All the travelogues trip information and adventures of our motorcycle overlanding trip in South America
Collection list of some of the best most scenic engaging and interesting mountain passes to ride with an adventure dualsport motorcycle in South America In this edition,, we share some of the nicest and grooviest mountain passes we rode in the last 4 years in South America.All those passes that […]
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Collection of the most insanely engaging photos from around the world adventure and enduro riding in this UpShift Online issue. Buckle up, wanderlust warriors! In 2023, Upshift Online and their intrepid crew racked up the miles, their wheels leaving track marks across nearly every corner of the globe. Each journey […]
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What makes this ride so strikingly epic show-stopping and absorbing is the dramatic landscape reminiscent of a mythical land of hobbits and dragons. “If there ever can be a list of the eight best wonders of the world for must-ride roads, then Chile’s South America’s Ruta 7 would be in that exclusive […]
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How good can it get? The world is packed into a small country to explore from snow-capped volcanoes to warm oceans and the Amazon. “Unbeknownst to us, the road we took after entering Ecuador was into a bit of a “cocaine-up-the-nose” drug cartel area, occupied by shady characters who black […]
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This is how we ended up at the annual authentic Gaucho-cowboy gathering. UpShift Online issue 79 What would have been a quick loop into a desert area at the foot of the Andes Mountain range turned into a month-long motorbike adventure. Visiting dusty desert towns, seeing some snow-capped volcanoes, salt […]
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How we nearly lost our motorcycle to the Bolivian government. After all our efforts to make sure the motorcycles can leave Bolivia after the long Covid lockdown, Bolivia customs decided otherwise. We have remained on the road during the entire two-year pandemic, and so far we have managed to navigate […]
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Taking the remote track took us to some of the best dualsport riding places and landscapes in Bolivia. As motorcycle adventures go, the best ones are the ones you find accidentally. We entered Bolivia and knew riding to the remote Lagunas route was for sure one of the places we […]
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Advice from adventure motorcycle riders to plan a trip around the world. A collective podcast discussing motorbike over land and dualsport tips before setting off on a trip. The tips and advice is also applicable to short trips. There are quite a few aspects to planning a trip around the […]
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What it is like sitting around keeping yourself busy in a place like Sucre Bolivia. Going for almost 9 months in Bolivia at the time of the interview we have already been sitting in Sucre for 6 of those months. The rules in Sucre were quite strict, only one person […]
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Italian motorcycle magazine interview on Youtube – About being stuck in Bolivia with the motorcycles Roadbook is one of the finest motorcycle adventure magazines in Italy. They asked us a few questions on the lockdown and our trip through South America in the last few months. Although in lockdown there […]
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JJ is a soundmixer with a love of adventure motorbiking. Sharing his love for podcasts and stories it is a great match to start a podcast hosting travellers and their stories. We had the honor to be the first on his show. We chatted about the lockdown and the riding around […]
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All the fun and games sitting with adventure motorcycles in Bolivia waiting for the pandemic to pass. We had such a fun chat with Jim Martin from Adventure Rider Radio about bike choices, travel funding, South America culture, people and landscapes, the unexpected stuff happing with travelers, just about everything motorcycle […]
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Sitting in Sucre as orphans with the overland legend Frank Linderd and his wonderful partner Roxanne waiting the time away as all the borders are closed and been advised to not travel around Bolivia for the next 2-3 weeks.Eglė Gerulaitytė decided a good time hook up with us.
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It is the 40th edition of the Dakar rally starting in Peru then on to Bolivia and Argentina. We followed them for a few days.
This is the story and photos that made that rally such an epic jaw drop event.
Fujifilm South Africa was so mind to host a short photo essay on our South America travels to date.It is a few assorted photographs of each country we have been to in South America the last 2 years.
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Why and how did the Willys Jeep became so loved in Colombia? The first USA military WW2 Jeeps (M38 or CJ-2A models) arrived to Colombia in 1946 for military purposes as at the time the USA had a massive oversupply of the Jeeps. They were imported by the Colombian Ministry […]
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Coffee fix: Peruvian Style It took a few weeks of moaning, well strong words were used too, before we figured out how the coffee culture in Peru works. Arriving from neighbouring country, Ecuador and spending about 6 months in Colombia prior to that, the instant coffee given to us when […]
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