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Name: From the city of angels to the land of fire
Author: Danny Beer

Danny Beer, gringo on tour

Danny Beer

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Welcome to America.: Onwards to la la land
From laxatives south.: Riding SoCal
To imperial beach.: But where can you camp???
Welcome to Mexico.: And back into America again
To Mexicali: Some great scenery
San Louis Rio Colorado.: Hot, hot, hot
To Sonoyta.: Crossing the mini Sahara
To Hermosillo.: CHEATING
To Guaymas.: The gay invite
To Ciudad Obregon: Hitching in Mexico
To Navojoa.: Just riding along
Los Mochis.: One very long day
To Guamuchil.: A fly flew into my ear!!!
To Catalacan.: In the red light district
Towards La Cruz.: Camping along the freeway
Mazatlan.: More problems with the bike
Mazatlan.: Prostitutes and madmen
To Escuinapa.: A real Mexican town
Ruiz.: Another real Mexican town
San Blas.: Trouble buying beer
Los Ayalas.: Helmets are used for a reason
Puerto Vallarta.: Dangerous? No shit
Puerto Vallarhta.: The Mexican from hell
Towards Tomatlan.: Bad doggy
To Melaque.: A nice fine day
Towards Tecapan.: The wrong way
St Juan de Lima.: The wake up call from hell
Along the Pacific.: A great little camp spot and restaurant
Playa Azul.: Out of cash
Zehuenjeno.: A freeway all to yourself
Tecman.: Too many bus drivers make Danny go a little crazy
Acalpulco.: Riding without gears
San Marcos.: Local parts on a nice expensive bike
Mequense.: To beach or not to beach
Puenta Nacional.: Festival in Oaxaca
Towards Puerto Escondido.: Riding on.
San Gabriel Mixtepec.: Over the mountains
To the summit.: Just before San Pedro
Oaxaca: Danny: TV personality
Mitla.: Need a good rim job
San Jose.: Some great descents
To Jalapa.: Pitching the tent on the roof
Niltepec.: Nowhere to eat in town
Tapanatepec.: Good roads and tough wind
Up and up and up.: Spanish or no Spanish you still get the same lack of answers
To Tuxtla.: Bad bus driver. Naughty, naughty, naughty
San Christobel.: All uphill
Comitan.: Nice ride down
To Guatemala.: Dodgy border town
To a town.: It has a name, maybe
Huahuatenengo.: The world of Maya
Up the road.: Camping behind a church
Xela.: Bad, bad truck driver
Nahuala.: An interesting little Mayan town
San Pedro.: Damn hotel tout
Some tenengro town.: Wicked ride in the back of a pick up.
Antigua.: Another easy day
Guat. city.: It’s not so bad
El Rancho.: Leaving town
To Chiquimula.: Don’t take the room if he won’t let you see it first
Welcome to Honduras.: To Copan
Back into Guatemala.: A crowded minivan
Welcome to El Salvador.: To Santa Ana
San Salvador.: A lift up.
San Vicente.: Heading east
To San Miguel.: Riding at night
Welcome to Honduras. Again.: To Nacaome
To the border.: Can’t wait to leave the place
China town.: I’m number one
Leon.: No breakfast for you
Managua.: Attacked by a disabled begger
Granada.: To market, to market
Welcome to Costa Rica.: A boat across Lago de Nicaragua
San Carlos.: Every country has at least one arsehole
Alajuela.: Up and over the hills
Show me the way, the way to San Jose.: Hectic traffic along the freeway
Turrialba.: The wrong way out
Cuita.: Hello the Caribbean
To Puerto Vuerto.: Look, a sloth
Welcome to Panama.: To Bocas Del Toro
To Chirique Grande.: Fuck off born again
To David.: From the Caribbean to the Pacific
David to Las Lajas.: Sunset on the Pacific
Las Lajas to Santiago.: Too tired to ride
Santiago to Anton.: Smoooooooooooth
Anton to Panama city.: But where’s the hostel?
From central america to south.: Welcome to Chile
Santiago to Paine.: Welcome Pedro
Paine to San Fernando.: What’s the use of a bike path if people keep walking on it?
San Fernando to Talca.: But why can’t I just camp here?
To Parral, no to Chillan.: One long hot day on the autopista
Chillan to Salto del Laja.: A return by Mark
To Collipulli.: Hell in LA.
To Temuco.: And a change of tire
To Villarrica.: Just picturesque
To Panguipulli.: Nice quiet roads
Saturday December 15, 2007, 62 km (39 miles) — Total so far: 8,395 km (5,216 miles)
To Rio Bueno.: Attacked by a local
To Las Cascades.: Detour around the lake
To Puerto Montt.: The long way round
To Ancud.: Chiloe island
Ancud to Castro.: What a pretty church
Castro to Quellon.: To ferry or not to ferry?
Chaiten to Villa Santa Lucia.: A red neck Christmas
To La Junta.: What a weird little town
La Junta to somewhere south.: Camping in a storm
To Villa Amengual.: Beautiful, beautiful tarmac
To Coyhaique.: But everything is closed
To Chile Chico… almost.: The funniest bike accident ever
To Fachinal.: The ghost town
To Puerto Guadal.: Trouble finding lunch
To Cochrane.: The end of the bike. For now
To the Argentine Border.: Where’s the boat?
South on routa 40: What a wind!!!
Further south. And east.: So hungry. So thirsty
To further east.: A hundred km before breakfast
To Rio Gallegos.: Traffic again
Welcome back to Chile.: Horrible, horrible wind
To Cerra Sombrero.: Tierra del Fuego
To San Sebastian.: Sleeping at the border
San Sebastian to Rio Grande.: Just cruisin’
To Tolhuin.: Sleeping at the bakery
To Ushuaia.: El fin del mundo
From the end of the world to the orient.: Ciao Argentina. Hello Uruguay
Montevideo to San Jose.: A new bike to ride
San Jose to Trinidad.: Sore legs
To the middle of hell.: Detours, detours, detours
To Paysandu.: To Paraguay or not to Paraguay?
To Salto.: Just cruisin’
To Chujuhi.: Trying not to get killed by the truck drivers
To Monte Caseros.: Arsehole truck drivers and arsehole dog owners
To bus or not to bus?: Bus
To Encarnation.: Paraguay baby
North bound.: On the road again
Happy aniversary.: On the road for a year
To Carapegua.: You’re a millionaire!!!
To Asuncion.: The cheapest city in the world. Apparently
And off to Brazil.: Still no yellow fever vacination
To Salvador by bus.: Welcome to Brazil
Salvador to Arembepe.: Good riding in Brazil
North on the 101.: Playa naturalista here i come
Lots of hills heading north,: Nowhere round to eat or drink
Riding, riding, riding.: Hello miku
Leaky roof.: 1 sick rest day
To Penedo.: Just listen to the music. Why? “Cause you aint got no choice
Camping on the beach.: Where’s my dinner?
To Maceio.: Bad pizza
Welcome to love Hotel Death.: Self service death available too
To Rio Formoso.: Did that taxi driver just try to kill you?
To Recife.: And 1 bizzarre night
From Olinda.: Bad driver. Bad driver
To Jose Pessoa.: The long way
Heading North.: Gotta love those half-completed freeways
To Pipa.: Always check the place out before you hand over the cash
To Black Point, Natal.: Plowing on the beach
To Maracajau.: Punting along
To Sao Migual.: Cafe de mana
To Caicara.: Broke, hungry, thirsty. What to do? What to do?
To Penencias.: Finally, money, beautiful, beautiful money
To Massoro.: Caught in a storm
To Icapui.: More beach cycling
To Aracati.: Always the same problem buying tires
To Beberibe.: No, mister ambulance driver. Find work elsewhere
To Fortaleza.: Time for a break
Fortaleza to Boa Vista.: By plane
Welcome to Little Venice.: From Ciudad de Bolivar
To Maripa.: On the road
To Caraica.: The chaos of Venezuala
To Santa Rita.: How to head west?
Santa Rita to Santa Rita.: Yes but how do you head west?
Santa Rita to Las Mercedes.: Long stretches of nothing
Las Mercedes to Calabozo.: Walking into a door
Calabozo to Camaguan.: Just heading south
To San Fernando.: Needing a passport to buy groceries
From San Fernando to Apurito.: More bad drivers
To Mantecal.: Lots of roadkill
To Bruzual.: Free internet
To Barinas.: So many arseholes on the road
To near Santo Domingo.: The first hill of Venezuela
To Merida.: A lift up hill? Sure, why not
Merida to Santa Cruz de Mora.: Downhill baby
Mora to large town with forgettable name.: Hit and run by arsehole kid with rock in hand. You run away
To the border.: Welcome to Colombia. Illegally
To Pamplona.: Up and up and up.
Pamplona to Bucaramanga.: Just chillin’ in Pamplona
Bucaramanga to the top of a summit.: Hi to some fellow cyclists
To San Gil.: And rest
San Gil to Barbosa.: On dusk
Barbosa to Villa de Leyva.: Where the fuck is that hostel?!?
To Susa.: Hanging with the locals
To Bogota.: Stupid bike lanes
Bogota to Granada.: Back in the traffic
ToEspinal Tap.: More crappy hotels
To Ape town.: Another ‘bad timing’ flat
To Campalegre.: Old ladies with big knives
To Garcon.: Slow going
To San Augustin.: Rolling rolling rolling
San Agustin.: The strange man
To Bruselos.: Just an easy day today
To San Juan de Villasomethingorother.: Cold cold cold
To Mocoa.: Peligrosa
To San Francisco.: 1 hellish road
To Pasto.: The world’s worst backpackers’ book exchange
To Ipiales.: The night rider
To Tulcan.: I can you can 1 or Tulcan
To the valley of longevity.: Descent
To Otavio.: Dickhead bike mechanic
To Jifu.: So close and yet so far
To Quito.: The tunnel
To Saquisili.: It is a good day when only 1 bus driver tries to kill you
To Sigchos.: The Quilatoa loop
To Quilatoa.: A pretty volcano and a night of dancing
To Latacunga.: Back in the big smoke
To Banos.: Bath town
To Ambata.: The shortcut
To Cajabamba.: The ghost town
To Chunchi.: The nice truck driver
To Incapirca.: Cough cough
To Azogues.: When good roads turn bad
To Cuenca.: A race in progress
To Onya.: Yes, you may ride on the wet cement
To Loja.: L-O-J-A Loya
To Vilcabamba.: Do you have water? Chocolate
To Valladolid.: Descent in the dark
To Zumba.: Intimidation from an arsehole bus driver
To the town with no name.: And a hostel maybe
To San Ignacio.: Mechanical problems
To Tamborapa.: 1 poor arse town
To Bagua Grande.: Bad bugs
To Pedro Ruiz.: And on the bus to Chachapoas
To Cerro del Pasco.: The thief. The bus. The monkey
To La Oroya.: Attacked by a gang of dogs
To Huancayo.: Shopping
To Izcuchaca.: And the end of the tarmac
To k town.: Boys don’t cry
To La Esmeralda.: Where or where have the valve caps gone?
To Huanta.: The strike
To Ayacucho.: The Wari ruins
Cuzco.: The fake police report
To Izcuchacha.: Time to leave dodge
To Limatambo.: The idiot bus passenger
To Curahuasi.: Idiot boys
To Abancay.: And the friendly nun
To Santa Rosa.: Yummy yummy cuy cuy
To Puquio.: The bus on the ascent
To Polvarin.: Downhill in the dark
To Nazca.: A beautiful descent
To Palta.: On the plains once more
To Huacachina.: Crossing the desert
To Pisco.: That bum tried to steal your icecream
To Jahunta.: A day on the waves
To Santa Cruz.: And onto the autopiste
To La Hermosa.: The unhelpful local
To Lima.: The end
The end is nigh.: Chilling out in Lima