to drive the mountain pass we\'ll be taking in a couple days on our motorcycles.  We left at about 10:30am, and all the way to the top of the pass the roads were absolutely the worst roads we could imagine.  Icy, covered in snow with steep hills and sudden turns.  We felt pretty sick about the whole thing.  However, we hit the top of the pass after about half an hour of lousy roads.  On the other side of the pass, where the sun had been shining for little more than an hour and a half, the roads were completely clear of ice &amp; snow, and were merely wet.  \n\nApparently the sun was also melting the cliff face.  I\'ve seen the signs before, when driving through mountains: \'Watch for falling rock\', but I\'ve never actually seen \'falling rock\'.  Seconds after we crested the pass, and started down the now-clear road, several large (fist-size &amp; two-fist-size) rocks smashed into the road immediately in front of us.  Dad, with his puma-like reflexes, immediately slammed on the brakes, perhaps to catch the rocks on the roof of the car, thereby saving the road any more divots.\n\nWe turned around about that point, thinking that at least we only had twenty or so kilometres of lousy road in front of us.  Which would be difficult, but we could beat it.  In the forty minutes or so that we\'d been driving, the road on the side of the mountain still in shadow had undergone an amazing transformation.  I guess a combination of the large amount of heavy traffic (many large trucks, buses &amp; semi-trailers – all with chained-up tires) that streamed along that road, and the rising temperatures pretty much melted all the snow &amp; ice off the road, leaving it largely clear with only a few patches of snow, and no ice.  \n\nWe decided that our plan to leave would have to be shifted to later in the day, probably about 2-3pm in the afternoon, to take advantage of the melting snow and ice that would have been so perilous earlier in the morning.\n\nAfter we got back into town, we found the house of our consigning agent here in Ushuaia.  I guess a consigning agent is the guy what takes care of receiving shipped goods.  His name is Osvaldo, and the only address we had for him was his home address.  Once we arrived at his house, his wife (who spoke only German and Spanish) told us that he\'d be home in about an hour or so, and to come back then.  This is about 12pm.  So, off shopping we went.  At least, we tried to.  Remember I commented earlier on what a really awesome great idea siesta time is, in a location with a daily temperature high of about five degrees?  Instead, we spent some time trying to get onto the pier at Puerto Ushuaia, but it\'s locked down tighter than an airport (seriously – there\'s a metal detector you have to go through IF they let you onto the pier).  Then, some pictures of \'BIENVENIDO A USHUAIA\' signs, and some farting around with the GPSs.\n\nFinally, we headed back to Osvaldo\'s house.  Neither he nor his wife speak english, but he has two daughters that do, which was incredibly helpful.  The language barrier has been a constant frustration.  \n\nOsvaldo had some terrifying news – the ship our bikes are on is not due into Ushuaia until the NINTH OF MAY.  Our bikes were supposed to have arrived the 23rd of April.  They were then delayed until the 30th, and again until the 6th of May, which was the last date we had.  Sean had even talked to Mai YESTERDAY at our shipping agent back in Calgary, and she\'d confirmed an arrival date of the sixth.    However, he reassured us that it\'s entirely possible that we\'ll get the bikes off the ship and through customs the same day, and Osvaldo asked us to come back tomorrow to discuss how we can expedite the procedure so that we don\'t lose any more time.\n\nIn a foul mood, we decided to go for a walk down San Martin street, and do some shopping and grab some food.  However, this stupid siesta business kicked in again.\n\nAlmost every store we tried to go to was closed, including some restaurants.  Another store that we went into, later in the day, kicked us out \'cause siesta time wasn\'t yet over.  I don\'t get this business strategy.  Surely some business would realize that it\'s beneficial to stay open during this time?  Yes, some business were open, and those were the businesses that we spent our money at.  Still, I\'d estimate that eight out of ten stores were closed for business, for four hours, in the middle of the day.  \n\nWe found an open restaurant.  I had the BEST fettuccine alfredo i\'ve ever had, except the stuff I make myself.  I got nearly a pound of fresh-grated parmesan cheese in a little bowl to toss in myself.  Frackin\' yummy.\n\nWe talked our schedule over during lunch, and realized that, while very inconvenient, the two extra days we\'re going to lose are days that we can afford to lose – we\'d planned in some leeway time in the beginning.  However, we have flights booked across the Panama Canal, and dad\'s going to see if we can get those pushed back a day or two.  The consensus from the discussion over lunch is that we\'re still in no trouble to get this trip done, but it\'s going to be tight.  We\'re going to have to push our schedule over the length of South America – riding from sunup to sundown, and stopping when we have to, instead of when it\'s convenient (camping some nights instead of staying in hotels).\n\nAs it stands, now, our bikes will arrive on Wednesday, and we\'ll be on the road the afternoon of Thursday.  Gosh!\n\nAfter lunch, we poked around and got some (small) souvenirs, at which time I was ready to go home.  I\'ve never been much of a shopper.  However, Sean &amp; Justin sure are, and they stayed behind while Rob and I went back to the hotel.  I\'m supposed to pick them up in an hour, but I may just make them take a cab.  Stupid shopping.\n\nRyan Noble,\nUshuaia, Argentina','d1ab3b1a55d3e4d3aa07d6667815d09d',0,'','1119c',1,0,'',53,0,0),(16,10,3,70,0,'190.48.147.143',1178378760,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Mapping our route','We\'ve spent the morning pouring over maps of Argentina, Chile, Peru, Equador and Colombia to determine our most efficient routes and to develop estimated daily destinations for the next couple of weeks.  We\'ll have 13 days to get to Cartagena presuming we can get our bikes out and operational by the 9th.  This is 2 more days than the previous record holders used to do the same distance.  We will have long hard days but they are certainly attainable.  The delay of the bikes robs us  ([i:470b5]\'esto es un robo\'[/i:470b5]!) of a few margaritas on the Colombian coast but it does not impact our overall schedule.    \n\nWe are all quite anxious to get going and our extended \'vacation\' in Ushuaia is getting old.  We\'ll go to the very end of the Pan Am highway today to do a photo shoot.  We\'ll have to do that by car since we will be using all our waking hours riding the bikes north not south!  We\'ll take &quot;Montie the Bear&quot; and &quot;Gnomeaway Fromhome&quot; along so they too can enjoy our tour.  \n\nWe also meet with the harbour master today so we can expedite the paper work for the bikes and perhaps arrange for a wharehouse in which to put the bikes together and finish installing all our accessories.  I\'m sure we\'ll have pictures of the process on our photo album for your perusal.  \n\nWe enjoy reading responses to our emails and our postings although this particular computer illiterate had a tough time figuring out how to post!  Ryan promisis he\'ll work on simplifying the process for me and you!\n\nIt\'s still a dream come true and somewhat surreal to be here. <!-- s:lol: --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif\" alt=\"Laughing\" title=\"Laughing\" /><!-- s:lol: --> \n\nSean','ff86f461a8dfee4177ac3cd766cdc49c',0,'IA==','470b5',1,0,'',0,0,0),(17,10,3,1,0,'209.115.255.165',1178381442,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: Mapping our route','If the posting thing is working... I\'m not sure I would let Ryan \'simplify it\' ! \n\nSorry to hear of the delay, I was wondering if you could convince your harbour master to let you use the container you rented as a garage - its obviously waterproof, and big enough the only issue I could think of was lighting - but it would let you lock up your half finished bikes and equipment in a secure environment. Course who knows what rules would apply in that foreign setting - you probably have a better idea than any of us at this point.\n\nIts fun to read of your adventures - [b:e59a8]&quot;the Noble boys try their hardest to change the culture of the siesta, placating bussiness who reject their own customs&quot;[/b:e59a8] - reminds me of Sunday shopping a couple of years back and its all a great ethnological study. \n\nThe weather in Red Deer broke this morning - yesterday we had snow again - more sleet than anything and nothing actually stuck on the ground.\n\nHave fun Boys\n\nGod Speed\n\nJustin','8b36a62c7a9e3238b177fa072f405f7b',0,'QA==','e59a8',1,0,'',0,0,0),(18,11,3,53,0,'190.48.146.107',1178401889,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 5th, 2007 - Good News and Bad Weather','Saturday evening (6:30pm Brasilia time)\nMay 5th, 2007\nGPS: S54 47.494, W068 18.944\nUshuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina\nEnd of the world \n\nWeather: 4.5 degrees C, snow/rain/sleet.  Very windy.\n\nWe\'re all going stir crazy, sitting around this hotel.  We\'ve been to all the shops, and we\'ve been to every restaurant we can find that\'s open during siesta (that\'s that\'s the time of day we get hungry).  And we\'re all getting sick of siesta.  \n\nWe DID get to see Osvaldo today, and he had some frackin\' wonderful news for us.  Instead of the ship coming in on the eighth or ninth, he\'d confirmed earlier in the day that the ship will be in on the seventh, and he has arranged for us to have a warehouse to work in so that we can get the bikes out of the crates and ready for the road.\n\nWoot!\n\nIn a bit of a celebratory mood, Rob convinced us to go up to this ski chalet to find the World\'s Most Southern Geocache.  We went there, but he couldn\'t find it.  Probably someone stole it or something.\n\nI meant to write a few days ago about keys and doors here in Argentina.  On every business back in Canada, likely in the states too, doors to businesses open outwards.  I assume this is in case of fire or floor or something, it would be possible for the doors to be pushed outwards.\n\nHere, most of the doors open inwards.  This throws us all the time, because I\'ll initially think a business is closed, curse siesta again, and then find out that it was actually open.  Not all doors do this, so i\'ve learned to test them both ways before I curse siesta.  \n\nThe keys, too, are very strange.  You can see what I mean in the pictures I posted for day two – they\'re kinda like old-timey skeleton keys, and it\'s very difficult to line them up properly in the locks so that you can open whatever it is that you\'re trying to open.  It\'s not just a few places that use this style, too – they\'re everywhere.\n\nSpeaking of dad, i forgot to mention something – his complete and utter inability to hold on to vital documents.  Three times, now, he\'s lost his passport – once when we first arrived in Buenos Aires, and it turned out to be in Rob\'s pocket, and nobody has any idea how it got in there.  Another time here in Ushuaia, and it turned out to be in his pocket, and a third time it turned out to be in a folder in his hand.  Yesterday, at the restaurant with the awesome fettuccine, he managed to leave his credit card behind.  The waiter (who was awesome, by the way) chased us down a block and into a store to return dad\'s card.  \n\nOther than that, we\'ve all been playing too much backgammon, or sleeping, or reading.  Wish the bikes were here so that we could have something to do – of course, in a week, i\'ll be all like \'hey, remember when we were in ushuaia and all we had to do for a week was sleep and eat and drink?\'.\n\nWe\'re gonna go out later tonight and see if anything\'s going on for Cinco de Mayo.  Although I doubt it, because wikipedia (<!-- m --><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_Mayo\">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_Mayo</a><!-- m -->) tells me that it\'s a Mexican holiday.  Damn.\n\nTwo more days until we can start getting our bikes together and get out on the road.\n\nRyan Noble\nUshuaia, Argentina','3b43284713e5ae784ae50199dae3d115',0,'','9eacc',1,0,'',0,0,0),(19,11,3,1,0,'70.65.8.11',1178420221,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 5th, 2007 - Good News and Bad Weather','That is good news!  I can only imagine how anxious you are to get going.  I was imagining you all putting the bikes together out on the dock.  Glad to hear you get a warehouse.  We sure do miss you guys.  It\'s pretty quiet around here - Addie does her best but she is only a little girl and can only make so much noise!  Hopefully your weather will improve in the next few days so you can get on the road.  Likely, you will be cursing the heat in a while!  Please be careful!!!  1-2-3 Mom','6fe9299f5304e03e4ac2ec11894fac35',0,'','08472',1,0,'',0,0,0),(21,11,3,1,0,'207.200.116.137',1178482051,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 5th, 2007 - Good News and Bad Weather','Dear Noblemen:\n\nI tried a reply last night but I don\'t think it went through...I am not all that computer literate. I think I am supposed to put in a code of some sort and I didn\'t do it correct.  Rules....Who knew. If it did go through and I repeat somthing, just remember I am old.  Anyway, Ryan, maybe you can talk to someone down there in South America and get the culture changed about that &quot;Siesta&quot; nonsense so that when the rest of us travel to South America we won\'t have to look for non business things to do during the hours of 1-4. Ryan, maybe you can use that time to get aquainted with the Bidet.  Glad to hear the bikes should be there tommorow.......although I am a bit worried about you all driving off in a snowstorm with black ice and Sean leading the pack without looking back(florida trip story).  It should be in the triple digits (farenheit) when you arrive in Las Vegas so you should be able to thaw out just fine.  Looking forward to your visit.  We have tried to call Kathy but I think she is out whooping it up now that you are all finally gone. hehehe.\n\nTake care, \n\nUncle Jim','0d38295011d626cbff6ef90e936bdf76',0,'','bb6d1',1,0,'',0,0,0),(22,11,3,70,0,'190.48.146.107',1178485371,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 5th, 2007 - Good News and Bad Weather','The bikes arrive tomorrow and the weather finally warmed up today.  It was 7 celcious today and the skies were finally blue.  \n\nWe found ourselves surrounded by beautiful (depending upon your perspective) snow covered mountains.  The snow line on the hills retreated significantly.  Tomorrow should be dominated by arriving bikes, laundry, packing and putting bikes, accessories, clean clothes, and bodies onto the bikes.  If we are very fortunate we may attempt to make the mountain pass tomorrow afternoon/evening but I\'m betting against that happening.\n\nI collected the &quot;South end of South America&quot; rock for my backyard rock collection/pond today.  I got it from the furthest place south one can travel on roads in the Americas.  It\'s quite small for obvious reasons.  I plan on getting 3 more rocks.  One at each of the extremeties of the continents.\n\nWe did a little celebrating last night ... actually we did quite alot of celebrating last night   <!-- s:cry: --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_cry.gif\" alt=\"Crying or Very sad\" title=\"Crying or Very sad\" /><!-- s:cry: -->  and consequently we have taken to this Siesta concept with the enthusiasm of a local today.  All others sleep as I\'m typing this post.  Perhaps one just has to acclimate adequately to accomodate to local customs.\n\nWe are all VERY anxious to get on the road!','6ba192621e4b0a98fd5fe1c3aac052db',0,'','969d1',1,0,'',0,0,0),(23,13,3,53,0,'190.48.146.189',1178488412,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 6th, 2007 - Funny, I don\'t feel like I\'m standing upside','Sunday evening (7pm Brasilia time)\nMay 6th, 2007\nGPS: S54 47.494, W068 18.944\nUshuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina\nEnd of the world \n\nToday was a bit of a short day – all us boys found an Irish pub last night, and hit it up like, well, Irishmen.  \n\nWith pounding heads, we jumped into the car at 9:30 this morning in our own mini-quest to find the furthest south point we can drive to.  Our first attempt took us east of town on a little coastal road that our GPSs told us would take us where we wanted to go.  Unfortunately, the GPSs don\'t have things like fences with padlocks marked on them, so we were able to only go a short distance along that road.\n\nRob located another road on the other side of town, and this one went for quite a ways before we found ourselves in the Tierra del Fuego national park.  We hit the end of the road and hiked a short ways down a boardwalk.  Here we found our \'most southern point\'.  Because Rob is a cheater and he ran, he was the first one there.  It\'s weird, though – here i am, the furthest south i\'ve ever been and likely ever will be, and it still doesn\'t feel like i\'m standing upside down.  Maybe that kicks in when you\'re on Antarctica.\n\nSiesta time was compounded today because of it being Sunday and all, so our first choice of restaurant – a pizzeria – was shot down, and we found a little cafeteria where we sat and suffered silently.  Well, Justin never suffers anything silently.  The rest of us manned up and didn\'t whine.\n\nWe located a laundromat, but that, too, was closed.  Tomorrow\'s going to be a hugely busy day, between the bikes and packing and laundry.\n\nHere\'s something I don\'t get.  I can understand, say, a bicycle or a power wheels or something coming with \'some assembly required\'.  Our bikes cost quite a bit more than a bicycle.  Why do we still have to put it together?  That\'s lame.\n\nIt\'s going to be nice to finally have something to do.  \n\nRyan Noble\nUshuaia, Argentina','c598dbd14e48a1d9586e53c0e3a966cf',0,'','4cb24',1,0,'',0,0,0),(24,13,3,1,0,'24.71.223.149',1178503530,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 6th, 2007 - Funny, I don\'t feel like I\'m standing upside','Glad to hear your bikes will be there tomorrow.  Just wanted to wish you all well and safe journey.  If it makes you feel any better, I drove to Thorsby to a horse show yesterday and there was a foot of fresh snow north of Rimbey!  Enjoying the blog and the pictures!  Hope you have the time to keep it up.  Take care   Doug','33b2696874c9865ca0aa39812671331a',0,'','a141e',1,0,'',0,0,0),(25,13,3,1,0,'70.65.8.11',1178506473,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 6th, 2007 - Funny, I don\'t feel like I\'m standing upside','I\'m glad you are finally going to be getting your bikes tomorrow.  I want you all on the way home!  Funny thing - I went to a pearl party tonight at Jen Brunner\'s - her mother commented that there is a rumor going around that your bikes have been stolen.  Any idea what that\'s all about?  Have you had a chance to see any penguins yet?  I\'m sure the standing upside down part doesn\'t kick in until you get to Antarctica - I just did a unit on Antarctica with my class and I\'m sure I read that in our research!  Good luck tomorrow and all the rest of the days.  You know I\'m going to say &quot;BE CAREFUL!&quot;  and 1-2-3!  Mom','2c07feacfa56b3dd3f21156a1e4f9b3a',0,'','e9d38',1,0,'',0,0,0),(26,13,3,1,0,'70.74.168.42',1178516456,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 6th, 2007 - Funny, I don\'t feel like I\'m standing upside','I\'m happy to hear you get your bikes tomorrow, you know you have a little too much time to kill when you\'re getting drunk in an Irish pub in Argentina. Just wanted to let you guys know I wait for your posts like an eager beaver. Forget facebook, I am totally addicted to your adventures! And the pictures are great. What a bunch of handsome men standing on the edge of that pier! Hope everything goes smoothly tomorrow and just in case you didn\'t catch it from Kathy\'s post BE CAREFUL!! \n\nLove,\nMelissa','0691bfcfa1479b214d7ca71fde6a43f1',0,'','0901c',1,0,'',0,0,0),(28,15,3,53,0,'190.48.136.171',1178547788,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 7th, 2007 - Happy happy joy joy day','Monday morning (11am Brasilia time)\nMay 7th, 2007\nGPS: S54 47.494, W068 18.944\nUshuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina\nLast day at the End of the world \n\nGreetings!  Our motorcycles have arrived!  Well, at least the ship that they\'re on is here.  We\'re still anxiously awaiting a phone call from Osvaldo, our shipping agent, to tell us to come on down and pick them up.\n\nThe weather today is absolutely fantastic.  Clear blue skies, the sun is shining and Sean is singing.  We\'ve decided that we\'re going to put the minimum amount of work into the bikes to get them on the road as soon as possible so that we can get over this wicked mountain pass before the weather turns again and the road is covered in even more ice.\n\nFor now, thought, it\'s been pretty much a case of \'hurry up and wait\' – the bikes are here, but we don\'t have them yet, so we still really can\'t do anything.  Dad\'s packing, but I don\'t know why – the only luggage we\'re taking is with the motorcycles.  So he\'s just going to have to undo it.  But I guess he\'s got a bug in his butt again.\n\nSo not much to report, yet.  I\'ll fire off another one of these later this afternoon when we leave, and – if possible, another one when we get to wherever it is we\'re stopping tonight.\n\nAdios,\nRyan Noble\nUshuaia, Argentina','99bd3593ec416226fc74ee4ffa8ad53f',0,'','08bf1',1,0,'',0,0,0),(29,10,3,69,0,'200.116.150.12',1178551607,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: Mapping our route','Sean.\nReading your route I see that you are planning to go all the way to Cartagena, the reality is that from Cartagena is quite difficult to find a boat to take you to Colon Panama, take note that you can fly your bikes from Medellín or Bogotá, I understand that you Hill like to go with the rules for a record as a secondary goal in your ride, the rule says that you have to pass the same meridian as Panama City.\nI will be contacting people in cartagena for a possibility of a boat and the cargo company with rates and timing, the nice thing about air cargo is that you may loose one day in your trip, by boat is a bit longer due to the size, most riders take their bikes in sail boat and it takes at least 2 to 4 days to get to Panama.\nIf you have any questions let me know, this way I can help you setting your route and timing in Colombia, I will do my best to ride south and meet you at the border coming from Ecuador.\nI have planty of experience in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia if you have any concerns on what route to take, roads change alot in latinamerica.\nIn case you need anything special this is my email: <!-- e --><a href=\"mailto:tibejara@gmail.com\">tibejara@gmail.com</a><!-- e --> \n\nAll the best.\n\nTiberio Jaramillo\nMedellín,  Colombia','c0f9beaf7d14ab3adf12aac13de54f30',0,'','694ea',1,0,'',0,0,0),(30,10,3,53,0,'190.48.141.224',1178574236,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: Mapping our route','Thanks, Tiberio, for your offer of assistance.  \n\nUnfortunately, you have some incorrect information.  The rules DO explicitly state that we must pass through either Cartagena or Baranquilla. Some of the riders who have done this trek have skipped that part, effectively not completing the required route as laid out in the Guinness guidelines.  It is not sufficient to merely cross all meridians.\n\nWe have arranged for a chartered flight to take us from Cartagena to Panama on the 22nd, despite our slow start we are .still on time and on schedule for making it across.  If we can make very good time in Chile and Peru we may even have a day to relax on the beach in Cartagena.\n\nThank you for your very kind offer of assistance.  We look forward to meeting you at the Ecuador border, and taking advantage of your local knowledge of roads, routes and accommodations in Colombia together with any other assistance you could offer at that point.\n\nThanks,\nRyan Noble','aa05ece6739071320a5da27e620776c1',0,'','73cd5',1,0,'',53,0,0),(31,16,3,53,0,'190.48.141.224',1178574270,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 7th, 2007 - I´m beginning to feel like a yoyo','Monday Evening, May 7th, 2007\nDowntown, Ushuaia\n\nA sad, sad day.  After all the excitement and hustle &amp; bustle of earlier this morning, Osvaldo had some disheartening news for us when we visited him this afternoon.\n\nApparently the ship is unloading practically everything it\'s carrying, and we can\'t get at our stuff until everything has been unloaded.  Which will take all day and into the evening.  He assures us, though, that we will be able to start working on our motorcycles by 11am.\n\nWe\'re also at a new hotel.  We had rented a car earlier this week, and had planned to return it tonight when we got our bikes all together.  The hotel we have been staying at - while extremely nice and well-equipped, is a fair ways out of town.  \n\nWe located a different hotel (after much shopping around, which the other boys can tell you I am a huge fan of) just off the main tourist strip on San Martin street, just a few blocks from the docks.  Unfortunately, it\'s four beds a single hotel room.  One bed is located apart from the others, near the entrance to the room, and we\'ve made dad promise to sleep there.  Otherwise he\'d keep us up all night with his snoring.  Fortunately, I brought a couple boxes of earplugs (thanks, Natalie!) and should be just fine with that.\n\nThere is wireless interweb here, but we\'re located on the third floor, and apparently are too far away to pick it up.  I\'m typing this on one of the lousiest keyboards i\'ve ever had the misfortune to use.  Blech.\n\nSo we\'re not leaving tonight.  We WILL be on our way tomorrow afternoon.  One good thing about these delays is that each day delayed here in Ushuaia is another day shaved off the record once we hit Alaska.\n\nThis keyboard sucks too much.  Plus there\'s not really much news.  I\'ll post a much better one tomorrow.\n\nRyan Noble\nUshuaia, Argentina','b5def13ec209fc72c8e345373f6d308f',0,'','a1e0e',1,0,'',0,0,0),(32,16,3,1,0,'142.179.207.178',1178576093,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 7th, 2007 - I´m beginning to feel like a yoyo','Hi Ryan,\n\nI have been enjoying your daily notes and am really glad that your bikes are finally getting unloaded and that you will start your ride tomorrow.  I hope the weather is still going to cooperate with you over the mountain too!  It was nice to see some pictures of the surrounding landscape this last time also and am looking forward to seeing more in your photos.  It\'s another world apart from here that\'s for sure!  Good luck tomorrow in getting going (keep your chin up and keep smiling that huge smile of yours).  Hope you all have a safe journey and that you and your family stay healthy throughout.  \n\nChris - and Peter (of course)','17732c86e25eee96d701ba58c27ca411',0,'','5a186',1,0,'',0,0,0),(33,16,3,1,0,'204.50.51.198',1178594478,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 7th, 2007 - I´m beginning to feel like a yoyo','I\'ve just had time to read all of the updates.  Wow - I can see that Sean is having the seniors Alzheimer thing going early.  Better keep him on a bike and not handling any important doc\'s.  Great to see you\'re overcoming obstacles each day - I\'m sure that\'s a skill you will hone to perfection in the upcoming weeks.  We\'re all incredibly proud of you guys.\n\nWally, Joyce and the kids.','252af12a1d48a846c14d4077dc5abc68',0,'','c9274',1,0,'',0,0,0),(34,17,4,1,0,'198.53.56.80',1178596270,1,0,1,1,1,0,'Carl','Trip','Rob and all, great to hear all is well allbeit a few days slower than anticipated.  Sounds like the driving habbits of some of our locals (lack of lane preferance) Be careful and keep the rubber side down!\n\n                                               Carl and Laurie','f001ee1876032ce4120240584d476068',0,'','decd8',1,0,'',0,0,0),(35,10,3,69,0,'200.116.150.12',1178640311,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: Mapping our route','Hi Ryan.\nThank for your update in Cartagena or Barranquilla as a mandatory point for the record, I see that you have a chartered a plane to take you from Cartagena to Panama this will save you time.\nI know for sure that you will make a very good time in Chile and Perú.\nBe aware in Lima that there is the old Pan Americana and the new Pan Americana, follow the new route and you will pass without heavy traffic.\nSpecial offer for you, I have the route from Lima to Piura, Lima I do not have to avoidance route but it has the ‘circunvalar’ avoidance route West of Trujillo, Perú.\nI do not know your route in Ecuador but do not take the route the Garmin shows as Pan Americana, this road is in bad shape, there is beautiful road that starts East of Guayaquil flows north and then turns East to end in up in the mountains south of Quito, also I have the route to avoid Quito on the east side, once you get back to the main road north of Quito you will pass the Equator line 3 times, If you thin that this information is helpfully for your group I be  more then happy to share.\nRyan it is very important for your group to know ahead of time that your average speed is going kaput in Ecuador and Colombia due to Mountains, I remember Dick Fish telling me his frustrations south of Colombia, hey Tiby we been riding back and forward, up and down and I do not see my GPS moving south. If you have any questions on the road from Perú to Colombia please let me know.\nI am working in plan B, C, D, E for you in Colombia, The Pirelli importer has offered wholesale price for tires if you need them in Medellín, and there is a Suzuki service shop ready 100% for you at any time for your maintenance. I will keep you informed\nDo you happen to know aprox date for you at the Colombia Ecuador border??, from where I leave there is a whole day ride from here to there and if is raining it will take me day and half, for your information this month of May is rainy season, it does rain but not as bad as Vancouver B.C or Seattle.\nBest regards and very good luck.\n\nCount with us Colombians, our house may be small but we have a big heart,  <!-- s:D --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif\" alt=\"Very Happy\" title=\"Very Happy\" /><!-- s:D -->  you will understand this when you visit\n\nTiberio or short Tiby','4111b234028d3f770f6d145de5db89e6',0,'','3da4e',1,0,'',0,0,0),(46,21,3,2,0,'190.48.161.85',1178761599,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 8th, 2007 - Broken rules &amp; broken signal lights','May 8th, 2007\nRio Grande, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina\nUPS: to come\n\nWhat a day.  Justin and I tried to sleep in this morning, only to be rousted out of bed by an eager-beaver Sean and Rob.  Who then proceeded to hike around Ushuaia, accomplishing precisely nothing.\n\nWe´d talked to Osvaldo the day before, and he assured us that we would be able to claim our motorcycles at approximately 11am this morning.  \n\nSean woke up early and hiked out to a gomeria (tire shop) to see about getting studs installed on our tires – we were very worried about the Garibaldi pass that we´d be riding over (if you´ll remember, we drove it in our rented car, and it was covered in ice and snow) but determined that it likely wouldn´t be worth it – we´d have to wory about the studs all the way until Cartagena, a much longer journey than our forty or so kilometres over ice and snow.\n\nAt 11:30am, after Osvaldo postponed until either 12:00pm, or 2:00pm (still unsure as to the translation), we hoofed it over to the pier and talked our way into the customs office.  Which was a big deal – we´d been unable to get onto the pier the other day that we´d tried.\n\nThere, eventually, we were met by Piedro, who told us that our bikes wouldn´t be available until 3:00pm.  After hysterics and gymnastics on the part of sean, he told us (with the unreliable help of a pocket translator), he arranged to have our crate pulled out of the stack and set of to the side, where Osvaldo had aranged to have a warehouse set aside for our use as we built the motorcycles.\n\nAll throughout the day, when we tried to get something done, or to get someone to contact Osvaldo, the response was always the spanish equivelant of ´wait for Mercedes´ (Mercedes being Osvaldo´s english-speaking daughter).  Indeed, once she and Osvaldo arrived, she proved to be invaluable, translating between us and pretty much the entire Puerto Ushuaia.  Thanks, Mercedes!\n\nI´ll skip over the boring parts here, ´cause the keyboard i´m using (internet cafe, no wireless at our hotel) is lousy, just like at the last place, and can´t keep up with my typing.  It keeps dropping letters.  Irritating.\n\nAnyways, this guy Piedro was apparently our customs agent.  He watched us build the motorcycles all day, and then when we´d finally gotten them all together, and all our stuff packed, only then did he make his way over to the customs office to start the paperwork.  We finished all our assembly at about 6pm, and didn´t make it out of Ushuaia until 7:15, ´cause he took so long.  \n\nThen we had to get gas, ´cause our bikes were empty.  And the service station did not have a jerry can.  After discovering that the siphon pump that justin had brought did not work, Rob sacrificed his lungs and sucked enough gas out of Dad´s bike (his had been assembled and driven prior to being shipped) for us all to make it to the service station.\n\nOsvaldo and Mercedes most generously offered to escort us to the crest of the pass we´d been worrying about so much over the past few days.  Keep in mind the sun sets here at about 6pm, so by the time we were finally driving out of Ushuaia and 7:15, it was pitch black.\n\nThe road of the pass was in much better condition than we´d feared, but it still kept our speed down to 15-25 km/h in some stretches.  This didn´t stop Ryan, fearless motohead that he is, from laying his bike down at about 15 km/h.  See, our motorcycles have ABS, and ABS is infallible, right?  Anyways, apparently, just like regular brakes, there are places it should be used, and places it shouldn´t, and I (ryan) was relying on it in exactly the wrong situation.\n\nAnyways, I laid my bike down and slid about fifteen feet on the ice (and snow).  No serious damage, broke the signal lights down the right side of my motorcycle and scuffed up the engine guards.  Which is what they are for, no?\n\nThe rest of the trip was mostly uneventful, except for being all of a)icy b) snowy c) night d) rainy e) justin was leading.\n\nHe was great leading through the pass, but after Mercedes and Osvaldo said good bye to us and sent us on our way, and the road opened up, with most of the snow being on the shoulders instead of teh middle, he just took off.  After I stopped, refusing to follow him anymore (doing about 120 when i wanted to do 80),  he told me that it was actually me keeping the pace – he´d speed up when i caught up to him.  It was this hellish positive-feedback loop.  Anyways, dad took over, and now justin is a much better leader.\n\nAfter that, the ride was pretty much uneventful.  We pulled into Rio Grande about 11:45, and hit up the first hotel we found.  \n\nWe parked on the corner of the hotel, and Rob and I walked into the lobby.  They didn´t have any free rooms, so we went back to the bikes.  Sometime between the curb and the lobby, Rob completely lost his motorcycle key.  We had flashlights out, we combed the ground and street and gutters.  Nowhere to be found.  At 12:20 (Justin would not quit looking for a key lost on the first frackin´ day of the ride), we finally gave up and Justin got Rob´s spare key out of his jacket (we split up our spare keys, just in case).  Well, he tried to.  We ended up breaking three pieces of the zipper off trying to get his pocket open.  We even used pliers.  Fortunately, just after we´d broken the third piece of Justin´s zipper, Rob took his jacket off and the key fell out.  It´d been lodged in his jacket the whole time.  Unfortunately, if Rob ever really does need his key, Justin will have to cut his jacket open to get it.\n\nThe second hotel we tried had no free rooms, either.  We convinced the clerk to start calling hotels in town to see if any had rooms free.  Fortunately, there was one – a tiny little hostel not far from where we were.\n\nWe got into the hostel, unloaded the bikes and changed into new clothes.  Everyone was hungry, except for me – i lose my appetite when i am tired and stressed – so they went out for dinner.  On motorcycles.  At 1:am.  Anyways, they took an hour and a half to get back, and I was so stressed about that I didn´t sleep.  Fortunately, they brought me dinner, because they are awesome.  Then we went to sleep.\nRyan Noble\nMay 9th, 2007\nRio Gallegos, Argentia\nGPS: S51.235153, W068.616951','79e8c61d6d798e1f5f29cfd7561d23b3',0,'','df0fd',1,0,'',53,0,0),(38,19,4,1,0,'198.53.56.80',1178684519,1,0,1,1,1,0,'Carl','Weather','It got to 24 in Red Deer today and sunny hope the weather is good for you guys.\n  Ill try to search though google earth some of the places you are going to so wave every once and a while lol.   \n                                               Gotta go, take care \n                                                  See you soon \n\n                                                  Carl &amp; Laurie','22814d62a4a0c8deb2769a2b93d9f910',0,'','ab36b',1,0,'',0,0,0),(39,20,3,1,0,'70.65.8.11',1178686487,1,0,1,1,1,0,'kathynoble','They are on their way home.','Thought I\'d let you know that Ryan just called me.  They have had a rough day.  Didn\'t get to their bikes until 2:00 p.m.  Took them until 6:00 to get them ready.  They set out and Osvaldo followed them over the pass to make sure they were okay.  They are currently in Rio Grande and they have no internet service.  Ryan laid his bike down but no damage to the bike or himself - he was only going about 15 kms an hour.  They are  exhausted and everyone but Ryan went for some food.  They are preparing for a rough day tomorrow.  As in lots of riding.','8b28453b06417fc1e524f6075403d2df',0,'','500d8',1,0,'',0,0,0),(45,20,3,2,0,'190.48.161.85',1178761557,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: They are on their way home.','Thanks for all the kinds words!\n\nGord - we have run into a few, but unfortunately I didn´t get your message until just now.  I´ll keep my eye open.  Also, we´ve had such a hard couple days that our butts are not the sore spots - surprisingly, it´s our shoulders.  The roads and weather have been so rough over the last few days that we´ve just been tensed up for hours and hours at a time.\n\nThanks!\nRyan Noble\nRio Gallegos, Argentina','fb4bf854ecf36d84851a12393292eb51',0,'','4bda4',1,0,'',0,0,0),(41,20,3,1,0,'142.205.213.42',1178726027,1,0,1,1,1,0,'gord.fraser@td.com','Re: They are on their way home.','Bueno suerte to you Canadiense locos!!!  Im not sure how this blog stuff works, but maybe Kathy can forward it to you lads, if I screw it up.  What an adventure!  Im jealous, but not of the blisters you\'ll have after the first few days!  Im also single and available if you come across any lonely, lovely, spanish ladies who want to visit Canada.  Dont get off the bikes in any agricultural areas, or they\'ll want to quarantine you for 14 days before you get into Mexico or the US - ok, I dont know that for sure, but they always ask if you have visited a farm when you come back from Mexico.\nCheers.\nGord','06a8297592588410941d810453d6bf1c',0,'','74151',1,0,'',0,0,0),(42,20,3,76,0,'70.65.42.232',1178747562,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: They are on their way home.','I\'m glad to hear you were able to start your trek. Hopefully you will not have to endure more icy road conditions. Ride safe and enjoy yourselves.\n\nPatrick','06463622e8b411ffb69b531fbdefd11f',0,'','a6769',1,0,'',0,0,0),(43,20,3,1,0,'142.179.207.94',1178750766,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: They are on their way home.','Happy to hear that Sean and crew are finally on their way home.  We wish them all the best and think of them every day.  We will meet them at the US border when they come back to Canada.\nBill and Shirley MacKinnon','1d4f8807f9126eb9ccb368a24f6ecca3',0,'','691d5',1,0,'',0,0,0),(44,20,3,1,0,'207.200.116.10',1178760602,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: They are on their way home.','Sean:\n\nAre you sure that Ryan is OK after Laying down his bike?  If he didn\'t go get food with you I would be very concerned.  I know Ryan and even though he is a little thicker than a toothpick, he doesn\'t miss a meal for anything.  How are your behinds now that you have a few hours under your belts?  Also, what have you done so that you know which motorcycle belongs to who?hehehe.  Just trying to be funny....Glad to hear you are on your way past home.  Take care, Ride Safe, don\'t smile at anyone until you have checked your teeth in a mirror.  \n\nUncle Jim','53ac1cf0f2996ae67401d34461212524',0,'','098c3',1,0,'',0,0,0),(47,21,3,2,0,'190.48.161.85',1178762282,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 8th, 2007 - Broken rules &amp; broken signal lights','PS - Posting here as admin ´cause my personal account contains symbols I can´t FIND here on this spanish keyboard.','9dd8ef233eaf1a92af803224640746e3',0,'','b60c2',1,0,'',0,0,0),(48,22,3,2,0,'190.48.161.85',1178763124,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 9th, 2007 - Sean hit a llama','May 9th, 2007\nRio Gallegos, Argentian\n\nOne thing – remember how Rob lost his bike key last night?  This morning, he lost the key to one of our three motorcycle locks.  Not just fake-lost, like last night, but real-lost, as in now we have a really high quality length of uncuttable steel we can´t use.\n\nWhat a day.  It started out so nicely – a tiny bit of sunshine to start us off, roads wet but not slick, and no rain.  We were making amazing time out of Rio Grande, but about an hour into our trip we ran into a split (we thought) in the road that included a customs station.  We were exactly at the border between Argetinian provinces, and thought it was some kind of weird inter-provincial checkstop.  \n\nIt turned out to be a FORK in the road, and we headed off to Chile about 110 kms earlier than we´d wanted to.\n\nOver half an hour apiece for Argentinian export customs and Chilean import, and we were on our way.  On the worst roads i´ve ever seen.  Potholes, puddles.  Gravel.  No pavement for nearly three hours.\n\nAnd it started to rain.  Not a heavy rain, but a constant, relentless, soak-you-through-to-your-bones-and-the-other-side kind of malicious rain.  Especially on gravel, pitted roads.\n\nAfter we acclimatized to the new conditions, we were able to pick up the pace to about 80km/h, which wasn´t bad.  Except every one in a while we´d catch a series of massive potholes and ´bout rattle holes in our teeth.  We were costantly on edge, on the literal edges of our seats to try and keep the bikes up.\n\nAn hour and a half or so into this guelling gravel, we passed a grader, spreading new gravel over the road.  Initially, I was pleased – fill up some of these damn potholes.  Instead, it was as though he´d spread jello all over the road.  Our speed dropped immediately from 80 to about 20-30 km/h, and we all nearly bailed several times throughout.  Especially me.  But nobody went down.\n\nWe hit the Chilean border at about noon, and we finally made it off the gravel roads at about 3:30pm.  Interestingly, the paved road we finally made it onto was concrete, not asphalt.  We immediately kicked up the speed to try and make up for time we´d lost going into Chile.\n\nGet this – shortly before we hit the ferry to cross over to the mainland, Sean HIT A FRACKIGN LLAMA.\n\nNo joke.  I lost Sean and Justin over a hill, and apparently a llama freaking jumped across the road right in front of Sean.  He managed to slow enough to catch the rear end of the animal, and went into one of the worst speed wobbles he says he´s ever had.  He still isn´t sure how he pulled out of it, but he did NOT lay his bike down.\n\nUnlike Ryan, who actually dropped his bike twice at the next border station.  Twice within a block.  In my defense, we had to stop and turn around many times to find the right customs lane.  \n\nOnce we hit the real road, we were able to pick up the pace, but we´d lost so much time through that gravel that we were only able to make it to Rio Gallegos tonight.\n\nUnfortuately, there´s nothing at all for services on the roads we travelled, and we all ran out of gas about 25 kms outside Rio Gallegos.  Anticipating a long night trekking back and forth with cans of gas, or hitchhiking, we were most pleasantly surprised when we were able to flag down someone in a gasoline vehicle (out of, say, fifteen vehicles that passed us, only two were gasoline, and the first guys wouldn´t stop).  He was very willing to help us out, in fact, and even had a 1.5-gallon jug of gasoline in his trunk. \n\nWe wanted to buy it, and initially he didn´t want to take any money, but I wanted the jug as well as the gasoline, and offered him $10 USD for it.  He jumped at the chance, and took off right away – to perhaps escape before I came to my senses.  I figuered out, on the way into town, that I´d purchased 5 litres of gasoline for the price of 30 litres.  But hey – it was WAY worth it, dude.\n\nWe haven´t had any time to actually eat, so except for small sandwiches last night, we  haven´t eaten since the morning of the eighth, and that was a small continental breakfast.  \n\nWe went out tonight to this pizza place.  We ordered:\n1)	Large calabrese pizza (thank you Rich for your picky eating habits – without you, i would not have known what this was)\n2)	Two hot dogs (we didn´t know what a ´pancho´ was, and ordered one to try out some local cuisine)\n3)	A large steak sandwich.  Not a steak with some bread, but some frackin´ beef on a massive bun with all the fixin´s\n4)	Two sides of french fries\n5)	A large (LARGE) calabrese calzone\n6)	Six litres of beer\nAnd still could have had dessert, but decided not to push it.  Total cost of the (awesome) meal?  $28 USD.\n\nAn interesting thing about Argentina – there´s really an incredible amount of english music being played, everywhere.  I´m not even kidding, I´ve heard that ´Maggie´ song by Rod Stewart at least three times since I´ve been here.  Haven´t heard any Nickelback, though, so they all either have better taste than Justin, or Nickelback hasn´t broken through here yet.\n\nIt´s 11:15 now, though, and I´m rully, rully tired.\n\nG´night,\nRyan Noble\nRio Gellagos, Argentina','5973a55a8a956832789480af5709aa7a',0,'','802aa',1,0,'',0,0,0),(49,22,3,1,0,'70.65.8.11',1178766437,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 9th, 2007 - Sean hit a llama','Great ro read both yesterday\'s blog and today\'s.  Everynight I see a posting I\'m glad you\'ve made it through another day.  Sounds like quite an adventure.  Imagine llamas in the wild....Glad you got to eat.  Hope tomorrow goes better.  It\'s got to be getting warmer????  We miss you and love you!!!!!\n\nMom','4fab55f56fc8cc00600f0b92113b24c8',0,'','aa204',1,0,'',0,0,0),(50,22,3,1,0,'207.200.116.199',1178776829,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 9th, 2007 - Sean hit a llama','Ryan:\n\nWhat do you mean by &quot;Free Rooms&quot;?  Is this a local term that you have picked up so quickly and think that we no what your talking about? Or, are you really looking for a &quot;Free Room&quot;....No cost to you?  Wow, how can you be on the road only two days and Rob has already lost keys......It is time for a responsible adult to step in for some guidence....Oh, stupid me,  I forgot who was in the group.  Sean, what an experience to hit a Llama.  I too, like to do things while traveling that I can\'t do at home.  \n\nLets play it safe from now on.  As was noted in a previous response...Rubber side down.  \n\nBuenos Nochas, \n\nUncle Jim','72790d971d8fd12fb31227de085471b4',0,'','f15df',1,0,'',0,0,0),(51,22,3,1,0,'24.71.223.149',1178803577,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 9th, 2007 - Sean hit a llama','I can hardly wait to get up and read about the next adventure.  It only took me about ten minutes to control my belly laugh today.  Ryan you are a great story teller!  I guess when you have the four of you together there is never a minute where something isn\'t happening.\n\nOne question. What happened to the llama?','b29995357be49cc2819324f35cfcf6ef',0,'','a78e4',1,0,'',0,0,0),(52,22,3,1,0,'204.209.247.2',1178813733,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 9th, 2007 - Sean hit a llama','HI Nobles.\nMy Grade One class at Oriole Park in Red deer have started following your progress.  We will check in each day to see how your trip is going.  We hope Sean AND the llama are okay!  Jaden wants to know if Rob found the keys.  Taylor hopes you beat the record.  All the boys and girls hope you drive safely and want you to bring your bikes to our school so they can check them out.\n\nGood Luck,\nMs. Robb (Shelley), Mrs. Beaudry and the Grade one students','4a69b66014aabb37ff81a8304ae0def1',0,'','5b54f',1,0,'',0,0,0),(53,22,3,1,0,'70.65.42.232',1178815746,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 9th, 2007 - Sean hit a llama','hay guys you are on quite the journey.\n\nMy little guy Elijah (6 weeks old) has been on a journey of his own - a chest cold turned out to be more than that and he was air lifted by STARS on Monday afternoon to the children\'s hospital in Calgary. He was  hooked up to all kinds of machines intubated (tube in lungs) and so forth. He is doing better after three days (today) they took the tube out of his lungs (that\'s called extubation), I\'m learning all kinds of new acronyms that I will never prolly use again. all in all it has been a very tiring week but he is doing much better.\n\nIts been said before but I will say it again - you guys are nuts - but it takes a little bit of that to do what you are doing - \n\nGod speed\n\nJustin','a8c49d48364af709e302326752b498d5',0,'','0dbdb',1,0,'',0,0,0),(54,20,3,59,0,'208.38.12.194',1178826012,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: They are on their way home.','I have been reading the post and have enjoyed and look forward to reading more of your adventure. I never would have though the arms and shoulders would bother you I would have thought the butt would be the first to go. Drive safe and watch for the wildlife. I look forward to joining you in Shelby or Coutts for the ride to Red Deer.\nDarryl','eb962579dcc6e9ed9d020bb382633c9e',0,'','a6b9a',1,0,'',0,0,0),(55,20,3,1,0,'200.116.150.12',1178835846,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: They are on their way home.','Ryan.\nI see that the terrain is taken good care of you all, no worries, once you ride over the Andes between Argentina and Chile the terrain is going to change and you are going to love it, desert From la Serena Chile to the Peru-Ecuador Border\nDrive safe.\nTiberio','b3cc2602d01538950b49bc1a74f5470e',0,'','ae3cb',1,0,'',0,0,0),(56,23,3,1,0,'70.65.8.11',1178851572,1,0,1,1,1,0,'kathy lee noble','First bike maintenence','Thursday evening, May 10. Ryan and Sean just phoned. They are in some little tiny town just south of Teco, Argentina.  They rode over 1000 kms today and they are beat. The bikes are finally broken in so Rob and Justin are doing the first bit of maintenence on them. No hitting of llamas today nor laying down of bikes. Just riding. They think they are a bit ahead of schedule after today\'s ride.  They are in an area with no internet service, that\'s why you get to hear from me instead of witty Ryan.  Tomorrow they cross over into Chile - and they mean it this time!  So they are looking forward to a 45 minute border crossing out of Argentina and another one into Chile.  They can\'t wait to start feeling the heat....Ryan says the night sky is absolutely breathtaking!','831064f7b5181d707b8da194f513d91f',0,'','fb736',1,0,'',0,0,0),(57,24,4,55,0,'198.166.20.189',1178855512,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Great news and great writing','May 10..\nIt\'s great to hear that the crew are on their way and that they made a lot of distance today.  1000 km... the mind boggles.  It\'s no wonder that they are beat.  \nThis diary will be a wonderful record of the trip.  It\'s time to compliment Ryan on his SUPERB writing.  His entries are lucid, descriptive, humorous, and really &quot;tell the tale&quot; of their adventures.  It\'s fun to wait for his description  of the day\'s events.  It seems that everyone on the trip has some specific role, and Ryan is obviously the one to keep a record of the trip.  Rob and Justin can take care of the technical aspects, and Sean can supervise as well as run into assorted animals on the road.  Division of labor is a great thing!    \nHope that the border crossings go well tomorrow.  We found the roads in Chile to be quite good, so they should be able to get lots of distance behind them in the next few days.  \nAlan and Sharon Cooper.','f1d3be51ab4ad724d812555bd0aac056',0,'','552d0',1,0,'',0,0,0),(58,23,3,1,0,'207.200.116.9',1178858900,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: First bike maintenence','Dear Noblemen:\n\nGlad to hear from Kathy about what is going on.  Please don\'t think you guys are aff the hook for a detailed event of todays happenings.  Ryan we want to know what kind of cuisine you were able to dine on if nothing else.    \n\nTake care, \n\nUncle Jim','fdeabe815269a968e55bcd12ef05bc95',0,'','666c8',1,0,'',0,0,0),(59,22,3,1,0,'142.154.217.131',1178859863,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 9th, 2007 - Sean hit a llama','WOW!! What an adventure. Sure glad to hear that the trip is going relatively well. The Mudgekins are cheering you on. Have a safe trip and we hope to see you on Mudge Island sometime.\nLinda &amp; Bob (from Mudge Island, BC)','32f709eb45e6ba53dd27e16864bf8b60',0,'','f2bc1',1,0,'',0,0,0),(67,29,3,53,0,'201.221.201.156',1178937016,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 10th, 2007 - Hairy Showers &amp; Milky Ways','May 10th, 2007.  9:30pm Brasilia time.\nApproximately 48 hours into the record.\nSarmiento, Argentina\nGPS: S45 35.378, W069 04.266\n\nBike drop standings:\n1st place: Ryan: 1 slide, 2 drops\n2nd place: Rob: 0 slides, 2 drops\n3rd place: Sean: 1 slide, 1 drop\n4th place: Justin: 0 slides, 0 drops\n\nWildlife sightings:\n1 Armadillo\n1 Million Sheep\nSeveral hundred llamas (including one slightly injured llama)\nMany Emu(?)\nSeveral quail-like birdies (talk to Rob for further information)\n\nUnfortunately, the standings for the motorcycle dropping are not like golf.  Taking a cue from Doug, we\'ve started a bike-drop pool.  Each of us is going in for $20, and whoever has the fewest drops/slides when we get to Alaska gets to keep all the money.  Yay!\n\nI realize that I\'ve forgotten to mention the mileage we\'ve gotten each day, so here\'s a little breakdown:\nDay 1 (Ushuaia -&gt; Rio Grande): 225km\nDay 2 (Rio Grande -&gt; Gallegos): 409km\nDay 3 (Gallegos -&gt; Sarmiento): 939km\n\nAnother thing that I forgot to mention is that twice yesterday, while we were slogging through the gravel road in Chile – we got stopped, twice, by about a billion sheeps just milling around the road.  Each time, there was a vehicle stuck in the middle of them, inching its\' way across the herd.  I guess motorcycles are uncommon enough around those parts that we were able to scare the sheeps away just by driving up on \'em.  They scattered, like – well, like sheep.  And they stink.  Very badly.\n\nWe\'re at last picking up our pace and getting on to where we need to be.  We\'re actually a little bit ahead of schedule right now, but the promise of an extra day on the beach in Cartagena is really motivatin\' us.\n\nToday was the best ride we\'ve had yet, although still not without problems.  The day dawned overcast but dry.  Apparently the clouds had rolled in just before morning, \'cause I saw a star last night, and the temperature plummeted from a balmy 3 degrees C to a frigid something-cold-enough-to-frost-the-motorcycles.  Once we got out on the road at 8:16am, out of the city and through the mess of construction zones, the temperature hit 0 degrees and didn\'t nudge upwards until about 10:30.  I\'ve had a few cold rides before, but this one takes the cake.  Stupidly, I\'d decided against my cold-weather gloves, thinking that a clear-sky forecast for later in the day meant warm weather.\n\nThe scenery, surprisingly (to me) is that of a desert – scrub brush, cacti and sand as far as the eye could see, and nearly as flat as Saskatchewan.  Llamas everywhere, and a constant menace as they dart out across the road.  We actually saw a little armadillo scurry across the highway in front of us – I had to swerve, hard, to miss it.  At first I thought it was a giant rat, but then I saw the distinctive shelly back.  Was pretty cool – my first amadillo, everwhere.  \n\nApparently Argentina doesn\'t have a road-kill cleanup crew.  There are carcasses everywhere, in various stages of decomposition, and most are rendered unidentifiable \'cause they\'ve been picked clean by scavengers.\n\nWhile leaving Rio Gallegos, I noticed that Dad\'s rear tire had a wider dirty patch than Justin\'s.  Our mechanic checked the tired, and confirmed that Dad\'s tire was, indeed, low.  And then he broke the tire guage.  We decided to ride on until we needed gas, since we\'d been going so far, and get all the tires checked at the gas station.  All of us were low, and now we are not.\nWe\'d been chasing a promise of a blue sky all morning – constantly just on the horizon was a blue crescent, with the sun shining through it.  Above us was a dreary, cloudy sky.  At exactly noon we finally caught up to the glorious sun and basked in its\' rays.  That marked the first time that I was able to use the robocop sunvisor on my helmet for real.  And, coincidentally enough, exactly thirty-two minutes later the odometer on my motorcycle rolled over 1000.\n\nWe lost a lot of time at our second gas stop – we\'d all run out of gas just a few kilometres from it, and had to use the spare jug on Rob\'s bike to make it in.  Sean was actually able to coast to within about 50 metres of the service station.  Since running out of gas has been a problem two days running, we each picked up a ten-litre jug to use as a range-extender (the tanks on our bikes are twenty litres, so this would increase our range by 50%) so that we didn\'t have to worry about this anymore.  \n\nUnfortunately, the jugs leaked, and we lost some more time macguyvering a seal for them.  They still leaked a little bit, on our luggage, and now this tiny hotel room reeks of gasoline.\n\nToday marked some of the best scenery we\'ve had since we started.  For hours we rode along the coast in blue, sunny weather, and the temperature creeped up at one point to fifteen degrees.  Again, though, this was marred by a tremendous cross-breeze that constantly threatened to push our bikes off the road, and would blow so hard against my helmet that i was forced to literally keep a constant pull on the handlebars so that I didn\'t get knocked flat against the seat of my bike.  It would gust, too, and everybody\'s necks are sore tonight from fighting that wind.  Fortunately, that finished up at about 5:00, and we had some awesome driving – winding roads in and out of flat-topped mesas.  Straight into the sunset, but the sun went down fairly quickly, and our last thirty kilometres or so were actually in the dark.\n\nWe pulled into Sarmiento about seven o\'clock.  It\'s a little town – so little, in face, that most of the streets aren\'t even paved.  They\'ve also got these weird pipe things running across the road in a sort of large, very steep speed bump kind of way.  Dad hit his centre stand, hard, on one of these things, and damn near high-centered himself on it.  Dad\'s been having a hard time with this bike – he\'s a very short guy, and even with a custom seat and lowering links on the bike, it\'s still almost too tall for him.  Additionally, \'cause both Sean and Robbie\'s bikes have been lowered quite a bit, the kickstand is a bit too tall for the bike, and they have to be very careful about parking on the correct slope so that the bike doesn\'t tip over when they walk away.\n\nRobbie wanted me to mention what a great break-in these motorcycles have received.  We\'re each about 1500 kms now, so the break-in phase is complete.  We\'ve been on all kinds of terrain with these bikes since we\'ve got them, across all speed and rpm ranges.  And he doesn\'t have anything else to add.\n\nThat said, we\'ve all discussed these motorcycles, and so far we\'re in love with them.  Several times since we started this trek I\'ve thought \'jeez, i\'m glad we got this bike\'.  It\'s great at the highway, it rocks on the gravel, and it\'s got clearance to get over large potholes and pipe-shaped things.  Unless you\'re Sean, and catch a bad spot.  <!-- s:D --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif\" alt=\"Very Happy\" title=\"Very Happy\" /><!-- s:D -->\n\nTonight is the night of First Service, an important time in the life of any young motorcycle.  It\'s when young motorcycles become mature motorcycles.  It\'s also 10:30pm right now, and everyone but me is outside just getting started on the first bike.  We\'ve got to get an oil change done on each bike, and a chain adjustment, cleaning &amp; font sprocket replacement (we\'re replacing the sprocket so we get some better top-end speed in exchange for losing some low-end power.  This makes sense \'cause 99% of the rest of the trip will be on highways.)  \n\nWe initially had some problems finding a hotel room (just like yesterday).  Fortunately, one of the two hotels in this town had room for us.  Unfortunately, it\'s not the nicer of the two.\n\nCurrently i\'m sitting on the sole bedside table in this hotel room.  It\'s a tiny room with four bunk beds and a tiny bathroom.  A bathroom which seems to have not been cleaned since it was last occupied – if it had even been cleaned prior to that.  There\'s hair and dirt all over it, especially in the shower.  Yuck.  Glad I showered this morning.  Actually, everybody did, so we\'re all probably going to skip that in the morning.\n\nOn a brighter note, though – when I walk outside the sky is overwhelmed with stars.  I have never seen so many, so clearly, except maybe a handful of times in the Rocky Mountains.  Here, though, it\'s stars as far as i can see, from flat horizon to flat horizon.  Only seldom in my life have I been able to make out the Milky Way across the sky – here, it\'s visible immediately upon stepping outside, even with light-adjusted eyes.  I managed to spot Orion in the north, and the Southern Cross almost directly above me.  I even managed to nap Sirius as we were riding into the sunset.\n\nI\'d like to finish this up by taking some time to thank Natalie O\'Connor, who\'s in charge of organizing the rally when we come through Red Deer on June 2nd.  It\'s a huge task, and thankless (well, until now) and she\'s doing a heck of a job.  Absolutely no thanks, by the way, to Costco – who, after confirming with Sean, and AGAIN later with Natalie that we\'d be able to use their parking lot for this event, have bailed with no explanation.  \n\nWe do have several live bands lined up, and HOG (Harley Owner Group) have offered the use of a massive barbecue, and the people to run it.  The Capri Centre has stepped up with an offering of some grilled food – and, if the license can be arranged, there\'ll be a beer gardens as well.\n\nShe\'s put out a call for volunteers to help with the setup and tear-down of the grounds, so if you could spare some time that Saturday, shoot her off an email to <!-- e --><a href=\"mailto:natalie8@telus.net\">natalie8@telus.net</a><!-- e --> and let her know.  \n\nI\'ve gotta go change some oil now.  Hopefully I can figure out how to send this tonight.\n\nPeace out,\nRyan Noble\nSarmiento, Argentina','232594cf69224da8562ce5d041a0d6a3',0,'','49bfc',1,0,'',0,0,0),(61,22,3,1,0,'169.241.28.72',1178898718,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 9th, 2007 - Sean hit a llama','how the heck do you hit a llama? from what i know they are fairly large animals and not hard to spot from a distance. Go to Youtube.com and look up &quot;street bike hits deer&quot; to see a video of what it might feel like to hit a llama. this guy in the video crashed so sean must be a relatively good rider.\n\ngood luck,\n\nCouzin Andrew','a78f0d9affd4b2cffb03fa63330d889a',0,'','539f8',1,0,'',0,0,0),(62,26,3,1,0,'70.65.42.232',1178904632,1,0,1,1,1,0,'Natalie','June 2 - Rally','Hello Noblequest Friends,\n\nNow that the boys are on their way back we can begin planning for their homecoming....actually, more like a wave hello on their way through to Alaska!\n\nDue to some technical difficulties the location of the Rally on June 2 has been changed.  It will be located at the Capri Hotel parking lot outside of Bellini\'s between 1:00-8:00pm.  There will be live music, food, bar, and entertainment for the entire family.  All proceeds will be donated to the Kids Cancer Care Foundation.  \n\nAnyone interested in riding with the Noble\'s to the event (either from the border or another meeting point closer to Red Deer) please make sure you get in touch with someone through the website or right here on the blog postings.  It would be great to have as many riders as possible to support this amazing journey.\n\nNatalie','baa1a70d3dbb2821b5033577542d6a39',0,'','22785',1,0,'',0,0,0),(63,26,3,1,0,'24.71.223.149',1178911394,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: June 2 - Rally','I\'ve already registered but just to let you know I\'ll be meeting the guys at the boarder.  Let\'s see how many we can get!!','f5c6d10a736fa1a840c6e618a2e1e32c',0,'','e1a28',1,0,'',0,0,0),(64,26,3,1,0,'24.71.223.149',1178911520,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: June 2 - Rally','I need to get use to signing these note, sorry.  The last note attempting to encourage as many people to meet at the boarder was from Brian Noble, that\'s me.\n\nBrian.','69b0339c215439e46ab5cc9580d8cd37',0,'','d5914',1,0,'',0,0,0),(65,27,4,1,0,'205.206.59.152',1178914907,1,0,1,1,1,0,'Glenn Devereaux','Hi Sean and the boys','It\'s great to see that you\'re well on your way and that things are going along pretty well.  I just got my motorbike out on the road this week and was thinking of you. How do you think my Goldwing would withstand those roads? From the looks of some of the pics you could have used my heated jacket.\nHi from all of the guys in the Piper Creek Optimist Club. It\'s great to see what you\'re doing. I\'ll try to make it to the boarder for the ride to Red Deer.\nhey Sean... Remember the last line in the Optimist Creed?\nBe to large for worry, to NOBLE for anger, to strong for fear, and to happy to permit the presense of trouble.\n\nGod speed and keep the shinny side up.\nGlenn','81de09bc8e4af60ada89c6039ad20c3a',0,'','1ab38',1,0,'',0,0,0),(66,28,4,1,0,'209.89.164.211',1178922794,1,0,1,1,1,0,'guest','amazing','I heard about your trip when listening to CJBK radio...........I just had to check out the website and am totally enjoying reading of your adventures.  You\'re all a wee bit crazy, it\'s a long, long ride, but have to be congratulated for your stamina and your big hearts in raising money for the kids!!\nI\'ll be following along, reading the blogs daily and will spread the word of your trek!  Stay safe!','0666b2dd462cffa2714824cd1f28b13b',0,'','2ea46',1,0,'',0,0,0),(69,31,3,53,0,'201.221.201.156',1178941726,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 11th, 2007 - Sayonara, Argentina!','May 11th, 2007, 10:40pm Santiago time\nApproximately 72 hours into the record\nOsorno, Chile\nGPS: S40 57.422, W073 13.236\n\nWe crossed a timezone today, so it really feels like it\'s almost midnight. \n\nWhat a day, though – bested yesterday\'s total, coming in at 980 kms.  We got a late start, too – Rob, Justin and gofer Dad were up late – 1 or 2 in the morning and we all slept in.  I wrote a bit on the computer and then went to bed at eleven last night, so i\'m feeling better than they are.  Yay for being a nerd who finds changing oil a monumental mechanical challenge.\n\nI forgot to mention we had ourselves a chat about the rules of the road.  Justin was feeling very frustrated (and as he does, he let us know) hanging at the rear of the train.  His point is that it\'s everyone\'s job to keep the guy in the rearview mirror in sight.  Putting the fastest rider behind the slowest (that would be me) makes the fast rider tailgate and the slow rider angry.  \n\nAnyways, we decided to try Justin in the front, where he wouldn\'t feel constrained by having to follow someone, but where he\'d be able to stretch his legs a little bit.  I like being in the back, too – i don\'t have to worry about watching anyone behind me, and if i pull over to take a pee, Justin has a five minute turnaround time to get back.\n\nWe continue to fight with our gasoline.  We purchased some containers yesterday, and I believe I mentioned that we had to macguyver a seal so they wouldn\'t let.  This gas station had two sizes of containers – 5L and 10L varieties.  Dad and I figured we\'d be able to stick two small ones in our side cases, while Rob &amp; Justin with the Givi luggage would strap a large one to their back seat.\n\nTurns out the smaller containers are made of thinner plastic, and they crumple under the pressure of being strapped to a bike.  All my luggage just reeks of gasoline (fortunately, it\'s all waterproof and so my clothes still just smell of BO).  I also developed a hole in one of these lousy containers, and had to use up my water bottle to wash it off my bike.\n\nBut as for how the trip went – today was by far the best riding we\'ve had yet.  Clear blue sky (literally – I don\'t think i saw a cloud all day), temperature between four degrees C in the morning and 12 degrees at night.  We stopped shortly after we left, too – Sean called CKGY for the KG Morning Show, and Rob decided to take the centre stands off his and Sean\'s bikes.  Apparently when Rob hit a bridge with his motorcycle, he popped some bolts on it, and stretched some others.  They noticed while changing the oil and stuff last night that his centre stand was barely hanging on.\n\nOur gas station stops are getting more and more streamlined.  We all pull up to one pump and line up behind it, and explain in our broken spanish (here\'s where Sean\'s extensive experience at charades comes in handy) that we all want to be on the same pump.  Rob and I yell at Justin when he starts taking articles of clothing off – seriously, the dude rips everything off every chance he gets, and takes twenty minutes to get ready to go again – so he\'s stopped doing that, and is usually ready shortly after everyone else is on the road.\n\nThe terrain has really varied today, as well.  We started out in a bit of a flat desert, kinda like yesterday, but moved quickly into foothills terrain – slight hills, slight turns, and were able to really rocket across Argentina.  At 2:20pm (i\'m not even kidding) my odometer rolled over 2000kms, and about that time we hit the Andes.  Gorgeous mountains with snowcapped peaks.  Rob had to stop us and run ahead so that he could film us all coming in.  I think that secretly he wants to be Claudio from the Long Way Round.  One thing about the mountains struck me as wrong, though, and I couldn\'t put my finger on it for a while.  None of them (at the beginning, anyways) had any trees on them.  It was all scrub brush and grass, even up the the snowcapped peak.  This changed as the day wore on, until at the end we were riding through thick mixed forests.\n\nThis changed the roads, and we were able to get into some of what I think is every motorcyclist\'s dream terrain – winding roads passing lakes and rivers and other things.  One thing that really sucks about mountain riding is that it\'s easy to get stuck behind a giant semi \'cause you can\'t see around the next bend to see if it\'s safe to jump into the other lane to pass.  Fortunately, our bikes are pretty fast, and we were able to get round the road whales without too much hassle.  Rob did almost clip a car with his luggage case, though, and we all gave him crap for it later.\n\nRob and Justin continue to have major, major problems with keys.  Justin lost his key again last night after i wrote up the blog entry, and ended up using tools to pull apart the zipper on his permanently-jammed-and-i-mean-this-ain\'t-ever-coming-off waterproof breast pocket... shortly before he found his regular key in his regular jacket pocket.  Then again this morning Rob was frantically trying to find his key, tearing apart the room and getting all teary.  Then Sean found it in his (Sean\'s) pants.  Weird.\n\nI would like to mention, for the record, that neither I nor Sean have had any problems locating our keys when we need them.  Although last night I did tell Rob and Justin that they need to get a keychain on theirs like I have (it\'s a nice one i picked up in Ushuaia, with a penguin) and whipped out my keys to show them.  Unfortunately, sometime during the day, my keychain had fallen off.\n\nOh yeah, for those of you who are fans of Napoleon Dynamite, here\'s a story for you.  The \'hotel\' we stayed at last night had only one item on their menu, apparently: steak with fries.  I kid you not, the steak we got looked queasingly similar to the steaks Uncle Rico would always cook up and occasionally throw at Napoleon.  But we were so hungry it was awesome, anyways.\n\nJust before sunset we finally made it to the Argentinian/Chilean border.  Unlike the Canadian/US border, where you go through just one set of customs, down here you have to exit through customs for Argentina before entering into Chile through their own customs peeps.  Usually, this process takes about half an hour.  Today, for some reason, we had to get special papers stamped for our bikes (even though we have the carnets, and we\'ve been into and out of Chile twice before, on our second day, and didn\'t need these papers).  Anyways, it took a lot longer than we\'d anticipated just to leave Argentina, and we didn\'t get back on the road until full dark had fallen.  The Chilean border was also distressingly far, over yet another mountain pass.  In the dark.  At least this time there wasn\'t snow actually on the road, just piled on the sides occasionally.  It was, however, wet and icy in spots, forcing us to move through the pass at a slow 40 km/h.\n\nThe Chilean border was brutal.  We got The Worst Customs Agent In The World, Ever, I\'m Not Even Kidding.  When we\'d gone into Chile before, the customs agent was awesome – he filled out the forms for us, stamped \'em bang bang bang and we were on our way.  This guy wouldn\'t help us out at all, and acted like he\'d never seen a carnet before.  I\'d brought along two pens in separate pockets in my jacket, but sometime throughout the trip everyone else has lost them.  I should\'ve known better than to lend them to my family.  Anyways, we had to fill out all these forms ourselves, and nobody had a pen.  And this guy wouldn\'t give us one.\n\nJustin managed to charm a pen out of the cute International Policia girls at the other end of the building, just before the irritating customs agent folded and started filling out our forms.  It took forever, and apparently he did it wrong, \'cause two guys in suits eventually came over and did it all again.  Then they searched our bags, and made us dig out more papers and then – GAH it took an hour, and it was very very cold by the time we finally got back on the road.\n\nWe rolled into town about 10:00pm local time and managed to find a hotel WITH INTERWEB pretty soon after.  South Americans sure do love their one-ways.  Everywhere we go, everything\'s a one-way street.  Which would be fine.  Except the roads don\'t alternate traffic – you\'ll get two, three, sometimes even four one-ways in a row, all heading the same direction.  Turning around requires a detour of like sixteen blocks!\n\nWe\'re finally out of Argentina, and it\'s time to say goodbye.  Today was our last bit in Argentina, and Rob anticipates we\'ll be into Santiago (capital of Chile) tomorrow, and on into Peru by Monday.\n\nJustin and Sean just got back with food, and i\'m starving, so i\'ll cut this off.  Wanted to try to embarrass Natalie, so – I love you, and miss you a whole bunch.  <!-- s:D --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif\" alt=\"Very Happy\" title=\"Very Happy\" /><!-- s:D -->\n\nRyan Noble\nOsorno, Chile','e019264bbc2399dc3054fdbe34d8e496',0,'','5d6d6',1,0,'',0,0,0),(70,31,3,1,0,'68.147.252.93',1178980518,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 11th, 2007 - Sayonara, Argentina!','Hi guys.  Thanks again for a great update Ryan.  It really sounds like every moment is another challenge.  Once you are back day to day issues are going to be nothing compared to what you are handling right now.\n\nSounds like those border crossing continue to cause you all grief but at least you knew they were going to be somewhat of a problem and you haven\'t had to pay big bucks to get through the, at least you haven\'t mentioned anything about it.\n\nGood luck guys and keep on going!  Your support team back home are all cheering you on.\n\nUncle Brian.','28813bea945159de9df4a6867b7ba309',0,'','42b3e',1,0,'',0,0,0),(71,32,4,69,0,'200.116.150.12',1178992660,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Distances to Cartagena, Colombia','Hi Ryan and the gang.\n\nGood timing so far, keep it up, enjoy desert riding because once you arrive to Ecuador and Colombia you are going to get some rain, May is vary wet in Ecuador and Colombia.\n\nDistances:\nOsorno – Santiago:  975 Km.    To Arica: 3.080 Km.  To: Cartagena (Col.):  7310 Km.\n Santiago – Chañaral :  964 Km.   To Arica  2.115 Km.  To Cartagena (Col.) 5.195 Km.\nChañaral – Arica: 1190 Km. \nArica = Border line from Chile to Perú\n\nPerú:\nTacna – Lima: 1.301 Km.        To Tumbes: 2.634 Km.  To Cartagena (Col.) 2.561 Km.\nLima – Tumbes 1.333 Km.\nTumbes = Border line from Perú to Ecuador\n\nEcuador:\nHuaquillas – Rumichaca: 801 Km. vía Machala – Babahoyo \n\nColombia:\nIpiales – Medellín  953 Km.      To Cartagena  1.596 Km.\nMedellín – Cartagena  643 Km. \n\nBest Regards\nTiberio','ef7af4c78e5c0058b5c2032fde04565e',0,'','b2898',1,0,'',0,0,0),(78,22,3,53,0,'164.77.240.214',1179095611,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 9th, 2007 - Sean hit a llama','Well, Dad\'s a persistent guy.  Apparently he had to chase the llama all over the road to actually make contact.\n\nJaden - As far as keys go, every time I talk about them (and there are more coming) the key that has gone missing is always found, usually after twenty to forty minutes\' worth of searching and yelling.  So, to answer your question - yes, Rob did find his keys. <!-- s:D --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif\" alt=\"Very Happy\" title=\"Very Happy\" /><!-- s:D -->  Glad to hear you guys are following us!  Sure does seem like more people than I ever imagined are interested in reading what I have to write.  It\'s a little weird to have an audience.   And we\'ll definitely bring our bikes to your school when we\'re done this little trip of ours.  \n\nThanks for writing, I love to get the comments and questions.  Send me some more, and i\'ll answer them as soon as I get a chance.  <!-- s:D --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif\" alt=\"Very Happy\" title=\"Very Happy\" /><!-- s:D -->\n\nRyan Noble\nChanarla, Chile','ec6b47895461ebdee55baded90631802',0,'','79da4',1,0,'',0,0,0),(77,31,3,53,0,'164.77.240.214',1179093570,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 11th, 2007 - Sayonara, Argentina!','Greetings!\n\nI know I haven\'t been _real_ active on this - as far as responding to comments and questions and the like.  Truth is, i haven\'t had as much time for this as I\'d like - last night we didn\'t even get into our hotel room until shortly after midnight.\n\nAnyways, I do read and I REALLY do appreciate the comments.  It\'s kinda nice to have an audience.  I\'ll be posting the entries for the last two days shortly (i have to write them, first).\n\nAnd I can\'t wait for Arizona Charlies, Jim.  And, Craig - I promise, from now on, to keep the rubber side down.  <!-- s:D --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif\" alt=\"Very Happy\" title=\"Very Happy\" /><!-- s:D -->\n\nRob is even going to have time tonight to finally compile the GPS tracks we\'ve been taking throughout this whole journey, so if you\'ve got yourself some Google Earth, you\'ll be able to check out exactly where we\'ve been - even down to the U-turns and dead-ends that we experienced last night when we were looking desperately for a hotel that didn\'t charge by the hour.\n\nRyan Noble\nChanaral, Chile','b3936f586d2004942f146cde6c06e1c0',0,'','10620',1,0,'',53,0,0),(74,31,3,1,0,'207.200.116.135',1179023787,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 11th, 2007 - Sayonara, Argentina!','Dear Noblemen:\n\nGlad to hear you keep getting closer to us in Las Vegas.  Looking forward to your visit so stay safe so we can go and have the Steak and Eggs Special for $2.99 at Arizona Charlies.  Not quite like the Argentine Beef your are used to but the price is real close.  Ryan, do you read these resonses????  \nNext time Sean, feed Ryan before he starts typing so he won\'t have a reason to quite.  We love to check the blogs to see what has happened on your trip.  \n\nTake Care, \n\nUncle Jim / Aunt Nanette','ce0030380f0630047f70389adcc15422',0,'','9139a',1,0,'',0,0,0),(75,31,3,1,0,'70.65.8.11',1179026131,1,0,1,1,1,0,'kathynoble','Re: May 11th, 2007 - Sayonara, Argentina!','Just a quick note to let you know how proud I am of you all and the cause you are trying to raise money for - Kids Cancer Care.  The student from my school who has been battling cancer for just under 2 years passed away this week and his funeral was today.  Children should not be dying of this disease!  No one should!  With help from people like you - a cure can be found so little children can grow up to lead long healthy lives!  If you read this - please donate by going to Kids Cancer Care Foundation site so children like Brandon can live!','d6d2a190146d49bfc94319f299dd73e7',0,'','c6e4c',1,0,'',0,0,0),(76,31,3,73,0,'70.65.59.4',1179034972,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 11th, 2007 - Sayonara, Argentina!','Hi Guy\'s\n\nRita and I are glad to hear that things are beginning to come together. We are keeping you in our prayers and are enjoying the updates. keep her on the road boys and don\'t let Justin get to far a head. Be safe looking forward in seeing you. \n\nCraig and Rita','58199777174aac53bc575e2217484780',0,'','7f080',1,0,'',0,0,0),(79,34,3,53,0,'164.77.240.214',1179098688,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 12th, 2007 - Like a party in my eyes, and everybody\'s sm','[i:02285]Curses!  I ran out of topic room.  It should be: &quot;Like a party in my eyes, and everybody\'s smoking&quot;[/i:02285]\n\nMay 12th, 2007, 12:00am Santiago time\nPichidangui, Chile (A couple hundred kilometres north of Santiago)\nGPS: S32 14.118, W071 52.080\nDistance traveled today: 1150 kms\n\nWhat a grueling day this was.  We\'d gotten a late start in the morning because – of all things – we couldn\'t find the key to the HOTEL room that we\'d stayed in that night.  Keys are the bane of my existence.  This was the one key that we couldn\'t find of all the ones that have been lost.  Finally, in exasperation, I asked the clerk how much just to pay for the lost key.\n\nIn Argentina, the peso was comparatively strong – 3 pesos per 1 American dollar.  In Chile, it\'s a bit different.  The exchange rate is about 700 Chilean pesos per 1 American dollar (Justin likes saying things like “This hamburger is SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS – er, I mean pesos.”).  She wanted 500 pesos for the key, so I ran out into my money pouch and grabbed the smallest bill I could find quickly – a $5.  Was worth it just to get out of there.\n\nOsorno is the first large city we\'ve hit.  Traffic was very busy, but at least the highways were four-lane divided blacktop.  We were all intent on making up for the time lost while searching for that stupid key, so we were all going faster than we should have been.  Even me – the rider with the least experience.  I should have known better when I started getting small speed wobbles every time i passed a large truck (the wind blast from the front of the trucks would always get me started) but I\'d been able to control it every time.  \n\nUntil the last time it happened.  I\'d started getting a wobble as soon as I caught up to the truck, but I figured that I\'d get in front of him and over a lane before I hit the brakes to start coming out of the wobble.  Unfortunately, by the time I got in front of the truck, the wobble was out of control.  This took quite a while to build up – i\'d say at least thirty seconds or so, from first initial wobbles to full-on tank slapper, with the handlebars ricocheting back and forth across the bike.\n\nI finally lost control and laid the bike down, at a speed of about 100 (i\'d managed to slow down before I finally lost it).  Unlike other accidents i\'ve been in, I remember the whole thing – how the glove on my left hand got ripped off the second it touched the ground, and the second where my helmet skidded off the ground (no hard impact, thankfully).  I remember my father telling me that in bike accidents it\'s the rolling that gets you hurt, so I managed to stop the barrel rolls after about five or six, and then skidded to a stop in the middle of the highway.  I immediately jumped to my feet and ran off to the side, cursing the whole while.  \n\nI was certain i\'d ruined the whole trip, less than a week into the journey.  Rob and Justin were both behind me, and had pulled over to the side and were running across the road, dodging traffic, to regain the case that had flipped off the bike, my ipod, and my GPS.  The ipod got run over, and is busted, but the GPS is in tip-top shape.  Garmin makes a kick-butt product.  My case (which, of course, had the laptop in it) now has a big dent in the side, and requires tie-down ratchet straps to stay on my bike.  But it did the job – the laptop is still in 100% working order.\n\nI broke the windshield on my bike, and lost the rest of my signal lights.  Other than that, there\'s very little damage – 90% cosmetic, and the only thing that stops it from being 100% superficial is a slightly bent brake lever. \n\nI think Ajoy from Milano for Men saved my life – my jacket took the brunt of the damage.  I came out of it with a tiny scratch on my hand, and a sore thumb.  The jacket is a little shook up, but it\'s certainly still serviceable.  From the location of all the damage on the jacket, I think that if i hadn\'t been wearing it, I\'d\'ve lost large sections of my left arm.  Ugh.\n\nDad had been leading, and immediately started to fear the worst when I didn\'t come around the corner behind him.  As I mentioned earlier, this was a divided highway, and he had to go quite a ways down the road to find a location where he could turn around.  He came flying back on the other side of the highway, and once again had to go on to find a place he could whip a Uie.  \n\nAs soon as he pulled up, he jumped off his bike and ran up and gave me a big hug.  Apparently he was quite worried about me.  Justin and Rob both can\'t believe that both myself and the bike came out of it as well as we did – the bike flipped twice down the highway.  That, I think, speaks to high-quality engineering.  Thanks, Suzuki!\n\nAnyways, Justin did a quick inspection on the motorcycle (i have decided to name her Patricia, so I will refer to her that way from now on) and after checking some metal pieces on the engine (i think?  I\'m really good with mechanical equipment), declared it in good working order, to his utter amazement.\n\nFifteen minutes after I\'d wiped out, we were back on the road, slightly shaken.  And short a windshield, which I very much regret.  It is very, very loud without one of those.\n\nSince this road was four-lane divided, we were able to make VERY good time, and got through Santiago as the sun was setting.  Everything we\'d read about, and heard from online fellow cyclists is that we should avoid big cities, so we continued on through Santiago, thinking that it would be fairly easy to find a hotel on the edge of the city.\n\nWe were wrong.  We ended up riding north for another hour and a half without seeing anything, until about 9:30pm.  Rob pulled off randomly on an exit, thinking to try one of the towns mentioned on the exit signs.  It ended up being a little wide spot in the road with unpaved roads and no signal lights.  And lots of scary-looking men just hanging around.  We turned around and got back on Ruta Norte.\n\nJustin spotted a city called La Carella that looked fairly decent, until we got into the downtown section of it.  People everywhere, bumper-to-bumper traffic with scary-aggressive drivers.  We spent two hours trying to find a hotel.  Everyone we asked kept referring us back to this little hole-in-the-wall, ironically named the Oasis.  It was in the middle of downtown and had nowhere to park our bikes.  We eventually hired a taxi driver to take us to a hotel.  He did, and it was another hole-in-the-wall place, but it did have parking for the bikes.  We were sold – it was getting on to eleven o\'clock, and we were dead tired.  \n\nNo room.  Heartbroken, we decided to continue on the road to try to find something better.  On the way out of town, rob found a motel.  The front gate had a picture of a man touching a naked woman, and Sean remarked that he\'d heard about motels like this, and even thought that the program he saw featured this motel.  It charged by the hour, so we rode on.\n\nRob was examining his GPS while we road, and found a town called Pichidangui (i think that\'s how it\'s spelled, I may correct this later) that had a camping icon on it.  Justin pulled over into the town, but kept on riding past the camping sign, much to my annoyance.  He\'d apparently spotted a hotel sign, and followed it to this amazing gated resort, with a pool and everything.  It was even still open, and we got ourselves a cabin overlooking the ocean, with a bigger-than-kingsize bed and two singles, and two bathrooms and a porch.  Cost $110, and we\'d\'ve happily paid three times that.\n\nAs i\'d mentioned, it was a gated hotel, and the owner locked it up after we arrived, so we didn\'t even have to haul all our gear into the cabin, and they let us park on the sand right next to our door.  Convenience!\n\nUnfortunately, we weren\'t able to enjoy all the amenities – it was midnight by that time, and we\'d had such a long, stressful day that we pretty much dropped our stuff and went to bed.  Except Rob.  He was dead set on getting us a new route planned out that accounted for our excellent time today, and came up with one that has us arriving in Colombia in the afternoon of the 19th, three days before our plane ride over to Panama.  Woot!\n\nApparently the headlights on our motorcycles are very bright, and people here are very enthusiastic about letting one know that you have your high beams on.  We constantly get flashed driving down the highway – even during the day, at high noon.  I enjoy flicking my high-beams on at those people, \'cause if my regular beams are that bright, my high beams probably knocks the wind out of them.\n\nAlso, all throughout the day, all along the highway into Santiago, people were selling... plants.  They\'d stand on the edge of the highway, swinging a bag or a flag.  I have seen, many times in my life, signs that say \'Watch for Deer\' or \'Watch for Llamas\'.  Today, I saw a sign that said \'Watch for People\'.  It\'s true – people just dart out across the highway, all the time.  Four lanes divided blacktop, and they have no qualms about it.  Kinda scary.\n\nAnd people are burning everywhere, too.  We saw literally hundreds of controlled burns of fields, leaves, everything, right along the highway.  The air between Osorno and Santiago was a thick pea noxious soup, making our eyes water and our throats burn.  Plus whatever pollution is being pumped out by the thousands and thousands of diesel trucks on the road.  Anyways.  One other thing that struck me as odd was that, going into Santiago, every few kilometres we\'d pass under this array of purple traffic lights.  I don\'t know what they were for, or why they were there, but it really gave a festive feeling to the highway.\n\nTime for bed,\nRyan Noble\nPichidangui, Chile','e052b12acd9f6893c94031fbc4af37a2',0,'IA==','02285',1,0,'',53,0,0),(80,35,3,53,0,'164.77.240.214',1179102062,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 13th, 2007 - It\'s a good day to spend on the beach.','May 13th, 2007, 7:30pm Santiago time\nChanarla, Chile\nGPS: S26 34.222 W070 61.981\n\nFirst things first.  We\'d like to send a happy Mother\'s Day out to the mothers in our lives – to all of us, a Happy Mother\'s day to our loving mom, Kathy – we love you!\n\nRob would like to send his love on to Tanya - “Happy Mother\'s day, sorry for not being there.  We\'ll have a make-up Mother\'s Day when we get back.”\n\nFor myself, I\'m gonna embarrass Natalie again.  “You\'re the greatest, and I\'m on my way home to you.”\n\nDue to Rob\'s diligence in providing us with a new schedule to hit Cartagena several days early, and because we had such a crazy day yesterday, he booked us a distance today that was fairly light.  From the resort hotel in Pichingua to Chanarla is a distance of about 800 kms, quite tame compared to what we\'ve been working up to.\n\nFor the last five days, we\'ve been riding late and sleeping late, and it was getting out of control – we were on the road until almost midnight last night.  Tonight, we\'re all going to bed early, and we\'re going to be on the road at 6:30am, up with the sunrise, and stopping when the sun sets.  Justin\'s the only one of us who doesn\'t mind driving at night, so he\'s always the hardest to motivate to get going in the morning.  Our goal tomorrow is either Tilviche or Cuya, both in Chile, so we\'re not going to be crossing into Peru until Tuesday.  \n\nToday we managed to hit the road at approximately 8:30am, reluctantly \'cause we had to skip out on the breakfast our hosts were laying out for us.  Justin was especially bitter about skipping breakfast, and kept bringing that up throughout the rest of the day.  “It\'s the most important meal of the day, guys!”.\n\nMy hand is still a bit stiff, but the scratch is even smaller than it was yesterday.  I really miss my windshield, and am going to try to source one in Colombia.  \n\nIt\'s been neat driving so far so quickly – the radical changes in the terrain are quite noticeable.  Two days ago we were in heavily forested mountain regions – today we\'re on a desert plain, with red sand and rolling hills as far as the eye can see, with rocks and boulders strewn across the volcanic(?) landscape.  Especially striking is the contrast between the blue sea with the white-capped waves and the jagged peaks and massive boulders breaking up the smooth horizon.\n\nThree days ago we were dealing with temperatures approaching zero – today, we started out at fourteen degrees, and by the time we got off our bikes at 5pm, it was a balmy 24 degrees.  We started stripping off clothing when we stopped for lunch at three (especially Justin).  I\'m not going to miss the long john underwear with the little blue flowers on it.  Oh yeah - thanks for lending me that, Natalie.  <!-- s:D --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif\" alt=\"Very Happy\" title=\"Very Happy\" /><!-- s:D -->\n\nWe\'re in this little town right on the ocean.  As we pulled up to the hotel, we attracted quite a large crowd of onlookers – mostly young boys, all of them extremely interested in our motorcycles.  This made Justin nervous, until we found out that the hotel has a gated parking lot in the back.  He\'s been pretty paranoid throughout this whole trip – justified, as I found out, by the fact that if we lose the bikes, we also lose the money Sean had to put down to get the Carnets for all the border crossings we\'re doing.\nI believe I mentioned this pink yoghurt drink we first had for breakfast in Ushuaia.  Justin was so bitter about missing breakfast this morning, and his desire for it tomorrow so strong, that he went to the local supermercado and did some shopping.  He found me some of that yoghurt drink!  Woot!  Thanks Justin!  Strangely, though – no fruit is to be found, anywhere.  Dad\'s had a hankering for several days now, and we can\'t find any fruit, anywhere.\n\nI\'ve managed to spend the last two and a half hours on this computer, writing email and uploading pictures and whatnot, and i think it\'s time for a bath.  I\'ve had a knot in my shoulders for a million years, now, and i\'d like to soak it out.\n\nRyan Noble\nChanarla, Chile','9a6cc2f2bed968afb3a1099d17ac8c7e',0,'','7ea6e',1,0,'',0,0,0),(81,35,3,1,0,'70.65.8.11',1179109096,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 13th, 2007 - It\'s a good day to spend on the beach.','Glad to hear things went so well today.  I\'m also glad you\'re getting a much needed rest.  Justin is right - eat breakfast!!!!!  Please don\'t plan to hit those roads in Peru we saw on the computer!  And if you should do so.....go back and find another way!  Thanks for the Mother\'s Day wishes.  I sure did miss my breakfast in bed!  Please be careful and know I love you.  Mom','f5d68ed7d6f5daef6b4c6023c6a5d312',0,'','ca542',1,0,'',0,0,0),(82,35,3,1,0,'142.59.113.187',1179110417,1,0,1,1,1,0,'APT B','Re: May 13th, 2007 - It\'s a good day to spend on the beach.','SEAN AND SONS,\n\nI CAN\'T BEGIN TO TELL YOU HOW COOL I THINK WHAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING IS. CATHY AND I HAVE BEEN OUT SPENDING ALL YOUR MONEY SEAN AND SHE HAPPENED TO MENTION ABOUT YOUR TREK. LOL. WHAT AN ADVENTURE FOR YOU ALL. I LOOK FORWARD TO FOLLOWING YOUR DAILY ACTIVITIES AND WISH YOU ALL THE BEST. LOOK AFTER EACH OTHER AND STAY SAFE.\n\nBY THE WAY SEAN, YOU\'LL OWE CATHY BIG WHEN YOU GET HOME. SHE REALLY MISSED THAT BREAKFAST IN BED TODAY. MIGHT MEAN A NEW CAR OR SOMETHING.LOL\n\nALSO, I AGREE, BREAKFAST IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MEAL OF THE DAY, SO QUIT STARVING THE POOR GUY.\n\nTAKE CARE\nAPT B','20dbaecfdc793bf25b67fa7f3bc09400',0,'','15818',1,0,'',0,0,0),(83,34,3,1,0,'24.71.223.149',1179111078,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 12th, 2007 - Like a party in my eyes, and everybody\'s sm','Needless to say &quot;Thank god your OK Ryan&quot; Please be careful and go the speed you want.  And stillyou find the time to write yet anothe great note.  I hope your not too sore tomorrow.\n\nThis whole losing keys all the time must really be getting old. At first it was kind of funny but by now you guys should have figured out a better system. \n\nI\'m glad to hear you finally found a nice place to stay for the night. It sounds like it is really hard and continues to be a daily challenge.  Oh well that\'s what you all like.\n\nKeep going and be safe.\n\nUncle Brian','e24f01decad5d9fb7bfa5a31b50251dc',0,'','7c4c8',1,0,'',0,0,0),(84,35,3,73,0,'70.65.59.4',1179113457,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 13th, 2007 - It\'s a good day to spend on the beach.','Hi Sean, Justin and of course Ryan, I\'ve finally had a tutorial from Craig and have learned how to read your blogs. Very interesting. You guys are keeping me on my knees, praying for your safety of course!!! All I can say is thank God you\'ve made it to Mother\'s Day! Ryan, please be careful. Natalie told me that you wiped out going 100 km an hour. Whew!! Can\'t wait to see you guys on June 3rd! Rita and Craig','46089ba34d9926668211233cbde34ed6',0,'','24204',1,0,'',0,0,0),(85,34,3,70,0,'164.77.240.214',1179115017,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 12th, 2007 - Like a party in my eyes, and everybody\'s sm','Ryan and the bike are in amazing condition.  A couple of years ago  Rob hit a deer on his dirt bike and slid down the highway relatively safely.  A part of the lack of damage was top notch equipment.  On this trip we wear armoured jackets (supplied by Ajoy Joseph of Milano fo Men in Red Deer), the best helmets we could find and the bikes have crash guards protecting as much as one can protect.  Nevertheless we consider ourselves fortunate this did not turn out to be more serious.  I was so glad to see all three boys standing with the bike at the side of the road.  Ryan sufferred a very small scratch on his left thumb.  Like a trooper he got back on that pony and off he went.  He\'s amazing!  This truly is the biggest adventure of our lives.','2441fd54f7ad408bcf45278a4f5c0547',0,'','5b6d3',1,0,'',0,0,0),(86,35,3,70,0,'164.77.240.214',1179115187,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 13th, 2007 - It\'s a good day to spend on the beach.','Linda I\'ll be waiting to see that donation posted on our behalf!   <!-- s:lol: --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif\" alt=\"Laughing\" title=\"Laughing\" /><!-- s:lol: -->','6d6faa1b39b37424540e58469d767e15',0,'','9bb1c',1,0,'',0,0,0),(87,35,3,70,0,'164.77.240.214',1179115259,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 13th, 2007 - It\'s a good day to spend on the beach.','Rita,  You missed Rob and the party is June 2nd.  Be there!   <!-- s:lol: --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif\" alt=\"Laughing\" title=\"Laughing\" /><!-- s:lol: -->','266a50888a18d6f13d10276e0fdcf9f0',0,'','70eef',1,0,'',0,0,0),(88,35,3,70,0,'164.77.240.214',1179115380,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 13th, 2007 - It\'s a good day to spend on the beach.','Kathy the roads we saw on the computer were in Bolivia.  Peru is apparently a lot of open road desert riding and should be relatively easy!  We are off to try to make it to Peru by tomorrow night. 1-2-3','4f8ea0611445c8d67f9008350f7af99a',0,'','cbe60',1,0,'',0,0,0),(90,35,3,77,0,'70.65.42.232',1179157045,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 13th, 2007 - It\'s a good day to spend on the beach.','Hey guys,\n\nSounds like things are going pretty well.  I figure we are gonna start an office pool I get to pick Ryan for the drop contest.  I figured I had better post some kind of reply since Craig did and he even gave Rita a lesson.  Control that Noble Factor.\n\nTR','d238f056f32490d8bfa5b853f928610b',0,'','1d940',1,0,'',0,0,0),(91,34,3,72,0,'24.71.223.149',1179157996,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 12th, 2007 - Like a party in my eyes, and everybody\'s sm','Hi there Nobles,\n\nI  a few words of support for you fellows.  From our experience hopefully this can help.\n\nFor the windshield try to get in contact with a very good moto shop in Medellin Columbia by the name of ruta 40 they have connections with many other shops that maybe able to find you a windshield.  They are one of Horizons supports too.\nIf they are not able to help you .. post on Horizons website and ask where in Medellin there could be a dealer.\n\nAs for the &quot;sex&quot; hotels.. they can be a real life saver.  You can pay by the night and save a lot of money.  If once you\'re in there and it looks a little sub-par, just pull out your sleeping bag and crash.  They keep them pretty clean other wise clients won\'t come back either.  just remember, their clean and our north american clean are different.  but by all means if you\'re stuck and just need to catch some sleep use them. We used them on occasion if we didn\'t have a choice.  AND the good thing is that there is always a garage to park your bikes in... they all have them so that the spouses can\'t find out where the husbands are...\n\nThe reason people are flashing their lights at you is because all of there motos do not have lights on them.  AND in the countires of  Peru and Nicaragua the lights are illegal.  If the police stop you to give you a ticket, you have to demo to them that the lights don\'t turn off.  You can get out of the ticket if they understand that.  Don\'t flash your highbeam at them it is actually really offensive to them.  Just wave to acknowledge them.\n\nHopefully this helps.. remember to stock up on granola bars as the next leg of the trip is a long one through the dessert of Peru.  Gas is far and few between fill ups too.  AND the llamas are just as bad if not worse in peru.\n\n\nRide safe and remember to trust the process...\nKelly and Della Graham','8f43c86a9cbe3b6e9dfe954e2330c201',0,'','4d92b',1,0,'',0,0,0),(92,35,3,69,0,'200.116.150.12',1179165326,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 13th, 2007 - It\'s a good day to spend on the beach.','Hi Ryan.\nYou posted [u:961e5]\'I really miss my windshield, and am going to try to source one in Colombia. [/u:961e5]\nI will try to find you a good use windshield, or do you prefer a new one from the dealer, either way I will be doing my best to meet you at Colombian-Ecuatorian border.\nRyan this is very important, I need the numbers in the licence plates in your bikes, this means numbers and letters, this is a law for motorcycle riders to wear a special vest with this numbers in front and back.\n\nTiberio “Tiby’ Jaramillo\nCel. 57-313-652-0422\nSkype: tiberio123 \n\n                                               ---- DARIEN MOTO TOURS. ---- \n\nMotorcycle tours in Colombia, Ecuador, and Perú: regular tours are run throughout the year with a minimum of 6 riders and maximum of 8 with or without companion. Rides are from 7 to 30 days. Tour length, type and itinerary can be customized for groups of  8 riders.','1c1aba8258bb99c2b9d3c94466bd8b1e',0,'AQ==','961e5',1,0,'',0,0,0),(93,35,3,1,0,'205.206.59.169',1179165941,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 13th, 2007 - It\'s a good day to spend on the beach.','Hi guys... just wanted to say it sounds like a typical Noble trip so far.  Hope you are all safe. Since you are all former boy scouts, I have faith.  Hey Ryan, I need you to fix my computer, can you hurry up and get home already.  Sean... just holding down the fort, fixing all the things you forgot to do  <!-- s:) --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\"Smile\" title=\"Smile\" /><!-- s:) -->.  See you soon.\n\nJoleen and Al','0213ca1fcd3d4dd383a0f9c0f493cb96',0,'','2f082',1,0,'',0,0,0),(95,34,3,1,0,'24.69.176.242',1179174251,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 12th, 2007 - Like a party in my eyes, and everybody\'s sm','soooooo the name &quot;Patricia&quot; for your bike, what is that all about? Sounds like you needed a NURSE!!!! Patricia\'s do tend to bounce back when knocked down, maybe that is the theory? \nWOW we are thrilled to hear that you are OK Ryan! as well as the rest of you dudes! \nsafe travels......\n \nPatricia (Pattie) Richter\nAmandha (Patricia) Richter XOX <!-- s:P --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif\" alt=\"Razz\" title=\"Razz\" /><!-- s:P -->','5438f728207c43e8d4589a7f7d6c2fc0',0,'','d4555',1,0,'',0,0,0),(96,35,3,1,0,'24.64.223.203',1179174804,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 13th, 2007 - It\'s a good day to spend on the beach.','Have you not all learned by now that Justin gets good and cranky without his food.... yes i agree Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.... so eat your breakfast \n <!-- s;) --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif\" alt=\"Wink\" title=\"Wink\" /><!-- s;) --> \nHappy Trails to you! \nThe Richters XO','c9f8a3bf6879f348d15948b17f7c908a',0,'','314a9',1,0,'',0,0,0),(111,41,3,1,0,'142.59.25.50',1179289039,1,0,1,1,1,0,'Ryan Noble','May 14 - Keys are the Bane of My Existence','May 14, 2007\nArica, Chile\nGPS: S15 55.776, W073 14.223\n\nDistance Traveled: 1250kms\nUseful Distance Traveled: 1150kms\n\nKeys are the bane of my existence, but I\'ll get to that story later.  We got off on a good start – out of the hotel early, all packed and ready to rock.  Fueled up, and on the road.  Then we rode into a cloud.  Well, maybe it was more than one cloud.  At 7:45am, the temperature was a balmy 14 degrees.  Thirty minutes later, riding through the cloud/fog on windy roads, it was a frigid 3 degrees.  We\'d all planned for warm weather, and were suffering severely.\n\nEspecially me.  If you recall, i\'ve had a bit of an accident a few days ago, and no longer possess a windshield.  The fog immediately started collecting on the faceshield on my helmet, and I had to constantly wipe the condensation away with my gloved hand, which soon cooled to a mild throb.  \n\nFortunately, we were out of the fog by exactly 8:40, and the temperature immediately skyrocketed.  By the time we made our daily call to CKGY, it was sitting at 19, and was due to go much higher.\n\nThe geography of northern Chile.  Imagine, if you will, Mars.  With an atmosphere, power lines, and a road.  There\'s not much else, and certainly no plant life.  That\'s northern Chile.  By the end of the day, my eyes were aching for just a little bit of green.  \n\nAt our second fuel stop, the temperature was sitting at 34 degrees, and we were all dying.  Our motorcycle armour is all black, our seats are black, and our gloves are black.  Sitting down on our black bike seats after they\'d been in the sun was like sitting on an iron.  If we remained moving, it was bearable – the wind moving through our jackets (especially my slightly swiss-cheesed jacket) cooled us sufficiently that 34 degrees was no biggie.  However, once we stopped moving, the sun kicked in and roasted us.\n\nThis turned out to be a bit of a long stop.  We\'d all gotten fueled, grabbed some water and whatnot, and were all sitting on our bikes waiting (as usual) for Justin to get his poop in a group so we could get movin\' on.  This time, though, he didn\'t get movin\' on after just a little while.  Finally he turned around and said “The stupid key\'s not working”.  \n\nSure enough, after we\'d all given it an impotent few twists, the key was stuck – wouldn\'t turn on.  Everyone took of their jackets, except for Justin, who remained on the motorcycle.  After washing the key with gasoline, and a few trips into the very tiny store in search of something that would serve as a lubricant (we\'d used all the WD-40, apparently, cleaning the drive chains), Sean was able to jimmy the key into the starting position.  By this time, I imagine that Justin was just about dead, and he announced that he was going to take off the road to get some wind moving over him.\n\nI should mention that this particular gas station in the middle of nowhere is at a crossroads – Ruta Norte (also Rute 5) was the one we\'d been following ever since we\'d entered Chile.  Ruta 25 was a new one that met up with #5 at this gas station.\n\nJustin, oblivious to the world, took off down Ruta 25.  I was the only one who noticed, and in a bit of a rush to catch up with him and get him turned around, neglected to mention to Rob and Sean where I was going and what I was doing.  I sent a broadcast of my location on Ruta 25 to everyone\'s GPSs, and took of after Justin.  \n\nUnfortunately, Justin\'s “I\'ll go slow so you guys can catch up” is quite fast, and it took me easily ten minutes to catch up to him, and an additional five minutes of flashing my lights to get him to pull over and turned around.\n\nWe headed back to the intersection for Ruta 5.  As we sped past the gas station (the roads diverged a ways from the gas station, so it was hard to see clearly), I could not see any motorcycles waiting for us,  and we headed north.\n\nAt this time, Justin and I are thinking that Rob and Sean are ahead of us, thinking they\'re trying to catch up to us.  Justin and I sped pretty quickly down Ruta 5 for about fifty kilometres, before I freaked out and pulled us over.  As he and I discussed what to do about our missing family members, I flagged down a truck that we\'d sped past earlier, and asked him in my broken Spanish if he\'d seen any motorcycles like ours go speeding past.  Actually, it was a whole truck full of guys, and they all replied that they hadn\'t seen any.  At least, I think that\'s what they were saying no to.  I actually have no idea what they thought I was asking.\n\nArmed with this new information, Justin and I decided to head back to the gas station to see if Sean and Rob had waited for us there (we\'d thought they may have noticed us going down the wrong highway – I had a position update from Sean that put him square on the gas station).\n\nTwenty minutes later, Justin and I arrive at the gas station.  Rob and Sean are nowhere to be found.  I start freaking out again, but Justin convinced me that the best thing to do (after trying to call mom – our emergency we-got-lost contact for everybody – but we were unable to figure out how to dial internationally on his GSM cellphone) would be to head north to our original destination, which was the border between Chile and Peru.  The way he figured, Sean and Rob would have to wait for us there, \'cause there\'s no way that Justin and I could get across the border without Sean (Sean carries our increasingly large stash of border-crossing papers).  \n\nI agreed, and we headed off, again, north on Ruta 5 after topping up our tanks.  We travelled north for about an hour and a half, with semi-frequent stops for me to go into hysterics, and Justin to calm me down, before we finally met up with Rob and Sean.  They\'d \'chased us\' for 150 kms before they gave up and started hunting for us.\n\nWhen I\'d gone chasing after Justin, I\'d sent a position update to everyone as I hit Ruta 25.  Rob and Sean failed to notice this, though, until they\'d given up on chasing us and had decided that something had gone wrong.  Upon closer inspection, they realised that my position update in no way intersected with their recorded track on Ruta 5, and had headed back to a crossroads where the road they thought Justin and I had followed would intersect with Ruta 5.\n\nAnyways, we lost, all told, about an hour and a half, screwing around on the deserts of northern chile.\n\nShortly after we\'d all met up again, this silver car passed us, going quite slowly, with two girls in it.  We\'ll meet up with them again later.\n\nA while after we started back, as a group, on the right road, we came to an Aduana station.  Aduana means, in spanish, Customs.  Aduana and Desvio (detour) are two words that I am starting to loathe.  Apparently north Chile is a tax-free zone, so we had to get some papers stamped and initialled before we could proceed.  The silver car caught up with us while we were doing this, and as we passed them again, one of the girls blew us kisses.  Well, she blew me a kiss. I don\'t know if she did it for everyone, but we\'re all on identical bikes with identical armour, so she must have.\n\nAnyways.\n\nWe caught a massive Desvio later on.  This one was special – it was one-way only, and it was supremely long.  We had to wait about fifteen minutes before the oncoming traffic had cleared the one-way section and it could be reversed so that we could continue on our way.  \n\nFacilities are quite few and far between in this area, so once we\'d finally gotten off the ten-kilometre-long-one-way-detour, we pulled over as soon as we saw a gas station.  Unfortunately, this one didn\'t take Visa, and we didn\'t have enough Chilean pesos to cover the tab.  Normally Chilean pesos exchange for US at 700:1, but this guy would only give us an exchange rate of 500:1.  Needless to say, dad was choked.\n\nWhile they were arguing over the exchange rate, this silver car with the girls caught up to us again.  And they wanted to talk to me.  Actually, they didn\'t want to just talk – they wanted a kiss.  I told them I was married, and she showed me her ring.  Don\'t worry, Natalie – I didn\'t kiss her.  We chatted for a bit, I think I managed to tell her what we\'re doing.  Anyways, they drove off.  We actually ran into them AGAIN, in a city just off the exit for Iquique, which is where they were headed.\n\nBecause of the whole justin-can\'t-read-a-map thing, we were well short of our goal (Arica, in Chile, or Tacna, if we were going to cross into Peru) when the sun set.  We tried to find a hotel in this little town we were in, but no such luck.  \n\nI actually ran into a pair of Mormon missionaries, one of whom is from a town called Laguna? just out of Ogden in Utah, so to my US relatives – his name is Robert (i forgot his last name) and he\'s in Chile.  Maybe you know his family?  He told us there wasn\'t really anything for hotels until Arica, so we decided to grab a bit to eat and head on.  Sure, it was night riding, which really, really sucks, but we\'d been riding all day and it was flat as a pancake and straight as an arrow.  How hard could it be?\n\nAbout ten minutes after we left whatever town we were in, we headed into a mountain pass.  Or a canyon.  Couldn\'t tell, \'cause it was dark.  The road was back-and-forth and twisty and windy.  Took us two and a half hours to cross the 200 kms to Arica, with us finally getting into a hotel room at 10:15pm or so.\n\nRyan Noble\nArica, Chile','9270ca3718d2d87226ffe68511c82087',0,'','c6b07',1,0,'',0,0,0),(98,39,3,1,0,'70.65.8.11',1179204252,1,0,1,1,1,0,'kathy lee noble','Another night in paradise - but no internet','I just received call number 3 from Sean today.  They travelled close to 1200 kms today and are just barely still in Chile.  They are in a lovely resort spot called Arica.  They don\'t have any internet service so Sean asked me to let you all know that today\'s ride went very well - except for losing Justin and Ryan for awhile.  Hence the three phone calls to me.  I just happened to be at home when a panic phone call home came from Sean.  He and Rob had lost Ryan and Justin.  I was to be the relay person should Ryan and Justin call to see if I knew where the other two were.  (Mom always knows everything - right?)   Well, it took them about an hour but they eventually found each other and continued on their merry way.  If you listened to CKGY this morning you heard Ryan explain that the reason for the wobbling on his bike and as a result his accident came from an unbalanced load.  He and Justin have since reorganized Ryan\'s belongings and both sides of his bike packs are now more equal in weight - and no more wobbling today.  Well, that\'s it for now.  Good night.  They will have much better updates for you tomorrow.','abe854be3f8f162f74618576eb279a7d',0,'','36b3c',1,0,'',0,0,0),(99,39,3,1,0,'207.200.116.136',1179204738,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: Another night in paradise - but no internet','Dear Noblemen:\n\nGlad to hear that Ryan didn\'t get another case of the wobbles today.  I\'ll bet you made good use of the South American Bidet system after your spill on the highway.  So glad to hear that you are OK....at least physically......Rob, you told me that your GPS systems were so good that you would always know where everyone is?????How did you get lost from each other?  We expect a detailed update from today...No slacking.  We look forward everynight to your events of the day. \n\nBe Safe, \n\nUncle Jim','4f2f81f36e85902bf241e24e565348a2',0,'','7a444',1,0,'',0,0,0),(100,39,3,1,0,'24.71.223.149',1179205311,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: Another night in paradise - but no internet','That\'a a good question Jim. Those GPS units should help them find each other.\n\nGlad to hear the wobble problem has been fixed.  1200km in one day is really quite an accomplishment. At this rate they will be able to spend a day or two in some warm climate on a beach.  How does that sound guys??  Maybe somewhere in Mexico!  Just for old time sake you might even be able to get yourself into a fight or two.  Just kidding!\n\nRubber side down.\n\nUncle Brian','1e36383e8471071f087893a71d80f1e4',0,'','30efb',1,0,'',0,0,0),(110,35,3,2,0,'201.230.193.11',1179283019,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 13th, 2007 - It\'s a good day to spend on the beach.','Tiberio - thanks for the response, and the help.  I\'ll take a used windshield if it\'s the only thing available, but would prefer a new one.  But whatever works - i\'m getting pretty desperate.  \n\nOur license plates are sequential:\nRob: YL120\nRyan: YL121\nJustin: YL122\nSean: YL123\n\nAnything else you need?','4998db03b2d67678616fa636deb89ec9',0,'','23c22',1,0,'',0,0,0),(102,39,3,1,0,'204.209.247.2',1179245653,1,0,1,1,1,0,'kathy lee noble','Re: Another night in paradise - but no internet','Okay, Brian - enough with the fight/mugging comments.  They\'ve been warned!!!  Ryan - you sounded good on the radio this a.m.  I listen every day for your reports.  Too bad it took you sooooo.... long to cross the borders this morning.  2-3 hours to cross one border is pretty bad news.  I too, have wondered how come the gps units didn\'t help you find each other.  Looking forward to hearing from you tonight.  \nMuch love,  \nMom','414d4c8f522a830b52f2f6a5f2dac9b2',0,'','1eb31',1,0,'',0,0,0),(103,39,3,1,0,'209.89.73.87',1179255369,1,0,1,1,1,0,'Motorbikerider','Re: Another night in paradise - but no internet','Hi guys,\n\nJust checked in and read some of the blogs. You will have quite a story to tell when the trip is over. I want to see you all arrive safely. Also, enjoyed the photos. But there are no captions of where they were taken. I would like to give a special hello to Justin. \n\nAs I was looking over some of the replies, it appears this forum is being spammed by some unsavory characters. Just a heads up.\n\nbye\n\nRalph W','de3d031b605e715b94b576428b65e595',0,'','ac4c3',1,0,'',0,0,0),(104,39,3,1,0,'142.59.25.50',1179267837,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: Another night in paradise - but no internet','I can make up for my Mom\'s bad memory....hi Rob, can\'t wait to see you on June 2!  Anyway, just wanted to tell you guys that you are doing amazing and I\'m very proud of you all.  I appreciate all the updates and look forward to them everyday.  I haven\'t missed a radio interview yet which means I\'m up by 7:00am everyday.  This also means I haven\'t been late for work since you left - now that is an accomplishment hey Sean!\n\nTake Care of Each Other - Nat','4b7a26e2e430477e537d3c853472cc90',0,'','00830',1,0,'',0,0,0),(105,39,3,73,0,'70.65.59.4',1179268674,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: Another night in paradise - but no internet','Hi Guy\'s\n\nI heard my first radio interview today was sorry to hear about the carbon paper and the amount of time it took to get through the border. On the other hand I was impressed to see that Ryan was getting in touch with his inner feelings by telling us he cry\'s like a baby when faced with adversity  <!-- s:lol: --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif\" alt=\"Laughing\" title=\"Laughing\" /><!-- s:lol: --> I was also glad that Justin was there to console you. Rita and I are keeping you all in our prayers and I hope you boy\'s get some down time on a beach somewhere. <!-- s8) --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_cool.gif\" alt=\"Cool\" title=\"Cool\" /><!-- s8) --> \n\nCraig','a13df051662f7e5d273795ef2f0795a4',0,'','43c56',1,1179297413,'',73,1,0),(106,27,4,70,0,'201.230.193.11',1179279381,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: Hi Sean and the boys','Hey Glenn,\n\nThank you for checking in.  It´s been quite an adventure to date.  We´re still on schedule and going hard every day.  It´d be good to see you at the border.','03d440e418f240cc3f534d8714da8dae',0,'','c551c',1,0,'',0,0,0),(107,39,3,70,0,'201.230.193.11',1179279976,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: Another night in paradise - but no internet','Well were in some small port on the coast of Peru tonight.  I am sure Ryan will fill you in on the details.  \n\nAs for the GPS it actually did give Rob and me the clue as to where Ryan and Justin were because Ryan posted his location about a half mile up the wrong road.  Our problem was we didn´t know we were separated until we were well past the range of the GPS.  It then  became a game of trying to figure out what the other guy was not only doing but what they were thinking you were doing.  Considering all the options is apparently a strength of the group because we actually did a pretty good job of eliminating options and start heading towards each other once we were actually aware we were apart.  For a long time both groups thought they were chasing the other.  We needed to stop and think things through so although we are pretty good at figuring options we are also pretty stubborn so we held to our miscue far longer than we ought to have.  \n\nAll is good and we are tucked in for the night.  Not as good a day as we hoped but pretty successful depite our faux pas.\n\nSean','26880a20936a76379f6a0a81b820e4f4',0,'','007e5',1,0,'',0,0,0),(108,24,4,70,0,'201.230.193.11',1179280073,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: Great news and great writing','Hmmm we ought to do a log on that Irish trip too!','42ea34cb1adf05ec27e45e9eec15efb8',0,'','2481c',1,0,'',0,0,0),(109,39,3,1,0,'70.65.53.167',1179281915,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','I am getting ready for you folks!','Hi Sean (&amp; family)\n\nOk.. I [b:0e3c2][color=#0040FF:0e3c2]finally[/color:0e3c2][/b:0e3c2] got around to buying my helmet and gloves. I take the riding course this weekend...so I will be ready for you when you come through town. \n\nI am loving the updates.. it is neat that you have so much media coverage! Way to go!!\n\nHave fun and make sure you try \'lorenza\' tostadas when you get to Mexico!\n\nSafe travels!\nDeena','3bca9df936f8bc419ac2a309a31665f9',0,'Qg==','0e3c2',1,0,'',0,0,0),(112,42,3,1,0,'142.59.25.50',1179289139,1,0,1,1,1,0,'Ryan Noble','May 15th, 2007 - Into Peru!','May 15, 2007, 9pm Lima time\nChala, Peru\nGPS: S 15 86.164, W074 24.791\n\nDistance Traveled: 730km\n\nWhat an incredibly frustrating day.  We seem to be getting a lot of these, now that I take a moment and think back.  Ah, well, - today has had it\'s great moments.\n\nWe were up and out on the highway this morning by 7:30am, later than we\'d\'ve liked, but it turned out not to actually matter.\n\n\'Cause the border between Chile and Peru doesn\'t open until 8am.  Fifteen minutes after we\'d arrived, the border opened, and it turned into a mad rush for parking outside the customs office.  We all fought to maintain our space, but it turned out not to matter, \'cause we were the last ones to leave.  By a long margin.\n\nThis border crossing, by leaps and bounds, was the worst we\'ve had yet.  It took us two and a half hours to get from Chile into Peru, and by 11:30 we had covered just 50kms.  I don\'t know why the Chilean/Argentinian borders were so quick and smotth, by comparison, but the Chilean/Peruvian border was an exercise in frustration.  We had to fill out, in quadruplicate, special new forms for our motorcycles that contained exactly the same information as on our carnets.  \n\nBut these special forms we had to fill out didn\'t have carbonated paper, for quick-and-easy duplication.  Nor did they have spare sheets of carbon paper.  We got three sheets, so each form had to be filled out one at a time.  The wind was also blowing, so we got to chase down loose bits of make-work-border-crossing-balogna.\n\nWhile we were running around this busy-work project, Dad told me a story about when he lived in Yellowknife, how the mining companies there were required to hire a certain percentage of native (Inuit) population to work on the mines.  I guess they (the mining companies) didn\'t want to train the Inuit laborers, so they (the Inuit) were put to work digging potholes, and filling them back in again.  That is exactly what this border crossing felt like.\n\nI think i\'ve mentioned it before, but we have to go through customs when we leave a country, as well as when we enter it – not like the Canada/US border, where you go through just one set.  We get to go through two.  \n\nBy the time the Peruvian customs agent finished duplicating all the infromation on our carnets, we were finally ready to go, at about ten minutes to nine.  There\'s a final inspection station on the highway before we can leave the customs area, and we can\'t get through, \'cause we\'re missing a stamp.  Back to the SAME guy, who casually stamps all the papers, and then over to the highway guard.  He points out that we forgot to fill in the date on one of our forms, and for a minute we think he\'s going to send us back.  But I guess he was feeling magnanimous, and said he\'d fill it out for us.  Thanks.\n\nTacna is a fair-size city about ten minutes into Peru, and Dad stopped there so he could find a bank machine and take some money out.  Justin and I remained behind to guard the bikes.  They took forever, and he and I ended up buying watches for 20 solaris (or solara? - that\'s what the Peru currency unit is called), which works out to about $7.\nWell, it works out to about $7 if Justin is the one doing the money exchange.  He was able to get a 3:1 Solari:USD ratio at a money changer at the border.  When Dad took money out of the bank machine, it only gave him a 2:1 ratio.  Ouch.\n\nWhile Justin and I were waiting for Dad to come back with money, we attracted a very large crowd of locals, which made us kind of nervous.  They turned out to just be curious (of course) and, as I mentioned, we bought some watches.  During this time, two police officers came over, one of whom spoke english, and asked if there was anything wrong.  Extremely friendly (and it\'s always nice to find a fellow english-speaker), he just wanted to let us know that if we ever had a problem, anywhere in Peru, we could just go find a police officer and they\'d help out.  He shook my hand as Sean finally came back, and we were on our way.  \n\nI should mention here that we don\'t have detailed GPS maps for any cities farther north than, say, Santiago.  When we try to leave a city that has more than one road, we all kind of follow Rob, wo attempts to locate the highway by following an arrow in a big blank section of map on his GPS.  So far, it\'s worked pretty well.\n\nThe intial section of Peru is pretty much identical to Chile, but soon we started hitting canyons.  Talk about some breathtaking scenery.  For the first fifteen minutes.  After that, and the back-and-forth of cutting up and down canyon walls gets monotonous, not to mention that roads like that keep our average speed down to about 70 km/h, which really impacts on our daily average.  \n\nWhile the tops of the canyons, and the plains around, are barren wastelands, the canyons themselves are oases of life.  Cattle, crops, chicken, all nestled in these little canyons.  Then we leave that behind and go up another set of steep switchbacks.\n\nBy four o\'clock, we\'d managed to make 500kms, and the inland road moved out to the coast.\n\nTHESE roads were incredible.  The scenery was amazing, but the mountains that this road cut through dropped straight off to the ocean.  There were no guardrails, and in some places the cliff had fallen away and eaten at the (1.5 foot wide) shoulder of the road all the way onto the road proper.  There\'s no room for error on roads like these, and by the time the sun was setting at 5pm, we were all exhausted and bloody sick of extremely sharp turns on the edges of cliffs.  We pulled over to take a break and clean our visors (we were riding into the sun at this point), and when we got back on the highway, it was like it had been replaced by a nice road.  \n\nWe were riding almost exactly at the level of the ocean, the road was straight and easy to follow, and traffic had lightened up considerably.  We were able to easily double our pace over the past few hours.  I was even able to watch a complete sunset over the ocean.\n\nSo draining was those few hours in the ocean switchbacks that when we hit a fair-size down called Chala, we stopped to grab a hotel and a bite to eat.  We weren\'t about to risk hitting another set of those impossible roads in the dark, \'cause that would be suicide.\n\nChala was hopping when we pulled in.  I don\'t know if we always manage to hit these towns on a market day, or what, but it seems like we\'re always weaving our way through crowds when we\'re looking for a hotel.  \n\nWe had the best barbecue chicken i\'ve ever had in my life, and then Dad and I had a nice romantic walk on the beach while Justin and Rob went off shopping in the market.  We found a crab, and chased him with a lighter until that got boring.  Now, I\'m going to go find an interweb connection, post this, and then go to sleep.\n\nGood night!\nRyan Noble\nChala, Peru','ecde5efdc2cc60ec0ad0de03640769d7',0,'','308d0',1,0,'',2,0,0),(113,42,3,1,0,'207.200.116.70',1179290715,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 15 - Into Peru!','Dear Noblemen:  \nSo, So glad to get an update.  As a Tadd, we love to worry and develop scenarios of bad news so when you don\'t have an internet connection, and we don\'t get an update, of course,  I begin to wonder what things could be going wrong, and I can imagine some doozys. Can\'t help it, it is in the genes.   Anyway, we are as as anxious to get the next Noblequest travel update as we are to watch the next episode of American Idol......As long as Rob is leading you and doing OK, I guess it is OK to let him be the leader.  Just be carefull if some young kids tell you about a short cut......Don\'t listen to them.  Question:  When you get to Alaska, how will you get back to Red Deer????\n\nKeep Safe, \n\nUncle Jim','28e7223c9b631c3f2610e89f5bd30877',0,'','71f5d',1,0,'',0,0,0),(114,42,3,55,0,'198.166.20.189',1179292655,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 15 - Into Peru!','Hi, Guys. \nWe are glad to hear from you again, and know that you are all safe.  Everyone must appreciate how much time it takes to write these journals and how descriptive they are.  It\'s also neat that you are telling the &quot;whole story&quot; - not just &quot;we drove 700 km today, on some beautiful roads and had a wonderful day&quot;.  This journalling is giving us a real sense of riding along with all of you.  \nAnd pass on to your dad that &quot;people are doing things for us with the Grand Forks development&quot; so he knows that stuff is happening.  I am sure that I will have more information for him when you scream through Red Deer and Edmonton.  \nKeep up the great work - all of you.  \nAlan and Sharon','64b7caac0614fb005ff397ca5be1d4cc',0,'','0e495',1,0,'',55,0,0),(117,41,3,1,0,'207.200.116.195',1179323414,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 14 - Keys are the Bane of My Existence','Ryan:\n\nCan\'t say that I know the Mormon Missionary that you ran into......With only a first name, and gee, there are about a million Mormons in Utah.....Maybe that is why when I met a Guy from Canada and I asked him if he knew Ryan Noble he looked at me funny....I mean you are both from Canada, chances should be  very good that you would know each other.....hehehehe.  At least you were able to speak to someone that spoke your native tounge.  Those missionaries could come in handy if you need a translator somewhere along the way.  I\'ll ask your Grandmother, who actually lives in Utah, if she Knows him........Thanks for the update, we look forward to them every day. \nPlease guys, get a grip on the key situation.  How about a big chain with the key on it so you can put it around your neck. \nUncle Jim','6cfb2db8a609522ba14ae136aa7a45ff',0,'','1a379',1,0,'',0,0,0),(118,45,4,69,0,'200.116.150.12',1179325641,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Ryan and the group, please visit this museum on your way','I do not know if Ryan is reading this blog, but any member of the family please rely my comments, if all goes well the group will be there tomorrow Thursday.\n\nHi Ryan.\nCongratulations you are doing very well in your schedule, this comment is going to be a bit late but enjoy your ride, with my experience as a motorcycle tour guide there is a recommendation even from wife that suggested mentioning this to you.\nWe understand that you want to brake a record, but sometimes you never know if you have the time to go back to places you have been, there is a museum called “Museo tumbas reales de Sipan” is located 20 Km. north of Chiclayo, Personally I compare this museum to any in Egypt, is 2 blocks of the Pan-Am Hwy. and it will take you about one to two hours of your precious time.\nI propose this deal, if you visit this place and do not like it I pay for dinner for all of you, but if you like it you pay for my dinner. <!-- s:lol: --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif\" alt=\"Laughing\" title=\"Laughing\" /><!-- s:lol: --> \nYou are invited to visit  Museo Tumbas Reales de Sipan at \n<!-- w --><a href=\"http://www.tumbasreales.org\">www.tumbasreales.org</a><!-- w -->','00747d711b58dcb775d2ac18e0aa0a37',0,'','c6d11',1,0,'',0,0,0),(119,42,3,69,0,'200.116.150.12',1179338320,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 15 - Into Peru!','Hi Ryan\nYou mentioned &quot;and he and I ended up buying watches for 20 solaris (or solara? - that\'s what the Peru currency unit is called), which works out to about $7.&quot;\nI understand the difficulty in lenguage, the Peruvian money is called &quot;Nuevo SOL&quot; translated to English New Sun, and is called \'New\' because they had another SOL in the 80\'s\nRide safe.','7a9ed0c23bbb2c6a2b7eb096370f150e',0,'','ce179',1,0,'',0,0,0),(121,47,4,1,0,'67.182.238.61',1179376241,1,0,1,1,1,0,'caseytadd@comcast.net','Hello from Utah','Hello Nobles!\nFirst let me just say that Ryan you are hilarious, not that I don\'t love all of the Noble boys but I am glad that you are the official blogger for the trip, you make the readings very entertaining.  I must confess that we (Casey and I) haven\'t been keeping up with your journey very well but I am all caught up now and will look forward to your daily postings.  We  are very glad that all is going well, although we keep expecting a desperate phone call requesting Casey\'s translation skills.  I know it is a long way away but let us know ahead of time when you will  be passing through old Spanish Fork we would love to see you even if it is just for a few minutes.  And if you have any requests for home baked goodies let  me know, I would love to do my part to keep you going strong.  We hope all continues to go well for you!\nMuch love, \nCasey, Lindsy and Belen','5392dc91dc2e8b148d1f47b766d4148f',0,'','6b4ba',1,0,'',0,0,0),(122,48,4,1,0,'70.65.8.11',1179376780,1,0,1,1,1,0,'kathynoble','May 16 - Still in Peru','I wasn\'t home when Ryan called tonight to let us know everyone was safe and they were done for the day.  Rob, Sean and Justin were all out looking for internet service but Ryan didn\'t hold much hope of them being successful.  They didn\'t travel as far today as they wanted.  The highways were rather crazy kind of like Highway 2 running straight into downtown Calgary then through Cockrane before letting you back on the highway.  Anyway I think that\'s what he meant.  They are still in Peru but plan to be in Ecuador tomorrow - so more border crossings....   <!-- s:? --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_confused.gif\" alt=\"Confused\" title=\"Confused\" /><!-- s:? -->  Anyway I just wanted to give you a little update so you can look forward to Ryan\'s next posting.  I sure think he\'s doing a great job.  He\'s making the trip &quot;real&quot; for me.  How about you?  Maybe they were successful and he\'ll be able to post tonight - if not look forward to his posting tomorrow.  Thanks for all the support and interest you are showing towards my family.  It means a lot to me and hopefully some children will benefit from the funds they are able to raise.','000f81b2002581b51bb0f1292ddc9a9e',0,'','38fa0',1,0,'',0,0,0),(128,45,4,2,0,'201.218.35.46',1179496465,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: Ryan and the group, please visit this museum on your way','Tiberio,\n\nThanks for your kind suggestion, but we were unable to access the internet for the last day and a bit, and I did not get your post until this morning, and I´m currently past Chiclayo and in Manchala, Ecuador.  We plan to be crossing the border into Colombia and stop on the Colombian side of Tulcan.  \n\nI don´t think this is quite enough warning for you, but if you can tell us which road we should take once we´re into Colombia tomorrow, we can certainly meet up with you wherever would be best suited.\n\nThanks,\nRyan Noble\nManchala, Ecuador','08490101b3f07970f38c4ec3da8b3e8f',0,'','249e0',1,0,'',0,0,0),(130,54,3,2,0,'190.152.24.70',1179570654,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 16th, 2007 - It\'s not chilly, it\'s Peru!','May 16th, 2007.  9:30pm Lima time\nHuames, Peru\nGPS: S10 06.141, W078 15.732\n\nDistance Traveled: 930km\n\nIt\'s not chilly, it\'s Peru!\n\n&lt;Pause for laughter&gt;\n\nIt\'s surprising how acclimatized to 30 degree weather we\'ve become over the course of a few short days.  Right now it\'s about 18 degrees out, and we were actually cold while sitting on the patio of the restaurant across the street.\n\nI forgot to mention a couple milestones we hit on the 14th.  One: we crossed 5400kms on our odometers, which means we were 10% of the way home.  Two: we crossed the Tropic of Capricorn at 11:20am that morning.  I actually looked up when we passed the sign, but of course there was nothing in the sky.\n\nWe got a bright &amp; early stop today, and there\'s a new contender for lead in the Bike Laydown Pool.  Here are the standings:\n1st place: Ryan: 2 slides, 2 drops\n2nd place: Rob: 0 slides, 5 drops\n3rd place: Sean: 1 slide, 4 drops\n4th place: Justin: 0 slides, 0 drops\n\nAs you can see, Rob is in the lead for the drop-your-bike portion of the pool. When we stopped for gas this morning, there was a car wash right next door, and we figured it\'d be a good time to get our bikes polished up and finally get the stickers for our sponsors on the bikes.  The washer-guys actually knocked Rob\'s bike over when they were washing it, and had a very hard time getting it back up again.  Rob and I had to run over before we were able to get it back up.\n\nThe second time he dropped the bike, we were going through a toll booth.  I should mention here that motorcycles are exempt from paying tolls on roads, so we always get shunted through a little quasi-lane that often isn\'t very wide, or requires us to cross opposing traffic to get through.  This particular time, we were shunted across opposing traffic and through a narrow cattle chute.  Rob managed, somehow, to drop his bike right at the end of the chute.  He was riding in the rear, and as the rest of us took off down the highway, the police officers we were waving at kept making this weird \'go back\' gesture.  I looked behind me, and there\'s Rob\'s bike, laying on its\' side.  \n\nToday had quite a bit of varied terrain – started off canyon-y and desert-y, but soon we dropped into a large series of valleys, each one it\'s own little oasis of green and life.  Quite a lot of the day, too, was spent riding along the ocean, which is always really nice to do, when the road isn\'t punishing you for doing it.  \n\nWe have to be moving pretty much contstantly to make our mileage goal at the end of each day – this means very rarely do we get to stop for photo opportunities, and in fact Rob and Justin both have been practicing their hand at photography from the back of a motorcycle.  Justin, so far, is better.  \n\nHowever, sometimes this have-to-be-moving mentality can lead to some frustration and anger.  For instance, today marked the first time that I was furious at my brothers.  We have a rule for riding: always keep the guy behind you in your mirrors.  Rob decided that he didn\'t need to do this anymore, for whatever reason, and just booked it across the desert.  Justin was in the lead, and was doing his job, keeping Rob in his mirrors.  \n\nThey left Sean and I far, far behind.  The longer I went without seeing Rob and Justin – at ALL – in the distance, except for the rare times when I\'d crest a hill and could see for miles and miles and miles down the road, the madder and madder I got.  I got so frustrated trying to keep up with them that I started taking stupid risks to try to get around trucks faster.\n\nI was only able to catch up to them after we hit a very long straight section, and I was able to pin the throttle all the way open.  Apparently Rob (used to – we talked about this) doesn\'t like to look in his rearview mirrors, so he didn\'t see me flashing my lights at him to try to get him to stop.  For miles.  I flashed for so long my thumb ached.\n\nFortunately, Justin ran out of gas about that point and we pulled over to the side to fill up from our jerry cans.  I stopped my bike as soon as I could and ran over and smacked Rob on his big dumb helmeted head.  I admit to being quite emotionally distraught, but unlike when Justin and I were separated from the other two, I didn\'t quite break down and lose it completely.  \n\nSean provided a calming influence, and he explained to Rob just how scary and frustrating it had been for the two of us to keep up with them.  Even though he\'d been \'keeping an eye on us on his GPS\'.\n\nAnyways, I apologized immediately.  Then when Rob was strapping his jerry can back to his bike, his bungee cord let loose and popped him but good smack in the nose.  I couldn\'t help but laugh.  \n\nToday also marked the first time we had a negative encounter with the police.  Streets are generally poorly marked, and highways feed directly through the centre of every town.  Imagine if Highway 2 made you drive through downtown Innisfail, Bowden, Olds and Airdrie on your way to Calgary.  Only it\'s a two-lane road, with about ten times the amount of heavy truck traffic on it.\n\nAnyways, poorly marked roads on the highway/downtown.  Every time that we see a school zone sign on the highway/downtown, we immediately slow down.  This time, we managed to not see it, and got flagged down by a member of the friendly policia.  \n\nHe didn\'t speak much English, and we (of course) don\'t speak much Spanish.  Once we understood why he\'d pulled us over, and that only Justin would be getting a ticket, we were (somewhat) relieved, but still a little choked.  We explained to him what we were doing, and why, and that we were very sorry and just didn\'t see the sign, but he insisted on writing out the ticket.\n\nWhen we started talking about the amounts of the fine and such, though, he apparently became fed up with the communication problem – either that, or he realized that he could be a really nice guy today – he threw up his hands and said \'vamos – bye\'.  When we realized we were free to go, we all shook his hand, said \'gracias\', and were on our way.\n\nLima was a nightmare to get through.  Santiago has a freeway system much like Calgary – we were able to get through Santiago in about half an hour, without even really seeing much of the city.  Not so with Lima.  We were lost almost from the moment we entered the city.  Imagine, if you will, another hypothetical Highway 2 scenario.  Highway 2 runs straight into downtown Calgary.  If you\'re travelling from north to south through calgary, HWY2 takes you straight downtown, and then ends, or fades.  And there\'s garbage and roadkill everywhere, and slums scattered all over the city.  And the drivers make the ones I talked about in Buenos Aires look like old grandmas on a Sunday drive.  Then, as i said, HWY2 ends on, say, the west side of downtown and doesn\'t start up again until south of the east end of 17th ave (Red Mile).  \n\nSo we got lost.  Took us an hour and a half to get out of Lima.  One of the nice things about leaving Lima is that we crest a canyon as we leave the city, and we got a really beautiful view of it.  Unfortunately, as I said, our schedule doesn\'t really allow for photo stops, so we\'ll see if Rob and Justin managed to grab any snapshots of it as we left.\n\nWe decided to call it a night when we hit this little wide spot in the road called Huames, but it\'s got two hotels, and one of those has rooms and private parking.  So yay.\n\nI\'m beat, and we gotta get up pretty early tomorrow morning so that we can hit the Ecuadorian border before 9pm (that\'s when it closes).  Tomorrow we\'ll also cross the 30% completed boundary.  \n\nGood night.  I miss you, Natalie.  Can\'t wait to see you.\nRyan Noble\nHuames, Peru','637f3d0a3ca6792154157fed487e6ee7',0,'','d8081',1,0,'',2,0,0),(126,48,4,57,0,'68.148.103.22',1179469808,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 16 - Still in Peru','Hi Kathy and Noble bike crew :-) keeping up to date as often as I can, all I can say is wow! -- what an adventure.  Please be carefull and know that once you reach the U.S. you will be able to make up any lost time -- safety needs to be your priority now. \n\nAndy Kuiper :-)\n\np.s. as for Sean\'s \'accident\' with the llama: knowing you were all hungry, and aware of Sean\'s penchant for exotic food, that llama is dam lucky to still be alive <!-- s:P --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif\" alt=\"Razz\" title=\"Razz\" /><!-- s:P -->','7c2fb57b609d6beee91abf00741e29b0',0,'','57a96',1,0,'',0,0,0),(127,52,4,1,0,'70.65.8.11',1179470848,1,0,1,1,1,0,'kathynoble','It\'s late in Ecuador','Sorry....once again you get to hear briefly from me.  Sean phoned a short time ago (I was really beginning to worry!!!) to let us know that they are safe and in Ecuador.  They had a REALLY long day today with several hours spent once again crossing the borders.  Once they had arrived in Ecuador the first two towns they visited had no room at the inn for them so they had to keep moving.  They are currently sleeping in Machalal.  Their extended ride today has put them ahead of schedule so they are going to sleep-in tomorrow morning and Rob intends to revamp their trek into Columbia.  They will be riding tomorrow but they will be starting later and finishing earlier.  They were much too tired to go looking for an internet connection tonight but intend to find one tomorrow and post the last two days worth of reading.  It has been suggested Ryan turn his blogs into a book.....\n\nAnyway - sorry to disappoint you but I\'m sure Ryan will have lots to tell us tomorrow.  \n\nGoodnight,\nKathy','44269ff9cd0c425378fa8749d9592419',0,'','aca30',1,0,'',0,0,0),(131,55,3,2,0,'190.152.24.70',1179570839,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 17th, 2007 - Out of Peru and into Ecuador','May 17th, 2007.  12:30am Lima time\nMachala, Ecuador\nGPS: S03 15.776, W079 58.169\n\nWe were finally able to get ourselves an early start today.  Rob had us up and at \'em by 4:30am, and we were on the road by 5:30.  We managed to make some pretty good time – a combination of desert riding, and practically no traffic on the road.\n\nToday we drove through Nasca, home of the famous too-small-to-see-except-from-the-air drawings in the desert.  And, today we hit our most western point in South America.\n\nUnfortunately, that didn\'t last for very long.  For big chunks of the day, we were riding along the coast, and we started hitting these towns every few kilometres or so.  It\'s really hard to make good distance when you have to slow down to 35 km/h every five or ten minutes.\n\nThat brings me to my next topic.  The policemen in Peru are everywhere – they comprise a significant portion of the population.  And a lot of them are jerks.  We got pulled over again for doing nothing at all.  This guy want to see our registration.  He had even less English than we had Spanish, and it took a long time for us to understand what he wanted.  So we gave him our insurance papers.\n\nTurns out, we were apparently supposed to buy special Peru insurance.  If anybody told us this, we didn\'t understand.  Anyways, he kept trying to get us to pay him for a fine – \'infraccion\', but we wouldn\'t, \'cause we had insurance and all our papers.  We pretended that we didn\'t have any cash, and that we needed to go on to the next city to get cash.  Yeah, like we\'d come back for the copies of our driver\'s licenses and registration.  He eventually gave up and told us to go on.\n\nOne thing that i\'ve been meaning to mention for a long time, but keep forgetting is the little shrines on the side of the road.  They\'re everywhere.  I\'m pretty sure it\'s like the crosses people in Alberta put up when someone dies on the side of the road, as a kind of reminder to get people to slow down.  These, though, are spectacular.  They\'re often made of brick, painted and decorated with religious ornaments.  They\'re often small (but certainly not always), though, so when I first saw them, I thought that they were doghouses.\n\nWe\'d been told that the border between Ecuador and Peru closed at 9pm, so were in a big rush to make the 1100 or so kilometres from Huames to the border.  We didn\'t even stop for lunch, although we did stop once just so dad could pee, and another time \'cause we needed caffeine.  We were all starving, but this little by-the-highway place didn\'t have much for food except for an ice cream, and these pizza-pocket looking things.  But they sure weren\'t pizza pockets, not even like the empanadas we\'ve had the fortune to eat sometimes.  They were these nasty little dense bread things with corn in \'em, tasted like creamed corn, only dry and thick.  Really sticks to your ribs.  So we didn\'t finish \'em, and just hopped back on our bikes.\n\nBy the end of this day, I was getting a real hate on for Peru.  The roads suck, the cops are jerks, the cities are nasty, and there\'s garbage everywhere.  Literally.  We drove past several large (several dozen acres) dumps  - well, to call them dumps is to give real dumps a bad name.  This was a collection (by the highway) of trash just tossed on the ground, and lots and lots of it was on fire.  Stank like you wouldn\'t believe.  I don\'t think I ever want to come back here.  I\'m a bit sorry, though, that we weren\'t able to stop at this museum Tiberio (he\'s a fellow motorcyclist in Colombia that Robbie met on the Horizons Unlimited forum – you\'ll be hearing much more about him when we get into Colombia) wanted us to go to.  It\'s not all bad, though – the coast is scenic enough to take your breath away, and northern Peru is actually quite nice – it even seems like a bit of a resort area.  One town we drove through had bars and beaches like you\'d expect to see in a travel voucher for a tropical getaway.\n\nMost of Peru is desert.  Sand of various colours stretching for miles in every direction.  You can imagine my surprise, and excitement (i am sick and tired of sand) when we crossed a bridge over a river that actually had water in it, and bam! Suddenly we were in sugar cane planations and there\'s palm trees everywhere and it\'s just a riot of green.  Unfortunately, that only lasted for about fifteen minutes before we came out of the river valley, and were back to desert.\n\nThat was right close to the border, and the border was somethin\' else.  If you\'ve ever gone to the States, you\'ll know that you go to one building, do the customs thing, and move on.  Here, we\'ve got to worry about importing our motorcycles (this is where the Carnets are coming in real handy) as well as customs.  And we have to do that leaving the country as well as entering the other one.  Normally, the customs and police stations are contained within one building for each country in question.\n\nNot between Peru and Ecuador.  To go from Peru to Ecuador, one must first visit the Peruvian Customs station, which we found without too much trouble.  Then we actually go to the border and visit Internacional Policia to have our bikes exported.  This is about three kilometres down the road.  In the middle of a city that spans both countries.  And it\'s just hopping with people.  They\'d told us that the Policia station was three kilometres down the road, and it was actually two.  Rob, Justin and Sean drove right past it, and the policia guy was really, really mad at them for it.  We apologized many times, and he finally calmed down.  I didn\'t see the big deal – we came back, and there seriously isn\'t any sign on the building – we had people running after us waving their hands.  We were also apparently the only ones that had to do this customs thing – other people on motorcycles, on foot, and in vehicles were zipping across the bridge that marked the border in both directions.\n\nWe immediately gathered a large crowd of onlookers while we went through the painstaking process of exporting our motorcycles.  We were all quite nervous with such a large crowd of people that we were quite relieved when we finally had the last carnet stamped and we could move on to the Ecuadorian customs office.  We suited up, made a big show about saying bye to all our new friends... and drove the thirty feet across the bridge to the Ecuadorian office to import our bikes.  Damn.  Everyone just kind moved down the bridge and clustered around us again, only this time we felt stupid.\n\nFinally through that phase, we had to go down the road \'about two kilometres\' to the immigration office, where we needed to get more papers stamped.  \'About two kilometres\' turned into three turned into four, and finally about five kms in we found the place.  \n\nWith that, we were off, and finally, officially, into Ecuador, at about 10:30pm.  Our first stop was the first town inside the border where we were planning on getting a hotel room and crashing.\n\nImmediately we went through a police checkstop, and they waved us through.  We went through another one a short ways after that, and then we went through a (final) army checkstop where we were greeted with soldiers armed with big machine guns.  And two tanks.  I\'m not even kidding.  They waved us through, too.  Then the roads disappeared – most of the forty kilometres into Machala were detours.  I hate the word \'desvio\'.\n\nThere are no hotels in small towns in Ecuador.  At least, there weren\'t in any of the towns we stopped in.  And the gas station guy we asked directions from was armed with a sawed-off shotgun.  And it was raining.  We were all already in a paranoid frame of mind \'cause of the border crossing, and all the army people and guns and tanks were not making things better.  We did see some other hotels along the way, but they all charged by the hour.  Yucky.\n\nWe finally drove into a largish city called Machala.  Justin noticed a sign for a five-star resort hotel and immediately headed over there.  They wanted too much (of course) but had a guy that spoke English and he gave us directions to the Hotel Americano, which is right across the street from the Hotel San Francisco.  Finally in a hotel room by 12:15am.  No restaurants are open, so we didn\'t get a chance to eat.\n\nRyan Noble\nMachala, Ecuador','e35d10db7fd6dd71f5fe415deb47b979',0,'','695ed',1,0,'',0,0,0),(132,56,3,2,0,'190.152.24.70',1179570964,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 18th, 2007 - Freezing to death at the equator','May 18th, 9:30pm, Lima time\nLatacung, Ecuador\nGPS: S00 56.030, W078 36.925\n\nSo close to the equator.  And today, we froze our butts off.\n\nSince we got in so late last night, we kinda slept in this morning.  Especially Justin.  We were worried about finding the best route across the mountains here in Ecuador.  Tiberio had given us some advice, but his directions weren\'t very clear, so we asked a few people at the hotel.  Anyways, we weren\'t on the road until 9:30am, five hours later than our start yesterday.\n\nEcuador, despite our bad experiences last night with the roads and checkpoints and whatnot, is a pleasure to drive through.  Drivers are less aggressive than in other South American countries, the roads are in much better condition than Peru, the scenery has a lot more to offer than any desert.\n\nThe heat, though.  Thirty degrees by 11am, and humid enough that it doesn\'t matter how much you sweat.  We were all going through oceans of water and were all sticking to our clothing almost as soon as we walked outside.  It\'s not too bad, though, once we get moving on the motorcycles.\n\nOne of the first things I noticed while driving through Ecuador in the daylight is the banana plantations.  I even saw a couple owned by Dole.  Miles and miles of banana trees stretching away as far as we could see, with cloud-wreathed mountains in the background.  All of the banana bunches on the trees are wrapped in plastic bags, which I don\'t quite understand.  Pest/pesticide protection?\n\nWe stopped for gas at about noon, and two SUVs full of policemen pulled up soon after, and all of them were very interested in our trip, and enthusiastic once they found out what we were doing.  Oh – before I forget, something funny – some of the police officers cruise around on little 250cc motorcycles – in pairs.  The guy on the back holds the gun.\n\nAnyways, we got a bunch of pictures of them brandishing their assault rifles (can anyone identify the guns?), and they offered to give us an escort out of town.  Cool!  With lights flashing and sirens blaring, we ripped right out of that city, running red lights and everything.\n\nToll booths are free for motorcycles here in Ecuador, like Peru, and here they also have the detour lanes for bikes.  One toll booth today had a detour lane with a bump so big it might as well have been a hill, and that we couldn\'t get over on our bikes – we\'d high-centre on \'em.  Justin and i detoured around the detour and got our motorcycles over a bit of lawn protected with some large rocks.  Sean and Rob immediately threw their bikes to the ground when they tried to go over the same terrain.\n\nWith the late start this morning, our main concern was covering enough distance today.  We didn\'t really show it, though – we even stopped for lunch.  We\'ve been a couple times to one-item restaurants, and it\'s kinda cool – simply order by saying \'cuatro\', and then food arrives.  Today it was espcially good – but that may be \'cause we didn\'t eat yesterday.  We got a bowl of a kind of irish stew, then lemonade, followed by fried fish with rice and for desert deep-fried banana.  Price for four meals: $6.  Anyways, Ecuador is a relatively small country, and with luck, we\'d be able to at least get to the border today.\n\nUnfortunately, we hadn\'t realized just how lousy the roads across the mountains were.  We\'d asked one of the police officers at the gas station which was the fastest route across the mountains, and we\'d followed his advice.\n\nIt didn\'t start out too badly, but shortly after it started raining, the paved road soon narrowed, then turned to gravel, then turned to a pitted dirt track (in some sections, the entire road surface was potholes, filled with water).  The road was so steep in places I couldn\'t believe it was navigable by buses and large trucks, but somehow they did it.  In some places the cliff face had eroded, leaving the road half its\' normal width.  Horses, llamas (we never did see llamas in Peru), donkeys, sheep and dogs all made their appearances as mobile obstacles, while rock slides, creeks and trees helped out in their own way.\n\nThe road is so twisty that over the course of the trip over the mountains we traveled 3.5 kilometres for every actual kilometre moved forward.  It took us two and a half hours to cross just over 100 kms.  Incredible scenery, though.  I think, with this route, we saw a part of Ecuador that many people don\'t get to see.  Patchwork quilt farms scattered all over the mountainside, all in shades of green so bright it almost hurt to look at.\n\nThis track we were on went to the very tops of the mountains, and then stayed there for quite a while.  The temperature actually dropped down to 2 degrees C, and all of us, having dressed for 35 degrees,l were soon frozen to the core.  \n\nAnyways, by the time we finally made it down from the mountain and back into warmer climes, the sun had long set, and we had only managed to cover just under five hundred kilometres, making this our worst day since we first started this trip.  At least we\'re over the mountains, and we should be well into Colombia by this time tomorrow.\n\nOh, yeah – as we were still climbing up the mountains over that little road thing, we crossed a wooden bridge.  I wiped out, again, going about fifteen kilometres an hour, and broke some more of my windshield off, and got mud all over my jacket.  Now I don\'t even have enough windshield left to support the Laminar Lip that Rob loaned me.  I really really hope Tiberio is able to find me a windshield, \'cause this is super sucky.  Oh yeah – speaking of mud.  Justin was leading over this mountain, and got quite a bit ahead of us.  I had stopped to put my gloves on, and Justin turned around to see if everything was okay.  When he turned around, a large truck that he\'d passed earlier sped by him, and splattered him head-to-toe and bumper-to-bumper with mud.  Laughed by butt off when I saw how dirty he was.\n\nBike lay-down standings:\n1st place: Ryan: 3 slides, 3 drops\n2nd place: Rob: 0 slides, 8 drops\n3rd place: Sean: 1 slide, 6 drops\n4th place: Justin: 0 slides, 0 drops\n\nRyan Noble\nLatacung, Ecuador\n\nPS - Jim, yes, I sure do read your comments, and I love them.  I read them every chance I get, which unfortunately isn´t as often as I´d like.  And, no, we have not done laundry yet, but we really really need to.  Perhaps in Colombia.','c6dc267d929faea649f21ff9dbe30f0a',0,'','31a54',1,0,'',0,0,0),(136,56,3,1,0,'207.200.116.136',1179625672,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 18th, 2007 - Freezing to death at the equator','Dear Noblemen:\n\nWe were rewarded for our three day wait for your tales.  We enjoyed all of your adventures, every last word.  Ryan, go ahead and let them leave you in the dust....they will just have to come find you which will, in the long run, not save you anytime.  So Justin, slow down for your brother. Rob, you have always been the &quot;Good Son&quot; so make everyone stay together.  Temperatures are rising fast in Las Vegas, so you will definetly thaw out here......Hope you all survive through Colombia and get your rest on the beach.  \n\nRubber side down, \n\nUncle Jim','9f2b5d5a3544f8f4c59a347d34a47a3d',0,'','7cc30',1,0,'',0,0,0),(137,56,3,1,0,'207.200.116.136',1179626046,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 18th, 2007 - Freezing to death at the equator','Ryan:  I forgot to ask you in my last post.  Do you think you could pick me up one of those marble chess sets with the marble chess board while you are in South America? \n\nThanks, \n\nUncle Jim\n\n\nYes.....I am just kidding','d66956e6dc41948c1724a946f3ace915',0,'','e2902',1,0,'',0,0,0),(138,60,4,70,0,'190.9.87.68',1179633223,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','10,000 kms tomorrow!  Donations?','Well tomorrow we will make it passed 10,000 km.  We are hoping the interest we are generating with our little journey will translate into donations to the Kids Cancer Care Foundation.  \n\nWe are right on schedule with about 650 km for each of the next two days to get us to Cartagena.  We hope to fly to Panama on Wednesday morning (22nd).  We had lots of twisty roads today.  It was great fun and very tiring!  We crossed the Equator.  We have travelled virtually all of South America and we are all in very good spirits.  \n\nColombia is VERY beautiful. It is very green and the mountains are huge.  There isn&quot;t a straight km in the whole country thus far.  We are all getting pretty good at making the corners.\n\nWe are more than half way to Red Deer!\n\nSean','1215e6bee36a073939cc93b1c585f85b',0,'','c5f76',1,0,'',0,0,0),(139,60,4,1,0,'70.65.8.11',1179635538,1,0,1,1,1,0,'kathynoble','Re: 10,000 kms tomorrow!  Donations?','Dear Noblemen,\n\nI hope this doesn\'t come as a shock to your system - but the 22nd is Tuesday - not Wednesday as you noted in your last blog, Sean.  It was great to hear the excitement in Justin\'s voice when he phoned at 9 a.m. this morning to tell me he was standing in both the northern and southern hemisphere at the same time.  Sounds like you all  are getting more and more experienced with every turn.  I\'m glad.  Have you met up with Rob\'s friend yet?  Do you need to wear vests with the license plate numbers on your backs?  How was the border crossing into Columbia?  You know me - then what happened?  Where are yoy tonight?  You didn\'t say.  Well, glad to see this posting.  Last night was really brutal not hearing from you in any way.  I was finally able to go to sleep after Ryan phoned at 4:17 this morning...  but not until about 5:00.  You just phoned.  Take care and know you are all loved.  Mom','42b46d08e57d59344c808cd203201e5e',0,'','9d142',1,0,'',0,0,0),(140,56,3,1,0,'69.31.226.107',1179643714,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 18th, 2007 - Freezing to death at the equator','Snow, that\'s right, SNOW! \nNot that you won\'t be able to drive through it, since you\'ve conquered quite a lot! But a long weekend in Alberta wouldn\'t be complete without it and wouldn\'t you guess it, I drove through it today on the way to pick my family up from the airport! Ryan, I know everyone has already said it but you\'re entries are so much fun! Whit and I (and mom and dad) bust a gut everytime we read them! \nI\'m getting my helmet this weekend! Can\'t wait to meet you at the border! See you soon!\n-Amandha','7726a71a47f06f9e217e997492362307',0,'','f8afc',1,0,'',0,0,0),(152,69,3,53,0,'201.219.199.202',1179799005,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 20th, 2007 - To save fifteen dollars','May 20th, 2007, 9:30pm Bogota time\nMedellin, Colombia\nGPS: N06 14.724, W075 34.747\n\nMore beautiful scenery &amp; winding roads marked our way today, although it started out quite differently than it finished.  Apparently last night in Popoyon marked the end of our mountain journeys for about four hundred kilometres, and instead we found ourselves travelling across mostly flat plains, on awesomely paved four-lane divied highway.  We made amazing time, even though Dad insisted on stopping to take a picture when his odometer rolled over 10 000kms, and a wrong turn around Pereira that had us going 30kms out of our way before we realized we\'d gone wrong.\n\nThe easy start was deceptive.  By 11:30am, we were about 300kms from Medellin, and quick mental calculation proved that at our current pace, we\'d be in Medelling at about 2:30 or 3pm – hours and hours earlier than we\'d planned, which was awesome.  However, it was not meant to be.  At 200kms from Medellin we left the awesome highway and got stuck in the back-and-forth extreme turning that marks the Colombian mountain highways.  We didn\'t get into Medellin until the sun set at about 6pm – speaking of which, today marks the first day on our trip with more than 12 hours of sunlight.\n\nWe managed to catch a pretty early start and were on the road by 6am.  That was ruined, however, when Rob misjudged a turn and ran into the ditch.  He\'s okay, he hurt his knee a little bit, and I don\'t think he even scratched his bike (he ran into grass and mud – he\'s really dirty) but his Givi sidecases both bit the dust and now have to be held on with ratchet straps.  \n\nToday was a bad day for accidents – at 11am (right before we crossed 10 000kms) we were passed by these three supersport motorcycles racing down the highway.  We couldn\'t keep up with two of them, but one guy looked like a new rider – he\'d pull ahead of Justin on the straightaways, but would fall behind when turns came up.  He was riding a Yamaha R1, which is quite a lot of motorcycle for a new rider, and sure enough, about half an hour later we passed him on the side of the road – he\'d ridden his bike into the ditch, and pretty much destroyed it.  \n\nWe stopped and turned around to see if we could help.  Justin figures his crash cost that guy about $4000 in repairs (just for parts).  He seemed okay – shaken, and either his side or his leg hurt (he only spoke spanish, and we don\'t) so we gave him some bandages and water and got out of there just as the ambulance was arriving.  We passed his friends about twenty K down the road, headed back to their friend.\n\nWhile stuck on the super winding roads in the mountains, about forty kilometres outside of Medellin we came upon another accident.  This one had shut the highway down in both directions for miles.  Apparently a semi had run over a small car in a sharp turn.  Lucky for us, we\'re on motorcycles, and skipped all the miles of backed-up traffic and moseyed on to the front of the line.  Fifteen minutes later, the semi trailer was pulling away, and we were moving again.\n\nThe mountain roads are a lot of fun – until it rains.  Then the roads get super slick.  Transit authorities in all the countries we\'ve been through so far just seem to love speed bumps.  They\'re always painted bright yellow, and it\'s getting so that i\'m hitting the breaks if i pass a tall person wearing a yellow shirt.  They\'re everywhere, and they come out of nowhere.  Anyways, I guess they only have to actually build a few speed bumps to get people used to them, \'cause often, now, i\'m just riding over flat paint that looks from a distance as though it\'s a speed bump.  I guess that\'s mission accomplished for them, \'cause i\'m smacking on the breaks, and they didn\'t even have to pay for a speed bump.  Anyways, those flat strips of paint are like skating rinks when they\'re wet.  It\'s rained on us every day since we entered Ecuador and crossed into Colombia – luckily, though, those showers are very localized and last only five minutes or so.\n\nMedellin is huge.  I\'m not even kidding.  It covered the land from horizon to horizon as we approached from the mountain.  We decided to try and make it through Medellin tonight and get a hotel on the far side so that we could just hop onto the freeway tomorrow morning and make good time right away.  We had a hard time actually finding a decent area of town – the major thoroughfare that we were on that seemed to be taking us all the way through Medellin suddenly ended as a tiny little street in the middle of a slum sub-city.  Nervous, we drove away and managed to find another road that took us where we wanted.\n\nWe couldn\'t find any hotels that looked as though they charged by the night instead of the hour, so we finally talked a taxi driver into leading us to a decent hotel.  He even spoke english, and brought us straight to this little hotel – not much to look at, but the rooms are clean, the beds are soft(ish), the water runs hot in the shower and he\'s letting us park our motorcycles in the hotel.  However, he turned out to be a pimp, as well, and kept trying to convince me that I needed a companion tonight.  Needless to say, I turned him down.\n\nHowever, we\'re out of Colombian pesos, and it\'s Sunday night – banks are closed.  The rooms are 35,000 pesos each (1900:1 exchange ratio) so like $19 each.  The hotel guy won\'t give us a price in US dollars and insists on performing an exchange to Colombian pesos before paying the bill.  He\'s giving us a 1500:1 ratio, though, and this drives my Tight Bastard brothers up the wall.  They can\'t deal with it.  While Justin is outside chilling with the motorcycles, Rob and Sean are trying to negotiate prices with the hotel manager, I get stuck with carrying all of our luggage down to our rooms.  Twelve heavy pieces of luggage in thirty degree heat so humid it feels like rivers of sweat are coursing down my body.  Plus, Rob and I wrestle one bike into the courtyard where they\'re being parked, and get a second into the hallway outside the courtyard.\n\nEvery time I go up and find they still haven\'t paid for the rooms \'cause Justin and Rob want to save $15, I get madder and madder.  It\'s FIFTEEN DOLLARS for crying out loud!  Finally, just to end it and get us into our freaking rooms, I just hand the guy the $50 that he wanted so that I could get into the room that I wanted.  Justin then proceeded to get ticked at me (“It\'s the principle of the thing”) so I took the money back from the hotel manager and gave it to Justin.\n\nApparently that screwed up their whole negotiation scheme, and god Dad\'s hair all brushed backwards, \'cause now he\'s paying a \'stupid-tax\' \'cause we don\'t speak the language.  About this time they start threatening to leave, so I started hauling all the baggage back up the stairs.  Anyways, I think they finally got the hotel manager guy to understand that they were mad \'cause of the exchange rate, and he could\'ve just charged more to make his money instead of saying something like “I\'m smart, I went to school, I deserve my tip”, which really got dad pissed – effectively calling us all stupid \'cause we don\'t speak Spanish.  \n\nANYWAYS, finally I just went and grabbed the money back from Justin and just paid it.  In an attempt to save $15, we didn\'t, and spent an hour or so arguing when I could have been sleeping.\n\nAnyways, tomorrow marks our last day of riding in South America, and what we consider our halfway mark of the journey – the plane ride from Cartagena to Panama City.  We\'ll be over 11,000 kms by the time we hit Cartagena, and I\'m hoping hoping hoping for an early start and fast roads so that I can find a seamstress to get my jacket repaired (some of the rips from my crash are getting bigger, flapping in the wind all the time) and some laundry done – I actually washed some underwear in the sink tonight, and it\'s drying on the fan right now.  Yucky.  \n\nG\'night,\nRyan Noble,\nMedellin, Colombia','e988577ce8277302809ae87694808399',0,'','3dec8',1,0,'',0,0,0),(144,56,3,55,0,'70.65.76.194',1179710370,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 18th, 2007 - Freezing to death at the equator','Hi, Noble Guys\nWe have said it before, but it bears repeating again - Ryan - your writing is just spectacular!  It makes the rest of us feel that we are there &quot;with you&quot; on the trip.  We can also get a visual picture of the countryside.  Keep it up as best you can.  \nThe report of your slides and drops is very interesting.  Here is Justin - the most &quot;safety challenged&quot; of the group, with with no slides or drops!  However, we all knew that there is a lot of skill that goes along with that daring.  I\'m sure that I would be right up there with slides and drops, as the roads sound very nasty in parts.  \nAnd - I am still hoping to get to the border to see you there.  Don\'t know if class schedules will permit that, but we will try very, very hard.  \nWe have no doubt that the record will be yours!  \n\nAlan and Sharon back at home and working while you are all recreating and having fun.','bf2fafaa51009a30c2c3f383d6d32f5f',0,'','d2dce',1,0,'',0,0,0),(145,56,3,59,0,'24.71.223.149',1179713871,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 18th, 2007 - Freezing to death at the equator','Hello Nobles\n   I really enjoy reading your blog posting and find myself checking often to see if any new ones have been posted. It is like a good book but I have to wait until the following day to read the next chapter. Please ride safe and I look forward to riding from Shelby or the border to Red Deer with you guys.\nDarryl\nRed Deer','826555fa3981f80035a07ef8bf5d94ab',0,'','cb8d1',1,0,'',0,0,0),(146,56,3,1,0,'67.166.113.81',1179717901,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 18th, 2007 - Freezing to death at the equator','Dear Noblemen,\n     Ryan your blogs are almost as good as TV.  We are all sitting in the Lewiston, Utah firestation reading about you, on a big screen, as a family (grandma bob, Papa, paul, Aunt t, hayden and Austin).  Paul will need to check all of our heart rates when we get home.....we feel like we were on the edge with you.  We support smacking rob on the head.  you guys need to stick together.  we love you.1-2-3!  Love, the Big Six\n\n\nAunt T','07910a6ed36afb27c5e8c102002f6306',0,'','091e5',1,0,'',0,0,0),(151,68,3,53,0,'201.219.199.202',1179798835,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 19th, 2007 - My new favourite country is Colombia','May 19th, 2007\nPopayan, Colombia\nGPS: N02 26.997, W076 35.801\nDistance Travelled: 640km\nHours in the saddle: 15\n\nColombia is now my favourite country.  The scenery is breathtaking.  We crossed into Colombia in the early afternoon today, and immediately started climbing winding roads through the mountains.  Sheer drops thousands of feet on one hand, and cliff faces all the way to the sky on the other.  A brilliant green that almost hurts the eyes, and across the valleys we could sometimes spot herds of animals grazing just yards from certain death.\n\nThe border crossing was the easiest we\'ve had since our second day on the trail (crossing between argentina and chile, then back again in the same day).  We\'d been warned about requiring reflective vests with our license plate number on them (indeed, everyone else here has them), but apparently we don\'t require them.  We were also told that we can\'t drive at night, but that\'s not a law – just common sense.  The roads are brutally winding, and apparently the large semi trucks are kept off the twistiest sections during the day, and are let loose at night.\n\nWhile at the border, we ran into this fellow biker named Nico, who is originally from Ecuador but was on his way down from Vancouver – only he\'d taken FIVE MONTHS to go that distance.  Having ridden almost the entire length of South America in ten days, I can certainly appreciate the greater experience taking a longer time to do it would bring.  In fact, during the long hours of silent conversation with myself on the ride, I\'ve been planning just that vacation – the same trip i\'m on right now, but taking six months to a year to get it done.\n\nDespite the curviness of the road mandating a slower riding pace (almost constantly in second or third gear, we averaged only 50kms/hour for the entire day) we made good time even though we had to drive for an hour and a half in the dark to arrive in Popayan at about 8pm.  Justin actually managed to drive off the road while coming around a particularly sharp corner – but in a credit to his amazing motorcycle abilities, even though he jumped over the shoulder and into what some golf fans would call \'heavy rough\', and what normal people would call \'trees\', he didn\'t even drop his motorcycle, so he\'s still sitting at 0:0 in the pool.  Show-off.\n\nWe\'ve received over the past few weeks/months some correspondence from a cyclist in Colombia, Tiberio – you may recall some posts he\'s made to our forums since we\'ve started the trek.  I grabbed his cell number from his signature from one of his posts and attempted to call him when we arrived at the Colombia border, but no dice – either he\'d typed it into his signature incorrectly, or I managed to screw it up when I was writing it down, but it sure wasn\'t Tiberio on the other end of the line.  Which really sucks, \'cause it would have been cool to meet him, as well as super duper handy to have a translator/local-person-who-knows-where-i-can-get-a-windshield guy around.\n\nAnyways, you may remember about a week ago that I crashed my bike.  I jammed my hand into the ground really hard when I went down, and while it certainly doesn\'t hurt any more, I am lacking a lot of strength in my thumb and forefinger – I even have a hard time holding onto cutlery.  But typing isn\'t showing much of a problem, so that\'s all right.\n\nI never thought that \'hot water\' would be something I\'d have to look for when searching for hotels, but it is.  The last three places we\'ve stayed at have had no hot water.  It sucks waking up to a bracing cold shower in the morning when you\'ve got aching muscles and just want to soak for a bit.  The beds at this particular hotel are also hard like rocks.  I\'m writing this (well, I\'m writing notes, actually) in the morning while Robbie searches for the keys that he lost – oh, yeah, I forgot.  More about that in a bit.  I had the worst sleep last night that i\'ve had so far on this trip.\n\nAnyways, Robbie is no longer allowed to touch keys of any kind for the rest of this trip.  I went to go unlock our motorcycles this morning, and could only find the spare keys for the locks, one of which was bent and wouldn\'t fit the lock.  Robbie\'d had the keys last, but couldn\'t find them anywhere even after tearing all his luggage apart.  Again.  Fortunately, Justin was able to bend the key straight and got the bikes unlocked, shortly before Robbie discovered the missing keys in his bike jacket.  I believe this is the third time he\'s lost keys in his jacket.\n\nSpeaking of motorcycles, they\'re everywhere here.  Ecuador and Colombia are just crawling with little two-stroke bikes.  They\'re apparently the ideal family vehicle – we\'ve seen five people on a single tiny motorcycle (two kids on front, parent, then kid, then parent on the back), and I\'ve even seen a woman sitting side saddle on the back holding onto a newborn.  It\'s hard to describe how tiny these bikes are – they\'re easily 1/3 the size of our motorcycles, makes me feel like a bit of a land yacht in comparison.  However, we\'re much, much faster – on the highways, they stick to the shoulder.\n\nJustin has declared himself impressed with the amount of tread left on our tires, and so we\'re skipping the tire swappage in Medellin.  He figures we\'ll be able to get ourselves some tires elsewhere – Nico mentioned that he bought a spare tire in Mexico, I believe, so Justin figures we\'ll do our change there, and save a bunch of money and time doing it.  Especially since we have to be in Cartagena in two days, and have 1200 or so kms to go to get there, all over these windy mountain passes.  Gonna be a hard couple days, that\'s for sure.\n\nOne thing that was super awesome cool today was crossing the equator.  Hey – did you know that \'ecuador\' means \'equator\', in Spanish?  What a coincidence, \'cause Ecuador is ON the equator.  We bought a DVD from the tour guide there, and got pictures taken all over the place.  On the horizon, though we couldn\'t see it \'cause it was shrouded in cloud, is apparently an extinct volcano with a glacier on it.  At that spot is the only place in the entire world where the eqatorial line crosses over snow.  I can believe it, though, after that mountain crossing in Ecuador that dropped down to two degrees C.  After this, we\'re never again in the southern hemisphere and will, in the next week or so, cross directly under the sun and will cease to chase it across the sky, and will have it at our backs, instead.\n\nToll booths continue to arrive periodically in our path.  Fortunately, in Colombia they are free for motorcycles as well as Ecuador.  They have these little paths off to the side with high brick walls that motorcycles are supposed to follow.  Rob had a problem with the first one, and dropped his bike.\n\nBike Standings:\n1st place: Ryan: 3 slides, 3 drops\n2nd place: Rob: 0 slides, 9 drops\n3rd place: Sean: 1 slide, 6 drops\n4th place: Justin: 0 slides, 0 drops \n\nParking has been something surprisingly easy to find – most places have either a gated courtyard we park in, or actually let us bring the motorcycles into the hotel itself to lock them up.  The hotel here in Popayan had a separate room that looks like it used to be a night club, and it has fricking dragons on the ceiling.  Which is so cool that I took some pictures, and I\'ll do my darndest to upload them as soon as I can get on the interweb for more than a few minutes.\n\nRyan Noble,\nPopayan, Colombia','7e7c8f8fc6be793104155fbe9438634c',0,'','c8a37',1,0,'',0,0,0),(149,56,3,1,0,'68.144.214.147',1179766909,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 18th, 2007 - Freezing to death at the equator','Ryan: Keep up the good work! Looking forward to June 2nd. Everyone at Venture is following your progress. Kudos to Justin for his sense of balance &amp; equilibrium!\nRich.','f0883ef64dc578f02c3214680e455108',0,'','2766b',1,0,'',0,0,0),(150,56,3,1,0,'69.31.226.30',1179790492,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 18th, 2007 - Freezing to death at the equator','I really do enjoy your blogs each and everyday I get a chance to read them! I can not believe that Justin Noble went a day without nourishment?! WOW... I love the updates on the down bikes (however dangerous it is) Of course it is always fun to read everyone elses notes too! David &amp; Amandha are preparing to meet you at the border (Of course I am concerned about Amandha on the Highway but very likely I will follow behind in the truck! There I go again, wrapped in bubble wrap, hey Sean! HAHAHA\nI hope you get the opportunity to meet with Uncle Brian (David\'s Brother) as I know he would be thrilled to meet you all! \nAgain Happy &amp; Safe Trails to you all! \nPattie XO','da40026596eecf29b4a71a65739c9f15',0,'','7fc0d',1,0,'',0,0,0),(153,68,3,1,0,'142.59.25.50',1179801040,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 19th, 2007 - My new favourite country is Colombia','Rock on Dragon Slayer!  \nxox Nat','54c9d10e9b934077096380fac26a8e79',0,'','48283',1,0,'',0,0,0),(154,69,3,1,0,'70.65.63.28',1179801740,1,0,1,1,1,0,'Diana &amp; Warner','Re: May 20th, 2007 - To save fifteen dollars','Hello Nobles!  We just spent  a couple hours on some of Saskatchewan\'s more interesting roads.  Well, between the potholes there was road, sort of.  I have to say that Dad and I have so much more admiration for what you are doing!  We found that driving challenging enough  and that was in a Buick.  Rock on guys!\nAnd thanks so much for the enjoyable, enlightening and entertaining updates.\nWe\'d love an autographed copy of the book when it comes out.\n\nTake care, take care of each other &amp; safe travels!\nWe look forward to seeing you in Red Deer at the Noble Fest!\n\nloveyabye\nDiana &amp; Warner','750d01d12deb2c588b9e27c2b361ed2d',0,'','6886b',1,0,'',0,0,0),(155,68,3,1,0,'207.200.116.198',1179805721,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 19th, 2007 - My new favourite country is Colombia','Noblemen:\n\nGlad to hear that you are showering...even if it is cold water.  Rob:  I hope your bike survives all of th drops.  Do you just get mad and throw down your bike in a huff? Justin, I know how you can drive a golf cart over cliffs etc(Like at Lake Powell National) so I am not surprised at your skills in the &quot;rough&quot; of Colombia.  Glad I am not your passenger this time....Keep an eye on dear old dad.\n\nUncle Jim.','4e9e47f6c8e9d79fe887448c10d53349',0,'','c4f00',1,0,'',0,0,0),(156,69,3,1,0,'207.200.116.5',1179807245,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 20th, 2007 - To save fifteen dollars','Ryan:\n\nNanette is glad to hear that you have at least washed your undies.  It\'s too bad your cheap relatives are adding unneeded stress to your relaxing vacation.  \n\nUncle Jim','7ce12c62d4596f4ca7f8402f108dd3e0',0,'','2c3df',1,0,'',0,0,0),(157,69,3,77,0,'70.65.21.58',1179809397,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 20th, 2007 - To save fifteen dollars','Hey guys glad to here everything is going well.  I mean as well as can be expected I figure the Noble factor by four is not a good thing.  Ryan I am gonna wear a bright yellow shirt on June 2nd...hope you slow down for me.  I was gonna say something inspirational now but I figure to hell with that.  \n\n&quot;The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.&quot; \nJosh Billings (1818 - 1885) \n\nOK I guess this one is for Sean and Justin...did you save the 15 bucks and who is the fool? Yeah I am actually talking about the desk guy....or am I?\n\nMy Mother is doing well still in the hospital but has been moved to the Rehab unit. How appropriate is that kinda always figured it would be me.\n\nKeep the heads down and the butts up....I mean on the bikes.\n\nTerry','6cf5f57ed9826e878546f4e0a5626320',0,'','4e680',1,0,'',0,0,0),(158,69,3,73,0,'70.65.59.4',1179814888,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 20th, 2007 - To save fifteen dollars','Hi Guy\'s \nGlad to hear that you are getting on the plane tomorrow. Does this mean you will get some down time on a beach somewhere? Hope so. Keep up the good work and stay safe. \nCraig','f46dcf983dc37f95398dc059cf7b6dae',0,'','bf426',1,0,'',0,0,0),(161,69,3,69,0,'200.116.150.12',1179846040,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 20th, 2007 - To save fifteen dollars','Hi.\nRyan first of all, sorry I did not meet you south, this weekend was a holyday in Colombia and we had other plans, if you rode yesterday from Medellín to Cartagena you will see lots flooding due to the end of the rain season, and you may even had hard time to pass due to traffic this will make next chronicle very interesting , there was large group of riders coming back from Cartagena that were having problems to get home,  I know that Ryan does describe roads better than my poor English you will enjoy his description anytime now ,  I consider the route from Medellín to Cartagena for had-core riders dream roadand is the best way to say goodbye to South American roads and the Andes.\nAgain if you need anything I am back in Medellín and my mobile is 313 659-0422 any time.\nTiby\n10:02 am local time in Colombia','de70f1bf881506d06bede09a760f00e9',0,'','177d1',1,0,'',0,0,0),(164,69,3,1,0,'70.65.42.232',1179859177,1,0,1,1,1,0,'Patrick Langlois','Re: May 20th, 2007 - To save fifteen dollars','What an adventure! I\'m looking forward to meeting up with you for the ride into Red Deer. I am still planning to meet up with you State side. I am going to cross over into the US on Jun 1. If you can post which hiway you will be travelling on to reach the border I will travel south and watch for you on the hiway and join up for some ridng (and beers) on Jun 1. Otherwise I will meet you at the border. \n\nRyan your blog entries are awesome. You discribe the familial interactions well. I can vividly see Sean turn red to save his $15. Keep up the good fight <!-- s:twisted: --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_twisted.gif\" alt=\"Twisted Evil\" title=\"Twisted Evil\" /><!-- s:twisted: --> I\'m gald no one has been injuried in you bike mishaps. Ride safe and keep together.\n\nPatrick','c9f5d6cfbcc89ea26861f63db0595bab',0,'','e5832',1,0,'',0,0,0),(165,69,3,1,0,'86.145.107.78',1179867801,1,0,1,1,1,0,'e.laird767@btinternet.com','Re: May 20th, 2007 - To save fifteen dollars','We are avidly following your journey via our book of maps!  You are certainly a great writer Ryan. Hope you are keeping all your blogs to have them boud into a book.    Elsie and Derek','199daef2a3a951c89a78cc00142a9735',0,'','93806',1,0,'',0,0,0),(180,83,3,53,0,'165.98.187.122',1180095628,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 21, 2007 - Washed out in Colombia','May 21st, 2007\nCartagena, Colombia\nGPS: \n\nWhat a day!  Even with the Noble Factor sometimes – okay, often – complicating things, we still seem to be unusually fortunate as far as things-that-could-be-major-but-end-up-not-being-so.  For instance, last night outside Medellin was a massive thunderstorm.  Well, massive to us foreigners.  People here seemed to take it in stride.  \n\nNot even forty kilometres outside Medellin we were once again on winding mountain roads above breathtaking vistas we were already wishing would change to straight roads, we happened upon a long line of stopped trucks.  A VERY long line.  Being motorcycles, we hopped into the oncoming traffic lane to see what all the fuss was about.\n\nThe road was washed out.  Not, like, a little bit washed out, but a lot washed out.  Approximately half the mountain had come down on the road, completely blocking it in person-high mud with a muddy river of mud washing muddily across the highway and down into the increasingly muddy gorge below.\n\nOf course we were frustrated.  Here we were not even forty K outside Medellin, early in the morning, and truck drivers are telling us it\'ll be at least two hours before we\'re moving again.  We dug out our maps and GPSs to try and find another way around (we HAD to be in Cartagena that night) but no such luck – the only road between two major cities was washed out, and alternate, secondary highways would take us at least four hours longer.\n\nAfter Justin failed to make it over the person-high mud, even on foot, we decided to wait it out, and shortly after that a front loader clanked its\' way down the highway and started plowing that pile of mud into the gorge below.  Pretty cool stuff – we got some pictures and some video of it.  Every time the vehicle would plow its\' shovel into the pile of mud, waves of thick water would splash out over the top of the blade and would come washing down the road.\n\nAbout an hour and a half after we arrived, the road was clear enough that the policia let all the motorcycles through, and we were off!  With clear roads for miles and miles in our direction.\n\nApparently the rainstorm had not been local to Medellin – we kept coming across partial landslides that would block part of the road, and eventually came across other landslides that had already been cleared.  Right before we stopped for lunch, we passed through this town that had been swamped.  People were shovelling mud out of basements, pumps were running all over the place, and the streets were slick with mud.  Robbie caught his rear wheel on a piece of cardboard while trying to slow, and promptly dropped his bike to the ground.   I stopped to help, but was on a slope so that when I got off my motorcycle, the kickstand was too high, and my bike fell over as well, perhaps in a gesture of motorcycle solidarity.  Sure felt stupid when I had to get some locals to help us get our bikes back upright.  Dad and Justin stopped about a block down and were both enjoying the show.\n\nI keep forgetting to mention – before we actually started this trip, and I\'d mention it to people, the most common response was something along the lines of \'your butt is gonna hurt\'.  That wasn\'t true for the first eight or nine days on the road, but we\'re all starting to get the sore butt syndrome.  At least for me, i think i\'m getting some kind of bedsores – up to sixteen hours a day, sitting, only stopping every three-hundred fifty kilometres or so to fill – anyways, my butt is now hurting.  I\'ve been shifting position more often, and it seems to be working.  But my shoulders and hands have adapted – they no longer ache, at all, after hours on the road, unless i\'m driving through mountain passes.  In the dark.  While it rains.  For hours.  Then, I get sore.\n\nI keep kicking myself for another thing, too.  On the way from Machala to Latacunga, in Ecuador, immediately before we started up the mountain pass that led to such amazing sights and such lousy roads, we encountered a festival in a town at the base of the mountains.  They\'d had the road blocked off, and were directing traffic in a detour around.  We stopped, and as we were going to pull off on the detour, a woman (turned out to be a man dressed in drag, in a pink wig) gestured for us to come forward, into the cordoned-off area of town.  We inched our way forward passed a band on a truck playing some music.  There were actually several men dressed in outrageous drag.  They descended upon us as a group, and dragged us off our motorcycles to where people were dancing to the simultaneous clashing of the band music and Britney Spears\' pop classic Hit Me Baby One More Time.  We good-naturedly (and quite self-consciously) danced a jig or two with our cross-dressing friends in a crowd of people.  One normally-dressed guy was passing around little plastic cups filled with what looked like fruit juice and smelled like fruit juice, but packed a punch and burn similar to that of cheap whiskey.\n\nI managed to beg off after two shots left me gasping with my eyes tearing, and we got back on our bikes.  But not before Justin gave a victory lap to one of our colourful friends.  Wish we could have stayed – looked like a whole bunch of fun.\n\nAnyways, that\'s the awesome story that I keep forgetting to tell.  I\'ve been sitting down with the boys most nights now, and jotting some notes so that I don\'t forget any of the good stuff that happened in a day.\n\nOne of the things about Colombia that made me progressively angrier the longer I rode north was the fact that the roads got worse the farther we went.  I\'m not talking about twisty roads and such – the pavement progressively degenerated until not fifty kilometres outside Cartagena, it was impossible to do highway speeds.  I found this out when I came across a downhill turn with a bump so large that Dad says I caught at least a foot of air when I ran over it at 110km/h.  No warning signs – nothing, just BAM i\'m airborne.  I\'m pretty sure my heart stopped for a moment, and I decided that I fricking love ABS on a motorcycle.  Sure saved my butt when I landed.\n\nThe bumpiness continued for some time, and Robbie actually ran into a problem with that, as well.  The day before, you may remember, Rob rode himself into a ditch and broke the poorly engineered latches on his fancy plastic luggage, so that now his side cases must be held on with ratchet straps.  They\'d worked well for a long time, with the ratchet strap around the middle of the rounded case, and the excess strap tucked inside it.  This road was a bit too bumpy for this system to work completely, and one of his side cases popped off the ratchet strap.  The case stayed closed, and the strap stayed attached to his bike, so Rob dragged it down the highway for a while behind him.\n\nWe took the wrong exit into Cartagena that night, so we didn\'t manage to catch any pictures of us next to a \'bienvenido a cartagena\' sign, and we got another tour of the slummy section of a major city.  However, Cartagena is a pretty touristy place, so the \'slums\' in Cartagena are light years ahead of what we saw in Medellin and Lima.  Especially Lima.  I rolled over 11,000 kms on my odometer as we hit downtown Cartagena.  We\'re almost halfway done!\n\nThe airport in Cartagena is right on the coast, so we figured there\'d be no better place to find a decent hotel, and headed for the \'airport\' waypoint on our GPSs.  Turns out, we were wrong, and couldn\'t see anything near the airport.  Dad found a taxi driver that spoke english, and he took us straight to the tourist section of Cartagena, right on the beach, and found us an awesome hotel.  Clean rooms, english-speaking employees, hot water.  It was heaven.\n\nWe\'ve been needing to do laundry for quite some time, now, so one of the requirements we gave the taxi driver for a hotel (they usually consist of hot water, secure parking, softish beds) was that they either have a laundry service, or are close to a laundromat.  This place didn\'t have a laundry service that was open (today was some kind of holiday), so our taxi driver (very very nice guy, great english) found a place that would do our laundry, and he\'d even pick it up and deliver it to us the next morning.  Awesome!\n\nJustin and I tore into the mini bar when we got into our room (gatorade and water, we\'d been sweating all day and hadn\'t stopped much for liquids), and then we went out on the town for a bit of shopping to restock the mini bar, and to hit up a pizza place down the block that had an all-Michael-Jackson music video playlist on the too-loud television.  Amazing pizza, though.  You\'re ever in Cartagena, go to Ricco\'s Pizzeria.  \n\nApparently I have a bit of a problem with fashion sense.  Actually, I knew that I looked ridiculous, but I had no choice, and I didn\'t care.  All of my clothes had been sent to the laundry place, and the only thing I had to wear were my fluorescent green swimming trunks, my bright blue Amsoil shirt (thanks, John!) and my motorcycle boots.  Everyone was apparently embarrassed to be seen with me.  I felt bad, until I saw a woman in the supermercado doing her shopping in her bathrobe.  \n\nSupermarkets here are awesome.  They carry everything – even booze.  Even BOXES of whiskey marked \'ECONOMIA\' so that you know it\'s the cheap stuff.  Like coming in a box wasn\'t a good clue.\n\nI\'m stuffed, and tired.  More tomorrow – should have some time \'cause the plane\'s not arriving until 10:30am or so.\n\nRyan Noble,\nCartagena, Colombia.','faff74e1bae23a9aed347eb4ed080733',0,'','95c7c',1,0,'',0,0,0),(167,69,3,1,0,'209.115.255.165',1179885374,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 20th, 2007 - To save fifteen dollars','Hi Ryan and the rest of the Noblemen.  It was sure good to hear your latest stories and also see the new photos.  Great Job!!! Again!!!  I am constantly trying to hit up people with the brochures you left at our office and think now I am getting successful.  The CKGY radio is getting more people interested in your great adventure.  And they actually do remember you when our older customers come in.  You really do need to put this all into a book.  I always knew you had the &quot;gift of gab&quot;, but now also you have a great &quot;gift for writing&quot; and making us all feel like we are right with you on your journey.  Always glad to hear you, your brothers and father are safe and sound when you write.  Keep up the great scenarios and always keep safe and together.\n\nChris &amp; Peter','e01302cd5519ec14ceeb3e10e083b79e',0,'','a64ad',1,0,'',0,0,0),(171,78,4,69,0,'200.116.150.12',1179922977,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Lots of rain in Colombia for the boys','Hi.\nFor you guys doing the ride and also commenting about your favorite country Colombia, thanks we really appreciate your words, thanks in the name of many Colombians that ride motorcycles and also others trying to make this country a beautiful place to live, after having lots of bad news, the reality is that now is safe and tourism is growing, please do not believe all that the media says, some times the reality is different.\nIf you rode from Medellín to Cartagena Monday or Tuesday you had a difficult ride especially after you last ride up in the mountains, I saw the news and there many flooded areas and lots of mud, my friends that were coming from Cartagena on Monday show me pictures.\nTo make this story short, this year we were hit by ‘FENOMENO DEL NIñO’, what is this? Is a cycle in weather that makes some years to rain more than usual in some places and other places makes a dryer year, usually April and May are the normal rainy season, but this year we have had records of rain in the last two months.\nBut looks like the rain maker knew about this 4 Canadians doing a ride for a beautiful cause and made for them lots of rain, 5 days of intensive rain in Colombia.\nWith my heart all I want for you guys to have a rest of the ride safe, hopping that you have time to come a visit or Country with a little bit more time, we have a small house but our hearts are big.\nCan’t wait for Ryan story, I really enjoy it.\n\nThis may be my last post, but I will be reading all the postings\n\nGod Bless\nTiberio','988a46c8164a1931af523a267b0760ae',0,'','e0c34',1,0,'',0,0,0),(172,79,3,1,0,'204.209.247.2',1179948707,1,0,1,1,1,0,'kathynoble','Flying into Panama','It was great to listen to the radio (CKGY) this morning to hear Ryan comment on the plane trip over the Darian Gap (not sure I spelled this correctly).  I\'m looking forward to reading about this very wet and cold experience.  It was also very exciting to hear Greg announce he has tickets to give away at the silent auction at NobleFest to see Tim McGraw and Faith Hill!!!!  WOW!  I know I\'ll be bidding.  \n\nSean has told me he would like to return to several of the places he has discovered along the route.  I told him we must be able to FLY there - no motorcycles for me.  He especially wants to return to Columbia.  I\'m up for that!  I\'m glad they are now in North America and I hope their border crossings become easier.  They are especially worried about crossing into Nicaragua.  \n\nGood luck guys!  See you in 10 days!!!  We miss you!\n1-2-3, \nMom','c5eacbe483b3e83b56ea6f35c969a291',0,'','ea53d',1,0,'',0,0,0),(174,79,3,1,0,'142.59.25.50',1179969724,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: Flying into Panama','[color=#0000FF:d33ea]So the tickets will actually be up for a live auction! I found some really great talent to help us with it and I guarantee it will be entertaining.  We will also be auctioning off one of Kathy\'s famous cookies.  You don\'t want to miss it! \n\nSee you all June 2 at the Capri hotel parking lot between 1:00-8:00pm.  \n\nNatalie [/color:d33ea]\n\nP.S.  I heard Ryan on the radio this morning and was very amused - did you Noble boys ever think that maybe the reason the pilot opened the window was due to your overwhelming stench? You did mention that your laundry was pretty bad.  Just a though  <!-- s:lol: --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif\" alt=\"Laughing\" title=\"Laughing\" /><!-- s:lol: -->','fdb94fd1a1acd2658fd6d638c9c5ce58',0,'Ag==','d33ea',1,0,'',0,0,0),(175,79,3,1,0,'209.115.255.165',1179981657,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: Flying into Panama','I\'m in for Ryan\'s mom\'s cookies.  I miss them a lot!!!  Okay let\'s get the cookie thing going also, cause they are the best!\n\nChris &amp; Peter...cookieless after Ryan left us!!','8b2400b675b90346cd57e045bd64120d',0,'','46657',1,0,'',0,0,0),(176,81,3,1,0,'70.65.8.11',1179985055,1,0,1,1,1,0,'kathynoble','May 23 - Wet in Costa Rica and No Internet','Sean phoned a short while ago to let me know they were 10 miles inside the border of Costa Rica.  They travelled all day in a torrential rain storm and were wet to the bone.  It shows no sign of letting up tomorrow either.  They grabbed the first hotel that had room for them and Sean said it was a dive - but it was dry.  We had a very poor phone line connection (probably not helped by the storm) so conversation was very limited.  \n\nThanks Chris and Peter for your kind words about my cookies.  I guess I\'d better make a super big one if it\'s going to be auctioned off.  There will be regular sized cookies for sale at NobleFest with 100% of the money from sales going to Kids Cancer Care.  I\'m trying to get 2,000 baked and hopefully with some help from my students, decorated.  They are a well trained crew as we host 3 cookes sales a year for the students at WPE and we usually sell over 1,000 cookies in two days during each sale.  \n\nI told Sean to let Ryan know we would be waiting eagerly for the next installment of his blog!','0f144b3d073864cd2795c4585e49c0d0',0,'','4aad7',1,0,'',0,0,0),(177,81,3,1,0,'142.59.20.234',1180011948,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 23 - Wet in Costa Rica and No Internet','I haven\'t had a chance to send a note to the guys for a few days but it is good to hear they are now into North America.  Let\'s hope Mexico is better to them than the last time Sean was there.\nI\'ve got my bike all warmed up for the trip to the border and to be part of the ride to Red Deer.  Let\'s get a big number out there to ride along with the big adventure.\nGlad to hear everything and everyone is fine and clipping along a a great pace.\n\nKeep it up guys and we\'ll see you all soon.\n\nUB','d8ad6c0da6f2cd4860ea7d0d5731974f',0,'','0a25e',1,0,'',0,0,0),(178,81,3,1,0,'207.54.96.33',1180048054,1,0,1,1,1,0,'jbutton','Re: May 23 - Wet in Costa Rica and No Internet','Hey guys, finally got a chance to get online and read all the posts. You guys are experiencing the adventure of a lifetime, and its so fun to participate from such a far distance.\n\nKeep on biking, and continued good luck\n\nJim Button','da33a75358b97dfe5f93c047d17fabfc',0,'','4e5a6',1,0,'',0,0,0),(179,82,5,95,0,'70.65.125.3',1180067340,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','From Coots to Red Deer','ran into Sean back at the Red Deer bike show, or should I say just about walked past him, But he called me back and asked me if I would ride with him from Coots to Red Deer on the 2nd of june. told him that I would see what I could do..since then my bike bit the dust and had to let it go, but picked up an old 1983 yamaha 750 as that was all I could afford,wish I could have gotten some thing a little newer then that; but oh well, I will have to make due. I work at the big Shell gas bar in gasoline ally and dont make the big bucks. I have been keeping tabs on Sean and the boys since the blog\'s started, ( as a guest ) they have done so well. the sad thing is, is that I talk to a lot of bikers every day as they come in for gas, I ask them if they going to be at Coots on the 2nd to meet up with the guys, I have found that only 2 out of 20 know about this thing. I tell em to go look at your website. well, a few that I talked to plan to meet up with you guys. Now Im just hopeful that my old bike will  make the round trip to coots and back, if not it will be a long walk home for me, but I will give it a shot. but one way or another I will see you guys on the 2nd; till then Ride Safe..............Randall','b4e2e75d442a84229d31720afd33ae78',0,'','16340',1,0,'',0,0,0),(181,84,3,53,0,'165.98.187.122',1180095694,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 22, 2007 - Safety is priority number one','May 22nd, 2007, 9pm local time\nPanama City, Panama\nGPS: \n\nToday started out awesome.  We got to sleep in a little bit, since we didn\'t have to get up and ride and the plane we were flying to Panama City on wouldn\'t get in until about 10:30.  Last night, Dad phoned our customs broker, and he asked us to meet him at the VIP lounge in the airport at 9am, so we all volunteered Dad to go there in the morning.\n\nKeeping with the spirit of losing important things, I managed to lose my GPS.  We tore the hotel room apart, and i stripped my luggage three times but couldn\'t find it anywhere.  I distinctly remember taking it off my bike and putting it in my jacket pocket, and then taking it out once in the hotel room \'cause i was considering washing the jacket.  I ended up not getting it washed \'cause we didn\'t want the Milano for Men decals to get ruined.\n\nDad went for a walk and a haircut, and didn\'t get back until about 9:30am.  Just prior to him arriving, our taxi driver from last night arrived with our laundry.  Which was still wet.  Apparently, they took us quite literally when we said \'lavado\', which is \'wash\'.  We started to dry it out on the bed, but Dad and I had to go to the airport, and we left Justin and Rob in charge of it.\n\nAt the airport we met this awesome guy named Wilmares, who breezed us through the bureaucratic hassle that is every border, tripled at airports.  Cajoling and convincing, he got people to do things they didn\'t really want to do (in one case, he stopped a customs agent from sending us to a town nearby called Manga to get our Carnets stamped, and convinced her to do it at the airport.  That alone saved us at least an hour).  Apparently it was a slow day for the customs agents, too – one guy was falling asleep watching The Lion King on the television.\n\nWe finally got some paperwork done at the airport.  We headed back to the hotel to gather up Rob and Justin, and to get everything packed and back to the airport for a pre-board inspection.  Rob and Justin ended up getting the hotel\'s laundry service to dry our clothes, so that was nice.  I hadn\'t been looking forward to rotting, damp clothes all the way through central america and mexico.  We frantically packed, and managed to get to the airport two hours after we said we\'d be back.  Oh, yeah – Justin found my GPS wrapped up in his bedsheets, which I\'d searched.  Twice.\n\nWhen we got to the airport, Wilmares met us at the corner and informed us that the policia officers wouldn\'t be available until 2:00pm, so we had about forty minutes to kill before we could get our bikes inspected.  We headed over to this old fort (this area of the city is called Old Cartagena) section of town to snap some photos and do some shopping.\n\nJustin has a nasty habit of not looking in his mirrors, and I have a bad habit of following him too closely, so when he stopped suddenly to catch a left into the Old Cartagena section, I narrowly avoided missing a small motorcycle when I lurched to a stop, and dropped my bike in the middle of the street.  At least I wasn\'t moving, and this time I didn\'t even break anything.  I\'m sure hard on Patricia.  \n\nWe found ourselves in this open square not far from the entrance to the old town section, and before we could even park our bikes, we were beset upon by vendors hawking their fake sunglasses, counterfeit cigars, and lousy paintings.\n\nJustin and Rob both purchased a pair of sunglasses, and Justin and I went halfers on a box of Cuban cigars.  While Justin and I are bargaining with the cigar guy, Rob\'s doing laps in the square, yelling at us all the while about how stupid we are to buy fake cigars and we can get them in Mexico, while Dad\'s loudly whining about how hot he is (it was 34 degrees and brightly sunny at this time).  \n\nWe had all stripped our bike jackets off, \'cause it was just too dang hot wearing all that black.  This turned out to be a mistake.  When you enter Cartagena, there should be a sign that says: “Welcome.  Sunburn guaranteed in thirty minutes or your money back.”  Seriously, we weren\'t riding around for more than thirty minutes and we were all burnt.  At least mine has already faded to a tan (i don\'t burn easily), but Justin was wearing a muscle shirt, and has coloured nicely to a shade reminiscent of a crab in a pot.  With brilliant white tan lines.  He\'s gonna peel, and I think he\'s gonna blister.\n\nWe were struck again by that South American fondness for having six or ten one ways in a row all in the same direction, and got lost down cobblestone sidestreets before we finally found our way back to the airport (the GPSs have been essential for getting un-lost in unfamiliar cities).\n\nThe cops were mad \'cause we were ten minutes late, and ended up telling us to go to the gate at the airport we\'d been at before.  Once at the gate to the secure section of the airport, Wilmares met us and explained that we couldn\'t turn our bikes on any longer, \'cause they were supposed to have the gas drained and the batteries disconnected prior to getting them on the plane.  We snapped some pictures and I had some time to read before the policia were ready for our inspection.  \n\nWe pushed our bikes several blocks to the inspection station and were met by about a dozen officers armed with guns, explosive detection swipes, and dogs.  That pooped everywhere.  I stepped in a fresh doo doo, which was actually quite sticky and pungent, and scraped large divots in their lawn removing it.  \n\nThis was the most extensive search I\'ve ever been through – we had to go through metal detectors twice, and our luggage was stripped, swiped, sniffed, and opened.  The gas tanks in our bikes were inspected, and they had dogs smell the air in our tires before they finally let us put it all back together.  While I was getting my stuff inspected, lighting shattered in the distance, and the thunder was so loud that I jumped and let out a high pitched scream, much to the amusement of our thoroughly macho inspection squad.\n\nAfter that, we got to go hang inside the blissfully cool airport for passport stamping before once again marching out into the blistering heat.  Except in the short time we were in the airport, the thunderstorm had rolled in.  I had time to think \'I should have kept my rain gear\' before my underwear was wet.  We pushed our bikes I swear three miles across the airport tarmac towards our plane.  It was this TINY little thing dad keeps calling a Twin Otter, but i\'m not sure if that\'s what it really is.  I thought for sure there\'s no way we\'re getting these bikes in the plane.  \n\nThey brought over this mobile conveyor belt used for tossing luggage on to a plane, and lined it up with the cargo hatch at the back of the plane.  The hatch was just slightly too short for our bikes to go on with windshields and mirrors, so those had to go.  We only had to take the mirrors off my bike.  \n\nSafety is obviously priority number one.  Once the bikes were rolled up onto the conveyor belt thing, with four of us holding it at the apex of this long ramp, they started adjusting the height or the belt, lurching around while we all held onto the bike for dear life.  We were about ten feet in the air at this point, with no footholds should we lose our footing.  \n\nIt took us about an hour to get everything loaded up.  I\'ve never been that wet in my life while fully clothed, and to top it off, the cheap watch I bought in Tacna lost its\' crystal face somewhere along the line.\n\nI should mention here that after we\'d gotten three bikes loaded, Wilmares told us there was no room for the fourth bike AND us, so they\'d be making a second flight tomorrow.  Sorry for the inconvenience.  He let us fume for a minute, then told us he\'d been kidding.  What a funny guy!\n\nAt long last, we were finally aboard the plane and ready to take off.  Justin and I had to climb in through the cockpit to the row of three seats at the very front, \'cause the bikes completely filled the middle ¾ of the plane.  Rob and Dad were crammed into the back.  We could barely see them over the bikes – the ceiling of the plane couldn\'t have been much over four and a half feet.  Keeping with the safety-as-a-priority spirit, they didn\'t strap the bikes down, and instead the pilot asked Rob and Sean in the back to brace the motorcycles during takeoff in case they shifted under the acceleration.\n\nSoaked and steamy, the pilots started taxiing down the runway in the slowest takeoff of my life.  Exceptionally noisy plane it was, too.  And, incredibly, once we\'d reached our cruising altitude of nine thousand feet, and a speed of slightly more than three hundred kph, our pilot opened his window.\n\nSeriously.  The temperature in the cramped cabin plummeted, and the four of us, soaking wet, shivered and suffered in silence for the rest of the flight.  Even Justin was quiet, absorbed in a movie on his ipod.\n\nWe landed in Panama too late to get our bikes out of customs, which dashed our hopes for getting a little further on the road, and we ended up staying in a little motel one of the airline employees drove us to.  The girl at the counter spoke some english, and told us that all four rooms (they only had rooms with one bed apiece) had air conditioning, but one of them was noisy.  What she really meant was that they ALL had air conditioners installed, but only one worked, and that one was noisy.\n\nThe mattresses are terrible.  Rob, Justin and Dad are out getting food while I write this.  I\'m exhausted – it\'s time to go to bed.\n\nRyan Noble,\nPanama City, Panama\n\nPS – they forgot to get me food.  Bastards!','bea15e321f7328021c1b81f38b61abb0',0,'','90b09',1,0,'',53,0,0),(182,85,5,1,0,'142.59.25.50',1180103776,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','June 2 - Ride Along to Noblefest!','Attention all Motorcycle enthusiasts:\n\nWe need as many riders as possible to accompany the Noble\'s to Noblefest of June 2, 2007.  \n\nWe\'ll be at the American/Canadian border at Coutts/Sweetgrass on June 2nd, and will be riding into Red Deer that evening for a big ol\' shindig (NobleFest) at theCapri Centre. We\'d like to get a whole bunch of riders to meet us at the border to ride north with us, and have a mass of riders all pull into the party at the same time. \n\nIf this meeting point is too far we have another spot closer to Red Deer. Riders will be congregating at the Esso on QE2 (northbound) around Carstairs.  People can begin meeting there at 1:00pm and should be ready to leave by 2:00pm.  It will be very exciting to have as many riders as possible for the grand entrance into the rally at 3:00pm.  \n\nI\'m ecstatic to announce that CKGY will be on location and Greg Johnson will be the MC of the event.  When you all ride in at 3:00pm he will be interviewing the Noble\'s on stage.  \n\nThere will be entertainment for the entire family including music (six bands - all local artists), food, live auction, face painting, kids activities, 50/50, dunk tank and vendors.  All of the proceeds will go to the Kids Cancer Care Foundation.  \n\nThe plans have really come together and I\'m so impressed with all the help we have been receiving.  If you would like to join us on June 2 please get in touch with me by email (natalie8@telus.net) or at 357-0407.\n\nThanx for Your Support,\nNatalie O\'Connor','537ce6401a56928d1df16fc24314c2dc',0,'','57b64',1,0,'',0,0,0),(184,83,3,1,0,'142.59.20.234',1180139786,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 21, 2007 - Washed out in Colombia','Another unbelievealbe funny story Ryan! It only took me ten minutes to stop laughing this time.\n\nA book if not a movie is definetly in order.  All these blogs are more than enough for material, and your only ahlf way through or just about.\n\nI can hardly wait until the next one.\n\nBy the way what did happen to that lama?\nUB','181ad1a1ee34c0b1bf66872bfa3e6593',0,'','b8d32',1,0,'',0,0,0),(185,84,3,1,0,'142.59.20.234',1180140501,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 22, 2007 - Safety is priority number one','Stop it Ryan I can\'t take it.\n\nI must say the joke about the fourth bike on the plan couldn\'t have happened to a btter group given all the jokes you do on others.  That guy knew who he was dealing with.\n\nUB','728d61f05184ecaefc07aafd11d685ba',0,'','23f41',1,0,'',0,0,0),(187,84,3,1,0,'69.31.226.30',1180150325,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 22, 2007 - Safety is priority number one','Poor Poor Patricia (what is this name all about Ryan????please tell me)\nWhat an experience thank god for the friendly helper, I hope you tipped him well for all his assistance! \nGlad to hear all of you are still well.\nHappy Trails to you! \nPattie XO','419118167ab915901c20da2c7dc42c3e',0,'','7d5de',1,0,'',0,0,0),(188,84,3,1,0,'207.200.116.195',1180153879,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 22, 2007 - Safety is priority number one','Sean, Justin &amp; Rob:  You should all be ashamed of yourselves.  going out to dinner and then not even bringing Ryan anything.  He is justified......&quot;bastards&quot;  I still cant stop laughing.  I know that Ryan is a very, very petite eater, so assuming that it would be fine for him to skip a meal or two is certainly understandable.  I mean as long as you three got your bellies full.......\nI hope your customs guy got in on video when he said that only three motorcyles could go on the plane.  He had been told about you guys.  The look on your faces would be one of those &quot;MasterCard&quot; moments.  Priceless......I have to agree with Natalie.  You guys probably stunk, especially, after stepping in dog poo.  I think I would have opened the window too.  Can\'t believe you will be here in just a few days.  Be safe.  And Ryan, you still owe is for the 23rd and 24th.  \n\nYour Favorite Uncle, \n\nJim','71ba0254661190d3fe9c2a190e6bcbab',0,'','a794f',1,0,'',0,0,0),(207,100,5,95,0,'70.65.125.3',1180412455,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','is Red Deer ready for all the bikes?','has any one got ahold of the Red Deer cops to let them know that a large group of motorbikes will be rolling into the city on the 2nd? and if we can get there help at the lights so we dont end up with the long string of bikes getting split into a bunch of small groups..if they would hold the lights; or flag us by, then it would look great for one long group pulling in for the party all at once...','e6f7b84230055ad42427865b204d6334',0,'','85850',1,0,'',0,0,0),(208,101,3,53,0,'189.167.23.81',1180412544,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 23rd, 2007 - The customs agent of Panama','May 23rd, 10:30pm local time\nCorredor, Costa Rica\nGPS: \n\nToday marks the first time that we\'ve gone through an entire country in a single day.  We\'re going to try and shoot for two countries tomorrow, which will put us through Nicaragua and into Honduras for tomorrow night.\n\nYesterday, we got into Panama too late for us to get our bikes through customs – they apparently close, here, and we had to come back this morning, at 6am.  When they told us six am, they apparently meant 8am.  Then, after many semi-coherent conversations, we found out that we have to get a permit to drive our bikes in Panama City.  Which we\'d be leaving in ten minutes.  To get our permits to drive our bikes in Panama City, we have to drive our bikes fifteen minutes away to go stand in line for two hours.  All of us needed to go, we were told.  The airport lady was wrong about that, and Justin and I ended up leaving to go back to the airport and do some maintenance on our bikes.\n\nOnce again the equatorial sun kicked our butts, and we came away even more burned than before.  I don\'t think that I\'ll peel, but Justin has a nice outline of a muscle shirt on his oh-so-pale skin in a cheerful shade of boiled lobster.\n\nWe finally got through customs at about noon, and burned some rubber to get out of there.  We weren\'t allowed to have any gas in our tanks when we put them on the plane (we weren\'t actually supposed to have even the batteries hooked up, but they were still working), so we were pretty much bone dry, and pulled over to the first service station to grab some gas.\n\nAt the Shell station, we ran into this guy named John – born in Panama, but lived many years growing up in the US.  He told us about these two guys that had set a world record riding JET SKIS from Alaska to Panama, with the intent to ride them through the canal and over to Miami.  Unfortunately, apparently you have to have a real boat pilot to get a watercraft through the canal, and they weren\'t, so were stuck in Panama.  Anyways, he kept trying to get us to go do some tourist stuff like watch a boat go through the docks in the canal or something, which we would really have liked to do.  But customs took six hours, and ate up every spare hour we had.  Customs is a pain in the butt everywhere we go.\n\nDad keeps thinking he needs the super expensive gasoline for his bike, and so his single tank of gas + jerry can cost as much as the other three bikes totaled.  I think we offended the gas station guy when we scrutinized the bill so closely.  Ah, well.\n\nWe hit our first major rain today about 2pm.  We\'d encountered a little bit in Ecuador and Colombia, but this was a full-on rainstorm.  This would have to be the hardest rain i\'ve ever ridden in, and it lasted for hours and hours.  We were all soaked to the bone within minutes.  On the plus side, though, Panama has the fastest roads we\'ve encountered so far short of the area around Santiago in Chile.  Much of it is four-lane divided highway, and what isn\'t is straight and smooth.  Just watch out for the shoulders – for much of the day, the shoulder was a straight drop two feet down off the road proper.  Yay for good roads – we\'re becoming quite the connoisseurs of roadways during this trip.\n\nI managed to stay pretty dry during this whole thing – I\'d bundled up when we first saw we were going into a rainstorm, in the full rain getup – pants, jacket, boot covers &amp; rain mitts.  I stayed damp and warm the whole time – even my feet, until Justin (who was navigating) stopped the bikes in the middle of a freaking lake at Costa Rica customs, blocking my only way out.  I had no choice but to drop my feet into shin-deep water, and my boots immediately filled up with ice-cold, dirty water.  I was the only one that bundled up in rain gear, and was the only one that still cared about getting their feet wet.  My whining received no sympathy from the boys.\n\nWe finally got through Panama about an hour after sunset, and were set to burn into Costa Rica and make some good time \'fore it was time to go to bed.  Unfortunately, the customs agent had a different agenda, and it took us TWO hours to get through customs.  The border had some interesting characters, though – one guy had a job sweeping rainwater.  That\'s right – he\'d wait around until water pooled on this concrete pad, and then he\'d spend about ten minutes making sure it was all swept off.  Then he\'d set the broom against the wall, and lean back and watch the water collect again.  \n\nThere was this crazy guy (i\'m assuming homeless, \'cause he was sitting on some dirty cardboard) who kept trying to sell us some polished rocks.  Justin and Sean bought some – apparently they\'d been polished by the action of sand and waves, and the beach that did this had been destroyed in a monsoon or something.\n\nToday marks one – if not the first – day in which no bikes were dropped.  That\'s right, nothing was tipped over, not even once.  \n\nWhen we were FINALLY through customs, we\'d wasted the driving time we\'d planned to have, and drove into the first decent-sized town we came to, which happened to be the only decent-sized town for quite some ways.  Every hotel/hostel/hospedaje/hosteria we went to had no room.  Apparently many people had the same idea we did, but got there sooner.\n\nWe finally enlisted the help of this unwashed crazy-beard guy and he found us a roach motel buried away on a side street.  It was cheap, and had a gated courtyard we parked our bikes in, and that\'s about everything nice i can say about it.  I didn\'t want to use the toilet, and the shower was a horror best left to the imagination.  Instead of using the provided \'blankets\', I spread them on the floor so that my bare, wet feet wouldn\'t have to touch it, and we all dug our sleeping bags out of our luggage and slept in them.  I was upset about that – I\'d lost my sleeping bag bag a while ago, and purchased a new one when I was doing shopping for this trip.  I\'d overestimated my sleeping-bag-squishing-ability, and now it takes me half an hour to get my sleeping bag stuffed into this tiny little bag i got for it.\n\nI\'m exhausted and soaked, and this room is stinky.\nRyan Noble,\nCorredor, Costa Rica','6e0b68d75868ae0379530c6342f1c0cb',0,'','ce6d5',1,0,'',53,0,0),(196,84,3,1,0,'24.71.223.149',1180270950,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 22, 2007 - Safety is priority number one','Four and a half foot celing on the plane hey? Sean and Rob must have finally found out what it\'s like to be tall!\n\nEric','fa18e34e0e87cf9ad23071ceb07b72ad',0,'','e8e8e',1,0,'',0,0,0),(209,102,3,53,0,'189.167.23.81',1180413791,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 24th, 2007 - Riding in the rain really chaps my ass','May 24th, 2:00am local time\nSan Juan del Sur, Nicaragua\nGPS: \n\nWe weren\'t able to get through Costa Rica and Nicaragua in a single day, like we\'d planned.  We\'d been told by many people that Costa Rican roads are lousy, but the country is TINY, and we\'d mostly scoffed at these nay-sayers.  Unfortunately, they were right, and we were wrong.  But not in the way you\'d expect.  \n\nCosta Rican roads are, indeed, lousy – but they\'re in great condition and mostly fast to drive on.  The problem is the incredible amounts of traffic funneled on these two-lane roads.  We\'d constantly get stuck behind trucks moving at 30 kph and be unable to pass for miles and miles.  Not to mention the speed limit everywhere is set at 60kph, the slowest we\'ve encountered anywhere, on any highway.  Road construction was rampant, and at one point we were forced off our main highway into a desvio, and got lost for an hour before we were able to get back on track.\n\nDuring this unintended tour of the Costa Rican countryside (beautiful, I\'m sure, but it was cloudy and rainy all day, from the moment we got on our bikes until we stopped for the night), we encountered some of the steepest and most winding roads on this trip.  We were navigatin inclines we wouldn\'t hit while popping a wheelie while turning 90 degree twists up canyon walls.  Dad hit a slipper patch on the road, and drove his bike into the ditch.  Not usually too big a deal, especially going as slowly as we were, but these ditches are pretty close to six feet deep, and this road was barely six feet wide.  We had to dodge heavy trucks and other road traffic while we were hauling dad\'s bike outta the ditch.\n\nWe stopped for lunch at this little restaurant that had a pharmacy next door (Justin has been suffering from some digestive issues).  We talked to the owner of the place about what we were doing, and they comped our meal!  Good burgers, too, and the coffee was amazing.  We also ran into some Americans at the next table, and had ourselves a good little chat with them.  It\'s nice to speak english to people that I\'m not related to.  We were behind schedule, though, and had to vamos pronto and get back on the highway.  Dad\'s bladder had other plans, though – instead of going while at the restaurant, five minutes after we leave, Dad announces that we have to find a place for him, and right quick.\n\nJustin didn\'t think that was too cool, and made him wait for quite a while before we pulled over at a Denny\'s restaurant.  I almost dropped my bike several times during that hour, watching dad dance from one foot to the other while waiting at traffic lights, trying to not pee all over his bike.  \n\nSpeaking of traffic lights, there\'s something interesting I\'ve noticed about the two short people in our group.  Robbie and Sean can NOT make it through intersections on the first attempt.  They both stall their bikes out at almost every stop.  I cannot count the number of times i\'ve watched their headlights flicker off and back on as their bikes start up again.  If they manage not to stall their bikes, though, it\'s \'cause they forgot to put them in gear, and i get to listen with amusement to their racing engines going nowhere quickly.\n\nWhen we\'d started this journey way at the south end of the world, freezing our butts off in the snow and rain, we were talking about how warm it would be at the equator.  Not so – today we climbed ten thousand feet – as high as our plane flew on the way into Panama – and the temperature plummeted to ten degrees at the top.  All our cold weather gear is, of course, packed away securely at the bottom of everything, so we had no choice but to suck it up and push through.  Fortunately, it was only that cold for about an hour.  At the very peak of that mountain pass, of course there\'d be construction.  It was a very, very steep road, and half of it was shut down for one-way-at-a-time traffic, and we were fortunate enough to get to wait for half an hour while this old semi wheezed its\' dying way up the mountainside.  Being on motorcycles, though, we skipped past all the vehicles on our side that had lined up to go through.\n\nSince we\'d been so long getting out of Panama the day before, we were behind schedule, and had decided that we\'d try to push on into Nicaragua.  Friends of ours have relatives that live in Nicaragua, and Justin had been in tenuous email contact with them.  Brian informed us that the border closed sometime after 8pm, so we needed to get there before then if we were to make it into Nicaragua and stay at their place.\n\nAt 8pm the sun had set and we were still about an hour from the border.  Dejected, we stopped in at a hotel, but they didn\'t have any rooms available.  While trying to find a place that did have room, Justin noticed that it was but ten minutes after seven.  We\'d crossed another timezone moving into Costa Rica, and we were able to successfully push on to the Nicaraguan border, hitting it about ten minutes after eight.  Brian met us there with Eunice, and he totally smoothed our way through the borders.\n\nI can\'t say enough nice things about Brian and Eunice.  They went out of their way, late at night, to meet some strangers (they\'re the aunt and uncle of our good friend, Amandha Richter) and they opened their hearts and their home to us.  We broke out a bottle of Nicaraguan rum and frittered away a couple hours chatting about Latin America, and the differences we\'ve all noticed and encountered.  We even got some a late breakfast dinner, courtesy Eunice.  \n\nApparently we are fortunate to come into Central America at the very beginning of the rainy season.  Brian tells me that if we\'d been through a week earlier, we would have been able to enjoy blue skies and warm weather the whole way through.  As it is, we can expect rain every day until northern Mexico.  We\'re also \'fortunate\' in that apparently this is an unusually wet rainy season, due to some kind of el nino effect that\'s setting record rainfalls in Colombia and all-day rainstorms when the rainy season consists of twenty minutes of showers every afternoon.  \n\nWe\'re all getting used to being wet, though, and our hands and toes have taken on a permanently swollen, raisin appearance.  I am the anal retentive member of this group when it comes to the rain gear.  I\'ll stop and put everything on when it starts to rain, and i\'ll try and take everything off when it stops raining.  Unfortunately, every time it\'s \'stopped\' raining and I strip down, it\'s a temporary respite, and i\'m soon soaked.  Eventually I gave it up for a lost cause and just rode in my regular motorcycle gear.\n\nRiding in the rain, i\'ve discovered, really chaps my ass.  Seriously – it feels like my bum is on fire, and it\'s painful to adjust my position, even after a cold shower.  While we were waiting for the customs BS to get finished tonight, Eunice was telling us some things about Nicaragua – like how it\'s apparently very difficult to get hold of water heaters.  So difficult, in fact, that they don\'t even have a water heater, and instead they have what is called a \'suicide shower\', in which direct 220V AC current is run through a heater built right into the shower head.  Frightening to think of, and more so when she casually mentioned that sometimes the wires get wet and catch on fire.  That\'s why my shower was cold.  I\'ll desperately need to find some baby powder tomorrow.  I don\'t know how I\'m gonna go on with this.  Robbie won\'t even let me borrow his chapstick.\n\nWe\'re all incredibly smelly, too.  I hate putting on my helmet and catching that hot stink of mildew that hits me in the face like a wet glove.  Our boots are well on their way to disintegration – they weren\'t that awesome to begin with, and this is going to kill them.  Our boots are one of the bits of gear we\'re really starting to dislike.  They\'re not waterproof – in fact, they\'re more like sponges-with-tread, and for the better part of the last two days we\'ve all had small pools swishing around out feet.  The soles are starting to separate from the toes of Robbie &amp; Justin\'s boots, and the eyelets for the shoelaces are razor sharp, and we\'ve all torn our way through several shoelaces already.\n\nAnyways, our feet are so stinky that we\'re throwing away our socks rather than carry them around for a week, even sealed away in ziploc baggies.  I\'m considering throwing away my underwear, but this is almost like a cycle through the washing machine, right?\n\nSince our hosts are familiar with central america &amp; mexico, Rob and Justin sat him down for a few hours and picked his brain about the best routes.  Near as we can figure, he\'s saved us several hours with his most excellent advice.\n\nI managed to catch a bit of a buzz off the Nicaraguan rum – i think, in fact, that everyone did.  It was so incredibly nice to be able to relax and chat with friends instead of keeping up on the run all the time.  We stayed up a bit too late, though.\n\nTime for bed,\nRyan Noble\nSan Juan del Sur, Nicaragua','db0e02985ab0dc83f4f2a888903674a4',0,'','d83c2',1,0,'',53,0,0),(198,95,4,59,0,'24.71.223.149',1180308015,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Where are you Guy\'s?','I have been checking the forums for the last few days and am beginning to worry as I have not seen a post form the guys since May 22. Please post something soon.\n\nWorried in Red Deer!','c16ed50d3baa2dd1a007d6d166c17854',0,'','f98f7',1,0,'',0,0,0),(199,96,4,1,0,'70.65.8.11',1180326034,1,0,1,1,1,0,'kathynoble','Brief Update','I can give you a brief update from the guys as of last night.  Sorry, I usually post something after they have phoned me but lately they have phoned so late at night I just go to bed.  My apologies.....anyway....as of 11:38 p.m. they were about 60 miles inside the Mexican border.  They have really been pushing themselves hard because they got behind schedule the day before when they had two brutal border crossings costing them hours and hours of time.  When Sean phoned Friday night they had only managed to make about 600 kms in 16 hours because of the border crossings.  When they got to the Mexican border yesterday it was closed.  It closed at 3:00 p.m.  There was a guard there and they each gave him $20 US and he let them go.  But they don\'t thave the proper paperwork needed if they should get stopped in Mexico and he told them they could obtain said paperwork in Mexico City.  Which is where they were headed - Mexico City being 1200 kms away.  I know they have had trouble finding internet so they could post Ryan\'s blogs but he has been writing them each night so when they get a chance, he should catch us up.  Well, that\'s about all I know.  Thanks for being concerned about them.\n\nKathy','94f060a64a271b20c1235951ad2bd01a',0,'','d2709',1,0,'',0,0,0),(200,96,4,73,0,'70.65.59.4',1180332869,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: Brief Update','Hi Kathy\nThanks for the update I was wondering what they were up to. At least they are in Mexico and Sean should know what to avoid in that there. They should make up for lost time now. Anyways we are keeping them in our prayers see you next Saturday. \nCraig and Rita','52754a3a49acabd2937c23be48ba1a66',0,'','37338',1,0,'',73,0,0),(202,98,3,1,0,'70.65.8.11',1180359025,1,0,1,1,1,0,'kathynoble','Monday, May 28','Another brief update....Justin phoned me at 2:21 a.m. last night to let me know they are safe and in Mexico City.  They had riden pretty hard yesterday to make up some time.  They managed to get their paper work completed so know they are legally in Mexico.  Today has them putting new tires on all the bikes and as long as they can get this finished by mid afternoon today they remain on track.  Ryan, hopefully will find internet today and get some posting done.\n\nKathy','8bd285899bffade8fcaa57a430af14b8',0,'','a3d25',1,0,'',0,0,0),(203,98,3,1,0,'68.147.252.93',1180362982,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: Monday, May 28','Thanks for the update Kathy. Do you think they are still going to make the June 02 date at the border?\n\nBrian','b50898f6927371fe21b508ff085c86a7',0,'','e9bfa',1,0,'',0,0,0),(204,98,3,55,0,'129.128.86.182',1180365751,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: Monday, May 28','Boy, is that ever a relief to hear that they are OK.  We get to expect Ryan\'s excellent postings, but it\'s understandable that they can\'t get to a computer every day.  \nThanks, Kathy.  A lot of people are &quot;riding along with the Nobles&quot; via this site.','2c71acab43dbed45002c8c75f33d2546',0,'','f569c',1,0,'',0,0,0),(206,98,3,1,0,'201.120.12.237',1180406718,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: Monday, May 28','Thanks for the update - I tend to worry about everything (Sean can confirm this)... but driving in south American countries, on motorcycles, in a race to break a record, and then not hearing from the guys -- that\'s hard. Glad to hear everyone is ok.\nAndy :-)\n\nthanks Kathy :-)','ea15bc72d1e954d81986667da43dd6eb',0,'','20a4d',1,0,'',0,0,0),(211,104,3,53,0,'189.167.23.81',1180416196,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 25th, 2007 - Bribing customs &amp; the hate for Honduras','May 25th, 11:30pm local time\nSan Miguel, El Salvador\nGPS: \n\nToday, we managed to hit three countries in a day.  It wasn\'t easy.\n\nEven with our late, late night last night, we were still up pretty early.  I didn\'t need an alarm clock – I guess I have some kind of internal one that kicks me out of bed at about 5:30.  Actually, it\'s not an alarm clock – i\'ve been experiencing the same kind of digestive issues that Justin has been.  \n\nAnyways, we didn\'t get on the road till about 8am or so – Rob and Justin did some more route planning with Brian, and Eunice fixed us a very nice breakfast – oatmeal with apple slices &amp; honey.  That\'s the best breakfast we\'ve had since we started this little trip, i tell you what.\n\nWe got to ride along Lake Nicaragua this morning, which was pretty cool.  It\'s a massive freshwater lake less than fifty kilometres from the ocean, and it\'s the only location in the world that has freshwater sharks.  So don\'t go swimming and then act like a wounded seal. \n\nWe did notice that Robbie\'s tire was running a little flat, and when we stopped for gas &amp; checked it out, realized that it had been running low for some time.  He\'s lost a lot of tread, and Sean is running low as well.  We decided that we\'d grab tires in Mexico City.\n\nDespite one short section of road with two-foot-deep-potholes, Nicaragua was an incredible change from the frustratingly crowded lanes throughout Costa Rica.  Traffic was light, the roads were in good shape, and we were able to whip through Nicaragua in four hours, hitting the Honduras border at noon.  We\'ve seen a few accidents on this trip, and today made for our second overturned semi truck.  This one had fallen down into a ravine, scattering all kinds of... whatever it was that truck was carrying all over the place.  The other one was a truck that had gone halfway off the road over this canyon in Lima, which was very vertigo-inspiring to look at.  \n\nI\'ve mentioned before that I\'m not a fan of siesta.  Brian and Eunice agree with me on that one, and today it really kicked us, hard.  Apparently even twenty-four hour borders close.  For siesta time.  And lunch.  As I mentioned, we got to the Honduras border about noon.  And then we had to wait for an hour and a half.  For the customs agents to have their snooze and lunch.  I could have cheerfully nuked that customs station.  For two hours after that, Rob employed his limited Spanish to try and get us through the border – it ended up costing us nearly $120 USD because we had to bribe the customs agents.  It was especially frustrating \'cause we knew they were doing it, were powerless to stop it, and they were trying to find out how much money we had, \'cause that\'s how much it was going to cost.  Rob overheard them talking about how much to rake us for, and the one girl they\'d designated as their translator couldn\'t get out a sentence without breaking into hysterical giggles.\n\nEspecially interesting in the customs office was a posted sheet stating that the paperwork is free, and to report any customs agent that asks for money.  I took a picture of a big poster that seemed to say that Honduras doesn\'t have any corrupt customs agents.  I call balogna!  I had to keep shooing away this one irritating guy that wanted me to pay him to push a dirty wet rag around on my bike – \'car wash\', no thanks.  The bathroom was interesting, too – like our hotel room in Medellin, it had no toilet seat, and apparently the water didn\'t run.  There was a huge rain barrel occupying most of the room in the cramped, dirty bathroom, and to flush one had to scoop water out of the rain barrel and pour it into the toilet.  So gross.\n\nEvery border seems to have these losers that just hang around and do nothing all day, and Honduras was no exception.  They enjoyed our frustration at our inability to get across the border, laughing as they lounged there in the shade, eating mangoes off the tree.  We got the last word, though.  Justin got them all to agree that they were losers.  They didn\'t know what they were agreeing to, though, which kind of takes away from it.\n\nThat put us in a big hate-on for Honduras, and we were very glad that we\'d only be in that country for about an hour and a half.  This country has a love for its\' police checkstops, though, and we were forced to actually stop our bikes on several occasions.  We were hoping to make it through Honduras without ever actually having to have touched it with our feet.  Justin loves to stop suddenly around blind corners, and this time I was unable to stop in time, and crashed my right saddlebag into his.  No damage, and he didn\'t even know that I\'d run into him.  He came THIS close to dropping his bike, but he\'s still 0/0.\n\nRob dropped his bike twice at the Honduras border.\n\nUnfortunately, the country itself is beautiful, which makes it hard to hate it.  But we were still out of the country in an hour and fifteen minutes.\n\nEvery day something bad happens to make us lose time, and today was a doozy.  First, three and a half hours wasted getting into Honduras.  We had a good feeling about El Salvador, though – it\'s the only country in Latin America that doesn\'t require immigration checks – they just make sure you don\'t have a counterfeit passport, and then wave you through.\n\nThe guy that checked our passports, though, was a real shocker.  When he looked at Justin\'s passport, he said \'Edmonton – isn\'t that north of Red Deer?\'  We couldn\'t believe he knew about Red Deer – everyone else thinks we\'re from Vancouver or Toronto, and we don\'t know enough spanish – nor do we often care enough – to correct them.  Anyways, this guy apparently lived in Red Deer for a year a while ago, and worked at Olymel, of all places.  He liked Alberta, but it was too cold – muy frio.\n\nOur optimism was misplaced.  It took FOUR hours to get our motorcycles imported into El Salvador.  We were stopped at this checkpoint and directed to a loading docks off the road.  About fifteen other people were milling around this door, which we assumed was the customs office (at no border crossing since Chile has there been any clearly marked officials office).  We\'re also always approached by people who want to help us cross borders.  Most times, we shoo them away, but this time we couldn\'t even find out where to get the forms for our bikes.  His name was either Jonathan or Franklin, and he was a big help.  \n\nAt least as far as government agents, go, in Latin America, you don\'t mess with food time.  We got to wait for an hour before we could even get the forms, and then we hung around for THREE hours before we could get that single stamp on our Super Important Sheet of Coloured Paper.  Then we got to march over to another unmarked building (this one was actually built of shipping containers) and watched as the customs agent struggled with a computer for thirty minutes (no exaggeration) and then put a sticker and a stamp on another sheet of paper.  Which we had to run and photocopy for them.  For the second time.  Finally, we could go and hand that stamped sheet of paper to the guy down the street, and get on our way into the merry land of El Salvador.\n\nI appreciate, too, how the customs stations are built here.  The agents themselves are in sealed, air-conditioned containers, and the waiting area is a fenced-off cube.  It\'s so hot that I can feel the sweat pooling in my elbows and collarbones, and running down my legs.  My shirt is so wet I can wring sweat out of it like a towel.\n\nWe\'ve lost so much time today that we\'re going to have to pull some long days and short nights, with some hard riding.  We\'re planning on pushing through Guatemala tomorrow and hitting the far side of the Mexican border as night falls, which should get us back to about where we need to be.\n\nAfter getting lost several time, turning around several times, and then following a highway not marked on any map or on our GPSs, we were able to get rooms in a very nice hotel in the biggish city of San Miguel for the exact same price as our roach-ridden rooms in Costa Rica from the day before yesterday.  We were going to worry about locking our bikes up, and then we noticed the security guards carrying shotguns, and figured they\'d be safe.\n\nWe\'ve asked for a wake-up call for 4:45am, so we\'ll be on the road before the sun rises, and we\'ll be able to get many kilometres done.  Woot!\n\nRyan Noble,\nSan Miguel, El Salvador','3d7b7c1e620101976bc0b05974529e31',0,'','02bb0',1,0,'',0,0,0),(212,102,3,1,0,'198.53.217.81',1180416376,1,0,1,1,1,0,'samantha','Re: May 24th, 2007 - Riding in the rain really chaps my butt','It\'s good to hear from you again. I think a lot of people were beginning to worry about you guys. Sounds like you\'re getting rained out down there; hopefully things improve soon! At least so your skin might have a chance to heal. If you can get a hold of aloe vera cream, it\'ll help somewhat with the healing process.\n\nStay safe and, as best you can, dry.\n\nSam Maxson','253d3c78f054c0571cc831fbb411e69c',0,'','0bb84',1,0,'',0,0,0),(223,108,5,53,0,'24.173.195.32',1180517038,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: June 2 - Need Riders!!!!','Most definitely there will be available rides for wherever you\'d like to go, for however long you\'d like to go.\n\nAmandha Richter and her father are joining us all the way to Grande Prairie on that Sunday, and we\'d love to have you for whichever part you\'d like to join us for.','554679dc7f622899bf0978e8d027325e',0,'','715de',1,0,'',0,0,0),(216,100,5,73,0,'70.65.59.4',1180459495,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: is Red Deer ready for all the bikes?','Thanx for the imput - I will make sure to do that.  I\'m thinking that taking Taylor Drive may be a better option than Gaetz because there are less lights.  If you have any other questions regarding the ride along let me know.\n\nNatalie\n357-0407','266998f69ad223ca9343cda5ae1aa712',0,'','a2874',1,0,'',0,0,0),(217,108,5,73,0,'70.65.59.4',1180462546,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','June 2 - Need Riders!!!!','Just Another Reminder.........\n\nWe would like to see as many riders as possible accompaning the Noble\'s to Noblefest of June 2, 2007. \n\nWe\'ll be at the American/Canadian border at Coutts/Sweetgrass on June 2nd, 8:00am. Everyone will be riding into Red Deer that afternoon for a big ol\' shindig (NobleFest) at the Capri Centre. \n\nIf this meeting point is too far we have another spot closer to Red Deer. Riders will be congregating at the Esso on QE2 (northbound) around Carstairs. People can begin meeting there at 1:00pm and should be ready to leave by 2:00pm. It will be very exciting to have as many riders as possible for the grand entrance into the rally at 3:00pm. \n\nIf you would like to join us on June 2 please get in touch with me by email (natalie8@telus.net) or at 357-0407.\n\nThanx for Your Support,\nNatalie O\'Connor','675b5ae0c0d583a170128521c2f66cc6',0,'','0083e',1,0,'',0,0,0),(218,108,5,1,0,'68.151.101.90',1180471700,1,0,1,1,1,0,'rgdsrider','Re: June 2 - Need Riders!!!!','I was planning on coming down to Red Deer Saturday but now have a family event on the same night so I won\'t be there afterall. I am wondering, however, about Noble plans for leaving Red Deer. Would there be an opportunity to meet and ride along on Sunday? What is the itinerary for the trip after Red Deer?\n\nRodger Graham\nADSMC','b3e266b2f48996ea2f37a0a62f7e2a77',0,'','51e40',1,0,'',0,0,0),(220,102,3,1,0,'69.31.226.30',1180483582,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 24th, 2007 - Riding in the rain really chaps my butt','Well those Richters are pretty AWESOME people I would say! \nGlad to hear that you were able to have a bit of a break with some familar faces and even English speaking... Brian &amp; Eunice are wonderful people and I am sure were as happy to see you, as you were them! \nGreat News from our home, another Richter (Tim from Grande Prairie) a great supporter of his neice Amandha and her passion for KCCFA, plans to meet up and travel with Noblequest prior to Grande Prairie, Alberta and bring along some of his friends who also beleive in the wonderful cause of KCCFA, some who are quite excited about donating. It should be a fun ride for all Richters\' involved and could potentially be the end of the fundraising efforts for the Noblequest Members. Amandha\'s uncle Tim, was responsible for raising about $15,000 from Grande Prairie, towards her Head Shave in 2002, of which the final donations were $32,000. I hope this proves to be as beneficial for all of you! \nBe Safe Noble Men! \nDavid, Pattie, Amandha &amp; Whitney Richter  XO','6ee9aef16d1217248260cca3d3bcef60',0,'','5c3bb',1,0,'',0,0,0),(221,102,3,1,0,'70.65.125.3',1180498686,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 24th, 2007 - Riding in the rain really chaps my butt','hi guys, I hope you guys get the stink washed off by the time you get to Canada. I will be riding behind you guys going into Red Deer, and as you well know, when your on a bike, you can smell every thing. you guys only have 4 days to get up here so get it into gear at the lights and get to Coots on time.','32d8b9a9024b6059169f7e2dfe288d32',0,'','203a4',1,0,'',0,0,0),(224,108,5,1,0,'68.151.101.90',1180534400,1,0,1,1,1,0,'rgdsrider','Re: June 2 - Need Riders!!!!','I\'m hoping I can get away on Sunday. What is your route going to be? I looked at the Google Earth map you have posted and it looks like you are heading west from Red Deer?\n\n--rodger','8500b04060c592e0de394f50cf695b6a',0,'','7be85',1,0,'',0,0,0),(225,111,3,53,0,'24.173.195.32',1180538079,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 26th, 2007 - Rain, rain, go away','May 25th, 11:30pm local time\nHuixtla, Mexico\nGPS: N15 08.514, W092 28.975\nDistance Traveled: 682.82 \n\nWe managed to make another three countries today – El Salvador to Gautemala to Mexico, and we\'re finally into the last spanish-speaking country on this trip.  Even though the language barrier remains and we still have thousands of kilometres to go before the States, it feels as though we\'re almost home.\n\nI\'ve noticed that the experience we have crossing borders colours the perception I have of that country for the duration of my visit.  I hated Honduras for no reason more than the customs guards were complete buttheads, even though it\'s a beautiful country and we were only in it for an hour and a half.\n\nEven though the El Salvador border was longer and more frustrating than Honduras, because it wasn\'t corrupt, and also because of the border guard we met that had lived in Red Deer, I came away with a positive perception of El Salvador.\n\nEl Salvador was a cool country simply because we drove the entire length of it, and were still through it in four hours, and that includes getting slightly lost when driving through the capital city, San Salvador, and some time spent messing with Rob\'s bike.  His tire is constantly leaking, and we have to pump it up every time we stop for gas, sometimes more often.  It\'s wearing his tread away very quickly – he\'s almost got nothing left.\n\nWe stopped in a city in Guatemala for dinner at McDonald\'s, just before a massive thunderstorm rode through, and we noticed a motorcycle dealership across the street.  Justin and I went to order food while Sean and Rob went to the bathroom, and accidentally ordered eight supersize meals.  That was too much food.  We ate all of the burgers, but couldn\'t finish the fries and we ended up giving the drinks away.  Justin kept mentioning that he hadn\'t had McDonald\'s for over a year and a half, and complained about how this would mess with his digestive system.  It did, and a couple hours after we drove out of that city, we had to stop for a very long time while he abused the bathroom at a gas station.\n\nThe dealership across the street didn\'t have any tires, but knew of a place in Guatemala City that had what we needed.  Unfortunately, it was Saturday and the place closed at 2pm, and we were an hour away.  We wouldn\'t be able to make it on time, and they wouldn\'t stay open for us, not even for an extral four hundred dollars.  Justin bought a tire that\'s way too small for our bikes, but would fit – maybe – just for an emergency.  With that, we were off to try to make Mexico before sundown.  \n\nGuatemala is a dirty country.  It seemed like every corner had a pile of broken bottles, plastic bags &amp; other miscellaneous trash.  Nothing seemed to be burning, but that may be because we were driving through along with a rainstorm, which sucks.  We managed to hit the Guatemala/Mexico border just after sundown, but the border guards were eating their supper, and we had to wait for thirty minutes before they\'d talk to us.  \n\nI\'ve never encountered anybody as seriously dedicated to uninterrupted meals as border guards in Latin America.  After they\'d finished their meal on the side of the road, one guy told us that the border was closed, and we\'d have to come back tomorrow.  At 9am.  This would cost us huge time.  He finally agreed to let us through if we each paid him $20, and with that we left Guatemala.\n\nWe attracted a large crowd while we were crossing out of Guatemala, mostly money exchangers pushing us to change our cash.  Justin usually resists changing money at borders until he can confirm the exchange rate – especially after Dad got ripped off to the tune of $100 when we crossed into Peru.  We had to buy some Guatemalan money to pay for something to get intot he border, so Justin changed a $20 for just enough Guatemalan, and asked the exchange guy to give him the rest in pesos.  He agreed, after numbers were displayed on a calculator.  Justin handed him the $20, and he gave Justin the 20 Guatemalan whatevers, and then refused to give the rest of the exchange in pesos.  Just a little bit dishonest.  We had needed to change a large amount of money into Mexican pesos, but with that Justin announced \'no mas cambio\', and flipped the cheat the bird.\n\nWith that, we were finally out of Central America, and on our way into North America.  What a difference that made for crossing borders – the buildings were clearly marked, we weren\'t surrounded by a crowd of border-losers or money exchangers, and the guards spoke english and were very polite.  The only problem was that we had to buy permits to operate our vehicles in Mexico, and we had to drive thirty kilometres to the station where we\'d buy those.  No biggie – it was right outside the town we\'d planned to stay in, and the guard assured us that it was open 24/7.\n\nHe was wrong.  The checkpoint where they check for the permit was open 24/7, but the bank where we had to buy the permit was closed, and wouldn\'t open again until 9pm.  After much discussion, the guard at the checkstop allowed us to go on, but cautioned us that Mexican police would be a problem if we got pulled over.  \n\nIt\'s odd how sometimes a political border makes a huge difference in the geography of a region.  When we crossed into Nicaragua, the terrain changed from an extremely wet rainforest type setting into a much drier, flatter area.  The same held true for Mexico – the semi-rain-forest terrain we\'d been in since Nicaragua suddenly disappeared, with sandy desert and cacti appearing on the side of the road.  The rain stopped, too - within five kilometres of us crossing the border.  A very nice change, too, was the fact that we\'d seemed to leave all the scattered garbage behind us.  Mexico is a much cleaner country than most of the others that we\'ve driven through, which was nice.  \n\nWe\'re almost home – stop for tires in Mexico City (we\'d planned on avoiding it, \'cause it\'s so big, but we desperately need tires – Rob\'s almost bald, now, and Sean isn\'t far behind).  We\'ll be in El Paso, TX in two days, and we can\'t wait.\n\nRyan Noble,\nHuixtla, Mexico','2d53c4017eaa3221cb625c3f07354b95',0,'','070a6',1,0,'',0,0,0),(226,112,3,53,0,'24.173.195.32',1180540028,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 27th, 2007 - The Bitter Betty Awards','May 27th, 12:30pm local time\nMexico City, Mexico\nGPS: Coming soon\nDistance Traveled: 1128km\n\nBecause we don\'t have the necessary permits to legally drive through Mexico City, we\'ve had to be super cautious about speed limits, and have stuck absolutely to them, even when there doesn\'t seem to be a reason to be going 40km/h on a flat road with nobody on it.\n\nAnyways, shortly after we woke up, the weather warmed right up, with temperatures peaking around noon at 41 degrees – the hottest we\'ve been since northern Chile.  It\'s odd how we were mostly cold during our ride across the equator.  During the hottest part of the day, Justin ran out of gas while rounding a corner, and noticed a gravel patch on the side of the road where we could stop to put our jerry cans in the bikes.  Instead of slowing on the side of the road and moving over, he came to a hard stop right in the middle of the lane.  I came around the corner shortly behind him, and suddenly had to slam on both brakes hard enough for the ABS to kick in on both, in order to avoid him.  I still ended up dropping the bike, cursing loudly.  Dad needed a break by this point, so we cut up a pineapple Robbie had been carrying since Colombia, and had a little snack on the side of the road.  In forty degree heat.\n\nThis early stretch was very scarce for gas stations.  We were dying of thirst, but reluctant to stop until we could get both water and gas at the same place.  We finally gave that up for a bad cause, and pulled over to buy some water and gatorade.  At this store was a man snoozing in a chair out front, and we didn\'t really notice him.  Apparently he was drunk off his rocker.  At 11am.  He just loved us.  Wanted  to have a really in depth conversation, kept shaking our hands and hugging us.  He reminded us a lot of this guy dad works with named Terry.  Sorry, Terry.  We got some pictures of him.\n\nRob tells me that the area we drove through this morning is famour for the tequila and mescal it produces – indeed, one of the towns we drove through had a sign that i translated roughly as \'mescal capital of the world\'.  Blue agave cacti are the identifying feature of this region – miles of the cacti are grown in orchards, and apparently this is what tequila is made of.  When we stopped later in the day, Justin made an attempt to find a bottle of Casa Noble Tequila (apparently one of the finest tequilas in the world – a 26 will cost $100 or so) but no such luck, even though it\'s distilled not far from where we travelled today.\n\nWe ran into several army checkstops, at each of which a soldier would pull each of us over to the side and rummage through our luggage.  They were very polite about it, though, which was nice – unlike airport security, these guys did their best not to rip everything out, and made an effort to put stuff back where it came from.\n\nWe\'re glad to be into the desert, and are looking forward to being dry for the rest of the trip.  Unfortunately, that didn\'t happen – shortly before we hit Oaxaca this afternoon, which is near the top of a mountain range, the temperature plummeted – from forty degrees to 18 in the space of forty minutes, and cold rain started slanting down.  We rode through it for about an hour before we were able to leave the mountain top and head back down to warmer climes.  I really, really wish that i could have just one day without getting soaked.  We\'ve been rained on, to varying extents, every day since we first entered Ecuador.\n\nIn Oaxaca (pronounced Wa-hock-a) we noticed a Suzuki dealership with a V-Strom in the display window.  Of course, they\'re not open – honestly, who works on Sundays?\n\nWe were in such a rush to make Mexico City today (we figured we\'d need a large chunk of time Monday morning to locate tires and get them installed) that we didn\'t eat all day, except for junk food at the gas stations we stopped at.  We\'re going to start having to make a better effort to eat every day – Dad has a very hard time coping with no food, \'cause he\'s diabetic (not the serious kind), and we all suffer when we push so hard that we can\'t stop to eat.\n\nWe were advised to take the toll roads through Mexico whenever possible, but weren\'t told how very expensive they were.  The four of us blew through $170USD our first day driving, and we didn\'t even hit toll roads until mid-afternoon.  With roads this expensive, I\'d expect pitch black, fresh tarmac.  Instead, we got rough potholes with miles and miles of construction squeezing traffic down to single-lane one-way.  With construction efforts like this, i\'d at least think we\'d get a discount for the toll road – if not free passage.  The only good thing about the first section of toll roads was that it cut down traffic by a huge amount, and we were able to make good time even on the narrowed-by-construction sections simply \'cause we didn\'t have to wait for long periods of time before we were able to pass people.\n\nThere are now two riders with no windshields.  Justin broke his windshield when he was clotheslined by a tollbooth – apparently, he took too long putting his wallet away, and the tollbooth crossbar thing came down on the front of his bike, shattering his windshield.  He still didn\'t drop his bike.  I\'m almost tempted to start chucking rocks at him on the highway just so he won\'t have a perfect 0/0 score.  \n\nThe tollbooth operator assured Justin that they would pay to have the windshield replaced, but we\'d have to wait for the security guy to show up.  This was right about sunset, and we sat around for an hour and a half waiting for the guy to show up.  He took forty minutes to do his thing, took a bunch of pictures and filled out an accident form.  He didn\'t give us money for the windshield – instead, he gave us the address of a suzuki dealership in Mexico City that would fix it for us.  The only good thing about this delay is that we waited out a big thunderstorm, but it cost us two hours of riding when we\'d planned to be in Mexico City at about midnight.\n\nTonight, Robbie wins the Bitter Betty Award.  He doesn\'t handle late night driving very well, and is always the first person to want to stop for the night, and the first person to want to leave in the morning.  Tonight, though, Justin wasn\'t giving in.  Justin\'s point was that Mexico City is HUGE – one of the biggest in the world, and we do not want to get stuck in rush-hour traffic trying to find the Suzuki dealership tomorrow morning.  His argument made sense, but Rob, as I said, does not handle a lack of sleep very well.  He stomped his foot on the ground, yelled “Fine, jerks!”, and sped off into the dark on his motorcycle towards Mexico City.  I could almost hear the bedroom door slam and the Teenage Angst Music pumping at full volume.\n\nThe freeways into Mexico City are scarily busy, even at midnight.  We were constantly being buffeted by the wind of passing trucks, and would find ourselves suddenly in construction zones with no warning.  Justin almost wiped out when the lane he was in suddenly ended.  Of course, shortly before we got to the city, it started raining, and the temperature plummeted for the second time today to about thirteen degrees.\n\nWe drove around Mexico City looking for this address for the better part of two hours, even after flagging down a police office, and then hiring a taxi cab.  He couldn\'t find the exact address, but he got us close enough that we could walk in the morning, and we collapsed into a very nice hotel nearby at 3am.  Of course, though, the only rooms available were as far from the elevator as it was possible to be.  At least they had a private courtyard with an armed security guard to watch our bikes.\n\nI mentioned a while ago that Justin caught a bad sunburn in Cartagena – well, he started peeling today, and was shedding massive quantities of dead skin down the hallways in the hotel.  Eeww.\n\nBedtime,\nRyan Noble,\nMexico City, Mexico','d7eeb1ecabecd2786bbb6d29e53fee14',0,'','740a2',1,0,'',53,0,0),(229,112,3,77,0,'70.65.42.232',1180543468,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 27th, 2007 - The Bitter Betty Awards','Wow I can not believe you found a guy in MExico as good looking as me.','17725e339d29d39951692d06b0dbda4a',0,'','b2218',1,0,'',0,0,0),(230,112,3,53,0,'24.173.195.32',1180543647,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 27th, 2007 - The Bitter Betty Awards','It was unbelievable.  He had all the girls around him, and was blocking access to the cantina where we bought our water.\n\n<!-- s:D --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif\" alt=\"Very Happy\" title=\"Very Happy\" /><!-- s:D -->\nSee you in a few days, dude!\nRyan Noble,\nEl Paso, Texas','8fa5760eae726909fd67f9e89ce60c4b',0,'','2c849',1,0,'',0,0,0),(232,114,3,91,0,'70.65.42.232',1180545856,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 28th, 2007 - Splitting lanes in Mexico City','Good to hear that all is well I hope that you have a good journey through Texas. Looking forward to seeing you guys, sounds like Noble Fest is going to be quite the deal.\n\nI was thinking we should have some new clothes waiting for you - even some new boots, why don\'t you guys give us your sizes and we will see what we can come up with - unless of course you guys want to do that started-the-trip-with-these-boots-gunna-finish-with-them-or-die-in-em thing that guys tend to do when they do crazzy things....\n\nyour call, my treat\n\nsee you in a couple\n\nJustin','f7b33f2be843609ec425dfa08011a1cb',0,'','a523d',1,0,'',91,0,0),(233,116,3,53,0,'24.173.195.32',1180546203,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 29th, 2007 - Losing a passport at the US/Mexican border','May 29th, 2007.  3am Local time.\nEl Paso, Texas\nGPS:N31 50.458, W106 34.359\nDistance Traveled: 1432kms\n\nRobbie can sure be a beast if we don\'t get moving immediately in the morning.  He\'s been our alarm clock for as long as we\'ve been on this trip, and has dictated our waking hours almost from the very start.  Today, for some reason, he let us sleep in (to \'test\' us, i guess) and got mad when we didn\'t get up with him.  We\'re all pretty cranky, actually, but the rest of us are cranky in the evenings.  Rob starts cranky and mellows out as the day wears on.\n\nAnyways, we didn\'t get moving until about 8am this morning, and we had fourteen hundred kilometres to travel from start until finish.  With straight roads over the desert like we expected throughout the remainder of Mexico, we didn\'t think that it would take us much past midnight to get us into El Paso.\n\nWe were wrong.\n\nThe toll roads we\'d been told to travel on would take us way out of our path all the way up to Monterrey before jogging west again to head to El Paso.  Rob and Justin decided to take a secondary highway for the first leg of the day, saving us time and (of course) money.  Almost immediately we got stuck behind a long convoy of construction vehicles on a two-lane highway, travelling about 40km/h.  Of course, I freaked out, and started yelling about how we should turn around and get back on the toll road.  After some flipped fingers were exchanged, we continued on our way.  Five minutes after I yelled at everybody, we hit four-lane divided highway with a speed limit of 120, and I got to feel like a real jerk for a while.  Of course, I apologized at the next stop.  Stupid construction vehicles.\n\nAnyways, we didn\'t end up getting permits in Mexico City, but were no longer too worried abou tit.  We hadn\'t had any problems with the army asking for papers when they searched our luggage, and we hadn\'t even seen a police officer since we got into the country.  We did pass one, speeding slightly to pass a large truck uphill.  As soon as we saw him, we hit the brakes and refused to pass, but he stuck his hand out the window and waved us on.  Every single country we passed through up till now, we\'ve been stopped by the police, sometimes multiple times – even in Honduras, which we were in for less than two hours.  \n\nOur entire three days in Mexico, traveling thousands of kilometres, and we didn\'t ever even talk to a police officer, except when we were lost in Mexico City.\n\nWe had a very long way to go today, and as a result, wouldn\'t get into El Paso (we figured) until about midnight.  Motorcycle dealers typically aren\'t open that late, so we figured we\'d find a dealer with the tires we needed, and get them to deliver them to a hotel we could stay at, changing the tires that night with the tire spoon we bought from the awesome guy in Mexico City.  At noonish, we stopped to make the phone calls.  The first one we talked to had a tire we could use, but refused to sell them to us except in person.  They wouldn\'t have it any other way, they wouldn\'t have someone come and meet us at the dealership when we got into town (we offered to pay extra), we couldn\'t even get the guy to look at our website, and he couldn\'t have cared less about our predicament.  \n\nThe next guy we called, also a Suzuki dealer, was a world of difference.  He had two tires that would fit, and while he couldn\'t just deliver them to a hotel, he agreed to meet us at 4:30am so we could get the tires and be on our way.\nThat took about an hour to accomplish, before we were back on the highway.  The roads are incredibly straight.  We were all just ecstatic to finally be leaving spanish-speaking countries, and started clowning around a little bit on the lonely highway (we\'d go LONG stretches of road without ever seeing another vehicle).  Justin stood up on one leg on the seat of his motorcycle and whipped past dad.  I laughed for about twenty minutes straight after that one.  Justin got a bunch of action shots, and was feeling pretty neglected \'cause he\'s the only rider with cruise control (need cruise control to maintain velocity while you\'re aiming the camera) and thus gets no action shots of himself.  He\'s going to see about installing the cruise on another motorcycle later so that he can be in some pictures.\n\nI\'d been kind of bitter about having driven all this way through Mexico and never once having some real Mexican food, so around dinner time we stopped for fuel and found this little roadside cantina, and got ourselves some street tacos.  Actually, they were gorditas, and they were pretty dang tasty.  Except for the fried lard one.  That one was pretty gross.\n\nMost of our trip today was on toll roads, and we burned through another couple hundred dollars paying the stupid tolls.  We all have to go through one at a time, but I guess I missed the bar coming down and going back up again at one toll, \'cause i whipped through it right after Justin and I guess i came within a foot or two of being clotheslined right off my bike.  Oops.\n\nWe\'ve all been running a huge sleep deficit each night, and tonight it came to a head.  Robbie and I were getting increasingly frustrated at the length and frequency of the stops we\'d been having.  Sean and Justin just love to pull over and fritter away an hour every time we stop.  No one really yelled, but we were all very frustrated with each other by the time we got back on the road.  Two hours later, I pulled everyone over to make sure Dad was okay (he\'s the one typically having problems with the long hours and late nights) – to my surprise, he was chipper and fit to ride.  Rob and Justin were the ones falling asleep in their seats.  Apparently the breaks are good for Dad, and everyone apologized to everyone else, and we were all laughing again within minutes.  Tired laughter, though.  We all just wanted to make it to El Paso.  It\'s a huge milestone, getting back into an English-speaking country.\n\nWe did make it to El Paso by about 3am.  We\'d all been brooding on what kind of trouble we\'d get into for having traversed the entirety of Mexico with no transport permits.  To our surprise, and great relief, we didn\'t have to go through exit customs to get out of Mexico (which we\'d been hoping for, but weren\'t sure) and just jaunted through the US Customs in about ten minutes.  I fricking love borders like that.\n\nWe drove through El Paso (and what a difference it was – on our way through Juarez at the border, i saw several road kills of indeterminate age, garbage and litter everywhere, and scary-looking locals hanging around on corners.  El Paso is brightly lit, well labeled, and friendly) and quickly found the dealership that had our tires.  We\'d forgotten about the timezone change, which was nice \'cause we gained an hour for sleep, but wasn\'t nice \'cause one of us had to wait up for another hour to go to pick up the tires.  Surprisingly, Dad volunteered to go do it.  We were all too tired to argue with him.\n\nRob noticed a blue V-Strom 1000 in the window of the shop, and as we were peering through the windows at it, we heard Dad begin cursing loudly back at his motorcycle.  Turns out he\'d just STRAPPED HIS PASSPORT to the back of his bike with a bungee cord.  It had come loose somewhere between the border and the dealership.\n\nHe\'s mostly choked \'cause it had all the stamps for all the countries we\'d been through – at least he\'s this side of the US border now, and we\'ll not have too much trouble getting back into Canada, I\'m thinking.  Still, that sucks a whole bunch.\n\nBefore I forget, Robbie did up a Google Earth thing when we were back in Cartagena.  It\'s out of date, now, but it\'s detailed for the entire length of South America.  We\'ll get another one done up in a day or two detailing our route through Central America and Mexico.\n\nHere ya go:\n<!-- m --><a href=\"http://noblequest.org/nq_google_earth_path-05-21-2007.kmz\">http://noblequest.org/nq_google_earth_p ... 1-2007.kmz</a><!-- m -->\n\nIt\'s so nice to be able to ask for a hotel room and know what the replies are.  We got two amazing rooms at a Super8 with soft beds, A/C that works, and a shower that doesn\'t make my toes curl – with hot water!\n\nIt\'s super late, and i\'m super tired.\nBedtime,\nRyan Noble,\nEl Paso, Texas\n\nPS – We\'ll be coming through Utah on Thursday (i think) and i would KILL for a Hickory Kist sandwich.  And some clean underwear, but I can take care of the undies myself.  Thanks, Lindsay!  <!-- s:D --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif\" alt=\"Very Happy\" title=\"Very Happy\" /><!-- s:D -->','2f0e1f99b5fba411939e505232a3d298',0,'','7b1c8',1,0,'',53,0,0),(228,114,3,53,0,'24.173.195.32',1180543012,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 28th, 2007 - Splitting lanes in Mexico City','May 26th, 12:30pm local time\nSan Luis Potosi, Mexico\nGPS: N22 09.662, W100 58.512\nDistance Traveled: 487km\n\nWhat great way to start a day.  After one of the longest days we\'ve ridden yet, it\'s nice to sleep in – it was nearly 7:30am when I rolled out of bed and into the best shower i\'ve had in a week.  It even had hot water!  This bathroom had a toilet seat, and toilet paper (you wouldn\'t think it, but these two items are hard to come by).  Justin was right, too, about pushing for Mexico City – traffic outside was at a virtual standstill, and the constant honking of horns was what really woke us up so early.  Plus, I forgot to turn the air conditioning on last night, and woke up in a hot sweat under the blankets.\n\nWe had neglected to eat yesterday for lack of time, so mission #1 this morning was to find a decent restaurant and really tuck in.  I\'ve been craving Mexican food pretty much since the beginning of this trip, and this was my first chance to get some.  We found a restaurant not far away and managed to order some breakfast.  I got a smallish plate, and was kind of disappointed at the size, until I started eating and was full halfway through.  We\'ve been eating so little and seldom throughout this trip that our stomachs have shrunk – I managed to finish the whole plate, but I felt as full as I would after, say, thanksgiving dinner.\n\nWith that, we were back to the hotel to try and find us some tires.  We\'d located a few motorcycle dealerships in the yellow pages, and were going to go out and try to find one, but wiser heads prevailed.  We asked the hotel manager, who spoke rough english, to call some of the dealerships and see if they had any.\n\nTwo hours later, we still hadn\'t found a place that carried any tires that would work.  A city of umpteen million people, twelve honda dealers, nine yamaha dealers, four suzuki dealers, three kawasaki dealers, three BMW dealers and four harley dealers, and we found TWO tires that would fit.  Joshua (our hotel manager) is an awesome guy – he\'s even really into computers, and had a liquid-cooled system in his office (no public internet at the hotel, but he let us use his computer to try and find some tires).  He spent hours on the phone, draining the batteries in two cell phones, to find us what we needed.  When we\'d finally located them, and were going to go pick them up, I tried to tip him for his invaluable service, but he refused.  That really warmed me up a bit.  Apparently the address Justin had been given for his broken windshield was not a Suzuki dealer, but some kind of insurance adjustor (we think) and with time running so short and our search for tires so hard, we decided to just forget about the windshield.  Our tires were about an hour away in Mexico City, and we enlisted a taxi driver to show us the way to the Harley dealer that had the only two tires in Mexico City.  Since Justin and I had more tread left than either Sean or Robbie, we\'d decided (necessarily) that he and I would be able to make it to El Paso on the tread we had left.\n\nGood thing we did, too, \'cause if i thought every other city we\'ve driven in so far was bad, Mexico City makes them look like a walk on the beach.  Drivers so aggressive that one guy driving an old Beetle actually hit dad on his motorcycle.  Fortunately, it wasn\'t a hard nudge, and dad didn\'t get knocked over.  After that, we all turned the aggression metres way up, and just owned our section of pavement, blocking traffic and stopping cars so that we could all make our way through to follow our taxi driver.  I kicked one person\'s car when they tried to force me into oncoming traffic.\n\nThe dealer didn\'t seem pleased that we weren\'t riding Harleys, and initially refused to let us use his tire change machine, claiming that it would work only on Harley wheels and tires (Justin told me this was a load of crap).  After we\'d explained to him what we were doing, he reluctantly said we could use his machine.  Five minutes after that, he\'d changed his mind again, claiming it was \'broken\'.  But he had our tires, and there was a place down the street, he said, that would be able to do the rubber swap.\n\nThe tire guy down the street was awesome.  He didn\'t have a machine, or speak english, but he had the biggest tire spoons Justin said he\'s ever seen – each was easily three and a half feet long, and he had our tires swapped out inside of ten minutes, and only charged us $5 to do it.  We had started disassembling our rear tires at the Harley dealership after they\'d told us we could do it there, and had left the cotter pins for the tire bolts laying on the sidewalk.  \n\nOur tire guy took one of our pins and ran down the street to a hardware store, returning in five minutes with replacement cotter pins, and he didn\'t even charge us for \'em.\n\nWe were finally ready to get on our way about 4:30pm, and got our taxi driver to show us to the freeway.  He\'d hung with us for five hours, driving us all over Mexico City, and he only charged us $90.  We tipped him $10, and considered it one of the wisest $100 we\'ve spent yet on this trip.  He gave us detailed instructions on the freeway to get us quickly out of Mexico City, and even gave us his cell number in case we needed help further down the road.\n\nApparently motorcycles are not allowed on freeways inside Mexico City, so initially we stuck to the side roads that followed it, but after seeing how much faster the freeway was running, we decided to hop onto it with our bikes and risk getting pulled over.  Shortly after doing this, we hit stop &amp; go traffic.  It took us an hour and a half to travel thirty kilometres to where the road opened up again and we were finally able to get going again.  Justin got frustrated shortly after sitting for a while, and we following him for about an hour, splitting lanes and riding up the shoulders of the road while people tried to cut us off and force us off the highway.  Can\'t wait to get somewhere that has decent, considerate drivers.\n\nEver since Colombia, my left hand has been bothering me – the hugely twisty roads there had us all shifting pretty much constantly for twelve hours, and I guess i stressed my hand out.  Every morning it feels very tight, and my fingers snap into place like i\'m double-jointed or something.  The stop &amp; go traffic, with its\' constant clutch feathering and shifting all over the place stressed it out some more, and it\'s hard to type, right now, at my usual pace.  Hopefully, we\'ll hit some straight, fast freeway tomorrow where i\'ll not be shifting constantly.\n\nWe were only able to make it five hours down the road, to a place called San Juan Pistoti before Sean started weaving across the road \'cause he was so tired, so we got ourselves a hotel for the night.  This place is very American, and we checked out a Holiday Inn Express before deciding that $200 for a hotel room in Mexico was way too much for six hours, and moved to a cheaper (but very nice) place down the street.\n\nStrangely enough, though, we were unable to find a single open restaurant anywhere nearby, and we ended up eating gas station pizza &amp; hot dogs for dinner.  We\'re really going to miss the fresh fruit stands from now on, too – haven\'t seen any since southern Mexico.\n\nTomorrow – El Paso, USA.  Can\'t WAIT to get out of these spanish-speaking countries and into an english place, even if they do speak strangely in Texas.\n\nRyan Noble,\nSan Luis Potosi, Mexico','c78a548f73efdf9e352b81d3938590ce',0,'','c948a',1,0,'',53,0,0),(235,116,3,1,0,'198.53.5.149',1180564172,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 29th, 2007 - Losing a passport at the US/Mexican border','Ryan if you get a chance can you change the website - it still has Costco for the location of the rally instead of the Capri????','6352b121df952d6959a24626d0cceee0',0,'','97810',1,0,'',0,0,0),(236,116,3,1,0,'207.200.116.74',1180580478,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 29th, 2007 - Losing a passport at the US/Mexican border','Dear Noblemen:\n\nSo glad to hear that you are in the US.  Sean it is a shame you lost your passport, good thing you didn\'t loose it in Mexico because your boys would have had to to the &quot;Noble&quot; thing and finish the quest without you, and then come back and try and get you out of Mexico.  We are very disapointed that you won\'t be coming through Las Vegas, we had a big &quot;Red&quot;, &quot;White&quot; &amp; &quot;Blue&quot; shindig all planned.  Maybe someother time.   Ryan you didn\'t complain at all about your chappy cheeks....does this mean Rob gave in and let you borrow his chapstick?  Ryan, thanks for keeping us so informed about your adventures.  We are enjoying every minute.  I will sleep extra sound tonight for all of you guys.  \n\nYour Favorite Uncle, \n\nJim','4b5cd33167c3cde8a6dea35e1dbd3358',0,'','fd4de',1,0,'',0,0,0),(237,116,3,1,0,'189.172.74.194',1180583546,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 29th, 2007 - Losing a passport at the US/Mexican border','You guys are really flying! - and a lot of the scary part is over (we hope) - please be careful - it is nice reading about your adventures - it\'s cool to see how far you have come and how hard you are working to make this all come true - and it\'s a testament to your good upbringing that not one of you has tried to hurt a brother/father yet!\n\nAndy :-)','8501c12235f567582fd01e1e84182ac2',0,'','cc6da',1,0,'',0,0,0),(242,116,3,99,0,'68.148.72.38',1180592966,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: May 29th, 2007 - Losing a passport at the US/Mexican border','[quote=&quot;Anonymous&quot;:d9160]\nRyan if you get a chance can you change the website - it still has Costco for the location of the rally instead of the Capri????\n[/quote:d9160]   \n\nHi, I updated the website a couple days ago and thought I got all the Costco references changed to Capri, where does it still say Costco?\n\n\n-Alex','36c0a8f64310910ef6d65698571ff30e',0,'gA==','d9160',1,0,'',0,0,0),(249,123,3,53,0,'12.23.81.132',1180626282,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 30th, 2007 - Robbie: Stopping at green lights since 1982','May 30th, 2007\nGrants, New Mexico\nGPS: N35 07.867, W107 49.698\nDistance Traveled: 570km\n\nMy father just informed me that he\'d been arranging to buy a new motorcycle jacket for me to replace the one i\'d damaged when I wiped out in Chile on the freeway.  He\'d ordered it through Turple Bros, and had my Mom pick it up to take it to Ajoy at Milano for Men to have the logos put back on it.  Ajoy refused to let my parents pay for the jacket, and is sponsoring me, again, for a new jacket.  He apparently plans on keeping my old one, to hang in his store.  Ajoy, if you\'re reading this – thank you.  I\'d like to shake your hand when we see you in Coutts – but as a Scout would do it, with my left hand, because I still have one, thanks to you.\n\nWe were very late leaving El Paso this morning.  Since we\'d ridden so late last night (getting in at 3am local time), we decided to spend an extra couple hours sleeping, and get out of El Paso by about 9am.  One of the tires that our dealership contact had for us was more of a sport-bike tire, and would be worn out by the time we hit Red Deer.  Since we were still in El Paso by the time regular business hours rolled around, Justin took off to another dealership to pick up a tire more suited to what we were doing.\n\nOn his way to the dealership, Justin made a tight pass around a large truck and was spotted doing it by the police.  The office pulled Justin over, and lectured him about passing on the freeway.  The lecture might have been more effective had he been aware of some essential laws of physics.  In his southern drawl, this office informed Justin that it is not possible for a motorcycle to stop as quickly as a semi truck, because bikes have only two wheels, while large trucks have many more, and thus, can stop much more effectively.  Nevermind the fact that the motorcycle weighs (with rider) less than seven hundred pounds, and the truck several tons.  The cop let Justin go with a warning.\n\nAt the dealership, Justin paid for the tire, and they asked for some ID.  He handed over his driver\'s license, and after careful scrutiny, the clerk asked Justin if he had another piece of identification.  He handed her his passport, which she looked at quizzically, and said she\'d have to go confirm this with her manager.\n\nThe manager came over, and told Justin that he\'d never even seen a passport (we\'re all US citizens, and Justin brought his US passport, so this guy was holding Justin\'s US passport) and did he have anything else?  This is in El Paso, on the border with Mexico.  And he\'s never seen a passport.  They eventually ended up not accepting it, and took a photocopy of Justin\'s Alberta driver\'s license instead.\n\nAfter that, Justina nd Rob took the motorcycles to the friendly Santa Teresa Motorsports Suzuki dealer to get the new tires put on \'em.  It took a long time to get tires, but finally got \'em done, and they were back at the hotel by 2pm.  I\'d asked Justin to get me a tank bag to hold my water bottle &amp; ipod up front where they\'re accessible, and I fricking love it.  \n\nWe stopped for lunch about 500 metres from the hotel, to sample some fine Texas Mexican food and to fill up our water bottles.  When we finally got moving on the road at 3:30pm, Rob slipped his tire while turning at an intersection, and was so focused on trying to let me know that his tire slipped that he slammed on his brakes at a green light.  I was no more than six feet behind him, \'cause he\'d been trying to communicate with me, gesticulating wildly, and I damn near ran him over.  \n\nSince my tire had been so low on tread (it was completely bald by the time I hit El Paso, but thankfully no steel was showing), Justin had told me that I needed to take it easy on my rear break, so for that last two days i\'d not been using it at all.  When Robbie slammed on his brakes at the green light, I forgot about my rear break, and squeezed hard on the front one.  I fricking love ABS, too – stopped my front wheel from locking up, and I was able to slide past Robbie into the intersection.\n\nI love the roads in the states.  Especially the interstates.  What a difference from the roads we\'ve ridden so far – drivers obey traffic laws, and stay in their own lanes.  While in Mexico, Justin and I were almost taken out by a semi that passed another truck – in our lane.  He forced us onto the shoulder, and Justin\'s side cases couldn\'t have been more than three or four inches from his trailer.  The roads are in much better condition, and we don\'t have to waste any time hunting for a gas station that\'ll take Visa.  It\'s also really nice to be able to pay for our snacks &amp; gas at the same time, instead of another stop farther on the road.\n\nWith all of those nice things going for us, we were able to get almost 600kms done in less than five hours – nearly a full days\' ride on the more southern roads.\n\nOutside of El Paso, we saw some signs for a place called Truth or Consequences, which I found a very strange name for a town.  Rob did some research and tells me that this is a town built on a geothermally heated spring that\'s famour for its\' healing and relaxative properties for sore and tired muscles.  Of course, we didn\'t stop there, and pushed on to Grants, stopping at our hotel just as the sun set.\n\nRobbie didn\'t want us to unload our luggage, complaining that by the time we were done that, all the restaurants would be closed.  Please, Robbie – closed at 9pm?  We unloaded our bikes and found out that, yes, everything closed here at 9pm.  Worst of all, Robbie was finally right about something, and he made sure that we knew about it.\n\nWe ended up walking to the only open restaurant we could fine, inside the Econo-Lodge Motel.  One of the things I\'d really been looking forward to about being in America was that i\'d be able to order exactly what I wanted for dinner, and actually get it.  I\'d been getting pretty good at miming \'chicken taco\', but it was getting old.  This place, though, was a bit special.  Our chicken wings came raw, and I ordered a tortilla burger, thinking it\'d be a burger with chips or something.  Turns out, it actually came with no bun, and was just a regular burger in a tortilla shell.  Good, nonetheless.\n\nWe\'ve only got about an eight hour drive tomorrow, so we\'re going to sleep in a little bit tomorrow, and do a bit of maintenance in the morning.  \n\n[b:89b38]UPDATE: [/b:89b38]Dad has been experiencing problems with his chain stretching (it needs to be tightened every day) and this morning while Justin was swapping the chain out he noticed that the rear sprocket has been severely worn.  We\'ve located a new sprocket in Durango just a few hours down the road and slightly out of our way, and we\'re going to try and make it there and swap out the parts.  This will put us into Grandma\'s house a bit later tonight, which isn\'t very cool.  \n\nRyan Noble,\nGrants, New Mexico','540d1828774b8363af6b5ce24ee7b01a',0,'QA==','89b38',1,0,'',53,0,0),(246,116,3,1,0,'68.147.252.93',1180620240,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 29th, 2007 - Losing a passport at the US/Mexican border','Thanks for the phone call Sean.  It\'s good to know you will all be at the border on Sat. which puts you right on schedule.  If I heard you right you believe you will be there by 10:30-11:00AM.  I\'m trying my best to rally as many as we can to meet you there.\n\nYour ride yesterday was really long and I just hope you don\'t over-do it.  You mentioned that today you only have a eight hour ride so you should be able to catch up on some much need rest.  Enjoy the ride and make sure you sit in the sun for a couple of hours and smell the roses.\n\nSee you all at the border!!!\n\nBrian','4bc93081984995a88a26dc23a445435a',0,'','a381e',1,0,'',0,0,0),(247,108,5,1,0,'24.71.223.149',1180620816,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: June 2 - Need Riders!!!!','Hi Natalie\nI just talked to Sean this morning and he said that they expect to be a the border at about 10:00AM on Sat. morning.  I\'m wondering if you need to re-write your note to inform those who plan to come to the boarder that 8:00 might be a bit early, unless you are planning something requires some set up at the border. Let me know.\n\nBrian','fdcbfddeaf4efe9c0642aa229a4e9e59',0,'','eb19e',1,0,'',0,0,0),(248,119,4,1,0,'24.71.223.149',1180621047,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: to all riders joining Noblequest at border','Myself and at least a couple of other riders are planning to meet the guys at the border as well.  What time are you planning to be at the border. Sean indicated that they expect to be there about 10:30 Sat. morning we will probably leave Cal at 7:00AM\n\nBrian','999180adef6c44103f728bc08a372aa2',0,'','2dc71',1,0,'',0,0,0),(239,108,5,97,0,'206.75.77.135',1180586511,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: June 2 - Need Riders!!!!','What is the plan for the trip TO the border?? Myself and possibly 2 others are planning on going but have no clue what the itinerary is :/\n\nThanks, Ben McCord','76cde179f0427ea112e4faa886f14436',0,'','60b55',1,0,'',0,0,0),(240,119,4,1,0,'209.115.255.165',1180586838,1,0,1,1,1,0,'audrey&amp;terry','to all riders joining Noblequest at border','Just wanted to let all riders who are joining Noblequest at the border for the ride to Red Deer know that there will be a white Yukon with car trailer following the procession as backup, just in case anyone has trouble with their bikes.  See you there.','4302e56976d9cf405b1835152bed4e50',0,'','4acd0',1,0,'',0,0,0),(241,119,4,59,0,'24.71.223.149',1180587321,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: to all riders joining Noblequest at border','Audrey &amp; Terry that is awesome. Nice to have a back up in case any of us have bike issues. See ya Saturday.\nDarryl','8462ac69dd55a2b569cdd7379162be83',0,'','7270e',1,0,'',0,0,0),(250,124,4,53,0,'12.23.81.132',1180626394,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','NobleQuest schedule to Shelby, Coutts &amp; Red Deer','1)We\'re currently in Grants, New Mexico, and we\'ll be into Salt Lake City, Utah tonight, to stay at my Grandmother\'s place.  \n2)Into Shelby, Montana tomorrow night by about 8pm.  \n3)We\'ll be leaving Shelby at 8am, and across the border into Coutts by 9am.\n4)Into Red Deer about 3pm for the rally at the Capri Centre\n\nWe\'ll make some phone calls when we get into Shelby, and again in the morning before we leave Shelby, to make sure that everyone knows where we\'re going, and when we\'ll be there.','a5af2e96e4c033b8991411e31281fe49',0,'','87527',1,0,'',0,0,0),(252,124,4,1,0,'70.65.42.232',1180642194,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: NobleQuest schedule to Shelby, Coutts &amp; Red Deer','Don\'t forget that there is a stop at the ESSO on QE2 near Carstairs.  Riders will be meeting there between 1:00-2:00pm.  The rally in Red Deer is focused on you guys arriving at 3:00pm -so please don\'t be late if you can help it..........no doddling Sean!!!!\n\nNatalie','ad81ff6692438e156ea616ebc30c74f5',0,'','ca936',1,0,'',0,0,0),(258,124,4,97,0,'206.75.77.135',1180676997,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: NobleQuest schedule to Shelby, Coutts &amp; Red Deer','Hey Patrick, \n\nBen here, Called you earlier thursday evening.\n\nJust wondering if you might be able to give me some info on where you will be staying on friday night (hotel, and address and such) if you have any of that with you.\n\nI will be leaving from Innisfail Friday afternoon (by myself, seeing as I cant figure out anyone elses plans) might be able to get off work early so if you could post up any info in the morning if you check the forums that would be great. \n\nOr you can try calling me at 352-9253, or text any info if you do the whole text thing.\n\nI will try to get ahold of you tomorrow again as well. \n\nThanks in advance\nBen','c9d59868e5aad17091b5e8242cd067c6',0,'','5c9e0',1,0,'',0,0,0),(259,119,4,97,0,'206.75.77.135',1180677482,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: to all riders joining Noblequest at border','[quote=&quot;Anonymous&quot;:7e2bf]\nPoppa Richter and I will be heading to Lethbridge tomorrow to spend the night and will be at the border for 830!!! I have never been so excited!!! I\'m thinking I might be the only chica with a hot pink helmet!! Can\'t wait to see you all and ride in my first rally! BOO YA!\nAmandha\n[/quote:7e2bf] \nWhen would you be leaving from Lethbridge Amandha and Poppa? <!-- s:) --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\"Smile\" title=\"Smile\" /><!-- s:) --> I have lots of friends there as well and might end up doing the same as you. Maybe we can meet up on sat morning or let me know what time you were planning on leaving from Red Deer Friday, and we can make the trip, or part of it, as a bigger group.\n\nAnyways give me a call if interested. Will have my cell on me all day tomorrow at 352-9253\n\nThanks\nBen','53061b04ecf45c55475d5e9c5b152bb9',0,'gA==','7e2bf',1,0,'',0,0,0),(260,124,4,1,0,'70.65.8.11',1180680001,1,0,1,1,1,0,'kathynoble','Re: NobleQuest schedule to Shelby, Coutts &amp; Red Deer','I was informed by Natalie that the only hotel in Shelby, Montana is a &quot;Quality Comfort Inn&quot;  so that\'s where the NobleMen will be staying.  Natalies has reservations for them.','190cae24680bfecf9b4370a8e91490b7',0,'','dcc2f',1,0,'',0,0,0),(266,124,4,95,0,'70.65.125.3',1180757456,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: NobleQuest schedule to Shelby, Coutts &amp; Red Deer','If the guys are not going to pull into coots till 9pm, that will make them late getting to the esso, about 3pm, and into Red Deer about 4....WILL some one be at the ESSO that can give us an update every now and then on where they are? that way no one will give up and ride off if the boys end up an hour or more late getting there.....','7a7a0530fc9898cb820f05f970e3e75b',0,'','282f5',1,0,'',0,0,0),(267,108,5,1,0,'68.144.248.155',1180758499,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: June 2 - Need Riders!!!!','Just wanted to leave a note that I will not be able to join on the ride, even though I signed up for it.  Everyone take care and drive safe.\n\nRandy Thiessen','847963e66c48c797fa6b87c40ef8b662',0,'','e0e80',1,0,'',0,0,0),(255,119,4,1,0,'209.115.255.165',1180669226,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: to all riders joining Noblequest at border','Terry will be getting to the border Friday night and sleeping over so he will be there bright and early.  Although he won\'t have me for an alarm clock so early birds might have to bang on the hood to wake him.  HaHa.','0041523bb411d7e4fcfa1bf994de2ebc',0,'','9af29',1,0,'',0,0,0),(256,119,4,1,0,'69.31.226.30',1180670406,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: to all riders joining Noblequest at border','Poppa Richter and I will be heading to Lethbridge tomorrow to spend the night and will be at the border for 830!!! I have never been so excited!!! I\'m thinking I might be the only chica with a hot pink helmet!! Can\'t wait to see you all and ride in my first rally! BOO YA!\nAmandha','2e49961f9078366946ba13b51c5e1a2e',0,'','afed7',1,0,'',0,0,0),(257,124,4,1,0,'199.126.51.223',1180671293,1,0,1,1,1,0,'Patrick','Re: NobleQuest schedule to Shelby, Coutts &amp; Red Deer','Hey boys, I have all your stuff and will be meeting you in Shelby for certain. I am in FortMacleod now (10pm on MAy 31), so I will have an easy ride to Shelby tomorrow. I may ride south a little to see if I spot you in the afternoon. Depends on how energetic I feel. See you on the 1st.\n\nPatrick &quot;The Courier&quot; Langlois','6e1e014ca7d4257bf3e00824de1b22f1',0,'','e53bd',1,0,'',0,0,0),(290,139,3,1,0,'142.179.207.178',1180997736,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: what a terrific Noblefest!','I came on line to see how the Noblefest turned out.  I was sad to miss it because of a medical appointment in Calgary this weekend.  Sorry your day had to be ruined by such a horrible accusation Kathy.  I know you have worked hard at all this as well as numerous other people.  Obviously this &quot;person&quot; doesn\'t know you and your family.  And we all know that obviously a &quot;person&quot; of this calibre isn\'t even worth the time it takes to get angry at him/her.  One thing I know is that Ryan is smart enough on the computer to actually find out who this person is in the end I\'m sure...even if he/she isn\'t man/woman enough to actually identify themself we will know.  \n\nRide on Noblemen - with your heads held high!!!\n\nChris (and Peter)','f40e10e56507ed154b400d10f1e58abc',0,'','a6e19',1,0,'',0,0,0),(273,137,4,1,0,'142.59.30.254',1180831443,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','leaving Red Deer','Hey Guys, i want to hook up with ya in the morning and ride at least as far as Edmonton, since I was unable to ride from the border. When and where are you leaving from? I realize you guys are busy tonite but if anyone could fill me in that would be great! I\'ll keep my eye on this site...or call me at 877 1278\n\nVerne','b99ab52ef4c6b7160cd6b963184fa9d6',0,'','35219',1,0,'',0,0,0),(286,139,3,1,0,'70.65.63.28',1180962118,1,0,1,1,1,0,'Diana','Re: what a terrific Noblefest!','I feel sorry for the &quot;person&quot; who was asking if this venture is a subsidized family holiday. It is pathetic that someone needs to build themselves up by putting others down.\n\nThey obviously  have not been reading Ryan\'s informative and descriptive blogs to find out that this trip has been anything but a &quot;holiday&quot; .  \n&quot;Family&quot; - yes, &quot;holiday&quot; - no.  \n\nI have been directly involved with the fund raising and can state for a fact:  ALL monies donated go DIRECTLY to the KCCF.  This &quot;person&quot; should try donating, they may be  surprised that it actually feels good to donate.  \n\nIt is easy to tell that this &quot;person&quot; hasn\'t had the fortune of knowing the Nobles and what an incredible bunch of people they are. They also don\'t know how hard this family has worked to raise money for the KCCF.  They could have gone on this &quot;holiday&quot; for their own gain but they chose to do the NOBLE thing and help others along the way.  (Sorry for the pun, it\'s early in the day.)\n\nTo the &quot;Person&quot;: give donating and helping others a try - you might find doing something positive is a nice change.\n\nSincerely,\nDiana','f6ebf1d5a02bc731c8193b57a1a4904a',0,'','836b1',1,0,'',0,0,0),(270,124,4,97,0,'209.107.98.92',1180787979,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: NobleQuest schedule to Shelby, Coutts &amp; Red Deer','If anyone wants to call my cell phone between 8:30 and 9 I will let them know what time they make it to the border. It should only be a 5 hour trip to red deer from the border, depending on amount and length of stops. Anyways my cell # is 352-9253','07cd13bda94fe8bafd4d066274d6dc76',0,'','ab445',1,0,'',0,0,0),(284,139,3,1,0,'70.65.8.11',1180934752,1,0,1,1,1,0,'kathynoble','Re: what a terrific Noblefest!','To Anonymous:\n\nIf you have something to say, you should be PERSON enough to post your name!  As the wife and mother of this group of guys, I can personally tell you that the money that has been raised has gone directly to Kids Cancer Care Foundation.  Most people donated directly.  I personally baked 2040 sugar cookies in the shape of children hands (the symbol of KCCF) and every cent from the sales of the cookies went directly to KCCF.  I donated all of the ingredients and my time as well - which was substantial!  So I resent some anonymous person blurting our that we gained personally.  This trip has cost my family a blooming fortune.  If in making this trip public assisted in raising money for a good casue - even better.  And they will break a record.  All the standing records go from north to south.  This trip goes from south to north and has the disadvantage of 4 riders.  So Anonymous - put your money where your mouth is and donate directly to KCCF by linking to the site posted in this website.  If your PERSON enough!!!!!\n\nKathy Noble','aeb9b2a483a816743b60166e5f415d00',0,'','f6bd6',1,0,'',0,0,0),(285,144,3,1,0,'70.65.8.11',1180937724,1,0,1,1,1,0,'kathynoble','NobleFest','On behalf of my family I would like to thanks everyone who came out to show their support to my boys and Kids Cancer Care Foundation.  It was so exciting to see so many friends among the crowd.  It would be very wrong of me not to say a BIG THANK YOU to the many people who volunteered their time to help make it a success.  Especially to Natalie O-Connor, The Capri and all their staff (especially Al and Jolene) - they donated all the food so 100% of the money raised could go to KCCF and they paid for all the staging, tables, dunk tank, chairs, etc.  I\'m sure I\'ll forget some things...  To all the people who provided booths of many kinds.  When I arrived at 10 ish (that was the first time) there were many staff members from Heritage Family Services present helping set up.  Thank you!   It was a very exciting day for me.  Thanks for making to so much fun!!!  KCCF (Candace - the woman present taking the donations) told me she would probably have a rough estimate of how much money has been raised to date later this week.  I\'m sure we\'ll let you know when we find out.  I\'m sure I\'ve missed tons of people I should thank....but this doesn\'t have to be the last blog from me.  \n\nRight now, I\'m going to bed.  The NobleMen just phoned and they are in Pink Mountain, B.C.  not quite as far as they wanted to be - but not too bad either.  They stopped for a big barbeque in Grande Prairie and they family that hosted it gave them a cheque for KCCF for $500.00!  \n\nI\'ve been amazed by the generosity of the people I\'ve come in contact during this whole bike ride event.  At times it has been overwhelming!  Having a student from my school lose the fight against cancer three weeks ago has brought home that children - in fact all people - should not have to suffer the pain of cancer.  Perhaps a cure can be found!  Thank you!','75c2f48c8be4279aaa7e6cbd04180c36',0,'','f62d2',1,0,'',0,0,0),(275,139,3,1,0,'209.115.255.165',1180836161,1,0,1,1,1,0,'audrey&amp;terry','what a terrific Noblefest!','Noblefest was fantastic!  Kudos to Natalie and all who planned a great day.  It was so nice to see the Noblemen, we are so proud of you. Too bad we didn\'t get to see Sean on that dunktank seat though! What a great adventure you are having.  Keep up the pace, and we will see you back in Red Deer again soon.','1b2b2d4d41af5673315af4c1a3496b3f',0,'','35a62',1,0,'',0,0,0),(276,139,3,95,0,'70.65.125.3',1180846745,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: what a terrific Noblefest!','A group of us were waiting at the Esso for the Noble\'s. Ryan was the first to get there and came in to have some thing to drink about 15 min\'s later, the rest of the boys came by and just keeped on going, we all jumped up leaving our drinks; payed the bill and ran outside to our bikes. Ryan had just left a $5. on the table and ran out the door. we were told that the boys would be doing only 110 so that we all could catch up to them. Ryan and some other\'s had jumped on there bikes were gone, the rest of us got under way but had to push our bikes hard to catch up to them. Half way between Didsbury and Olds we finally caught up to them. there 110, turned out to be 140.  Now we were one big group, Or a long line of bikes. at one point we all pulled over to the side of the road and stoped as some guy on his bike was rideing in the feild, dont know why, I think he was chasing after a goffer. the guy rejoinded the group and we got back under way. as we were comming up to the 32ave turnoff from the Qe2 I could see how long this group was. Looked like about 100 bikes,, Not bad..we got into Noblefest sooner then we should have, I dont think that they were ready for us yet, but thats what you get when you ride with the Noble\'s, your ahead of time, or late...the guys have come so far, and done so well, and still have a ways to go yet. and with some new boots, a new jacket, and the bikes fixed up, they should be at the end of there trip in no time. And then,,,,,They have to ride all the way back to Red Deer,,and that will feel like the longest part of the trip...','1131dad7d198439922e4d271e1ba436b',0,'','37267',1,0,'',0,0,0),(287,139,3,1,0,'216.254.136.67',1180985667,1,0,1,1,1,0,'Dick Fish','Re: what a terrific Noblefest!','As the present &quot;Trans Americas&quot; record holder I think I have the right to comment. First I would like to say that the person who commented without the guts to identify him or her self makes me sick,what a joke of a person. I can attest to the extreme difficulities in accomplishing this ride that the Noble Family are about to finish. I have nothing but respect for what and how they are doing it. I would also comment that I suggested to the Noble\'s that they ask the IBA ( the certifying agent ) if they would be willing to recognize a record for the south north run. If so (and I have no idea if this would happen) they would be setting a new record not breaking one as no one has to my knowledge  certifed any ride other than the Sanders and myself. An AMAZING RIDE.\n     regards    ref','5fec5106a6301671e0a583662be16b41',0,'','1886f',1,0,'',0,0,0),(288,139,3,59,0,'208.38.12.194',1180989478,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: what a terrific Noblefest!','[quote=&quot;Anonymous&quot;:1f1d5]\n[quote=&quot;Anonymous&quot;:1f1d5]\nSo how about a few details, have these guys actually raised any money for Kids Care <!-- s:oops: --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_redface.gif\" alt=\"Embarassed\" title=\"Embarassed\" /><!-- s:oops: --> or has it turned out to be a family trip subsidized by others, on the guise of breaking a non-existent record? <!-- s:roll: --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_rolleyes.gif\" alt=\"Rolling Eyes\" title=\"Rolling Eyes\" /><!-- s:roll: -->\n[/quote:1f1d5] [/quote:1f1d5] \n\nSomeone please delete this losers post. <!-- s:evil: --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_evil.gif\" alt=\"Evil or Very Mad\" title=\"Evil or Very Mad\" /><!-- s:evil: -->','9099e9215eb2f47b45fc853e92b91d15',0,'gA==','1f1d5',1,0,'',0,0,0),(282,139,3,1,0,'198.53.49.10',1180925367,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: what a terrific Noblefest!','[quote=&quot;Anonymous&quot;:087f1]\n[quote=&quot;Anonymous&quot;:087f1]\nNoblefest was fantastic!  Kudos to Natalie and all who planned a great day.  It was so nice to see the Noblemen, we are so proud of you. Too bad we didn\'t get to see Sean on that dunktank seat though! What a great adventure you are having.  Keep up the pace, and we will see you back in Red Deer again soon.\n[/quote:087f1]  \n\n\nSo how about a few details, have these guys actually raised any money for Kids Care <!-- s:oops: --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_redface.gif\" alt=\"Embarassed\" title=\"Embarassed\" /><!-- s:oops: --> or has it turned out to be a family trip subsidized by others, on the guise of breaking a non-existent record? <!-- s:roll: --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_rolleyes.gif\" alt=\"Rolling Eyes\" title=\"Rolling Eyes\" /><!-- s:roll: -->[/quote:087f1] \n\nIts a pity society has come to this. Not everything is for personal gain, the guys are doing a good thing, and I gave money to the foundation, not to the Nobles.','ebabc2d2aedddfa666ba80113c01b7f6',0,'gA==','087f1',1,0,'',0,0,0),(283,139,3,1,0,'69.31.226.30',1180930949,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: what a terrific Noblefest!','OH brother! I\'m happy to say that all money raised does go to the Kids Cancer Care Foundation of Alberta, the Noble are truly that, NOBLE! And what they\'re doing for the kids with cancer in this province, country and around the world is INCREDIBLE! Whomever wrote such a silly remark should be quite honestly embarrassed for saying such a thing. I\'m so happy that they chose the foundation, it\'s done remarkable things for children with cancer and their families of which I can attest to because I am myself a childhood cancer survivor.\n\nBoys, I\'m so happy that I got the chance to ride with you all! The big pink helmet turned out to be quite a hit! And I must say, I\'m quite proud of myself for keeping up with the boys as you pushed 140-150km/h! EECH! Hope I\'ll get to ride with you all again soon! \n\nDad and I rode with the boys from Valleyview to Grande Prairie today (they got a bit of a late start out of Red Deer...Kathy makes quite a good breakfast so I don\'t blame them!) Apparently they had been announcing their arrival on the Grande Prairie Radio, so we were expecting a few more riders, however we didn\'t have more than the riders my uncle had rallied up. Regardless, they were all so happy to meet you, and ride proudly with you, just as Dad and I were! \n\nLiveSTRONG! Ride stronger!\nAmandha Richter','257c039104719a988569cd7050c1cdf8',0,'','a77a9',1,0,'',0,0,0),(280,139,3,1,0,'24.80.229.14',1180918470,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: what a terrific Noblefest!','[quote=&quot;Anonymous&quot;:29a32]\nNoblefest was fantastic!  Kudos to Natalie and all who planned a great day.  It was so nice to see the Noblemen, we are so proud of you. Too bad we didn\'t get to see Sean on that dunktank seat though! What a great adventure you are having.  Keep up the pace, and we will see you back in Red Deer again soon.\n[/quote:29a32]  \n\n\nSo how about a few details, have these guys actually raised any money for Kids Care <!-- s:oops: --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_redface.gif\" alt=\"Embarassed\" title=\"Embarassed\" /><!-- s:oops: --> or has it turned out to be a family trip subsidized by others, on the guise of breaking a non-existent record? <!-- s:roll: --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_rolleyes.gif\" alt=\"Rolling Eyes\" title=\"Rolling Eyes\" /><!-- s:roll: -->','658602d010ecb7e57dbdeb85a4fb3b2b',0,'gA==','29a32',1,0,'',0,0,0),(291,139,3,95,0,'70.65.125.3',1180999296,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: what a terrific Noblefest!','OK...with all that said...Where are the boys? no postings last night from ryan..Dont make me ride after them to find out how the trip from Red Deer north has gone.','ea84ee4425787a6ba54c604637329d59',0,'','f2239',1,0,'',0,0,0),(297,139,3,53,0,'216.126.97.55',1181032158,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: what a terrific Noblefest!','Thanks for all the support, everyone!\n\nIt was really great to see everyone at NobleFest on Saturday - and as for those of you who couldn\'t make it, we know you were there in spirit, and I wanted to let you know that I appreciate that you\'re following along and supporting us online.\n\nAs far as the Anonymous Coward goes - we know who he is.  He\'s trolled us prior to this in other forums with baseless accusations, every one of which we answered and countered.  Once he realized that he would be unable to denounce us that way, he wrote a poisonous email to Candace Martin of the KCCFA, which she properly ignored.\n\nIt\'s an unfortunate fact that the internet is full of jerks like this, and disheartening to know that he\'ll continue to be a jerk even after we answer this new set of accusations.  I do refuse to censor these forums (except for spam), and he\'s entitled to his opinion, even if it is wrong &amp; stinks of trollbait.  The best response we can give to this guy if he posts again is to ignore him.\n\nOn a positive note, though, it\'s very nice to have actually met Dick Fish, and to have his support on this trip.  Additionally, more journal posts are coming, and i\'ve uploaded a few days\' worth of pictures to our albums site.\n\nIt\'s currently 1:30am in Whitehorse, though, and i\'m dead tired and damp.  Robbie has promised me some time in the morning to get the rest of the stuff done (it\'s light out here until 12:30am or so), so there\'ll be more tomorrow morning.\n\nRyan Noble,\nWhitehorse, Yukon Territories','adb63f654315751d007188d98185c0bc',0,'','5166e',1,0,'',53,0,0),(294,139,3,1,0,'68.147.7.89',1181015284,1,0,1,1,1,0,'Lee Myrah','Re: what a terrific Noblefest!','Dick Fish wrote in part:\n\n&quot;As the present &quot;Trans Americas&quot; record holder I think I have the right to comment.&quot;\n\nDick of course didn\'t post his time for the ride - 21 days 2 hrs 8 mins.  Following the Guinness rules to the letter.  The Nobles know now, and will know better in Deadhorse, AK, what a huge accomplishement that was.  This is just giving credit where credit is due.  I suspect the record will be Dick\'s for some time.\n\nAll that being said, I have great respect for the Nobles and what they are trying to accomplish.  It was a pleasure to shake Sean\'s hand at the Crossfield ESSO.  I fervently hope he and his boys meet their fundraising goal.\n\nAnd, Nobles, be careful - the Haul Road can bite you.  Or not.  All depends on the weather and maintenance activity.  Good luck.\n\n     Lee Myrah','85657ab221a502f37ee712a627f1f8e6',0,'','de2e3',1,0,'',0,0,0),(296,149,3,53,0,'216.126.97.55',1181030979,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','May 31st, 2007 - To Grandma\'s house we go','May 31th, 2007\nSpanish Fork, Utah\nGPS: coming soon\nDistance Traveled: coming soon\n\nThis morning i\'d posted an update to the post indicating that we\'d encountered some problems with Dad\'s rear sprocket, and had to make a detour through Durango, NM to pick it up.\n\nOn the way into Durango, Justin stood up on his pegs to get a better look around the city and see if he could spot the dealership.  He did this immediately in front of one of New Mexico\'s finest, who turned on his disco lights.  When Justin stands on his pegs, he can\'t see in his mirrors, so did not have any idea that a police officer was asking him politely to pull over.  He also had his music playing through the earphones, and thus could not hear when the siren was turned on. \n\nEventually, though, he noticed, and pulled over a mile or two down the road.  The officer didn\'t ticket him (thankfully), nor was he speeding – just wanted to make sure that Justin didn\'t stand on his pegs while in town.  Justin asked him for directions to the dealership, and the nice officer went back into his car to ask on the radio if any troopers knew where it was.  One did, and he directed us in the right direction.\n\nThe dealership (name of Fun Center) there was great – they had the sprocket we needed, and even loaned us a bike lift so that we could get the sprocket changed out, and let us do the maintenance in the parking lot.  Justin managed to lose the 19mm socket, so dad took off on Rob\'s bike to grab us some lunch and pick up the socket at the Wal-Mart in town.  \n\nRob and Justin are the heavy-lifters in terms of mechanical aptitude.  When greasy things like this are going on, I do my best to stay out of the way, or do helpful things like hold brake levers or fetch shop cloths.  That sort of thing is about my speed when it comes to the physical reality of motorcycle maintenance.  While I was killing time, I realized that I still didn\'t have any signal lights, so I picked up two replacement sets – two lights for the front, and two for the back.  I figured I\'d just pop the old ones out and slide the new ones in.  I should have spoken to Justin about this before I spent the money on them – turns out I pretty much have to take every bit of fairing off the bike in order to replace the signal lights, and that\'s currently beyond me.  The lights are currently in a net bag in my topcase, unusable until I can convince Justin he needs to replace them for me.\n\nWe lost about three hours to this little bit of maintenance – just once, I\'d like to get us a day where we can make 1000kms without having something bite us in the butt and slow us down.\n\nWe did find out something bad, too.  Apparently the front sprocket is listed incorrectly in parts catalogues for our motorcycles.  Our sprockets &amp; chain are all 525 width, but parts catalogues have our front sprocket listed as a 520.  This means that the front sprocket is just a little bit too narrow for our chain.  We\'ve run, by this time, 18,000 kms on the wrong sprocket, and all of our drive trains need replacing.  However, the three sons are doing all right, and we\'ll make it to Red Deer on what we\'ve got.  Dad\'s, though, is another story.  His front sprocket pretty much shredded his chain, and it wore down his rear sprocket so much that the sprocket teeth are razor sharp.  Justin had to be very careful while swapping it out so that he didn\'t slice his fingers on the sprocket teeth.\n\nOnce we got back on the highway, we passed through Moab, Utah, which had some pretty amazing badlands-type scenery.  Near there is also a place called Hole-N-the-Wall, which we initially thought might have something to do with Butch Cassidy &amp; the Sundance Kid (dad\'s favourite movie) but it was not – turned out to be just a house built in a cliff.  Wooo.\n\nBecause of the detour we made to get through Durango, we had to cross over a mountain pass in pitch dark to get to Grandma\'s house.  The temperature (of course) plummeted, and we damn near froze to death getting to Grandma\'s.  We were all flying down the highway to get to the warmth, and I got pulled over exactly 183 yards from Grandma\'s, doing 46 in a 30.  I explained to the cop exactly HOW CLOSE I was to where I wanted to be, and he let me go and wished us all good luck on our journey.\n\nIt was awesome to finally see some familiar faces, even if it was very late at night.  I got to see my new baby cousin Belen (sorry, Tadds – i cannot for the life of me remember how to spell her name), which was super cool, as well as the rest of the fambly – hello now to Casey, Lindsay, Grandma, Grandpa, Carolyn, and – last but not least, Bobby!  Unfortunately, Trav had to get his beauty sleep &amp; took off about half an hour after we arrived at midnight.  After a quick dinner, some hugs &amp; conversation, us Nobles were given some time to soak in the hot tub, and then time for bed. \n\nRyan Noble,\nSpanish Fork, Uah','22f4e226727f57970054dd80b2cdc183',0,'','ce68f',1,0,'',53,0,0),(298,149,3,1,0,'207.200.116.197',1181046648,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: May 31st, 2007 - To Grandma\'s house we go','Dear Noblemen:\n\nSo glad to get a blog again. Of course I had to call Grandma and ask her and everyone that saw you how you all were doing.  Grandma said she thinks that you have all lost a little weight.  Maybe it is the lifting of the motorcycles off the ground.  Oh, what is the score by the way?  And, she said that you guys didn\'t really stink all that much....hahaha I\'ll bet it was very hard to leave Red Deer after &quot;Noblefest&quot; and seing everyone.  Take care and we will be looking forward to the report from Noblefest. \n\nRide Safe, \n\nUncle Jim','be79f8b7f1bcb8aa65ef429396f8f836',0,'','2d455',1,0,'',0,0,0),(299,139,3,1,0,'70.65.42.232',1181063585,1,0,1,1,1,0,'Patrick Langlois','Re: what a terrific Noblefest!','Ryan and the rest of the Nobles,\nThat was an eloquently written response. If &quot;Anonymous&quot; had half your brains he would know when to call it quits. Unfortunately, as you stated, the world is filled with ignorant people, who try to pollute us with their uninformed opinions. The best thing everyone can do is ignore these feeble minded halfwits, as all they are attempting to do is bring down people\'s spirits. It\'s sad when someone feels so lowly about themselves that their only motivation is to attempt to bring other\'s down to their level. Thankfully he doesn\'t have the strength to slow down the juggernaut known as NobleQuest! Everyone is cheering for you and proud of your accomplishment and all you are doing to support such a worthy cause.\n\nPatrick','a5aeb15d45b2a70967387651aecbf61c',0,'','ae6e4',1,0,'',0,0,0),(302,139,3,1,0,'198.166.20.189',1181105956,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: what a terrific Noblefest!','[b:bf37e]A lot has been posted in the last while! [/b:bf37e] \nFirstly, it was an honor to be a part of Noblefest on Saturday.  It\'s extremely hard to believe that the ride is almost over, and that the 4 guys have achieved so much - and still were ready to visit and party on that day.  To all organizers - especially Natalie - great congratulations.  \nIt\'s actually not surprising that there would eventually be some sort of obnoxious post on this site.  While this is a great opportunity for so many of us to share and participate in this &quot;Great Adventure&quot;, it\'s also an opportunity for cowards to try to disrupt our collective happiness.  Actually, all that this posting has done is created more solidarity in supporting this family in this venture.  \nAny one of us who knows the Nobles is aware that there is nothing hidden, and there are no ulterior motives.  They had a vision and set about to actualize that vision.  In the way, they saw an opportunity to contribute beyond the family solidarity and bonding.  [b:bf37e]Any of us who have known Sean, Kathy and the boys are aware of the energy that has gone into this trip[/b:bf37e].  And the sacrifices......  And the personal money !!!! In the end, what they will have is an incredible sense of satisfaction and pride that such a project could not only be conceived, but carried out.  In case other people haven\'t noticed, this is a family that loves each other, challenges each other, supports each other and celebrates the successes of each other.  In the end, they will have marvellous memories that will have (as Kathy said) &quot;cost them a bundle&quot; of money, but which will be priceless.  \nIt is a privilege to be associated with the Nobles as colleagues, business partners and friends.  Kids for Cancer will be recipients of significant funds through the sacrifices, effort and personal commitment of the Nobles, as well as those of us who have, and will continue to support this cause.  \nAnd Sean - you and I will go on a ride again sometime, but it has to be at a slower pace!  \n\nAlan and Sharon','bdac144f7024998b1670f5895bec074f',0,'QA==','bf37e',1,0,'',0,0,0),(303,152,3,53,0,'66.230.86.0',1181117979,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','June 1st, 2007 - Ride-alongs &amp; poor fuel economy','June 1st, 2007\nShelby, Montana\nGPS: coming soon\nDistance Traveled: coming soon\n\nHard to pull yourself away from family, especially when you\'ve got relatives like ours.  Everyone had agreed to meet at Hickory Kist for breakfast that morning at nine am – but do you really think that we were capable of making it there on time?  \n\nOf course not.\n\nFinally got our poop in a group and made it to the rendezvous about 9:30, which wasn\'t too bad, considering.  Apparently since i\'d mentioned that I would have happily killed for a Hickory Kist sandwich in one of my earlier posts, the owner of that fine establishment was going to buy us four breakfast.  A free breakfast is always awesome, in my books, and a free breakfast there is great.  \n\nShe neglected to inform her staff, though, and when Justin and I ordered, rather than make a fuss, I ponied up for my sandwich &amp; Justin\'s cinnamon bun.  I\'d forgotten how big the sandwiches were, and when it arrived, i\'ll admit that I was a little bit worried that I\'d be able to finish it.  Fortunately, I was able to man up and save face in front of Casey &amp; Bobby – I even managed to polish off a slice of awesome bread.  I was even able to squeeze a half loaf of bread into my topcase to take with us – nice little treat along the road.\n\nShortly after we finally got rolling, Robbie decided that he\'d test out his ABS, make sure it was working properly.  Normally, I\'d assume that someone testing out something like BRAKES would try to make sure that they weren\'t close to other people before coming to a sudden and unexpected stop.  Robbie likes to keep us on our toes, however.\n\nJustin was leading, as has been typical for much of this ride.  Robbie pulled out in front of Justin – immediately in front of him, and led the way for a few kilometres, when WHAM there\'s lights flashing and surprising amounts of smoke whipping through the air behind Justin &amp; Robbie.  He\'d done this immediately in front of a minor intersection at which a car was waiting, so I immediately assumed the worst and thought he\'d blown a tire and wiped out or something.  He apparently came very close to wiping out when he locked up his front tire and Justin had to resort to extremely drastic maneuvers to avoid driving clean through Rob.  We all came to a shuddering halt and stormed over there to yell at him.  Despite our best arguments and much shaking of fingers, Rob refuses to admit that his testing method left a little something to be desired, and still won\'t admit that he did anything wrong, or that he came anywhere close to losing control.\n\nAbout lunch time, we met up with our first ride-alonger – our uncle Paul!  We met up with him about an hour and a half out of Pocatello, and rode along the highway to the public pool there, where our aunt Teresa and cousins Hayden &amp; AJ were waiting for us.  Apparently Paul\'s 650 isn\'t as fast as ours, and we forced him to keep his throttle pinned the whole time he rode with us, which killed his fuel economy.  Even though he\'d filled up prior to joining us on our ride, he had to switch to his reserve tank shortly before making it into Pocatello.\n\nAfter much hugging and \'i can\'t believe you guys actually made it\', Teresa and Paul offerd to buy us a quick lunch, so we headed over to this little fast food diner down the road that happened to have pretty dang good burgers.  We felt a little bad about burning all of Paul\'s gas up, so we dumped one of our spare cans into his bike so he\'d at least make it to  a gas station before he really ran out of gas.  After lunch, we stopped for some gas, and Justin and I both noticed a strange new noise coming from our drive trains.  Justin pulled out his tools to check, and shortly before he announced that we all needed new front sprockets &amp; chains, Paul pulled up to top off his tank.  \n\nHis bike must have a pretty small tank, \'cause one of our jerry cans (which is a little less than half a tank for us) pretty much filled him up – he managed to squeeze about ¾ of a gallon into his tank, just shy of $2.50.\n\nAfter that, it was a pretty uneventful jaunt to Shelby – we got in too late to really enjoy the company, though.  Bradley from Race Trac Gas – one of our major sponsors was there to greet us and he brought along some nice hats for us to wear.  Ajoy from Milano for Men also rode his Harley across the border to meet us, and brought along some wonderfully clean t-shirts.  And, last but not least, Patrick \'The Deliverator\' Langlois was there as well, having cheerfully couriered myself a new set of motorcycle armour, courtesy Ajoy, and the original windshields for Justin and I.  After nearly eighteen thousand kilometres, once again I would have a windscreen.  I nearly teared up.\n\nAfter some handshakes, story telling, a beer &amp; some cookies, we headed off to bed – it\'s been a long day, and we got a busy one for tomorrow.\n\nRyan Noble,\nShelby, Montana','363f95c047de8199e724ee04a23ccb68',0,'','b7791',1,0,'',53,0,0),(304,153,3,53,0,'66.230.86.0',1181118540,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','June 5th, 2007 - Late posts &amp; no time to sleep','June 5th, 2007, 12:30am Alaska Time\nFairbanks, Alaska\n\nI owe everyone an apology - i\'ve had so little time ever since entering the States &amp; Canada that i\'ve fallen behind on the journal postings. \n\nI have not forgotten - i\'m keeping notes, and will continue to post (late) journals as I have time &amp; cognitive abilities - which abilities have been in short supply with the increasing sleep deficit we\'ve all been dealing with.  I should have much more time (and sleep), though, in the next few days.\n\nRealizing how far behind I am with the journal posts, and that I\'ll need several hours to do justice to the whole thing, I decided that I\'d make a quick little update-in-the-middle post, and let everyone know where we are and what is going on, in a bit of a zoomed-out detail overview.\n\nWe made it all the way from Whitehorse, YT to Fairbanks, Alaska today.  Not our hardest ride, by a long shot, but it was a lot of distance covered today, on very little sleep for everyone here.  It was, however, one of the most beautiful &amp; hard on the butt.\n\nSee, the Alaska Highway when it comes through the Yukon should properly be called the Frost Heave Highway - or, as the locals call it, Manybumpswillpoundyerbum.  Couldn\'t believe some of the road conditions today, and then we had miles and miles and miles of construction to deal with - conditions, I suppose, that we\'ll hit on the Haul Road tomorrow.\n\nThat\'s right, we\'re almost finished.  Should everything go well (knock on wood) we\'ll be headin\' out of Fairbanks tomorrow about 9:30am and hitting the Haul Road shortly after.  We\'ve spoken to several bikers we\'ve run into (not literally) here in Alaska about the Haul Road, and the consensus seems to be that we should be able to do it in twelve to fourteen hours (this road is 400 MILES of gravel, dirt  heavy traffic).  It looks, though, that it\'s going to be the toughest 400 miles of our trip so far.\n\nI\'ll let you all know as soon as I can, but I may not be able to access the interweb when we\'re in Deadhorse/Prudhoe Bay.  We will give a call to Natalie or Kathy to get a post through with an update, whatever happens.\n\nIt\'s nearly 1am here, and my body\'s crying for sleep.  Rob and Sean have promised that they\'ll let me sleep in until 7am or so, but I\'m not sure they\'ll be able to wait that long.\n\nHere\'s hoping,\nRyan Noble,\nFairbanks, Alaska','06c5c383bd36c5eff9e18c8116447f40',0,'','60e6c',1,0,'',0,0,0),(305,153,3,1,0,'207.200.116.8',1181144932,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: June 5th, 2007 - Late posts &amp; no time to sleep','Dear Noblemen:\n\nGlad to hear the journey is just about over.  I am sure you will be glad to be able to sleep in....although it will probably take a while for your system to get used to the sudden slow down and actually let you sleep in withouth thinking that you have to get on the road.  Hold your hand on your heart as you drive through Fairbanks.  I spent some time there many year ago.  At least the further north you go, the longer the days will be, and you can ride without it being all that dark. Did you get extra sprockets while in Durango? Or somewhere else along the way?  And Ryan, we are not going to let you off without a blog of the days from crossing the Canadian Border till your arrival in Fairbanks.  \n\nRide Safe, \n\nUncle Jim','fede844b985c2d682c4cbe959ae49330',0,'','c21b5',1,0,'',0,0,0),(307,139,3,1,0,'189.172.100.130',1181170962,1,0,1,1,1,0,'Andy','Re: what a terrific Noblefest!','I really wrestled as whether to write in, as so much has already been written in response to the suggestion that the Noble\'s might be gaining financially, or that this may be more of a “family trip” than an actual fundraising event. However I felt I just had to post as I know Sean and Kathy, and most importantly, what they are all about.  I understand how someone (and there may be more people than just this one anonymous poster) might have suspicions about the impetus behind such a trip. It wouldn’t be the first time somebody has gained financially (or in some other way) by riding the wave of some cause or another. Healthy scepticism is a good thing; it allows for investigation and often leads to holding people accountable.\n For the person who wrote in wondering about the Noble’s motivation, I want to assure you they are truly honourable people seeking to raise awareness and money for the Kids Cancer Care Foundation of Alberta. \nSean and his boys love riding motorcycles and also love helping people (it was Sean’s enthusiasm that got me back on a bike a few years ago). Both Sean and Kathy work in helping professions and each has seen their share of tragedy. I know they are not gaining financially, and most likely will end up on the hook for thousands of dollars at the end of this trip. \nIf anyone has travelled, they would know that this isn’t anyone’s idea of a “family trip”. The number of hours per day that the guys are on the road precludes their ability to really interact with their surroundings. It’s just go, go, and go. \nAs to whether they are breaking any records, I don’t think that matters all that much to the Nobles. I would suspect the boys might like to be recognized for accomplishing such a feat, and why not? I know it wouldn’t matter much to Sean; he’s always been one to let someone else get the glory. \nAs to the details of how much money has actually been raised, that’s a fair request. I know a lot of energy has been put into the logistics of the trip, and as the guys have been progressing, more and more effort appears to be focussed on having people donate. I’m no expert in charitable fundraising; however I suspect it takes time to actually get facts and figures. I know the Noble’s and I know your request for details will be honoured. Simply put, public awareness aside, any contribution to the Kids Cancer Care Foundation of Alberta as a result of this trip is a bonus.   \nOther than donating money, keeping tabs on the guy’s progress online, and praying they will all be safe, I’ve no involvement with this trip. \nAnonymous poster: do keep in mind that for the Noble extended family, this can’t be seen as “family trip”. Imagine if someone you loved went away for weeks, riding extremely long hours on a motorcycle over dangerous roads day in and day out. This has got to be a test in patience and sanity for the guy’s loved ones. \nI hope you have faith in my assertion that this is all above board and that the noble’s are not ‘glory hounds’, or seeking a subsidized family trip. They are honourable people seeking to raise awareness and funds for a very worthy cause: Kids with cancer. \n\nAndy Kuiper','68a4ef545c556330248fd6b1c82ecee6',0,'','ab78f',1,0,'',0,0,0),(309,156,3,1,0,'70.65.8.11',1181206429,1,0,1,1,1,0,'kathynoble','They are in Prudhoe Bay!','Just got a phone call from Justin then another from Sean.  They are in Prudhoe Bay!   <!-- s:D --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif\" alt=\"Very Happy\" title=\"Very Happy\" /><!-- s:D --> It was a very brutal day for them.  Sean said it was like all kinds of barriers were being thrown at them in the last 54 miles.  Justin hit a caribou  <!-- s:( --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_sad.gif\" alt=\"Sad\" title=\"Sad\" /><!-- s:( --> - but he did not lay his bike down - then three miles later he got a flat tire.  Sean said he couldn\'t believe Justin managed to remain upright.  In the same 54 miles Sean hit a heavy patch of gravel and did lay his bike down but other than some broken plastic, signal lights and a few other bits of damage, his bike is okay.  Sean is quite sick right now - thinks it\'s some kind of flu.  I asked him what kind of light they have.  He said the official sun set was at 5:07 p.m. and the official sunrise was at 5:07 p.m.  They were driving into the sun which made it very difficult to see for the last few hours which is also why Sean laid his bike down - he thinks.  \n\nAnyway, they will be leaving Prudhoe Bay tomorrow to head back to Fairbanks and from there decide which route to take to come home and how long they will take.  \n\nCongratulations, NobleMen!  You did it!  29 days - they think!  They really haven\'t stopped to figure it out yet.  They are VERY tired, cold and glad to have a hotel.','97285aec38d33ca739822f5a79242040',0,'','080b4',1,0,'',0,0,0),(310,139,3,1,0,'70.65.8.11',1181209824,1,0,1,1,1,0,'kathynoble','Re: what a terrific Noblefest!','When I read the posting by anonymous I was quite angry - obviously...and I sincerely wish I had kept my fingers quiet.  I\'m amazed at how many people have logged on to read this particular entry.  Controversy really gets people talking or writing.  I\'m also blown away by the support all our friends have shown my family.  THANKS!  They have finished their ride.  It has been brutal.  They may never break a record.  They may never hold a record.  That\'s totally okay!  The Saunders who broke the record in 35 days did it with two people on one bike!  Amazing!  I can\'t even imagine getting on a bike with Sean and going away for a weekend.  That\'s why he had to take the boys along.  It was an honour to meet Dick Fish the current &quot;Trans-America&quot; record holder.  To accomplish this ride in 21 days - WOW! what a feat!  Just reading and talking to my family in the past month has shown me what an amazing accomplishment this was for Dick and I\'m sure he\'ll  hold this record for a long time.  I never meant to infer that this ride by my family would take away from either of these feats.  Perhaps they\'ll try to see if they might have set a record from south to north.  Who knows?   It just ticked me off that &quot;anonymous&quot; commented on a &quot;non-existent&quot; record.  \n\nWe still haven\'t heard from Candace regarding amount of money raised for KCCF.  I\'m quite anxious to find out myself.  I still have some cookies left to sell and that money will be donated as well.  So if anyone wants some more cookies....I happen to know someone who can hook you up.  Thanks once again for all the support.  \nKathy','f76875ba3f25eacc17d42caa5b00d670',0,'','7e80e',1,0,'',0,0,0),(311,156,3,1,0,'207.200.116.9',1181219162,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: They are in Prudhoe Bay!','Sean, Rob, Ryan &amp; Justin:\n\nCongrats on a long, long bike ride.  Ryan:  You are not off the hook for the missing days of the trip blog.  I expect to see them soon!!!! Glad you are done and enjoy a leisure ride home.  Yessssss.\n\nUncle Jim','96d5c6730962d48ed134fb84c5aa66e2',0,'','007cf',1,0,'',0,0,0),(312,156,3,1,0,'24.71.223.149',1181223090,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: They are in Prudhoe Bay!','CONGRATULATIONS NOBLES !!!!\n\nWhat an impressive accomplishment. Truly an adventure for the ages ( and aged right Sean ). Also hats off to Kathy for the stress and worry that she must have went through over the last 30 plus days in her supporting role (Many sleepless nights waiting for the phone to ring).  I can\'t wait to to hear about all the adventures when you get home and again during Frokst with some Akvavitt and Beer.\n\nSafe journey home.\n\nThe Sorensen\'s','37937e7a4437ffaaadcde58754ab01ed',0,'','4b18d',1,0,'',0,0,0),(313,139,3,1,0,'208.38.30.254',1181224069,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: what a terrific Noblefest!','Kathy ...\n\nDon\'t even bother to reply to the gutless wonder who wrote that note.  The fact that they remained anonymous shows that even they are ashamed of themselves and their gutter-level thoughts.  You will always have low lifes trying to pull you back to their infinitely small minded levels.\n\nThey don\'t deserve any recognition or acknowledgment.\n\nI saw what you and Natalie and Mindy and many others did during Noblefest, and I have to say that I was really very impressed.  I shall be donating to Kids for Cancer.\n\nBasil','e4a1dbd39b1c5e608c8bc90d84b61ddd',0,'','3213e',1,0,'',0,0,0),(315,156,3,1,0,'206.47.220.198',1181227982,1,0,1,1,1,0,'AUDREY&amp;TERRY','Re: They are in Prudhoe Bay!','Way to go guys.  You did it, and did it good.  Like I said-we are so proud of you.  Will see you back home.  Now you can sleep in Ryan!  Can\'t wait to hear a final tally of funds raised for a good cause.\n\nAudrey &amp; Terry','536fbd978e97a38d1de4ebfaaf863d15',0,'','7d539',1,0,'',0,0,0),(316,156,3,1,0,'142.179.207.94',1181230100,1,0,1,1,1,0,'Billy &amp; Shirley MacKinnon','Re: They are in Prudhoe Bay!','Congratulations, The Nobles deserve a big round of applause for doing this trip and have our admiration for sticking with your cause through thick and thin. Sean,  we will have to get together after you come back for a bar-b-que or just for the stories, which will be great.  Again CONGRATULATIONS from all who know and love you.\nBill and Shirley MacKinnon','dddbd1ebd59905e5f635dca52394f2b5',0,'','fd8c4',1,0,'',0,0,0),(317,156,3,1,0,'209.139.192.145',1181230537,1,0,1,1,1,0,'shona noble','Re: They are in Prudhoe Bay!','CONGRATULATIONS  !!!!  Sean, Ryan, Rob and Justin\n\nI am so proud of all of you.\nHave a safe trip home, and maybe take some time to enjoy that beautiful scenery.\n\nLove\nShona','6058fc528e5d9de77a5d8e72667e6d48',0,'','0741f',1,0,'',0,0,0),(318,156,3,59,0,'208.38.12.194',1181232453,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: They are in Prudhoe Bay!','Way to go Sean, Rob, Justin and Ryan. Congrats on your journey. It was a pleasure to ride with you guys to Red Deer. Take your time on the ride home and drive safe.','4cfa0e692263e17389e71e460440bc07',0,'','96164',1,0,'',0,0,0),(319,156,3,76,0,'70.65.42.232',1181233985,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: They are in Prudhoe Bay!','Way to Go! 29 days what an achievement. I wonder if the saddle sores will heal as quickly. Once again great work and I\'m sure many will benefit from your efforts.\n\nPatrick','ddee4b70f309dd083487c7a119c119d0',0,'','b6617',1,0,'',0,0,0),(321,156,3,1,0,'142.179.207.178',1181245117,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: They are in Prudhoe Bay!','Congratulations Sean, Rob, Ryan &amp; Justin!!  What a feat!  You all should be very proud of yourselves.  Have a leisurely ride home and a safe one also.  \n\nChris &amp; Peter','c4215f3ca9f2be72f16a934bb86a1936',0,'','cf505',1,0,'',0,0,0),(322,156,3,73,0,'70.65.89.254',1181250617,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: They are in Prudhoe Bay!','Congratulations boys I am glad to hear you achived your goal. Take her easy on the way back no need to push now. Anyways can\'t wait to her all the story\'s you will have now. (As long as Sean doesn\'t get ate by a bear at the end of a long tale.)\nCraig and Rita','9132acf04360a296019cc3f649564be1',0,'','871a2',1,0,'',0,0,0),(338,166,3,1,0,'70.65.8.11',1181368377,1,0,1,1,1,0,'kathynoble','Message from Candice about Donations','We are going to be counting the money that we collected from the riders\ntoday and early next week (as there is a lot) so we can get you a total\nas soon as that is done.  We obviously have all the riders who met them \nat the border to deposit and your event money. We also have a spread \nsheet with all the cheques that have been sent in which also needs to be \nadded in the total.\n\nTotal as of this morning with only the online donations:\n\n$4227.70 with 93 donations.\n \nGreat job everyone on the weekend and I bragged about the cookies!\n\n\nPS.  I will be out of the office next week.  I am in Toronto till Wed\nfor work and I have two events on Thurs and Friday.  I will return any\nemails when I get back.\n\nCandice Martin \nManager, Community Initiatives \nKids Cancer Care Foundation of Alberta \nSuite 302, 609 - 14 Street N.W. \nCalgary, Alberta T2N 2A1 \nPhone: 403.216.9210 x 230 \nFax: 403 216.9215','4b51e300a8f443eae1925a936b70d8ea',0,'','56b5e',1,0,'',0,0,0),(325,156,3,1,0,'70.65.9.183',1181254443,1,0,1,1,1,0,'Chrissie Stewart','Re: They are in Prudhoe Bay!','Congratulations!  I have been reading these all along and just figured out I could reply.  Nice.  Anyway, Ryan\'s journaling is so entertaining and informative at the same time!  I can\'t believe what a long trip that must have been.  I didn\'t make it to the festivities on the 2nd b/c I was moving but was wishing you all well.  Good job!!!','0b7c3ac3cb2453d0ff4549753ebb5842',0,'','eb625',1,0,'',0,0,0),(326,156,3,95,0,'70.65.125.3',1181254966,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: They are in Prudhoe Bay!','CONGRATULATIONS NOBLES ! Well done. Now have a safe ride home, see you then.','4ab7762aaa23349a2fe86f1afe10ef23',0,'','21230',1,0,'',0,0,0),(327,156,3,1,0,'142.199.61.254',1181255484,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: They are in Prudhoe Bay!','Congrats\n\nThe experience of the ride must be amazing and you will have many stories to tell everyone.  Hope the last part of your trips keeps everyone safe and that you all arrive home in good health.  As a family who has benifited from KCCF we are so glad that you are using this ride as a fundraiser for KCCF.  Hopefully this will someday help other children and their families so that they won\'t have to experince what sour family went through.\n\nSuper job you guys\n\nPenrice Family','e3276c0906712fd9038e609c56bba515',0,'','6b869',1,0,'',0,0,0),(329,156,3,77,0,'70.65.21.58',1181274922,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: They are in Prudhoe Bay!','Well I say you go again next year and try to do it in 20 days...should be easier the second time.....\n\nTerry','715d79f36d54bb1b236a6ef2dc66aa3a',0,'','c19c5',1,0,'',0,0,0),(330,156,3,1,0,'198.166.20.189',1181280243,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: They are in Prudhoe Bay!','[b:4df31]And we add to the congratulations !  [/b:4df31]\nIt\'s hard to believe that the trip is over.  It seems like just yesterday we were hauling the bikes down to Calgary to get them put into a container.  Now, they have reached the end of the road.  On the way, they managed to hit both a llama and a caribou - in their native habitats!!\nIn all seriousness, this was a great journey, and we are all richer for having the opportunity to participate in our own ways.  \n[color=#BF0080:4df31]Guys - one recommendation...think twice about coming back down the Cassiar Highway.[/color:4df31]  You may not have listened to the news that tell of the massive floods in northern B.C.  Although you would not be going through Terrace, it\'s totally cut off with high water and mudslides.  You would be going through Smithers, and the river there is at its highest level in recorded history, and spilling over its banks.  It\'s a beautiful road, and you may want to get &quot;Hyderized&quot; in Hyder, Alaska, [color=#400040:4df31]but you could run into a lot of flooding on that route. [/color:4df31] \nAll the best, and we\'ll look forward to welcoming you back home.  \n\nAlan and Sharon.','2c9ef9c2ac7c8f22c7c427ca84354345',0,'Qg==','4df31',1,0,'',0,0,0),(331,156,3,1,0,'198.53.12.218',1181281960,1,0,1,1,1,0,'Carl','Re: They are in Prudhoe Bay!','Way to go guys see you all soon.  Be safe and take care.                                    \n\n\n\n                                               Carl and Laurie','cfe94b7e37391263be9a8c8bf4cf1d18',0,'','c1d63',1,0,'',0,0,0),(332,156,3,1,0,'24.71.223.149',1181284936,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: They are in Prudhoe Bay!','Congratulations on your achievement.  Like everyone, I look forward to the full stories when you get home.  I\'m not a religious person but have to admit, I said a prayer for all four of you every day of your journey.  Safe ride home - lots of folks anxious to see you home in one piece.   Howser','c13e85d356fa4da156719f60af938a2a',0,'','b6d19',1,0,'',0,0,0),(334,156,3,1,0,'70.65.78.176',1181320886,1,0,1,1,1,0,'gord fraser','Re: They are in Prudhoe Bay!','Unbelievable!  Congratulations.  Kathy, I guess you will have to wait another 10 years or so before sending Sean off on another adventure.  He still manages to find his way back home all the time.   Sean, I hope you didnt stop off at any pubs and invest in some time shares along the way!  Once you\'ve had time to recuperate, the four of you will have to put together a presentation on your trip.  You will be more than welcome to use our presentation room at the office (seats approx. 70 people), or if its too small maybe the Capri will donate a larger room.  \nWhere do you come up with these ideas?\nAll the best and take it easy heading home.\nGord Fraser','d33e01b44807edd55cdaeb40d2851c8c',0,'','1130f',1,0,'',0,0,0),(347,156,3,1,0,'68.147.140.155',1181425313,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: They are in Prudhoe Bay!','Great job guys.  What a wonderful experience and I\'m sure you are all glad it\'s over except the trip home.  Hopefully you can take it easy on the way home and smell the roses.  You should all be very proud of the accomplishment, as I\'m sure you are.  Congratulation and it will be nice to see you back home.\n\nBrian.','c161349799a99da8e680719d90f58b4b',0,'','375fe',1,0,'',0,0,0),(349,156,3,1,0,'142.59.83.249',1181440682,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: They are in Prudhoe Bay!','Nice work guys!!  I can only imagine what simple things you are all looking forward to...like fresh underwear and the opportunity to wear sandles all day!!  Really looking forward to the possibility of seeing you in Jasper.  The suite is booked on the 11th but we\'ve blocked it off for you on the 12th if you are able to arrange that within the schedule.  Give us a call and we\'ll set something up for you on the 11th if that keeps you on schedule.\n\nVery proud of you guys.\n\nCheers,\n\nTodd','7394943ce07596ab0edbc012076e1613',0,'','582cb',1,0,'',0,0,0),(350,156,3,72,0,'24.71.223.149',1181495429,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: They are in Prudhoe Bay!','Cheers to you Noble Men.\n\nWe are happy for you.  All of the memories that you will share with each other forever will be the real reward.  Certainly not to take away from your goals for the kids cancer benefit.  \n\nI\'m sure that you\'ll all be planning your next journey.. perhaps just not so quickly.  We hope you take the opportunity to return to some of the countries and enjoy the amazing culture and scenery.\n\nall the best,\n\nKelly and Della Graham\n(returning to Argentina in Sept.)','68a5ebbf3d6d86c277412b56df0fe385',0,'','22098',1,0,'',0,0,0),(371,188,3,1,0,'172.132.65.66',1181691757,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: June 2nd, 2007 - We\'re home, but just passing through','Congratulations on a job well done!  Thanks for letting me ride along, I have spent time in many of the places along your way.  Truly incredible feat....\nBill','1a31fa91e51e1a1a7cba4941e9885265',0,'','a563d',1,0,'',0,0,0),(379,188,3,1,0,'207.200.116.8',1181838726,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: June 2nd, 2007 - We\'re home, but just passing through','Ryan:\n\nJust a reminder.  You are not off the hook for the balance of the trip.  We are still expecting to hear about it. You can\'t get us hooked on the story and then forget to include the punchline!!!! Your mum said you would be home 6/12 so you have had plenty of time  to rest up your fingers......\n\nYour Favorite Uncle, \n\nUncle Jim','da396b5302c25bed2c253d0606188e91',0,'','27a38',1,0,'',0,0,0),(403,223,3,67,0,'70.65.8.11',1182170062,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Message from Anne about Donations','Hi Kathy and Natalie,\n\n \n\nIt was very nice to meet you both at Noble Fest. I was very happy to be\nable to be part of such an amazing event! And all for such a great cause\ntoo!\n\n \n\nI have finished counting the money raised from the pledges received at\nthe fest as well as any donation made at the same time, and as to date,\nwe have raised a total of $13,470.72. I still have another pledge sheet\nthat hasn\'t been accounted for yet. As soon as I have the total I will\nemail you again!\n\n \n\nKindest regards,\n\n \n\nAnne\n\np.s. from Kathy - I still have over $2,000 as well that has not been sent to KCCF because I\'m trying to sell more cookies.  Sold 1100 last week at school!','d9b16d3c1b570c0ed4f108149ff92933',0,'','ee780',1,0,'',0,0,0),(405,223,3,1,0,'68.147.139.249',1182361606,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: Message from Anne about Donations','I think that is just wonderful.  Over $13.000 for the  Children\'s Cancer Foundation is a great contribution and you should all be very proud of what you have done.\n\nBrian','75377a4a5c2e3b7d355d115412fb31b2',0,'','842fd',1,0,'',0,0,0),(406,223,3,1,0,'70.65.42.232',1182375186,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: Message from Anne about Donations','Kathy you rock!!!!!  You are the cookie queen  <!-- s:D --><img src=\"{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif\" alt=\"Very Happy\" title=\"Very Happy\" /><!-- s:D --> \n\nNatalie','5929725d756c2640f76bdc90afffb4fd',0,'','d9278',1,0,'',0,0,0),(408,226,3,53,0,'68.147.42.24',1182477023,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','June 4th, 2007 - Donald Duck visits the Liard Hot Springs','June 4th, 2007\nWhitehorse, Yukon Territories\nGPS: coming soon!\nDistance Traveled: 1221km\n\nEven after declining a shower \'cause it was thick, we had another hard day getting started.  First, of course, we needed breakfast.  \n\nHalfway through breakfast, a group of BMW riders pulled over off the highway when they spotted our bikes, and after some cursory introductions  they joined us in the hotel restaurant for some coffee and story-telling.  \n\nTheir plans included riding the Dalton Highway all the way to Deadhorse, and this made me feel much better.  See, their bikes were huge – none of them smaller than 1000cc, and heavily loaded.  That, and the fact that their leader had bum knees and had hard times getting on and off his motorcycle made me feel very confident in my ability to do the haul road.  Our bikes are much lighter and more maneuverable, and with the exception of dad, we\'re all in reasonably good shape.\n\nAfter some friendly chatting, they got back on the road, and we finished up packing.  There are motorcycles EVERYWHERE.  Mostly BMW motorcycles, with KLR650s and various Harley-Davidson cruisers fighting it out for second place.  \n\nWildlife is everywhere along these roads – we spotted several black bears, mountain sheep, and even another moose late at night that Justin damn near creamed as he came around a corner.  I managed to grab some good pictures of the mountain sheep, but i didn\'t dare get close enough to the bears to get anything decent, which is a bit of a shame.  Ah, well, if it keeps up like this tomorrow there\'ll be no lack of opportunities for wildlife photography.  Justin, braver than I, stopped in the road to grab a closeup of a black bear with her two cubs.  Robbie wasn\'t paying attention, plus he tailgates like he\'s from South America or something, and sped right past him before coming to an ABS-assisted stop several dozen metres up the road.  Unfortunately, this spooked the bears, and they scampered off into the forest.  Justin was pissed, and yelled at Rob for tailgating.  Unfortunately, despite numerous brake-flashes, verbal warnings &amp; insults, Robbie steadfastly refuses to give more than a few metres clearance between the unlucky soul in front of him.  At least he can say he\'s committed to it.\n\nAlso of note is the fact that today we start hit the end of the Rocky Mountains, apparently leaving them as we cross the Liard River, and enter the Selwyn Mountain Range.  We hadn\'t really been riding the Rockies, though – we\'d just occasionally see them in the distance.  The Selwyn range is starting to get impressive, though, and it\'s kind of nice to leave the boring, flat prairie roads behind (sorry, Alberta, but prairie is boring stuff to ride through).  \n\nToday promised to be a good day \'cause we included in our schedule an hour at the Liard Hot Springs.  I\'ve been there once before, and it was awesome – a natural spring bubbles into a creek, and you can vary the temperature of the water you\'re soaking in just by moving up or downstream.\n\nBy the time we got there, the temperature had climbed all the way into the high twenties, and we were dying in our black gear &amp; thermal underwear (the morning started out cold enough for me to put on my flower-decorated long johns).  We stopped for lunch at a little restaurant right outside the entrance to the hot springs, and had some really great buffalo burgers accompanied by some exceptionally bad service.  Ah, well, our food eventually came, and that\'s what\'s important.\n\nAfter lunch, we headed over to the Liard hot springs, where we ran into a group of three riders who planned to take the Dempster Highway through the Northwest Territories all the way up to Inuvik.  They were smart, and had remembered to bring spare tires.  Robbie, apparently in charge of the spare rubber (the buck passes here), had actually not packed any tires, and I felt a little jealous when I saw that.  Of course, it\'s not all Rob\'s fault – any one of us could have chucked some spare rubber on our bikes, but we were in such a disorganized rush leaving Red Deer that it slipped all our minds.  Hope we don\'t need \'em, but I\'ve got a large rubber patch &amp; some rubber cement courtesy Dick Fish, and Justin\'s got a puncture repair kit, so I\'m optimistic.\n\nAfter that, we headed up the long boardwalk up to the Liard Hot Springs.  Apparently the springs have created a wetlands kind of area that the boardwalk crosses.  Most of it is slough, and as Justin and I were traversing the boardwalk behind Rob, he suggested a $20 prize to the first person to throw Robbie into the sloughy muck.  I agreed, and Justin sneaked up the walk behind Robbie.  I guess he\'s got good hearing, \'cause he turned around just before Justin caught up to him, and they wrestled for a bit on the walkway.  Of course, neither of them were really serious about dunking the other, but it was funny.\n\nWanting to join the fun, I clomped my way up the boardwalk, hoping they would be distracted and not hear me (i was the only one of the group that didn\'t pack sandals, and was marching up the boardwalk in my motorcycle boots).  Rob heard me, though, and turned around to charge me.  I stopped and braced myself (with his low centre of gravit and rugy &amp; football training, Rob\'s a hard guy to tackle).  I guess Robbie realized that I\'d expect an attack with his shoulder or arm or something, \'cause he charged me.  It\'s important for you to know that I was very stationary.  I kind of just stood still, and Rob ran his face into me.  Seriously - in a surprise tactical move, Rob struck me face-first, driving his face into my shoulder.  I guess he puffs air into his cheeks when he charges someone, \'cause when he struck me he let out this very loud, startling quack - a surprisingly good Donald Duck impersonation that had me rolling on the boardwalk, laughing, after I disengaged from him.\n\nAnyways, the rest of the walk was uneventful, and we soaked for a bit in the springs.  Our last visit here we\'d stayed in the main (Alpha) pool, and we decided to take the five minute walk up to the \'Beta\' pool.  To our delight, it ended up being a very deep pool, also heated by the springs, and we splashed around in it for a while.  Justin climbed up on the railing around the pool, and flipped himself into the pool, sinking to his shins in the muck at the bottom.\n\nAnxious to get back on the road, we reluctantly climbed out of the relaxing pools, and eased ourselves back into our riding gear and back on the bikes.  About an hour and a half after that, Dad pulled us over in Watson Lake so we could take a look at the Signpost Forest.  Apparently it started when an injured solider added his hometown to a signpost, and from then on people from all over the world bring signs to nail up on posts.  Information plaques at the site suggested that four years ago there were approximately 50,000 signs nailed up.  We didn\'t have time to look really hard, but the furthest south sign we found was for Santiago.  If i\'d\'ve known, I would have tried to bring something from Ushuaia.  Damn.\n\nWe had a long way to go, \'cause we had to make up for lost time yesterday, and thus by the time we were approaching Whitehorse, it was closing on midnight.  And it started to rain.  I HATE the rain so much.  At least there was an open hotel in Whitehorse, although it seems to be kind of a wide spot in the road – the hotel clerk kind of laughed when we asked if there was any place to eat still open, and suggested that we check out the Tag\'s.  Thoroughly sick of gas station hot dogs &amp; whatnot, we declined, and went to bed hungry.\n\nSpeaking of midnight, we gained nearly an hour and a half of daylight today, and the sun didn\'t set until close to midnight.  Tomorrow, we\'re in Fairbanks, where it shouldn\'t even get dark (although the sun will set), and the day after that we hit the end of our ride on the Dalton Highway, 700 kms of the worst road we\'re supposed to hit this entire trip, and land of the three-in-the-morning-sun.  I\'m getting worried about it, but hey – it can\'t be much worse than that mountain pass in Ecuador, right?\n\nRyan Noble,\nWhitehorse, YT','d1ec86208368a797d915412773324098',0,'','b6522',1,0,'',53,0,0),(402,220,3,1,0,'142.59.118.144',1182138339,1,0,1,1,1,0,'','Re: June 3rd, 2007 - Soda can bombardiers','litter bugs!!!!!!!!','e96103d6fedff61f022c4039f101fc58',0,'','16cbc',1,0,'',0,0,0),(400,220,3,95,0,'70.65.125.3',1182126359,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: June 3rd, 2007 - Soda can bombardiers','Cool.....keep em comming...','e72c5326e67f471b847b7967b88088b3',0,'','a7d71',1,0,'',0,0,0),(385,188,3,95,0,'70.65.125.3',1181950134,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','Re: June 2nd, 2007 - We\'re home, but just passing through','You  Nobles did a great job. It was Great to ride with you guys, even if it was doing mock3 up the QE2. good to have you all back with us. Ryan, put the rest of the story together with all the pic\'s you took, get a hall or some thing set up so we can all come and hear all you Nobles talk about your trip. AND DONT TAKE ALL MONTH TO DO IT.....get at it boys..the trip may be over but you still have work to do before you can call it, The End..','fde28ea3716368b77bec9139bed8a647',0,'','c4897',1,0,'',0,0,0),(398,220,3,53,0,'68.147.42.24',1182107152,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','June 3rd, 2007 - Soda can bombardiers','[i:a3b94]Major apologies to readers waiting for so long with no posts.  I have seriously not had a moment to sit down at my computer and write - between seeing family &amp; friends, tearing apart motorcycles for some much needed maintenance and the associated occasionally futile and often aggravating search for parts, i haven\'t had a moment to breathe.  Things are calming down, now, and i\'ll have the rest of the trip up in the next few days.[/i:a3b94]\n\nJune 3rd, 2007\nPink Mountain, BC\nGPS: coming soon!\nDistance Traveled: coming soon!\n\nAH.  So good to be home, and it\'s so hard to leave.  Today marks the first day of the trip we\'ll be actually moving away from home.  It\'s also the day after NobleFest, but I managed to avoid a hangover.  I was a bit worried about Justin, but he showed up on time!\n\nWe\'d planned to get riding early in the morning, 6am was the plan to get on the road.  But what with Mom &amp; Tanya cooking us all a great breakfast, and everyone sleeping at different places, we didn\'t actually meet up until about 7:30 or so.  We\'d all also kind of exploded our bags when we took the bikes to Turple Bros for some hasty servicing, and everyone had to repack.  It was nice to drop some weight – we\'d all been carrying lots of stuff since Argentina, and we didn\'t need much of it anymore – like the water filters we\'d never actually used (thank Bob for bottled water).  \n\nSpeaking of bottled water, it\'s nice to finally be able to brush my teeth over the sink and have running water to rinse &amp; clean my toothbrush.  Robbie didn\'t seem to have this problem, as he\'s been bragging about how seldom he\'s brushed his teeth this whole trip.  Yummy.\n\nOur ride-alongs for the day showed up at 9am, but we were nowhere near getting ready, so they kind of hung out on the sidewalk waiting for us.  And waiting.  I was the first ready (of course) followed shortly by Sean &amp; Robbie.  Justin couldn\'t find his pants, so we all got to wait while he tore the house apart before locating them.  It was nice to finally share the experience of waiting for Justin with some other bikers.  Made it less frustrating, somehow.\n\nA surprise biker stopped by, too, and made it a bit more of a NobleQuest.  My cousin, Todd, is apparently a biker (i didn\'t know this) and stopped by in the morning to ride up with us on his way back home to Jasper.  Yay for Nobles!\n\nWe were finally off shortly after 10am, following some tearful goodbyes (not me, though).  I haven\'t really paid much attention to the routes we\'ve been taking – I just kind of ride behind somebody the whole time, and hope they know where we\'re going.  Thus, I was a bit surprised to find out we\'d not be going through Edmonton, instead jogging west through Drayton Valley up to Grande Prairie.  I should have realized that we\'d go through Grande Prairie – Dad grew up there, and takes every opportunity to stop by.  Of course, it\'s also faster that way.\n\nWe had planned to ride up to Grande Prairie with Amandha and Dave Richter, but they had to catch a plane back from Grande Prairie (they were taking motorcycles to Amandha\'s Uncle in Grande Prairie) and couldn\'t wait around for us.  Fortunately, they\'re pokey riders and we caught up with them in Valleyview.  Also, they waited for us.\n\nOn the way north, we finally were able to stop at our first RaceTrac gas – they\'d sponsored us for some of our fuel, and it was nice to finally be able to stop and grab some pictures there.  The road into the station, though, wasn\'t paved – in fact, it was darn near a slough of mud and water, and I came very close to wiping out in front of everyone.  I must have picked up some super skillz on the trip, though, \'cause even though my bike went sideways, I straightened her out and was able to continue.  Everyone else went to the other entrance that I hadn\'t seen, which was nice and dry and didn\'t present any danger to bikes.\n\nOur first set of riders peeled off to in Drayton Valley, and we rode alone until Valleyview, where we met up with the Richters and several other riders.  I wanted to grab some food at the A&amp;W, but Justin assured me that there was a BBQ waiting for us just over the BC border, so I sucked it up.  I took off to grab a picture of a sign pointing to the Alaska Highway, and nobody waited for me.\n\nAfter we\'d dropped off the Richters in Grande Prairie, we rode off – by ourselves for practically the first time since Shelby.  Was a bit weird to not have to worry about cutting off other riders if I forgot to maintain the formation.  Rob and Justin refuse to maintain the staggered riding formation if it\'s just the four of us, and I find that aggravating to no end – dodging from one side to the other as they weave back and forth up ahead of me.  Gosh!\n\nWe finally got to Justin\'s friend\'s place – name of Brett Peterson &amp; his awesome family.  On the way there, Justin had apparently been texting Brett while on the road to arrange for him to guide us into his place (they live just off the highway).  While he was texting, he\'d take off his riding gloves and he managed to drop one on the road.  I pulled up beside him to let him know, and he waved me away.  Apparently the gloves had pretty much fallen apart along the way, and he didn\'t really want them anymore.\n\nDinner at the Peterson\'s was awesome.  They had a kick ass beef dip BBQ and burgers and salad and – well, it was fantastic.  We all gorged ourselves until we couldn\'t eat no more.  It was really great to kick up our feet for a few hours and regale our hosts with stories of the road.  I found out that the city they live just outside of is called Pooh\'s Coupe or Poo Scoopy or Pouce Coupe or something, which I find just a little bit funny.  In a stupendous act of generosity, they also presented my father with a cheque for the KCCFA to the amount of $500 from the Pouce Coupe firefighters.  Thanks, guys!\n\nThe mosquitos up here are insane.  I\'ve killed more bugs since leaving Red Deer than I did the entire trip north from Argentina.  I was expecting to be just swarmed when we hit central america, but what with all the rain we hardly killed any.  At our gas stops, our visors and windshields are just coated with bugs, and Justin\'s taken to just squeegeeing his visor off without even removing his helmet.  Speaking of windshields – holy crap.  I\'ve been riding for nineteen thousand kilometres without one, and it\'s like i\'m on a different bike now that I was able to get mine back on.  I don\'t catch as much bugs, and it\'s so much quieter.  \n\nWe stayed too long at the Petersons, and had to get back on the road – hard, \'cause they were tempting us with a night of poker.  We all wanted to stay, but we have to be in Whitehorse tomorrow, and it\'s a long drive.\n\nWith regret, we said our goodbyes and got back on our motorcycles.  Rob, Justin and Sean have all come up with a great game.  They\'ll drink sodas or energy drinks or whatever on their bikes, and then pull in front of me.  Once in front, they\'ll loft their (empty) cans in the air, trying to hit me.  The first few times it happened, I \'bout drove my motorcycle off the road.  Justin caught a really lucky throw today, and came within a handsbreadth of clocking me on the helmet.\n\nWe stopped on our way through Dawson Creek and snapped some pictures of us with the World Famous Alaska Highway Sign.  Just outside Dawson Creek, Justin started a moose on the side of the road.  Fortunately, he stopped in time, and scared the moose with his horn.  The moose started crossing the highway, but changed his mind when Justin honked, and in his haste to turn around, slipped and crashed to the highway.  Skidding on the asphalt, the moose scrambled to the side and disappeared into the trees.  I guess there\'s a reason why i\'ve never heard anyone described as \'graceful as a moose\'.\n\nAbout that time, it was getting dark and we were ready to stop.  Robbie pulled over next to a slough, and while we were busy fending off mosquitos the size of hummingbirds, explained that he\'d like to camp here.  We called him an idiot, and drove on to the next town, which turned out to be called Pink Mountain.  It\'s not really a town, just a gas station and a crappy motel that charged WAY too much.\n\nWe stopped anyways, and made our beds in the funny-smelling rooms.  Water came out of the taps dark red with rust, so none of us showered.\n\nRyan Noble,\nPink Mountain, BC','4efb4739385e27c4476cfc89ee1f0a11',0,'IA==','a3b94',1,0,'',53,0,0),(363,188,3,53,0,'207.148.128.238',1181630137,1,0,1,1,1,1,'','June 2nd, 2007 - We\'re home, but just passing through','[i:89de5]My apologies for the late posts.  I had planned to have a few easy days to play catchup, but after hitting Fairbanks, even after finishing the trip north, have been anything but short.  I\'ll fill everybody in on what happened in subsequent posts.[/i:89de5]\n\nJune 2nd, 2007\nRed Deer, Alberta\nGPS: coming soon\nDistance Traveled: coming soon\n\nIt feels like we\'re almost home.  We\'ve talked about it, and Justin and I agree – we could happily end our trip today.  Alas, \'tis not to be.\n\nHappily, though – for those watching, anyways – Rob lost his key.  Again.  And this time, he couldn\'t find it.  He tore apart his luggage and searched everywhere while we were all waiting on our motorcycles.  Finally, he gave up, and requested his spare key from Justin.  Since Robbie has had the hardest time keeping track of his stupid keys, it\'s oddly fitting that later in the day, in Red Deer, Robbie had his jacket &amp; keys in Mom\'s mobile cookie factory (the trailer) when the trailer took off without him.\n\nWhen we were finally ready to go, Sean stole the lead of the pack, and set a maddeningly slow pace – five miles/hour BELOW the speed limit.  I could have happily throttled him.  I pulled up beside him and tried to communicate my frustration, but he waved me away, and i settled back in the group, fuming impotently.  Fortunately, i feel he was punished, just a little bit, when he tried to get back into Canada.  You may remember that he lost his passport to a random act of stupidness just this side of the US/Mexican border.  Canadian customs didn\'t like this very much, and dad had to pull aside and go in to beg admittance, which they grudgingly granted.\n\nWe had a great big group of riders meet us at the US/Canadian border, I\'d estimate about thirty riders came down to greet us, which was just frickin\' cool.  Glenn Turple – owner of our favourite dealership, Turple Brothers – even came down to meet us.  Apparently he rides his Goldwing trike to work every day, even in the winter.  So he\'s likely as crazy as the Noble boys.\n\nAlso cool to meet was Dick Fish, who did the Pan-American motorcycle trip North -&gt; South in twenty-one days.  He\'d informed us that he\'d just received confirmation from the Iron Butt Association that they\'d recognized his feat.  He promised that he\'d sit down with us later today and give us some pointers on the long haul north.\n\nI have to admit that it was really neat to see so many riders on so many different motorcycles come together on a ride like this, raising money for Kids\' Cancer.  In fact, it was almost overwhelming.  If you ask Dad about it, i bet you can get him to cry a little bit.  We also had a support truck with a trailer along for the ride, in case anyone had some problems, courtesy Terry Banyard (thanks!).  Wish we\'d had that going through South America. \n\nOne of the things that i hadn\'t expected when riding with a large group of motorcycles is that everyone has a different fuel range, and so we all stop at every gas station.  Every gas station, I\'m not even kidding.  At least we had plenty of time to chat with each other.  Eventually the whole group just kept going and riders who needed gas would peel off, joining up later.  \n\nComing into Lethbridge, Robbie managed to snap a lever on his clutch thingy, so he could no longer shift.  More importantly, he couldn\'t ease into first gear, and Dave Richter had to push him started at the intersection into the gas station, where Justin pulled the bike apart trying to find out if he could fix it, but apparently having a mechanic on tour with you is no guarantee of a smooth-running motorcycle.  We needed a part, and we couldn\'t find one.  Stepping up like a hero, Glenn Turple phoned into his dealership, and had them pull a new V-Strom out of a crate and grab the little part the Rob needed to continue smoothly.  Thanks, Glenn!  \n\nWe still had to get Robbie to Red Deer.  Since he couldn\'t ease into first gear, we had to get him rolling manually so he could then pop into first.  Rob is a bit of a jerk, so when I push-started him, he didn\'t have the engine running already, and i had to start the engine the Armstrong way, too.  The second time i started him, he remembered to hit the start button first, which made it like fifteen times easier.\n\nAfter we worked out our refuelling system and were finally making time to the rally in Red Deer (we\'d gotten started late \'cause of Robbie\'s stupid key, and all of the fuel stops were not helping), we met up with an even larger group of riders at the gas station just north of Airdrie.  \n\nI\'d somehow managed to be the first of the Nobles into the gas station.  Thinking I\'d have some time for a coffee &amp; a lemonade, I went inside and chatted for a bit with some fellow riders.  Unfortunately, Dad had a different idea, and I only had time to taste my drinks before I noticed him pulling out of the gas station.  I threw down the only five I had – a five i\'d been carrying since Argentina – and bolted out the door onto my bike.  I assured everyone else still getting ready that we\'d be riding slowly so they\'d all have a chance to catch up.\n\nI tried to set a pace at 100, but people behind me couldn\'t take much of that speed, and i was soon getting passed like I was standing still.  Bowing to the inevitable, I raced along to catch up with the main group.\n\nJust outside Red Deer, the whole motorcycle entourage suddenly pulled over to the side of the road.  I was towards the rear of the procession, so I had a good view of this guy on a KLR ripping it up in the ditch.  I thought it was odd that we\'d all pulled over to watch this, but at least it got us all bunched up, and we were able to form a staggered procession that ate up the highway for about a kilometer.  I found out later that Robbie had pulled over \'cause he had some kind of problem with his clutch, and when Sean pulled over to assist, so did everyone else.\n\nNatalie O\'Connor had spent much time and energy pulling everything together for the rally at the Capri Centre – organizing food, events &amp; bands.  She did a great job, and everything came off wonderfully.  She\'d even planned a little route to have the motorcycles come in, and had asked me to MAKE SURE that the bikes came in that way.  I\'d told Justin, but he wasn\'t leading and Dad wasn\'t listening, so everyone ended up coming in the wrong way, and parking in the wrong places.  Some of the volunteers got it all sorted out, though, and the four of us pulled up in front of the stage.  I had a frightening moment when I stopped where I thought for sure I was going to drop my bike – I\'d been scaring myself about doing that, and I almost made it come true.  Fortunately, I was able to catch the fall before I think anyone even noticed, and saved myself from making a total ass of me.\n\nEveryone cheered and clapped as we pulled up, which was a little frightening and invigorating at the same time.  I\'d never been the centre of attention for such a large group of people, and I felt a little off balance.  There was, of course, many tearful greetings from mom – who, like dad, cannot help but gush the tears during emotional moments.  There were many, many pictures taken.  I\'m pretty sure i wasn\'t at my photogenic best, but what can you do – I manned up with the rest of the boys and tried to look pretty.\n\nNatalie (the most beautiful girl in the world) had told me that she was going to hang back until the furor had died down a little bit before coming over to say hi, but fortunately her mother had better sense, and dragged her over to share a bit of the spotlight with us.  I did manage to refrain from a too-affectionate greeting, if i do say so myself.\n\nCKGY has been really great to us this whole ride, allowing us to phone in every morning to help keep interested parties in the loop during the day – especially nice when I\'d have to go a couple days without interweb access.  They even offered up a couple of tickets to Faith Hill &amp; Tim McGraw that were auctioned off for several hundred dollars, all of which was donated to the KCCFA.  Woot for them!  \n\nCandice Martin from the actual KCCFA made an appearance with her kids, and it was very nice to finally meet her.  They\'re going to do the accounting once we get all the pledges from the ride-alongers &amp; the final count from the rally, and let us know how much we managed to raise for the charity with this whole shindig.\n\nAfter we were introduced to the crowd, and dad lied about our trip a little bit (he said we\'d crossed the border in Phoenix – last time I checked, Phoenix doesn\'t border with Mexico, and we didn\'t even go THROUGH Phoenix).  We corrected him quickly.  I was surprised when he didn\'t tear up on stage, \'cause that\'s what dad does.\n\nIt was a gorgeous day outside, and I was super hot wearing all my shiny new motorcycle gear, so I stepped up to the dunk tank.  I ousted Justin Hubert, CEO of Heritage Family Services – who, incidentally, bought us all new motorcycle boots after I\'d bitched and moaned so much about the lousy boots we\'d started with.  So, thanks to him, too!  Unfortunately, the dunk tank lever thing was broken, and I was the first to dunk myself when it gave way when i first sat on it.  The water was surprisingly frigid.\n\nUnfortunately for the partiers, we were unable to get an outdoor liquor license, and so drinkers had to go into Bellini\'s to quench their thirst.  I was hankering for a beer, but I couldn\'t stay for too long in the cool dark of the bar, \'cause I was soaking wet and the air conditioning threatened to turn me into a motorcicle (haw haw).\n\nI couldn\'t believe how many people showed up to show support.  I don\'t think I\'ve ever talked so much in my life as I kept running into people I knew, or who wanted to say congrats and whatnot.  By the end of the day, my throat was sore, and my voice was hoarse.  Even friends that I hadn\'t seen in months (which sucks) showed up (which was awesome).\n\nI guess here\'d be a good point to thank all the amazing volunteers who helped out with the event and made it all possible!  From runing the 50/50 draw to cooking the food &amp; serving beverages, to setup and teardown, you guys were great.  Thank you very much!\n\nAjoy Joseph rode up with us, but wasn\'t able to hang around for long.  He did introduce me to his adorable daughter, who admonished me for crashing my bike in Chile and asked me to please be careful.  He made me promise to get Patrick to drop off my old, damaged jacket &amp; pants (he\'s going to display them in his store, Milano for Men) if I saw him.  I didn\'t, but I hope Patrick got the armour to him anyways.\n\nWe had a great lineup of bands – Ian Stewart, Laurelle &amp; C-Note, Luke Graves and 100 Watt all made great performances, and special thanks to Kent from CKGY for MC-ing the whole thing.\n\nOnce the event was over, we all kind of went our separate ways for the night.  Justin partied late – we  were all a bit concerned about him actually showing up the next morning.  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I got really mad at Justin this morning because he took so long to get ready.  In retaliation, he\'s been hanging back, going way below the speed limit, and forcing all of us to ride slow.  Especially me.  \n\nFinally, just as furiously angry as I can remember being in a very long time, I pulled over and waved him down.  Of course, he pulls over several football fields behind me.  I stomped over, giving him pieces of my mind way before I got into earshot.  He just sat there, looking smug.  I yelled at him, at length, and he just sat there, looking straight ahead, not acknowledging my irritation.  Finally, in a desperate attempt to get his attention, I grabbed his keys and feigned throwing them into the ditch.  He just looked at me and said, “Better get looking.”\n\nI fumed impotently for a few minutes more, then handed his keys over.  Immediately after getting back on the highway, I felt like the total ass I\'d been, and apologized at the next gas stop.  It\'s been such a long and tiring journey, and I don\'t think many families could have come through such a trek as we have and remain on civil terms – at all.  Ever.  I\'m blessed with a family such as mine.\n\nWe\'d heard from several bikerse that it\'d be a good idea to make reservations in Fairbanks, so Dad spent some time with a tourist travel guide and a pay phone, trying to get through to someone with rooms.  We had some luck with a placed called AAAA Bed &amp; Breakfast, and booked it.\n\nI can\'t believe the conditions of the roads – we\'ve been spoiled, so far, especially in Colombia – the road named \'The Alaska Highway\' should be called something more accurately descriptive – more like \'The Frost Heave Highway\'.  At times it seemed like we were riding over the Beanstalk Giant\'s washboard.\n\nIn addition to the endless frozen waves of frost heaves, construction was rampant in the Yukon.  Seems like it\'ll be good practice for the Dalton Highway.  I, for one, am becoming much more comfortable riding at speed on wet gravel.  \n\nAmazingly, even though Dad had lost his passport shortly after passing into the USA, we had no problems with the border crossing... except if you count the fact that we immediately got stuck behind two back-to-back highway patrols.  Fifty-five miles an hour sure feels slow after all the expressway we\'ve been riding across North America.\n\nWe hit a very deserted, flat, straight stretch of road shortly after entering Alaska.  Bored, and with nothing on the road as far as the eye could see, Justin decided it would be a good time to start practicing wheelies on his motorcycle.  Apparently quite proficient at these, he started looking for a more challenging trick – I learned what an \'IronMan\' is.  \n\nJustin would shift his feet up to his seat, and then after setting his throttle lock (he and Dad were the only ones to have these – by the time we\'d finally been able to put our throttle locks on  - Mexico – I didn\'t need it anymore) he would grasp the mirrors in his hands and slowly straighten up.  Once erect, he would let go of his mirrors!! and extend his hands to make a cruciform shape with his body.  It was probably the most impressive stunt i\'d ever seen in real life.  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I\'m anticipating the worst, and having trouble sleeping because of it – well, that, and the fact that it\'s still bright outside at one in the morning.\n\nRyan Noble,\nFairbanks, Alaska','723a2e537e2f4ae3711e93abed321d53',0,'','5a4ab',1,0,'',53,0,0),(943,727,5,1,0,'211.117.62.81',1207213913,1,0,1,1,1,0,'Booxsouch','world famous porn stars pornstars london escorts','[url=http&#58;//vipc&#46;achara&#46;cn:ab551][img:ab551]http&#58;//mov&#46;accurian&#46;cn/pornstar/50&#46;jpg[/img:ab551][/url:ab551] [url=http&#58;//vipc&#46;achara&#46;cn:ab551][img:ab551]http&#58;//mov&#46;accurian&#46;cn/pornstar/12&#46;jpg[/img:ab551][/url:ab551] [url=http&#58;//vipc&#46;achara&#46;cn:ab551][img:ab551]http&#58;//mov&#46;accurian&#46;cn/pornstar/24&#46;jpg[/img:ab551][/url:ab551] \n\n[url=http&#58;//vipc&#46;achara&#46;cn:ab551][img:ab551]http&#58;//sx&#46;achara&#46;cn/youtub&#46;gif[/img:ab551][/url:ab551]\n\nFree Video: [URL=http://vipc.achara.cn]bodyart\ngroup sex\nspy cam\nceleb\nrubber\nanime\nporn stars\ncouple\nupskirt\nbabes sex\nblack sex\n [/URL] \n\n\nlovette porn star mpegs porn stars on webcam porn stars escort service fuck like a porn star porn star three somes elizabeth j guglielmo smith porn star howard stern porn star olympics porn star angel hart top 10 porn stars gypsy porn stars petite porn stars howard stern crystal porn star gia marley porn star uk amater porn stars porn star news &amp;amp gossip texas kelli porn star free porn stars simone claire porn star jodie moore porn star porn star obsession top 10 hardcore porn stars porn star cummings high heal porn stars porn star dictionary porn stars over 50 \n\nomd bizarre bizarre happenings world bizarre bizarre sex video clip bizarre weird unusual bizarre video code freebizarrefistingthumbnails bizarre orgie bizarre flying insects how bizarre song bizarre flash animations bizarreo gore bizarre gallery bizarre nipples balkanbizarre bizarre gift bizarre costume ideas bizarre published marriage names bizarre vj tgp movies bizarre bizarre guitars new order bizarre love triangle lyrics free bizarre beastly streaming video bizarres verlangen photo porno bizarre \n\nasian big breasted thumb tranny vanity tranny gallery movie tranny passionate tranny tranny riding cock downloadable full length movie trannysurprise tranny surprise natasha guide online porn shemale tranny tranny cartoons femdom tranny tranny pounded tranny surprice anal sex tranny sperm hottest horny tranny pic trannymovies tv sluts whores girl t tranny transgendered tranny ass gorgeous trannysurprise full length downloadable movies extreme tons tranny video free tranny sex site fuck tranny asian free tranny xxx hot tranny pic blonde trannys ladyboy shemale tranny ts \n\n	\n	attraction hiawassee attraction dell in tourist attraction mississippi another roadside attraction summary attraction picture state washington scientific rules of attraction attraction las parrothead photo vegas vancouver canada attraction soundtrack rules of attraction tourist attraction in arkansas  &lt;a href=http://attraction-in-colorado.acuario.cn/attraction-in-negril-jamaica.html &gt;attraction calgary tourist &lt;/a&gt;\n	fort myers florida attraction attraction virginia williamsburg family attraction southern california attraction downtown jersey morristown new northern attraction tokyo tourist oklahoma tourist attraction attraction in kid pa kansas city ks attraction attraction in luxembourg cheap disney attraction tickets \n\n\n\nfemale pornstars porn stars escorts las vegas golden age of porn stars porn stars who have died home and away porn stars pornstars list hmong porn stars pornstars mpegs femal porn stars pornstarsexy amber evans gallery.com pinkpornstars red light porn stars howard stern porn stars pornstars com pure pornstars.com pornstars ffm women porn stars flexible porn stars famous blonde porn stars blue pornstars hot lesbian pornstars famous porn stars list free famous porn stars black women pornstars view porn stars.com \n\n[size=1:ab551]http://www.partsagent.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&amp;f=1&amp;t=006151 <!-- m --><a href=\"http://en.phillip.com.cn/newEbiz1/EbizPortalFG/portal/html/MessageBoard.html\">http://en.phillip.com.cn/newEbiz1/EbizP ... 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