Author Archives: Geoff Mason

Getting a motorcycle licence in NSW is not easy as it entails a fair degree of bureaucracy, training and testing, not to mention the cost.  Not a bad thing as it gives a new rider more skills out on the road.  Gus did the last training and test today and passed with flying colours… as [...]

When you book the airfares the clock starts ticking and finally we have gone from planning stage to organising mode and the items on your list start getting crossed off as the countdown begins. We saved $1200 with a Qantas introductory fare to celebrate their new non-stop service to Santiago, Chile – how’s that for [...]

It’s now been one year since returning from my North American trip and I have now set August 2012 for the South American leg, and again planning a 6 month trip visiting Chile – Argentina – Bolivia – Peru – Ecuador – Colombia. I hope to have my partner Gus with me this time, he [...]

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 4,100 times in 2010. That’s about 10 full 747s.   [...]

I’m going home.  I have accomplished seeing all the things I wanted to see in North America in half the time frame I allowed for this journey.  I came to see the National Parks, the mountains, the deserts and all the terrain that is so different to Australia.  Apart from New York I did not [...]

From Moab I rode west through the desert back towards Escalante, one of the highlights earlier in my tour.  There was a great camp site at Calf Creek which mate Adam recommended to me earlier and I was lucky to get the last spot and just beside the creek, after setting up camp I hiked [...]

    I left my friends in Mebane and headed for them hills, resuming my ride down the Blueridge Parkway which is a great stretch of road, my route had me heading for Deals Gap on the border of North Carolina and Tennesee.  The area is one of the most popular motorcycle destinations and people [...]

I left New York a little earlier than planned as I had made some progress with my bike repairs with a dealer down in North Carolina wanting to see it ASAP.  I took the interestate south to Washington DC and with the government extracting $20 in tolls – seems the Canadians are spreading their wings [...]

Today was a big day, mentally anyway, riding into the world’s biggest and busiest city may not seem like a big deal especially for a local, but I had not been near mass civilisation for a long time, so with the help of my trusty GPS, today was the day I needed all the help [...]

Halifax was a nice city but nothing to write home about, it is the closest port/airport to Europe and makes trans-Atlantic flying more like a big domestic leg back home.  With rain forecast I did not hang around and elected to take the expressway bound for Saint John in New Brunswick on the other side [...]