Sunday Motorcycle Ride

This is my buddy Doug. Doug has been threatening to go riding with the rest of us for a while now. We finally made it on Sunday. This shot is where we stopped for lunch at a Hotel in Santiago called Camp David.

This is the view from the balcony where we ate lunch. I had a decent salad and a Ice COLD beer which was great after a half day HARD motorcycle ride. This day it was just Doug and I and it was better that way because we did a whole day affair and most of the other guys crap out in half a day. Usually from the bruising:) We started the trip at Pedro Garcia which is where I ended a trip another day with Will. We were close to cresting a mountain and a dark cloud came over and Will crapped out on me because he said he had a bald tire and didn't want to go down the hill in the rain or when it was wet. I told him I was going to hate myself for turning back because I needed to see the other side of that mountain. We were at a very high elevation and I needed to see what was just around the next corner but alas, I didn't because Will appled out. This time we went over the top and it was well worth the trip. This is a picture coming back down the other side of the mountain. Man this is such a cool country, I plan on seeing every freakin inch of it before I die.

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There are times when we are so deep in the campo I feel like these people have never seen a white guy before. It is usually right after that that I see a white kid running out of a house:) It always surprises me!

This was on the other side right near the top of the mountain. Look at all those pine trees! Talk about elevation. We drove around every nook and cranny and we eventually got back to the road called the touristica which runs from Montellano to Santiago where we headed for lunch.

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After lunch we went to the highway and took that to the airport and returned via the Moca - Sabeneta road which is another mountain pass similar to the touristica.

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We stopped at the river in Jamao El Norte and I showed Doug where the mountain population in that area goes swimming and drinking and otherwise spending their Sunday. He never knew it existed.

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We ended taking the El Choco Road from that road back to Sosua and of course stopped at the farm to see the goats and sheep. I also got to show Doug the construction since he has last been there and I think he also enjoyed that.

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Hasta Pronto!