Pan American

Pan American Expedition The Toughest Motorcycle Journey in the World March - May 2010 My journey - 20,000 miles on the back of a motor bike, lots of places, new experiences, new levels of discomfort and things I will never forget, on this trip of a ...

... knew I wouldn't be able to leave the country without seeing one of these birds. I read of a place at Kilometer 70 on the Pan American Highway that was reputed to give you a 99% chance of seeing a quetzal; those seemed like good odds. After running into ...

... like a mini-Olympics, if you will. It goes down every 4 years and 1 year before the summer games (Olympics). With the Pan American games, only countries from the Americas (North, Central and South) can participate. Friday came along and I was ready to ...

... .  I then jumped on the Pan-American highway and headed south to San Jose.  Interestingly, Wikipedia says that the Pan-American highway is approximately 30,000 miles long, runs through 15 countries, and stretches from Canada down to lower South ...

... . They waved, gave me the thumbs up, asked questions at the lights and generally seemed to like to travel with us. We followed the Pan American Highway, which, for most of the time, was the fast lane, and watched carefully for road signs. Every so now and ...

I remember well in 4th grade learning about the great Pan-American highway that united North and South America. Well, we've been traveling on the this one lane dirt road ever since leaving Potosí. The overnight bus to Tarija City was a 12 hour, red-eye ...

You can take the Pan-American all the way from Chicago to Pategonia in Argentina, however I was gonna jump on the 7 hour leg running from Oruno to Uyuni, and the famed salt flats of Bolivia.  Running through beautiful green valleys with random dusty ...

... fairly simliar view just by using Google Maps and zooming in. After Nazca, it was driving down the Pacific coastline on the Pan-American Highway - stunning scenery - and then camping on the beach that night. Into Arequipa on the 12th, we spent a couple ...

Heading out to Santiago, Chile for the Pan American Championships. Follow along every day. Team Staff Jim Grew, manager Jeff Surdej, ass't manager/coach Lori Krueger, coach Marc Aiken, physician Elite Danyelle Bennett Rhoni Barton Bischoff Regina Jaquess ...

... day the women's softball final had been scheduled and I was very doubtful as to whether or not it would actually go down. Logged into the Pan Am games website and they had it down as green to go. So, off I went to eat breakfast so I could leave for the ...

... my Bicycle in an Rental Car and drive from Cuenca to Quito, although reluctantly ,having really wanted to drive that stretch of the Pan Amercian Highway with my Bike. The Distance is about 370 km and I finally arrived in Quito after 9PM knowing it was ...

... and there was a good 45 minute delay...at least. Finally things were under control and the final gold medal match (Brazilian VS. American) was played out. Brazil won gold...which seemed to placate the crowd quite a bit. Man...what a crazy day! Went right ...

... at the historic church and sanctuary of Las Lajas tucked into a steep valley and straddling the river about 10km east of the Pan American highway. The church is of Gothic revival architecture and was built from January 1, 1916 to August ...

... of similar questions, and all us volunteers could do was feebly repeat the stock greeting for the games... 'Welcome to the Fifteenth Pan American Games, Rio de Janeiro, 2007'.  This infuriated more than a few frustrated would-be fans, and so we also ...

... tall as small buildings. We left without regrets the next morning, glad to have reached the end of our personal journey on the Pan American highway from one end to the other, approximately 17,560 miles. The sun was shining on the tundra as we retraced ...