Today is the day… that I’ll be disappointed yet again.  Apparently it takes about 10 days to gas and oil up a Rieju.  Man!  Maintenance must be costly.  I got a call from Fermin this morning.  He insisted on speaking English to me… which is annoying; I speak more Spanish than he does English.  All [...]

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I conceived the whole MotoHippie adventure deal sometime in 2002 with Paul while I was trekking around Europe.  Since 2003, I’ve ridden about 40000 miles (15K on a 250cc Honda Hornet, pronounced Hor-nay, around Japan) trying to pop my rider cherry.  I still consider myself a novice, but I know that if you bring the [...]

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I’ve been over here, for what, a month?  A month and six days.  The day that I arrived I inquired into the status of my bike, and right from the get-go it’s been a conspiracy to keep me off a motorcycle.  Ok, so there’s no way to get a license to ride my Beemer until March?  [...]

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I found one. It’s a beautiful little apartment a few blocks from the river
in downtown El Puerto de Santa Maria. I should be moving there in the next few weeks. As I’m cruising down Bajamar, I see a dingy BMW sign hanging above this bar. I turn the corner and right there, in my [...]

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I spent some time poking around Cadiz and Jerez yesterday. I couldn’t find any parking on the streets of Cadiz so I pulled into a public parking structure (which turned out to be quite cheap). I used the restroom in a gas station across the street and then headed towards the beach on [...]

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